Custom blinds & window treatments
Lincoln County, NE · name withheld in the free edition Why no names?
Contents
1What you're buying
Curtains, shades and blinds, measured in your living room.
Since 1996 around Columbus, Nebraska: the owner drives out, measures, helps choose, quotes and orders. One subcontractor installs everything.
One person is the whole revenue engine.
Every client-facing task runs through the retiring owner, on part-time hours the listing never states. Her replacement is priced at $54,280 a year.
Thirty years old, sold anonymously, with the county wrong on the listing.
The aggregator says Lincoln County; the broker's own page says Columbus, sixty-mile radius. The discrepancies do not stop at geography.
2Two ways to own it
There is no manager case worth marketing here: on our conservative view, earnings after pricing the owner's $54,280 seat are negative. The two ways collapse into one, you do the owner's job, roughly 25 hours a week on our build, and the seat price exists to show what those hours are worth.
Both ranges are our estimate, not the seller's figure. Each starts at its careful end.
3What the listing doesn't tell you
The broker's own site lists this business $33,000 cheaper.
$65,000 against the aggregator's $98,000, with different revenue and profit figures too. That reconciliation is the whole negotiation.
Who actually runs it, and on what hours.
A retiring owner who personally measures, quotes and orders every job, part-time, with one subcontractor installing everything. The handover is the deal.
Two of 5 findings. The rest are in the full file.
4The price and the verdict
0.7x the seller's SDE; the middle of similar listings is 0.6x.
Based on asking prices, not completed sales.
+In the full file
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1,000 listings screened, 5 published · Edition No. 7, 12 August 2026. We have no stake in whether any deal closes.