Business Sale Insights and Resources

 Sell a Commercial Cleaning Business in California: Case Study Elena sold a $12 million Southern California janitorial company at 6.8x EBITDA. The band for an unprepared cleaning business of that size is 3x to 4x, so the preparation was worth roughly twice the company. She did it in a 90-day sprint before the data room

 Life After Selling a Commercial Cleaning Business Monday morning. The wire hit on Friday. Your phone is quiet, and there are no drivers to dispatch and no 7:30 production meeting. For a California commercial cleaning owner who has run crews for thirty years, that silence is the part nobody prepares you for. Life after selling

 Protect Employees When Selling Your Business Your crews are the reason a buyer is at the table. In California, the people who strip and wax a Class-A lobby at 2 a.m. are also the hardest part of a janitorial business to replace: the state employed 245,790 janitors and cleaners at a mean hourly wage of

Rollover Equity for Cleaning Founders: The Second Bite You have spent twenty years building a commercial cleaning company that runs three counties and a night shift that never calls in sick. Now a private equity buyer is at the table, and the offer splits into two checks: one at close, one later. Rollover equity for

 AB 5 Compliance Before Selling a California Business Your 1099 crews are the first thing a buyer’s labor counsel will find, and the last thing you want to explain at day 45 of diligence. Reviewed by the Dream Business Brokers advisory team, which works with California service-business sellers on pre-market compliance and exit readiness. Last

 Selling an Owner-Dependent Janitorial Business The trait that built your janitorial company is the trait that will price it. Founders who dispatch every night crew, hold every property manager relationship, and personally absorb every client escalation built something real. That same centrality is what a buyer discounts when you sell an owner-dependent janitorial business. The

Cleaning Business Valuation Multiples: Commercial vs Residential cleaning company with $6 million in revenue and $900,000 in owner earnings can sell for roughly 2.5x, or roughly 6.0x. The gap is not sales growth. It is the paper behind the revenue. One book is residential and month-to-month; the other is commercial, documented, and diversified. Buyers pay

Scaling vs. Selling a California Janitorial Business California’s wage floor has moved three times in three years, from $16.00 an hour on January 1, 2024, to $16.50 on January 1, 2025, and to $16.90 on January 1, 2026, for every employer regardless of size (California Department of Industrial Relations’ minimum wage schedule). That schedule is

How California founders exit a 2M-25M janitorial company Selling a commercial cleaning business in California between $2M and $25M in revenue puts you in the band where institutional buyers pay the most, because janitorial multiples climb with revenue: companies in the $10M-$25M range trade at a median 5.4x adjusted EBITDA against 3.9x for the $2