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Edition No. 7 · No. 13 · the annex · Free edition

Pest control service

Cleveland County, OK · name withheld in the free edition Why no names?

PROCEED WITH CONDITIONSProceed, with two conditions.Cheaper than 56% of 25 similar businesses.
Asking price$172kas listed
Revenue$646kas listed
SDE$218kas listed, a 34% margin
If a manager runs it-$73kto$166kour rebuild, about 5 hrs a week
Hours with a manager~5 hrsa week, our estimate
Price over SDE0.8xsimilar listings: 0.8x
Contents

1What you're buying

  1. Pest control routes across Oklahoma City, trading for a decade.

    General pest, termite, bed bug, mosquito and scorpion work for homes and businesses, run from N Classen Boulevard since 2015.

  2. Customers renew by default.

    Treatments run on quarterly and monthly schedules; restaurants, hotels and healthcare buildings are obliged to keep pests controlled.

  3. The owner is the brand.

    Reviews on the company's own site praise him by name. The handover plan, not the equipment list, is what a buyer is really negotiating.

2Two ways to own it

If you run it
$48kto$288k
~42 hrs / week · your own week, our estimate
Someone else runs it
-$73kto$166k
~5 hrs / week · after paying a $122k manager
Straddles the question: at the conservative end the business does not pay a manager.

The manager case prices the owner's actual week, roughly 38 hours across the van and the phone, as one blended seat.

Both ranges are our estimate, not the seller's figure. Each starts at its careful end.

3What the listing doesn't tell you

  1. Trading since 2015, licensed, and answering the phone under the owner's own name.

    The company, its address and its web history are in the full breakdown.

  2. The listing claims 113 Google reviews. The company's own site shows 70.

    Probably a stale marketing line; it must still be explained, because it is the seller's own claim about their reputation.

Two of 5 findings. The rest are in the full file.

4The price and the verdict

0.8x the seller's SDE; the middle of similar listings is 0.8x.

Based on asking prices, not completed sales.

PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS2 conditions before an offer

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