Seven months from LIVE to close, $5M, fully seller-financed
One of our February cohort members closed this month on a landscape construction and maintenance business in the South Bay. Company's been around sinceredactedEstablished team and steady backlog. The kind of business that doesn't show up on the listing sites. Deal details: $5M purchase price, $5.2M all-in after inventory and a tax gross-up on a stock sale with an F reorg. Fully seller-financed. No SBA. No outside investors. I want to flag the seller financing specifically because I hear a lot of searchers treat it as a bonus you ask for at the end. It isn't. It's a signal of how much the seller trusts you, and that trust gets built or lost long before the LOI. His deal came off-market through Rejigg, which meant no broker running intermediary. He spent the front end of the process building a relationship with the owner, and by the time they got to diligence and close, the hard conversations had already happened. Post-LOI was straightforward because there was nothing left to be suspicious about. That's the part I'd spotlight for active searchers. Off-market isn't just a sourcing channel. It changes what the whole deal feels like. For those of you who've gotten to full seller financing on a deal this size, what actually got the seller comfortable with it?