JackQuisitions - Small Business Acquisitions in Home Service

Jack Carr
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Welcome to Jackquisitions, where we break down what it actually takes to buy and grow home service businesses. Hosted by Jack Carr, co-host of Owned and Operated, you'll find practical conversations on finding deals, structuring acquisitions, SBA financing, due diligence, and what happens after the closing table. If you're serious about buying, operating, or scaling home service businesses through acquisitions, you're in the right place.

  1. 1d ago ·  Video

    How to Build a Million-Dollar Traffic Control Business

    You can build a million-dollar-a-year business by putting cones on the road. In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down the surprisingly lucrative business of traffic control and why contractors are willing to pay thousands of dollars per day to keep road projects moving safely. Jack covers how traffic control companies make money through flagging labor, trucks, lane closures, setup and teardown, and equipment rentals. He also breaks down how two crews averaging $2,500 per day could generate roughly $900,000 per year, and how adding specialized equipment can push an operation into the $2M-$3M revenue range. Most importantly, Jack explains why he wouldn't build this as a simple flagging company. His playbook is to turn it into a specialized equipment rental and logistics business with labor attached. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this episode, Jack covers: • How traffic control companies actually make money • Why contractors need traffic control for roadway projects • How small projects can start around $2,500 per day • How two crews could generate roughly $900K per year • How equipment rentals can push revenue into the $2M-$3M range • The labor, scheduling, safety, and insurance challenges of the business • Why Jack would focus on owning trucks, signs, boards, cones, and barricades • How Jack would find his first traffic control customers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights 𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #BusinessIdeas #SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #TrafficControl #JackQuisitions Send us Fan Mail Jackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses. 🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode?  ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies! 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

  2. 2d ago ·  Bonus Video

    The 2026 SBA Playbook: How to Buy a Business With 10% Down (Bonus)

    The SBA rules for buying a business are changing in 2026. Here’s what buyers and home service operators need to know. Jack Carr sits down with Alan Peterson from First Internet Bank to break down the latest SBA 7(a) changes, including how buyers can finance up to 90% of an acquisition, new equity requirements, seller financing, and changes affecting minority investors. They also cover how sellers can stay involved for up to 24 months after closing, strategies for navigating licensing when buying HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other skilled trades businesses, and new Quality of Earnings requirements for larger acquisitions. Plus, Alan explains one of the biggest opportunities for existing business owners: using SBA expansion financing to acquire another company with potentially 0% down when the deal qualifies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Inside This Episode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Buying a business with an SBA 7(a) loan • Financing up to 90% of an acquisition • New 2026 SBA equity requirements • Seller financing and transition rules • Licensing strategies for home service acquisitions • Quality of Earnings and business valuations • SBA expansion loans and potential 0% down acquisitions • What buyers should know before making an offer ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sponsors ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Avoca See how Avoca helps home service companies book more jobs with AI that handles calls, texts, follow ups, and dispatching without adding more chaos. Book a demo: https://www.avoca.ai/partners/oao FieldPulse Ready to ditch the whiteboard and spreadsheets? See how FieldPulse helps home service companies simplify scheduling, dispatching, invoicing, and more. Book a free demo: https://landing.fieldpulse.com/owned_and_operated  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jack Carr https://x.com/thehvacjack  Alan Peterson https://alanfib.com/  Owned and Operated https://www.ownedandoperated.com/ Send Us Mail! More Ways To Connect with O&O Start HereOwned and Operated Newsletter Bonus Videos From JohnLeave a Review John Wilson, CEO of Wilson Companies Jack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own. Send us Fan Mail Jackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses. 🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode?  ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies! 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

  3. Sep 11 ·  Video

    The $80K/Year Cell Tower Business: 80% Margins, Almost Passive Income

    What if you could build one piece of infrastructure and collect rent from Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile for decades? In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down the business of developing cell towers and why he regrets not getting into it years ago. Jack covers the startup costs, revenue potential, 80%+ site-level margins, long-term carrier leases, and why a tower with three tenants can potentially generate around $80,000 per year in site rent. He also explains the biggest mistake new developers can make: building the tower before finding demand. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this episode, Jack covers: • How the cell tower business actually works • Why carriers rent space instead of owning every tower • The economics of a $275,000 cell tower • How three tenants can generate around $80K per year • Why site-level margins can exceed 80% ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights 𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #BusinessIdeas #PassiveIncome #CellTowers #SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #JackQuisitions Send us Fan Mail Jackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses. 🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode?  ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies! 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

  4. Sep 4 ·  Video

    The Billboard Business: How One Sign Can Make $180K a Year

    What if an old roadside billboard could generate $30,000 to $40,000 a year, then be converted into an asset producing $150,000+? In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down the billboard business, including how billboard owners make money, what makes certain locations so valuable, and why converting a static billboard to digital can dramatically increase its revenue potential. Jack covers billboard pricing, permits, ground leases, traffic counts, digital conversions, and how he would approach buying his first billboard in a market dominated by major operators like Lamar Advertising. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this episode, Jack covers: • How billboard businesses actually make money • Why permits and location can be more valuable than the billboard itself • How a static billboard can generate $30K–$70K+ per year • Why digital billboards can produce $150K+ from the same location • The ground lease mistake that can destroy a billboard investment • What Jack would look for when buying his first billboard • Why smaller markets and overlooked locations could offer the best opportunities ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights 𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Quick Staffers Hire trained HVAC and plumbing CSRs without the overhead of traditional hiring. Save $500 on your first placement with Quick Staffers: https://www.quickstaffers.com/  Send us Fan Mail Jackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses. 🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode?  ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies! 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

  5. Aug 28 ·  Video

    Why You Should Start a Hydro Vac Business in 2026

    This $500,000 truck could generate $1 million in revenue per year. In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down the business behind hydro excavation trucks, specialized equipment that uses high-pressure water and a powerful vacuum to safely expose underground utilities. Jack covers how hydro vac companies make money, why a single truck can generate $600K+ in annual revenue, the costs and risks that can crush the economics, and why recurring relationships with contractors make this business especially interesting. Most importantly, Jack explains the one thing he would do before spending $500,000 on a truck to prove the business can actually work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this episode, Jack covers: • How a hydro excavation business actually works • Why one truck can generate $600K to $1M+ in revenue • How hydro vac companies charge $300 to $400+ per hour • The real costs of owning and operating a $500K truck • Why commercial customers create recurring revenue • The barriers to entry that keep competition lower • The biggest risks: downtime, maintenance, dumping, and utilization • Why Jack would sell the work before buying the truck ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights 𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Send us Fan Mail Jackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses. 🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode?  ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies! 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

  6. Aug 21 ·  Video

    3 Biggest Mistakes First-Time Business Buyers Make

    Buying your first business? These 3 mistakes can ruin the deal before you even take over. In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down the three biggest mistakes he sees first-time business buyers and acquisition entrepreneurs make when searching for a company to acquire. Jack explains why debt and project-based construction businesses can be a dangerous combination, why understanding the seller matters more than trying to look like private equity, and why attempting to buy a business with zero money can severely limit your deal flow. He also breaks down the “J Curve” and why having cash left over after closing matters just as much as funding the acquisition itself. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this episode, Jack covers: • The 3 biggest mistakes first-time business buyers make • Why Jack avoids buying construction businesses with debt • The cash flow problem with project-based businesses • Why reading the seller can make or break an acquisition • How first-time buyers accidentally destroy broker relationships • The reality behind zero-money-down business acquisitions • Why having cash reserves after closing is critical • How the J Curve affects new business owners ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights 𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Send us Fan Mail Jackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses. 🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode?  ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies! 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

  7. Aug 14 ·  Video

    5 Machines That Can Build a Million-Dollar Business

    What if the best business to start in 2026 isn't built around an idea; but a machine? In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down five machines that can become the foundation of highly profitable service businesses. From stump grinders and parking lot striping machines to commercial mowers, freeze dryers, and air duct cleaning equipment, these are simple machines solving real problems for real customers. Jack walks through the startup costs, revenue potential, business models, and expansion opportunities behind each machine, including why his #1 pick could potentially build a $500K-per-year operation with just one truck and one unit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this episode, Jack covers: • 5 machines that can become profitable businesses in 2026 • How a stump grinder can generate nearly $200K in annual revenue • Why parking lot striping offers recurring B2B revenue and easy expansion opportunities • How commercial mowing can scale from one machine into a multimillion-dollar landscaping company • The overlooked service business opportunity behind freeze-drying machines • Why air duct cleaning is Jack's #1 machine-based business to start ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Jack for More Acquisition & Business Insights 𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Send us Fan Mail Jackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses. 🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode?  ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies! 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

  8. Aug 7 ·  Video

    Parking Lot Striping: The Million-Dollar Business Everyone Overlooks

    How can you build a million-dollar business with nothing more than a striping machine and commercial contracts? In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down one of the most overlooked service businesses in America: parking lot striping. From startup costs and profit margins to customer acquisition and long-term scalability, Jack explains why this "boring" business can become a highly profitable operation; especially when paired with complementary asphalt services. He covers what it takes to get started, how to win commercial contracts, why recurring relationships make this business attractive, and whether he'd buy an existing company or build one from scratch. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this episode, Jack covers: • Why parking lot striping is one of the most overlooked service businesses  • The real startup costs, equipment, and skills needed to get started  • How to land commercial contracts with property managers and businesses  • The economics, margins, and revenue potential of a striping business  • Why adding asphalt maintenance services unlocks seven-figure growth  • Whether he'd buy an existing company or build one from scratch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Jack for More Acquisition Insights 𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack Send us Fan Mail Jackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses. 🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode?  ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies! 📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

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Welcome to Jackquisitions, where we break down what it actually takes to buy and grow home service businesses. Hosted by Jack Carr, co-host of Owned and Operated, you'll find practical conversations on finding deals, structuring acquisitions, SBA financing, due diligence, and what happens after the closing table. If you're serious about buying, operating, or scaling home service businesses through acquisitions, you're in the right place.

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