{
  "title": "How to Sell a Low Voltage Business: Steps, Documents, Timeline, Fees",
  "url": "https://acquisitions.com/blog/how-to-sell-a-low-voltage-business/",
  "author": "Moran Pober",
  "publisher": "Acquisitions.com",
  "published": "2026-10-29",
  "updated": "2026-10-29",
  "section": "Selling a business",
  "keyword": "how to sell a low voltage business",
  "short_answer": "Clean up three years of books, split service contracts and repeat client work from one-off construction projects, and document your customers, backlog, licences and certified staff. Then value the business on SDE or EBITDA, market it quietly to the right buyers, sign a letter of intent, get through due diligence and close. Most owners need 12 to 24 months from first prep to closing day.",
  "facts": {
    "Service and maintenance contracts": [
      "Support plans for cameras, access control, AV rooms, networks",
      "Renews on its own; valued highest per dollar of profit"
    ],
    "Repeat client work": [
      "Moves, adds and changes for a hospital, campus or data center",
      "Not under contract, but comes back every month"
    ],
    "New construction projects": [
      "Cabling a new office, school or warehouse, often through a general contractor",
      "Each job ends; next year depends on winning bids again"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://www.ibba.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/market-pulse-highlights-q4-2025.pdf",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-ibba-and-ma-source-announce-the-market-pulse-q4-2025-survey-results-302691992.html",
    "https://www.cslb.ca.gov/About_us/Library/Licensing_Classifications/Licensing_Classifications_Detail.aspx?Class=C-7",
    "https://www.vcaonline.com/news/2025091031/hudson-glade-acquires-comnet-communications/"
  ],
  "license": "Facts may be quoted with attribution to Acquisitions.com and a link to the url above."
}