You spent years building it. We are not going to take it apart.
A conversation with us is confidential and does not require a banker or a broker. If it goes nowhere, no one finds out it happened.
A typical private equity buyer
Buys with money that has a return date attached to it, usually three to seven years out. Consolidates your brand into a regional roll-up name. Cuts overhead to hit a margin target before the next sale. Your company becomes a line item in someone else's exit.
Frost & Flow
Not a private equity fund, so no clock and no sale planned. Keeps your name, your team, and your local reputation intact. Run by people who have operated home service companies at this scale rather than only invested in them. Your company stays your company, with more behind it.
A conversation
You talk to the people who will run it, not an associate. Confidential, no bankers required, and nothing to prepare beforehand.
Letter of intent
If we both want to keep going, we send a short list of what we need to see, mostly profit and loss statements and balance sheets for the last few years. A written offer follows within a week of receiving it, covering price, structure, and what happens to your team.
Diligence
We look at the books, the fleet, and the team. You will meet the people who will actually support your business afterward, not just the deal side.
Close, and Monday morning
We close. Your crews run the same routes under the same name with the same managers. From the customer's side, nothing happened.
The hardest part of selling is not the price.
It is walking into the shop on Monday and looking at people who have worked for you for fifteen years.
So, specifically: no layoffs at close. No name change. No new uniforms or truck wraps. Benefits stay at least as good as they are now. Your managers keep their titles and their authority. If you have promised someone a path, we want to know about it so we can keep the promise.
We are buying a functioning business. Breaking the team would mean destroying the thing we paid for.
No. Some owners stay for years, some hand over the keys in ninety days. Tell us what you want and we will build the deal around it.
No. Not now, not in three years. The name is why customers call.
They keep their jobs, their pay, and their benefits. We would rather add people than remove them, because the constraint in this industry is finding good technicians, not affording them.
No. If you have one, we will work with them. If you do not, you will not pay a fee for the privilege of talking to us.
A multiple of adjusted earnings, informed by your service mix, recurring maintenance base, review profile, and how much of the business depends on you personally. We will walk you through our math rather than hand you a number.
Yes. Your team, your competitors, and your customers hear nothing from us. Most conversations we have go nowhere and nobody ever learns they happened.