Highly Profitable Auto Body Franchise on a High-Traffic Dayton Corridor With a Specialized Niche That Competing Shops Refer Work To

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  • Primary Category: Auto Repair & Service Shops for Sale

This shop has operated from the same high-traffic Dayton corridor for over 40 years, a testament to a location that puts 20,000 vehicles past the front door every day. The team is tenured, skilled, and largely self-sufficient on the floor.

The business has built a niche so well-defined that the competition feeds it. Rather than chasing insurance-driven collision work, this location has cornered a segment of direct-to-consumer, smaller, fast-turn jobs that most shops consider too much hassle to take on themselves. Competing shops actively refer this work out rather than attempt it, and with no relationship cultivation or outbound effort of any kind, nearly 20% of leads today come in through pure competitor referrals. Customer loyalty runs deep as well, with heavy repeat customers and lots of referrals coming from the existing customer base.

The shop runs on a proven weekly system designed to turn 20 cars consistently, Monday through Friday with no weekend hours. Today, the revenue mix is approximately 90% direct-to-consumer, 10% fleet, and 0% insurance direct repair.

For a buyer ready to be active in growth where the current owners have been passive, content to keep what they have, there are multiple low-risk, high-reward expansion lanes available: Increasing hours open, actively cultivating referral relationships with area body shops, growing the existing fleet business through outbound, pursuing preferred carrier status with insurance companies, or ramping up marketing and ad spend to grow the consumer base.

Financial Information

  • $740,000 Asking Price
  • $236,257 Cash Flow
  • $1,417,835 Gross Revenue
  • N/A Down Payment
  • N/A Adjusted EBITDA

Business Location

  • City: Dayton
  • State: Ohio

Reason for Sale

  • Retirement

Detailed information

  • Year Established:
  • Home Based: No
  • Franchise: Yes
  • Relocatable: No
  • Lender Prequalified: No
  • SBA Prequalified: No
  • Full-Time Employees: 10
  • Part-Time Employees: N/A
  • Contractors: N/A
  • Owner Worked Hours/w: 40
  • Inventory Included: Yes
  • Inventory Value: $10,000
  • Monthly Rent: N/A
  • Real Estate Available: Yes
  • Real Estate Included: No
  • Real Estate Value: $1,100,000
  • Building Size: 11820
  • FF&E Included?: Yes
  • FF&E Value: $100,000

Training/Support

  • Seller is willing to stay on for a mutually agreed upon training and transition period
Business Listed by
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Will Phillips
Sunbelt of Dayton
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Listing ID
DAYTOOH001-59478

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