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Profitable Home-based Residential HVAC With 36% Margins For Sale

Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Asking Price:
$875,000 Furniture / Fixtures and Inventory / Stock included
Sales Revenue:
$768,381
Cash Flow:
$274,912

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 $250,990, margin 33.2%
2025: revenue $768,381, normalized SDE $274,912, margin 35.8%

Revenue grew 56% 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 1,679 completed work orders, a 96% claim-approval rate and an 88% completion rate, each above the network's required threshold, and roughly a quarter 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.

Recurring revenue comes from 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, including a lead installer of four years and a service technician of three. 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 free and clear, complete service and installation tooling across all four vehicles totalling 35 units, parts inventory of approximately $11,955 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 1.45x after paying a new owner a $90,000 market salary.

BUYER REQUIREMENT
Utah requires an S350 specialty contractor license to operate an HVAC business. The license is held personally by the seller and does not transfer with the sale. A buyer must hold one, employ a qualifier who holds one, or qualify to obtain it.

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.

Property Information

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.

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.

Business Operation

Management type:
This business is owner operated.
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 S350 specialty contractor license, and the manufacturer warranty networks and property-management relationships that supply recurring work are approval-based and take years to build.

Reasons for selling:

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

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.

Employees:
3
Years established:
4

Other Information

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.

Financing available:

SBA 7(a) acquisition financing is the expected structure. Illustrative at the full asking price: a 10% buyer equity injection of roughly $87,500 plus closing costs, with the balance financed over 10 years. At those terms the business covers debt service approximately 1.45 times over after paying a new owner a $90,000 market salary. Illustrative only; actual rate, terms and eligibility are set by the lender.

Buyers should note that all owners must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents under SBA rules, and that a buyer must have a path to the Utah S350 specialty contractor license before an offer can be accepted.

Inventory / Stock value:
$11,955 - included in the asking price
Home based:
This business can be run from home