30-Year Irrigation & Landscape Co. - Retiring Owner, SBA Pre-Qualified
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Established irrigation, landscape, and seasonal-services contractor with five diversified revenue lines, serving a roughly 100-mile trade area across east-central Nebraska for nearly 30 years.
Five service lines carry the business through the year: irrigation at 45% of 2025 revenue, landscape, sod and turf at 23%, grading and site work at 11%, an authorized commercial mower dealership at 11%, and snow and ice control at 9%. About half of 2025 revenue came from customers active in prior years, across roughly 1,800 accounts, with no single customer above 8%. A fleet of trucks, trailers, tractors, skid steers, trenchers, hydroseeding units, and snow equipment - carried on the sellers' asset schedules at $978,307 - conveys with the sale, along with about $400,000 of inventory at cost, both included in the asking price.
The sale is driven by the owners' retirement. This is an owner-operated business - a buyer steps into the estimating and coordination role - and the owners will support a structured transition, the majority owner for up to 90 days and the field-operations owner for up to two years, subject to SBA ownership rules. The business is SBA pre-qualified, with written lender pre-qualifications available to a qualified buyer, and the owners are open to a seller note alongside a buyer's financing.
Detailed financials, a recorded seller interview, and a confidential information summary are available to qualified buyers. Submit the inquiry form on this page, and an NDA will be emailed on request.
Five service lines carry the business through the year: irrigation at 45% of 2025 revenue, landscape, sod and turf at 23%, grading and site work at 11%, an authorized commercial mower dealership at 11%, and snow and ice control at 9%. About half of 2025 revenue came from customers active in prior years, across roughly 1,800 accounts, with no single customer above 8%. A fleet of trucks, trailers, tractors, skid steers, trenchers, hydroseeding units, and snow equipment - carried on the sellers' asset schedules at $978,307 - conveys with the sale, along with about $400,000 of inventory at cost, both included in the asking price.
The sale is driven by the owners' retirement. This is an owner-operated business - a buyer steps into the estimating and coordination role - and the owners will support a structured transition, the majority owner for up to 90 days and the field-operations owner for up to two years, subject to SBA ownership rules. The business is SBA pre-qualified, with written lender pre-qualifications available to a qualified buyer, and the owners are open to a seller note alongside a buyer's financing.
Detailed financials, a recorded seller interview, and a confidential information summary are available to qualified buyers. Submit the inquiry form on this page, and an NDA will be emailed on request.
About the Business
- Years in Operation
- 28
- Employees
- 14 (13 Full-time, 1 Contractor)
- Facilities & Assets
- The business operates from more than 30,000 square feet under roof on several acres, laid out for a diversified contractor: a customer-facing showroom for the equipment dealership, multiple shop and service bays, and covered equipment and material storage. The real estate is held by a related entity and is available to a buyer to lease or to purchase separately - flexibility on how much capital goes into property at closing rather than a forced real-estate purchase. The conveying equipment spans what all five service lines require, from hand tools to tractors and payloaders: trucks, trailers, skid steers, trenchers, hydroseeding and sod-installation rigs, snow and deicing equipment, and shop tooling. A buyer inherits a complete, working operating platform rather than assembling one over several seasons.
- Market Outlook / Competition
- The trade area is roughly a 100-mile radius across several counties of east-central Nebraska - small-city and rural residential, commercial, and agricultural work, keeping demand broad rather than tied to one customer type. Competition is fragmented by line: irrigation is served mostly by smaller single-service operators, landscape and grading draw regional bids, and the dealership competes on assigned territory rather than head to head. Harder to match is the combination - five service lines, an authorized dealership, and equipment from hand tools to tractors and payloaders under one roof, not matched by any direct competitor management sees in the market. The installed irrigation base is structurally recurring: systems return each spring for startup and each fall for winterization, regardless of project cycles. Replicating that position takes equipment capital, a manufacturer-granted dealership appointment, backflow certification, and crews that shift between lines by season.
- Opportunities for Growth
- Management points to several directions a new owner could take the business, each unpiloted and framed as opportunity rather than forecast. New-customer acquisition today runs almost entirely on word of mouth and vehicle signage, leaving even a basic paid-marketing program as untested headroom - the economics have not been modeled. Two adjacent lines could use the existing crew and equipment: commercial condenser cleaning, which management believes is unserved locally, and fertilization and spray application, where the owners have identified a possible acquisition (indicated at $300,000 to $400,000, preliminary and not yet modeled) requiring licensed staff not currently on payroll. A set of area residential builders the Company does not serve today rounds out the list - management attributes that to personal history, not price or capability, a constraint a new owner would not carry. None of these is in the current numbers; they are paths, not promises.
Real Estate
- Owned or Leased
- Owned
- Not included in asking price
- Building Sq. Ft.
- 30,000
About the Sale
- Seller Motivation
- Retirement - both owners exiting after nearly 30 years
- Transition Support
- Both owners support the handoff. The majority owner transitions estimating, vendor relationships, and customer accounts, and the field-operations owner can remain for an extended period - subject to SBA ownership rules - giving a buyer operating-side continuity well beyond the thirty to ninety days typical of a sale this size. Training is hands-on: the current owners bought the business themselves and were running estimating within three to four weeks, evidence the work transfers to a capable operator. The field-service platform holds job history, customer records, and scanned as-built maps organized by address, so a new owner and crews can pull the full history on any account. Continuity runs through the team as well - a service manager with sixteen years of tenure and a crew manager run daily field execution, and a long-tenured senior field employee carries knowledge across several service lines.
- Financing Options
- SBA pre-qualified; partial seller financing available to qualified buyers
Listing Info
- ID
- 2544413
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