Resources
Everything we know about buying and selling cleaning businesses, written down. Guides, working spreadsheets, and original research from our own listing data — not recycled blog filler.
This Week’s Deal: Why the Utah Janitorial Company is Hot
Deep-dive on a $2.5M revenue cleaning business with $600K in cash flow. Valuation, financing structure, the risks nobody flags, and what we’d pay.
Read the breakdown →Guides
The long-form stuff. Start here if you’re early.
Cleaning Business Valuation Guide
How commercial cleaning businesses actually get valued — SDE vs. EBITDA, where the multiples land, and what moves them.
15 min read
The Definitive Guide to Prepping Your Business for Sale
Twelve months of prep compressed into one document: cleaning up books, de-risking customer concentration, and timing the listing.
20 min read
Commercial Cleaning Industry Overview
Market size, fragmentation, consolidation pressure, and where the acquisition activity is concentrated.
10 min read
The First-Time Buyer’s Field Guide
What to look at in the first 48 hours after an NDA, and the five things that should make you walk immediately.
14 min read
SBA 7(a) Financing for Cleaning Acquisitions
Down payment expectations, seller note structures, personal guarantees, and how long the process really takes.
18 min read
Tools & Templates
Things you can download and actually use on a deal.
SDE Add-Back Worksheet
A spreadsheet for normalizing owner comp, personal vehicles, and one-time expenses without overstating your own earnings.
Customer Concentration Calculator
Enter your top ten accounts and get the concentration risk profile a buyer will build anyway.
Buyer Diligence Checklist
Eighty-one line items across financials, contracts, employees, equipment, and insurance. Print it.
LOI Template for Small Acquisitions
A plain-English letter of intent with the exclusivity, diligence window, and escrow terms filled in as defaults.
Route Density & Margin Model
Model gross margin by drive time and square footage per contract. Useful for janitorial roll-ups.
Employee Transition Letter Pack
Three drafts for announcing a sale to staff — day of close, week after, and the one for your key supervisor.
Data & Research
What we see in the listing data that nobody publishes.
30-Day BizBuySell Listing Audit
We tracked every cleaning listing for a month and documented the stale listings, duplicate posts, and phantom inventory.
Why CleaningExits Exists
The data quality argument, with screenshots. This is the short version of everything we believe.
Quarterly Cleaning Multiples Report
Median asking multiple by revenue band, updated every quarter from live listing data. No survey, no self-reporting.
Days on Market by State
How long cleaning businesses actually sit, broken out by geography and price band.
The Relist Index
Businesses that came back to market after a failed deal, and what that pattern tells you about pricing.
Get the Top 10 every Monday
The ten best cleaning businesses on the market this week, with our notes on why they made the list. Free, and you can leave whenever.
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