Lawn care M&A advisor. Sellers only, always.
Lawn and landscape trades on the same fundamentals as pest control - recurring programs, route density, retention - with seasonality and crew dependence layered on top. Buyers know how to discount those. We know how to defend them.
Three people will offer to help you sell. Only one works for you.
Lawn care owners hear from listing services, roll-ups and M&A advisors in roughly equal numbers. The three are not doing the same job, and only one of them is on your side of the table.
Lists your company and waits for someone to call. No targeting, no tension, and often the same listing service is happy to work with the buyer.
Approaches you directly and offers to “value” your business. They are the buyer. Their valuation is the number they would like to pay.
Represents you only, approaches the whole qualified buyer universe under NDA at once, and negotiates the terms as hard as the price.
Read the full comparison: listing service vs. M&A advisor vs. roll-up.
What representation looks like for a lawn care company.
Programs, not jobs
Prepaid and annual programs, renewal rates and per-customer revenue are presented as recurring revenue, because that is what earns the multiple.
Seasonality normalized
A buyer will model your weakest quarter. We normalize the seasonal curve and show a full-year earnings picture that survives their analysis.
Crew and licensing risk answered
Applicator licenses, crew tenure and the question of who runs it after you leave are addressed in the materials, before a buyer can use them to discount.
Full-market competition
Lawn platforms, pest companies adding lawn, and regional operators approached at once under NDA.
Who buys lawn care and landscape companies.
The most motivated buyer for a lawn book is often not a lawn company. Pest platforms want your customer list as much as your routes.
Lawn platforms
TruGreen and investor-backed lawn consolidators buy density and program count in markets where they want scale.
Pest companies adding lawn
Pest operators buy lawn to cross-sell into an existing base, and frequently pay a premium for a clean program book in their footprint.
Regional operators
Strong regionals with capital buy to defend a market, and they move faster than anyone when the fit is right.
Paid by you. Aligned with you.
Our fee comes from the seller, and the great majority of it is a success fee tied to the final purchase price. If your outcome improves, ours does. No buyer pays us anything, ever.
The bulk of what we earn is contingent on closing at a price you accept.
We never represent a buyer on the other side of a transaction, in your industry or any other.
Fees, scope and the length of the engagement are agreed in writing before we begin.
From engagement to funds wired, most sales run six to nine months depending on diligence.
A clear route from first call to closing.
Confidential consultation
A private conversation about your goals, timeline and number.
Valuation & strategy
We value your company and build the go-to-market plan.
Finding the right buyer
We create competition among the right strategic and PE buyers.
Letter of intent
We negotiate price and terms that protect you and your family.
Due diligence
We manage the data and questions so you keep running the business.
Closing & beyond
We drive every detail to a clean close and a protected legacy.
Owners we have represented.
What lawn care owners ask.
It affects working capital and the timing of a deal more than the multiple itself. What matters is a full-year normalized earnings picture and a program base that renews. We build both before we go to market.
Both, and the deal has to reflect that. Prepaid revenue is unearned at closing, so it shows up in the working-capital true-up. Handled early it is routine; discovered late it costs real money.
That is exactly the question a real process answers. We take a combined business to both buyer pools and let the market tell you which one values it higher.
Typically six to nine months from engagement to close. Timing the market launch around your season is part of the strategy.