{
  "title": "How to Start a Home Services Roll-Up: Moran Pober's 5 Steps",
  "url": "https://acquisitions.com/blog/how-to-start-a-home-services-roll-up/",
  "author": "Moran Pober",
  "publisher": "Acquisitions.com",
  "published": "2026-10-22",
  "updated": "2026-10-22",
  "section": "From the videos",
  "keyword": "home services roll-up",
  "short_answer": "A home services roll-up buys several small, boring trade businesses (HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, turf, car washes), adds shared systems, memberships and AI, and sells the group for a higher multiple than any one business would get. Start by picking a trade you would actually own, buy one business with seller financing and an SBA loan, fix it, then add the next.",
  "facts": {
    "SBA 7(a) loan": [
      "$1,050,000",
      "70% of the price, paid over 10 years"
    ],
    "Seller note": [
      "$300,000",
      "20%, paid over 5 years, keeps the seller invested in a clean handover"
    ],
    "Buyer or investor equity": [
      "$150,000",
      "10%, the usual floor an SBA lender wants to see"
    ],
    "Total": [
      "$1,500,000",
      ""
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/7a-loans"
  ],
  "license": "Facts may be quoted with attribution to Acquisitions.com and a link to the url above."
}