Southeast Michigan Non-Medical Home Care Agency, 19-Year Private-Pay Operator · Accredited

Published SEP 12, 2026

Southeast Michigan Non-Medical Home Care Agency, 19-Year Private-Pay Operator

Michigan

$1.1M

Revenue

$740K

SDE

10.1x

Multiple

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Ben Sampson

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This is a non-medical home care agency operating in Southeast Michigan since 2007, giving it a 19-year track record serving seniors. What makes the setup unusual is placement: the business operates from locations physically embedded inside two large independent living communities in Oakland County, which functions as a captive, built-in referral pipeline. Roughly 33 to 49 active clients are served across the two locations by a team of about 15 non-owner caregivers offering 24/7 care.

Revenue is predominantly private-pay, which is the highest-quality dollar in home care. Private-pay avoids the reimbursement rate compression, billing lag, and audit exposure that plague Medicaid and VA-funded operators. On $1.12M of FY2025 adjusted revenue the business throws off $740K of cash-basis SDE, a 66 percent owner-earnings margin that is exceptional for a services business and reflects both the lean structure and the pricing power that comes with private-pay clientele.

Ownership is genuinely semi-absentee, with the owner on-site only about once every two weeks and daily delivery handled entirely by staff. The seller is exiting for other business interests rather than retirement. The obvious tension in this deal is price: at $7.5M against $740K of SDE, the buyer is being asked to pay roughly 10x cash flow, which is a strategic-buyer or roll-up multiple, not a typical main-street home care comp of 2.5x to 4x.

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Attack client concentration inside the two communities by opening formal referral relationships with additional independent and assisted living facilities in Oakland County. The current model is powerful but geographically narrow, and adding two or three more community placements could double the addressable client base without a new operating template.
Carefully layer in diversified payor sources such as VA benefits, long-term care insurance, and select Medicaid waiver programs while protecting the private-pay core. Done right this expands billable hours and fills caregiver capacity, but it must be structured to avoid dragging down the current 66 percent margin.
Build a real caregiver recruiting and retention machine within the first 90 days, since caregiver turnover is the single biggest constraint on home care growth. Sign-on structures, referral bonuses, and scheduling technology directly convert into more billable hours and the ability to say yes to new clients.
Expand the service menu into higher-margin add-ons like specialized dementia and Alzheimer's care, medication reminders, transportation, and companion tiers. Existing clients and their families are the easiest upsell, and premium care tiers raise revenue per client without adding new client acquisition cost.
Install proper KPI reporting on hours billed, revenue per client, caregiver utilization, and gross margin per shift. A semi-absentee business often has soft financial controls, and dashboarding these metrics is the fastest way to find margin leakage and price increases before scaling.
Push a modest annual rate increase to private-pay clients, who are typically far less price-sensitive than reimbursement payors. Even a 5 to 8 percent increase flows almost entirely to the bottom line given the fixed nature of the operating structure.
Formalize the referral relationships with the two host communities into written, longer-term arrangements if possible. The entire deal thesis rests on those placements, so converting informal goodwill into documented, durable agreements protects enterprise value and de-risks a future resale.