JackQuisitions - Small Business Acquisitions in Home Service
Welcome to Jackquisitions — your inside look at acquiring a home service business
Hosted by Jack Carr, co-host of the Owned and Operated podcast, this channel breaks down real acquisition strategies—LOIs, SBA loans, due diligence, and post-close integration—all through the lens of home service entrepreneurship.
If you're looking to grow through acquisition, you're in the right place.
Episodes
50 episodes
Thinking About Buying a Car Detailing Business? Watch This First.
Thinking About Buying a Car Detailing Business? Watch This First.Car detailing looks like the perfect business.Low startup cost. Strong margins. Flexible labor. Great branding. And if you love cars? Even better.
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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12:51
How Car Wash Businesses Make Money (And Where They Fail)
Car Washes Aren’t What You Think — The Models That Make (or Lose) MillionsCar washes look like the perfect “easy business.”Recurring memberships. Cars lined up. Low labor. Simple operations.But that’s exactly where m...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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16:07
The Best Business to Start After AI Takes Your Job
AI Is Crushing Graphic Design Jobs — Here’s the Business I’d Start InsteadAI has already started commoditizing large parts of graphic design. Canva and AI tools can now produce “good enough” design work in minutes — forcing compan...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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14:40
Ford’s $40B Bet: Why Killing Their Sedans Saved the Company
Ford’s $40B Bet: Why Killing Their Sedans Saved the CompanyIn 2018, Ford made a shocking decision: they killed almost their entire sedan lineup in North America.The Fiesta. The Focus. The Fusion. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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6:19
The Slow Collapse of Red Robin
Red Robin was once one of the biggest gourmet burger chains in America.In the early 2000s, it was booming — bottomless fries, high-energy casual dining, and aggressive expansion that pushed the brand to more than 570 locations nationw...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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9:00
Watch This BEFORE Your Buy/Start A Laundromat Business
Watch this before buying a laundromat.It’s marketed as passive income. Simple. Set it and forget it. That’s not reality.A laundromat can absolutely produce durable, consistent cash flow. But it can also turn into a massiv...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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9:13
Watch This BEFORE Your Buy/Start A Junk Removal Business
Junk Removal: The Easiest Business to Start — And the Easiest to Overpay ForJunk removal might be the simplest home service business to launch — no license, no apprenticeship, no inspections.But it’s also one of the most mi...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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10:40
Watch This BEFORE Your Buy/Start An Electrical Business
Electrical is one of the best home service businesses to own in 2026 — but it’s also one of the easiest to mess up if you enter it the wrong way.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack breaks down the real acquisition opportunit...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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18:34
Why We Quit Buying Service Vans — And You Probably Should Too
Should Home Service Companies Stop Buying Vans?In this episode bonus feed dropped episode Owned and Operated, John Wilson is joined by Nashville operator Jack Carr to break down one of the most overlooked expenses in...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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27:58
The Best & Worst Businesses to Buy in 2026
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack breaks down one of the most important acquisition questions heading into 2026:What industries should you avoid… and which ones have the biggest tailwinds?
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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27:18
The Real Way to Find Off-Market Deals (And Why Your First Deal Takes Longer)
Most first-time buyers take more than a year to close their first acquisition—and rushing the process is how people wash out.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack welcomes back Chris Barr for a 1-year search update...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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41:53
How SBA Rule Changes Are Reshaping Home Service Acquisitions
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack welcomes back Alan Peterson (First Internet Bank) to break down the SBA SOP changes that are reshaping home service acquisitions in 2026—especially for buyers navigating licensing, seller equity, a...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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38:00
How Peer Groups Help Operators Survive (and Scale) After Their First Acquisition
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack sits down with Rand Larson, owner of Scale Path, to talk about the real reason so many operators struggle after closing their first deal: they’re doing it alone.Rand shares t...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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36:12
The Best $5K/Month Passive Business You Can Buy Today (Nightlife Vending)
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack sits down with Micah Stanley, founder of a rapidly scaling nightlife vending business that went from one college-bar machine to 100+ machines across multiple states in under two years.What s...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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35:14
From $2.5M to $7M in 12 Months: Landscaping Roll-Up + Irrigation Acquisition Lessons
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack sits down with Ian Smith, partner at South River Capital, to break down what it actually looks like to scale through acquisitions in home services—when the “platform” you thought you bought turns...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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45:41
Watch This BEFORE You Buy/Start a Pressure Washing Business
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack breaks down why pressure washing is one of the most misunderstood businesses in America—and why the “low skill, low overhead, easy money” narrative is exactly what traps most operators in unscalabl...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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10:26
Is Rolling Up Alarm Companies the Best ETA Play in 2025?
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack sits down with Collin Trimble of Alarm Masters and Entry & Exit to dig into what it really looks like to roll up commercial fire and security companies—and why recurring monthly revenu...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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35:36
Your First Acquisition Will Probably Be Your Worst (Here’s Why)
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack sits down with Nathan Lindley of Done Right to dig into what it really looks like to roll up small HVAC companies—and why acquisition can be the smartest growth channel in the trades. Nath...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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38:06
Should YOU Buy a Business or Build One First?
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack sits down with Stephen Olmon to unpack one of the spiciest ETA questions out there: should you buy a business or build one first? Stephen shares his non-traditional path into entrep...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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32:40
Buying a Business: How Entrepreneurs Build Real Deal Flow
In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack sits back down with Chris Barr to talk about what real leverage looks like in a self-funded search: building systems instead of just refreshing BizBuySell, working your broker network, and...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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31:16
Why No One Is Looking at Septic… and How to Buy One Cheap
Buying a septic company is one of the highest-ROI moves in home-service M&A… if you know where to look.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack breaks down exactly where real septic deals come from — from the obvious o...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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7:46
The Biggest Red Flags in Home Service Acquisitions
Buying a company is hard. Buying a job by accident is worse. In this roundtable, John Wilson (Owned & Operated) and Jack Carr break down the biggest red flags they’ve seen across nine-plus home-service acquisitions—from septic and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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37:06
From a $15K Acquisition to an $8M Home Service Business (In Just 14 Months)
Today on JackQuisitions, Jack talks with Dustin Marx, founder of Mother (Modern Plumbing) — the Texas-based plumbing company that went from $15K a month to an $8M run rate in just 14 months.Dustin isn’t your typical plumbing entre...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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36:50
How to Build a Security Company That Actually Closes New Deals (Entry & Exit Feed Drop)
MORE Entry & ExitHosts Stephen Olmon and Collin Trimble get practical and tactical on winning new logos in security & life-safety. They break down how to niche yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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54:03
How Regular People Get Rich Buying Boring Businesses
Should you stay sector-agnostic in ETA (entrepreneurship through acquisition) or plant a flag with a clear buy box brokers, CPAs, and attorneys can remember? After a month sidelined by a home flood, searcher Chris Barr returns to his acquisitio...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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32:40