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Profitable Home-Based Residential HVAC With 35% Margins

Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Updated 12 days ago

Established in 2022, this residential HVAC service, repair and replacement company serves the Wasatch Front corridor of Utah from a home-based operation with take-home service vehicles. There is no shop, no warehouse and no facility lease to assign at closing, which removes landlord consent, one of the more common causes of delay in SBA-financed transactions. FINANCIAL SUMMARY 2023: revenue $492,159, normalized SDE $204,392, margin 41.5% 2024: revenue $756,784, normalized SDE $184,830, margin 24.4% 2025: revenue $821,991, normalized SDE $284,518, margin 34.6% Revenue grew 67% between 2023 and 2025, and July 2026 set a company revenue record. HOW THE WORK ARRIVES Total 2025 advertising spend was under $400. Roughly 75% of revenue comes through earned preferred-vendor standing inside multiple national home-warranty networks, plus a property-management relationship where the company is the sole HVAC provider. Those positions are awarded on measured performance sustained over three to four years, not purchased leads. The largest network's own portal reports 1,710 completed work orders, a 95% claim-approval rate and a 91% completion rate, each above the network's required threshold, and roughly a third of all regional HVAC dispatch volume. Work mix is approximately 49% system replacement, 41% service and repair, 5% maintenance agreements, 3% indoor air quality and duct, and 2% new construction, so there is almost no exposure to the cyclical construction segment buyers discount. The business also carries 57 monthly maintenance agreements carrying a three-year workmanship warranty conditioned on continuous membership, with effectively no churn to date. Reputation is near-five-star across every major review platform, earned entirely on referral and repeat work with no advertising or reputation-management spend. Full ratings and review history verified under NDA. OPERATIONS AND TEAM Three field employees plus the owner, covering installation, service and an apprentice. All positions are at-will and no employment agreements transfer. Every operating process runs on commercial field-service software rather than institutional memory, which is what makes the owner's role replaceable by a general manager, estimated at $60,000 to $80,000 and already contemplated in the financial presentation. WHAT CONVEYS Four service vehicles, complete service and installation tooling across all four vehicles totalling 35 units, parts inventory of approximately $6,000 at cost, the field-service software configuration and flat-rate pricebook, the complete customer database and service history, business name, phone number and website, and active vendor approvals and portal access. $144,329 was invested in tooling in 2023 alone. An itemized equipment schedule is available to qualified buyers. GROWTH Consumer marketing has never been switched on. Additional trades, including plumbing and appliance work, can be activated through the existing warranty portals. Commercial tenant-improvement demand in the corridor is strong and entirely unaddressed. Indoor air quality and duct services are already offered but under-sold. None of this is priced into the asking price. TRANSACTION Asset sale. SBA 7(a) qualified. No seller financing contemplated; the seller receives all cash at closing. At the asking price with a 10% equity injection, debt service coverage is approximately 1.53x on 2025 earnings after paying a new owner a $90,000 market salary. BUYER REQUIREMENT Utah requires an H100 HVAC contractor licence, which replaced the S350 classification in April 2026. The licence does not transfer with the sale. A buyer can hold one, or employ a licensed qualifier, who does not need to own the business and can be a W-2 manager working at least 12 hours a week. A licensed individual has been identified who is open to an introduction with serious buyers. Reason for sale: owner relocating. A structured in-person training and transition period is included, with continued availability by phone through the buyer's first year. Full financials, filed tax returns and a complete data room are available to qualified buyers under executed non-disclosure agreement.

Location

Home-based operation serving the Salt Lake County market along the Wasatch Front. There is no commercial facility; technicians dispatch from take-home service vehicles. Work is residential, concentrated in established suburban neighborhoods across the valley.

Employees

3

Home Based

This business can be run from home

Trading Hours

Monday to Friday, standard business hours, with on-call emergency service. Demand is seasonal, peaking in summer cooling season and winter heating season.

Management Type

This business is owner operated.

Premises Details

No leased facility and no landlord consent to obtain. The business runs from a home office with take-home service vehicles, so there is no rent or facility expense in the financials. A buyer can continue the home-based model or add a shop as the business scales.

Years Established

4

Support & Training

A structured in-person training and transition period is included, covering systems, scheduling and dispatch, warranty portal administration, flat-rate quoting, vendor accounts and field operations. The seller remains available by phone through the buyer's first year and will make introductions to the warranty network contacts, the property management client and equipment suppliers. The seller has also indicated a willingness to consider a defined management role after closing at market compensation if a buyer wants it. The owner's role is documented and replaceable: intake, dispatch, portal administration and quoting all run on commercial software rather than institutional memory.

Expansion Potential

The business has never spent a dollar on advertising, paid search, or lead generation. Every growth lever below is unexercised: Paid marketing and a local SEO program in a metro of this size. Expanding the maintenance agreement base, which currently sits at 57 agreements against a far larger installed customer list. Adding a second service crew. Demand has historically exceeded the capacity of the current field team, and jobs are turned away in peak season. Indoor air quality, duct cleaning, and water heater addons sold into the existing customer base. Expanding the commercial and propertymanagement side, which today is a single relationship producing recurring work. Replacement and retrofit quoting on the existing service history, which is fully documented and conveys with the sale.

Competition / Market

The Salt Lake County residential HVAC market is fragmented, with a small number of large advertising-driven contractors and a long tail of owner-operators. This business competes on referral reputation and warranty-network relationships rather than paid lead generation, which holds customer acquisition cost near zero and keeps it out of bid-driven price competition. Barriers to entry are meaningful: Utah requires an H100 HVAC contractor licence, and the manufacturer warranty networks and property-management relationships that supply recurring work are approval-based and take years to build.

Inventory / Stock Value

$6,000 - included in the asking price

Reason for Selling

Owner relocating. The business is profitable, growing and being sold as a going concern.

Financials

Asking Price
$875K
RevenueMost Recent Year
$822K
Earnings (SDE)Last Reported
$285K
Assets ValueIncluded in Asking Price
$55K
Seller Financing
Not available

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