$780K Revenue/$200k SDE Residential Plumbing Service Business | Greater Seattle

The business is a residential service plumbing company in the greater Seattle region. The owner founded the business in 2019 and has built it to approximately $780,000 in gross revenue in 2025 as a solo licensed operator. The service area runs from the owner's base north of Seattle south into the metro core, covering a meaningful slice of the densest residential plumbing market in the Pacific Northwest. Operating model. The business is a true solo operator — the owner runs all field work personally as the sole licensed plumber. Approximately $780,000 in gross revenue in 2025, with gross profit of approximately $400,000. Owner take-home was in the upper $200,000s range for the year, which the owner confirmed against his recently completed tax filing. The business has no employees, no manager bench, and no formal customer relationship management infrastructure beyond what one person can run. Operating expenses are minimal — the owner runs lean and converts a meaningful share of revenue to owner cash. The owner is in his prime working years and is exiting for physical-wear reasons. After a career of manual labor, he is looking to transition into work that demands less of him physically and to spend more time with family. He has indicated a 12-month exit horizon and is willing to support a transition through that window. He has not yet developed a formal asking price but is actively researching valuation comparables and intends to have a number in the next week or two. The good. Single-license residential plumbing in the Seattle market is a structurally durable business — high demand, fragmented supply, recurring service work that does not commoditize. The owner has built genuine cash flow with no debt, no overhead drag, and no external dependencies in six years of operation. The customer book and referral relationships are real and transferable to a successor operator who can step in with appropriate licensing. The geography is among the best residential plumbing markets in the country — dense, growing, high willingness-to-pay, strong housing stock. The bad. This is a single-license, single-operator business. A buyer is acquiring the owner's license capacity, his customer book, his routes, and his referral relationships — not a business with operational infrastructure. There are no employees to retain, no manager to inherit, and no documented systems beyond what the owner carries in his head and his truck. A buyer must hold or hire to a Washington master plumber license to continue operations on day one, and must plan for material customer-relationship attrition through the transition since the owner's personal reputation is a meaningful portion of the customer book. Adjusted SDE is opaque from headline numbers and will need to be reconstructed through tax-return and bank-statement diligence. The owner has not set an asking price yet, which means valuation expectations will need to be negotiated on a clean basis. Why this is interesting for a searcher or independent sponsor. This is structurally a license-plus-customer-book acquisition in one of the strongest residential plumbing markets in the country. For a searcher who can either hold a Washington master plumber license directly or partner with a licensed operator, the business represents a fast path to acquiring cash flow in the upper-$200,000 range with minimal debt service requirements. The Seattle metro residential plumbing TAM is large enough that an operator with even modest sales and operational infrastructure should be able to scale the business 3-5x from the current solo operating capacity. The owner is willing to support transition for up to a year, which gives a buyer real runway to convert customer relationships and document the operating playbook before the founder steps away. CT Strategic Partners is engaged exclusively on the buy side with the seller and expects buy side compensation from the acquirer at close. The seller pays no fees. We are not brokers and we are not running a process. This is a single buy side introduction made to a qualified acquirer who completes diligence and reaches terms with the owner directly. If this is interesting, reach out by DM or directly at redacted