Sell Your Facility Maintenance or Garage Door Business

Categories we buy

Two categories, one acquirer

Different day-to-day work, same economic profile: repeat customers, low capex, mid-ticket jobs, and businesses that don’t depend on the owner being on every call.

Facility maintenance & handyman services

Preventive maintenance, repair, and small-installation work for commercial property managers, HOAs, and homeowners. The best operators in this category have a recurring book of property-management accounts that anchor monthly revenue, with one-off handyman calls layered on top. Capex is light (van + tools), gross margins are healthy, and the relationships with property managers are extremely sticky once established. SDE margins typically run 12–22%, with multiples between 2.5× and 3.5× SDE depending on the recurring-revenue percentage and supervisor depth.

Garage door installation & repair

One of the most overlooked categories in residential and light-commercial service. New installs deliver $1,500–$5,000 ticket sizes; repair and spring/opener work delivers same-day, urgent-call revenue at 50–70% gross margins. Customer acquisition is dominated by Google search and builder/property-manager relationships, and the work is naturally non-discretionary — broken doors get fixed regardless of the economy. SDE margins typically run 15–25%, with multiples between 2.5× and 3.5× SDE; businesses with a builder/property-manager book and a 24/7 dispatch reputation land at the higher end.

Acquisition criteria

What a Stockton fit looks like

These traits apply across both categories. A strong fit usually has at least four of the six.

$500K–$4M annual revenue

Established crew, established customer book, clean financials. Not a one-truck side hustle.

Repeat or recurring customer base

Property-manager accounts, builder relationships, HOA contracts, or a residential book deep enough that 30%+ of jobs come from prior customers.

A lead tech, foreman, or service manager

Someone running dispatch, training, and customer service day-to-day — not just the owner doing every estimate.

Multi-year profitability

Three years of clean financials with healthy SDE margins (12–25% in this category, depending on install vs. service mix).

Required licenses and insurance in good standing

Contractor or specialty trade license held by the company, general liability + workers’ comp coverage, and any state-required garage door installer registrations.

A reason you’re ready to sell

Retirement, succession, partnership exit, or just done being on call every weekend.

How a sale works

Three steps. Sixty to ninety days.

Same process for facility maintenance and garage door businesses. We adjust diligence depth around your specific mix of recurring vs. install revenue.

1

Initial conversation

30 minutes, fully confidential, no NDA. We learn about your team, your customer mix, and what you want from a sale.

2

Diligence + offer

Three years of financials, customer / property-manager list, license + insurance review, equipment and truck inventory. Typically 2–3 weeks.

3

Close + transition

Cash at close, no convoluted earnouts. Transition support sized to your team’s independence — usually 30–90 days. Brand, crew, and customer relationships preserved.

Questions

Selling a facility maintenance or garage door business: FAQ

What multiples do facility maintenance and garage door businesses sell for?

Profitable businesses in either category in the $500K–$4M range typically sell for 2.5–3.5× SDE. Recurring-revenue percentage and supervisor depth are the biggest swing factors. A garage door business with a heavy builder/property-manager book lands at the higher end; a pure one-off-install handyman shop with the owner doing every estimate lands lower.

Do you buy mostly-installation businesses, or only recurring service?

Both, when the business has a real customer book behind it. Pure installation businesses can still be excellent acquisitions if the lead generation is systematized (Google Ads, builder relationships, property-manager contracts) and a meaningful share of new jobs come from prior customers or referrals. We adjust the multiple based on revenue durability, not category labels.

What about my technicians and field crew?

They stay. The team that knows the customers, the doors, and the building portfolios is what makes the business valuable. We protect existing pay structures and typically pay retention bonuses to lead techs and service managers at close.

Will you keep the company name?

Yes. Brand equity in service-and-install businesses is real — your customers know you by your truck wraps and the name they search on Google. We keep the brand, the trucks, the uniforms, and the local identity. Stockton Ventures is the holding company, not the customer-facing label.

What if I’m the qualifying license holder for the company?

Common in this category, and we plan around it. We typically structure a transition period during which you remain the qualifying license holder while we build a second qualifying employee onto the license. State requirements vary, but a single-license business is a continuity risk we always address explicitly in the deal structure.

I’m not ready to sell yet — is it worth talking now?

Yes. In service-and-install categories, simple operational moves (adding a recurring-service plan, building a second qualifying license holder, signing two property-manager contracts) can lift the multiple by 0.5–1.0× over 12–24 months. A 30-minute conversation now helps you focus on what actually moves the number.

Other verticals we buy

Adjacent service businesses we acquire

Ready to talk about your business?

Whether you’re ready to sell now or 18 months out, the first conversation is the same: confidential, 30 minutes, no obligation.

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Selling a facility maintenance or garage door business? We buy them.