Owned and Operated - A Plumbing, Electrical, and HVAC Business Growth Podcast

Ryan Young runs several businesses, he’s built his Real Estate Brokerage into one of the top three brokerages in Ohio and he runs a business called Flash House which is an instant offer Real Estate tech platform that offers Home sellers instant quotes on the price of their home and executes on those same deals.

Flash House acquires over 150 homes every year, but what’s even more exciting is hearing Ryan’s thoughts on the business behind real estate, for example, Ryan can do some cool things with all of the data he’s building as he runs his businesses.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to create a significant market advantage, even in an industry as traditional as Real Estate.

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John Wilson, CEO of Wilson Companies
Jack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC

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Today John and Brandon talk about integrating our latest HVAC integration, the major problems, solutions, wins and losses.

Enjoy!

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Over the last four years, Reg has been buying and rolling up foundries and metal casting facilities. But before that, he felt like a corporate drone, trudging through his day-to-day work life and found his escape and new journey through ETA.

Reg is our first guest who has bought and owns businesses in multiple states. The problems associated with a national operation are unique - and today on the pod, John and Brandon grill Reg, trying to understand where he’s been successful and how we might replicate that same success.

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Today we have Johnny - otherwise known as Squeegeegod on Twitter, Johnny and his business partner Sergio started Orange Window Cleaning 4 years ago and they are on pace to do $700,000 just cleaning windows this year.

We love businesses like Johnny’s. They’re very easy to start, but growing them can be a big challenge. We brought on Johnny to give you the step by step details into how he started and how he’s grown over the past several years.

If you’re interested in a business that’s easy to start where you can profit immediately, you’ll love this episode.

Enjoy!

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In this episode John discusses his history getting started in the trades, his journey learning about finance and acquisitions, to buying 5 businesses and owning a $5MM Plumbing and HVAC business.

If you're interested to hear a story about how anyone can buy a business and run it successfully despite the ups and downs, this episode is a must listen!

Enjoy!

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Steve Ressler knows how to sell your company to the government and has successfully exited every time. He has since been focused on search fund investing, investing in over 20 different companies on a national and international level. At Wilson Companies, we are looking at investing in small businesses and in this particular episode, we go deep into the search fund model and how we - as a small business - can use it as a growth and diversification strategy. If you have ever thought about raising or investing in search funds and small businesses, this episode is unbelievable.

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Okay, today we have an Ask Me Anything Episode.

We asked our twitter community what they wanted us to talk about and you all gave us a bunch of suggestions, so we sorted through them, picked out the best topics and talk about them on this episode.

One of the main topics of today is how the integration process of our latest acquisition has gone

Enjoy

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Microacquire.com to find internet businesses to buy.
Captarget.com for the best off-market deal sourcing platform ever.
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Trish is a partner at Chenmark Capital, a small permanent equity firm she founded with her husband and brother in law.

Chenmark has acquired and runs 6 different businesses some of which have grown through acquisitions to the tune of buying about another 25 deals.

At Wilson Companies, we’re just starting to ramp up our acquisition processes and Trish gave us the secrets and barriers we will likely encounter in the near future.

If you’re interested in what it looks like when two permanent capital companies brainstorm some strategy, you are going to love this episode.

Enjoy!

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Liam has been tearing it up on Twitter, giving tons of advice on running his Short Term Rental Cleaning business and even giving insight into things like revenue, growth, and employee and subcontractor management.

On this episode, Liam runs us through exactly how his business operates. Additionally, Liam is at a very interesting point in a small business owners growth where his role is transitioning to working on the business vs in the business.

This makes for an interesting conversation with Liam who has to both understand operating in the trenches and the value of moving deeper into a leadership role.

Enjoy!

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Mitchell runs Baldridge Financial and knows how to save money in your SMB. His business is an all-in-one tax and financial planning firm for small and midsize businesses nationwide. John and Brandon get into the details of Mitchell’s business, specifically, they talk about how much it’s grown since Mitchell got active on Twitter, and some of the nuances of growing a financial services firm. 

One of the highlights of this episode is when John and Mitchell break down a deal, where John gives Mitchell an asset-heavy business and asks for some of the best tax strategies he could use and how much they’ll pay off.

Check out Owned and Operated Weekly Insights: a newsletter where John discusses topics ranging from recruiting and marketing to the growth of your home service business.  Subscribe to the newsletter here.

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Jack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC

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