Independent pool route owners · Florida
You built the route. When you are ready to hand it off, talk to the buyer, not a broker.
No commission. Cash or seller financing, your choice. Sixty days to close, no bank involved. And you deal with me the whole way through, not an assistant and not an agent.
- A free, written valuation and a read on your market, whether you sell or not
- I buy the route as it runs. No repricing, no cleanup, no chasing paperwork first
- You pick the closing date. Thirty days, six months, or after next season
- Nothing is public. No listing, no sign, nothing your customers or your tech can see
Is this your route?
The routes I look for are the ones the big buyers drive past.
The consolidators want a route with software, auto-pay on every account, service agreements, and three years of tidy books. That is not what most of you own, and it is not what I am shopping for.
- Rates that have not moved in five or six years
- No website, or one your nephew built a while back
- Customers who still mail you a check or hand you cash at the gate
- No service agreements, and late fees you have never once charged
- Chemical costs coming out of your margin instead of the invoice
- You run the route yourself, including the Sunday calls
None of that is a criticism. A route that has been run simply and kept for twenty years is usually a well-built one, with customers who stay because of you. It just means the value sits in what the route could do, not only in what it does today, and that is the part a broker will not sit down and explain to you.
Find out what mine is worthHow this goes
Three steps, and you can stop after any one of them.
- 1
You tell me about the route
A short form or a phone call. Where you run, roughly how many stops, roughly what they pay. Ten minutes at the very most, and you do not need to dig anything out of a filing cabinet first.
- 2
I send you a real number and show my work
Within two business days: a value range, and a read on your market covering what stops are going for nearby, how tight your route is, and what the rates should be. You will see the arithmetic I used. Most owners have never been shown this, because a broker will not produce it without a listing agreement first.
- 3
You decide, on your schedule
If the number works, we talk structure: all cash at closing, or payments to you over time, or some of each. If it does not work, you keep the report and we part as friends. I will check in once a year if you would like me to.
Selling to me, or listing it
The difference is mostly what it costs you and who you end up dealing with.
| Selling to me | Listing with a broker | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission | None. What we agree on is what you get | Typically eight to twelve percent off the top |
| Who you talk to | Me, from the first call to the closing table | A broker, then a buyer you have never met |
| Timeline | Sixty days, or whenever suits you | Six to twelve months is common |
| Financing risk | No bank. Nothing falls apart at the last minute | The buyer's loan has to come through |
| Condition | As it runs. I have already priced the soft accounts | Clean up the books and the billing before it shows |
| Privacy | One quiet conversation | A public listing your customers and your tech can find |
| Getting paid | Lump sum, or monthly income for years. Your choice | One check, and the tax bill that comes with it |
Worth understanding before you decide anything
A higher price is not always more money in your pocket.
If you have run your route for twenty or thirty years, most of what you would be paid is gain, and a large piece of a lump sum goes to taxes the same year you get it. There is another way to do it that a lot of owners have never had explained to them: I pay you over time instead, at an interest rate we agree on.
You get a monthly check, the tax is spread across the years, and the payments are secured by the route you already know inside and out. If I ever stopped paying, it comes back to you.
Some owners want the clean break and the lump sum, and that is fine, I do that too. But you should at least see both numbers side by side before you decide. I will build you both.
All cash at closing
$220,000
One payment. Most of the gain is taxed in a single year.
Payments over time
$44,000 down
$2,135 a month for 10 years
About $300,200 in total, secured by the route.
Arithmetic on a $220,000 price at 8 percent. Not a quote. Your real numbers, and what they leave you after tax, are what I would build for you.
How seller financing worksWhere I buy
Florida, and mostly the routes that serve a real neighborhood.
I am based in Southwest Florida and I buy across the state. Pick your part of it to see what I look for there.
Outside Florida? Send it over anyway. Florida is simply where I focus, and you will get the same free valuation and the same straight answer about whether I am the right buyer for it.
No cost, no obligation
Get your free valuation
Tell me about your route and I will put together a real value range and a read on your market. There is no cost and no obligation.
Rough numbers are fine everywhere. If you are not sure about a field, skip it and we will fill it in on the phone.
Find out what your route is actually worth.
A real value range, a read on your market, and a straight conversation with the person who would buy it. No cost, no obligation, and nothing gets listed anywhere.