❇️ New Deals - 28 March 2024

An invoicing SaaS, commercial property manager, and 3 other interesting finds.

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Helen Guo
March 28, 2024

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1/ Invoicing SaaS

📍 Location: California (Remote)
💰 Asking Price: N/A
💼 EBITDA: $556,000
📊 Revenue: $930,000
📅 Established: 2014

💭 My 2 Cents: This is a very successful subscription-based invoicing platform. In a space with competitors like Zoho Invoicing, FreshBooks, Invoice2Go, WaveApp, and Invoicely, they’ve carved out their own niche of freelancer and small business clientele. I like that they have a great reputation in the open-source community, boast 5,000+ users on community and Slack support channels, and have thousands of ~4.5 star reviews. Reflecting this, they processed over $250M in online payments for  200,000+ freelancers and SMBs in 2023, pulling in $930K of revenue with an SDE of $556K (including a $120K operator salary). And, as a SaaS business, these over 50% profit margins should only get better. With almost all of their growth being organic, there’s real growth potential here by firing up marketing and paid ads, making this an overall excellent remote opportunity.

2/ Commercial Property Management

📍 Location: Los Angeles, California
💰 Asking Price: $1,875,000
💼 EBITDA: $528,177
📊 Revenue: $1,033,394
📅 Established: 1987

💭 My 2 Cents: This is a property management company with a commercial focus, which is a niche you don’t often see (you’ll typically find a lot more vacation rental property management companies for sale). This niche is great because tenants in commercial and retail spaces often sign more expensive and longer-term leases than residential tenants due to the business revenue they generate. The result for you is a simultaneously higher and more stable income, and as a bonus, you get to work with a lower maintenance, more professional clientele. I also like that the company has been around for over 35 years (proof of good work), already has 18 properties under management, has a team of 5, and has several revenue streams including property management, leasing commissions, and contractor and maintenance fees. However, I do want to dig into any client concentration, how revenue per client on the leasing commission side has fluctuated over the years due to market conditions, and what contracts they have in place. 

3/ 11 Liquor Stores

📍 Location: San Antonio, Texas
💰 Asking Price: $5,000,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,200,000
📊 Revenue: $10,500,000
📅 Established: 2014

💭 My 2 Cents: Liquor stores are great boring, recession-resistant businesses, as they are straightforward to operate and even in down times both the demand for spirits and their price basically don’t move. Most liquor stores are on the smaller end, so it’s really exciting to find an owner who’s selling 11 liquor stores in one deal. While the numbers are reasonable, there are a couple of things I would want to check out further. As they say, location is everything, so I would want to know about the competitive dynamics of the areas the stores are in as well as the traffic counts or footfall estimates for each store. I’d also want to know the terms of the current leases, the options to renew, and how sales and profits compare across the various stores. If everything checks out, there is real growth potential here. They currently do zero marketing so this is an obvious place to start, but you can also extend hours, provide delivery services, add ATMs, and start selling lottery tickets.

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4/ CPA Practice With 3 Offices

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $2,295,000
💼 EBITDA: $531,970
📊 Revenue: $1,660,577
📅 Established: 2000

💭 My 2 Cents: Like liquor stores, CPA practices are great recession-resistant businesses with lots of recurring revenue that isn’t losing prominence in our digital era, as people still have a tendency to go to someone local. This 24-year-old practice with 3 office locations provides everything from forensic accounting to QuickBooks setup and they primarily serve local homeowner and condo associations and property management companies, which are great sticky and recurring clients. There’s a full team in place with 4 CPAs, 3 office managers, and 6 accountants, but I would want to know how long the CPAs have been around, as it’s important to keep them since they own the client relationships. The owner’s role is also critical to understand, especially in relationship management, as a key thing to navigate with CPA practices is making sure client relationships get transitioned from the seller. Otherwise, with the business being SBA lender pre-approved with 10% down, this deal looks like a pretty good one.

5/ Staffing Firm

📍 Location: New Jersey
💰 Asking Price: $7,950,000
💼 EBITDA: $2,076,000
📊 Revenue: $32,621,137
📅 Established: 2012

💭 My 2 Cents: This is a staffing firm focused on the manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution industries, filling essential staffing needs for its clients, including forklift drivers, assembly workers, production workers, and logistics workers. I like their clientele (they even have some Fortune 500 companies!), but I’d want to dig into what type of products their clients are manufacturing, warehousing, and distributing, as I’d want to make sure these are growing and essential industries. Given they have some big clients, I’d also want to check on client concentration. Otherwise, I like that they have a staff of 11 in place and that the retiring seller (whose current role is general oversight) is willing to finance 20% of the deal and offer a 1-2-year transition, which shows me that he really believes in the business’s future, which is a great sign of faith. If you can expand geographically, this would be a real winner.

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