38+ Yr. Real Estate Sign Co. w/ $72K SDE

A route-based real estate sign installation business serving residential brokerages, agents, and builders across Providence County, RI and Southeastern Massachusetts. The company installs, maintains, relocates, and removes the yard signs used to market listings, manufacturing its own pressure-treated wooden posts in-house and hanging clients' sign panels. Orders are scheduled into efficient daily routes, which keeps turnaround fast and overhead low. Day to day, the owner handles post manufacturing, scheduling, and installations, supported by one field installer focused on sign placement. The operation runs from a home base with garage and yard storage, so there is no commercial lease to assume. A buyer steps into long-standing brokerage relationships, the vehicle and field equipment, an inventory of posts, and the seller's route knowledge. This fits an owner-operator or a regional signage or field-services company looking to bolt on an established territory with recurring residential real estate clients. Disclaimer: Unbroker LLC does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided in this listing, as it is supplied directly by the seller. Prospective buyers are strongly encouraged to conduct their own due diligence. Any real estate represented as part of this transaction is sold directly by the business or property owner and not by Unbroker LLC.

Retirement

The business runs from the owner's home, using a two-bay garage for sign and material storage and roughly 1,000 square feet of yard for post inventory, so there is no commercial rent. Included in the sale is about $[hidden] of equipment and inventory: a 2020 pickup truck, a portable generator, an electric demolition hammer, assorted digging tools, and roughly 500 pressure-treated wooden posts. That gives a buyer everything needed to keep routes running from day one. (Home Based)

The seller will provide reasonable transition assistance, including route knowledge, scheduling practices, and post-manufacturing know-how, to ensure a smooth handover to new ownership.

Demand comes from residential brokerages, agents, and builders who need signs installed and removed on listing timelines, work that continues through market cycles because listings always need signage. The company has built its position over decades on reliable, on-time service, winning business as slower or failing competitors leave gaps. Pricing about 10% under competitors and deep route knowledge across the territory create a practical barrier for newcomers.

Revenue has grown three years running as competing installers miss deadlines or shut down, and with pricing roughly 10% below competitors there is clear room for a rate increase. A buyer can formalize builder sign programs, add commercial signage alongside the residential work, and open online order intake for agents who prefer to schedule digitally. Extending routes into adjacent New England towns and layering complementary field services onto existing stops would spread the fixed cost of the truck and crew across more revenue per route.