Heating & Cooling Contractor — aurora, illinois
July 30, 2026
Tangent helped sell a heating and cooling business, allowing the owner to move from 60-hour weeks to a Florida lifestyle.
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Businesses Tangent Brokerage has sold. Sales are confidential, so each write-up gives the industry and general area rather than the company name, along with what made the deal difficult, how we handled it, and how it closed.
How We Approach a Sale: Illustrative Scenarios
These are composite examples, not specific past transactions. They show how the same handful of factors decide whether a business sells for a fair price or sits on the market.
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Landscape Design & Maintenance Company — Western Suburbs, IL
A landscape design and maintenance company sold above the owner's own rough estimate once its recurring maintenance revenue was properly separated and normalized.
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Roofing Company — Chicago suburbs
A roofing contractor separated one-time storm revenue from its recurring commercial maintenance base to show buyers its real baseline earning power.
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Steel Fabrication Shop — Northwest Indiana
A steel fabrication shop with concentrated GC relationships sold to the buyer best positioned to retain those customers, with part of the price structured as an earn-out.
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HVAC & HVACR Contractor — DuPage County, IL
An HVAC and HVACR contractor with a mix of new-install and recurring maintenance-agreement revenue sold to an SBA-financed buyer after a focus on documenting recurring revenue.
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