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Arthur Landscaping Company for Sale

A landscaping company in Arthur is priced on adjusted seller’s discretionary earnings after a buyer compares this book to Arcola — not on a statewide rumor multiple. Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago. The statewide landscaping companies playbook is on the industry hub; this page is the Arthur file. Confidential sale. No upfront listing fee.

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Selling a landscaping company in Arthur

A landscaping company in Arthur is priced on adjusted seller’s discretionary earnings after a buyer compares this book to Arcola — not on a statewide rumor multiple. Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago. The statewide landscaping companies playbook is on the industry hub; this page is the Arthur file.

Arthur is the Illinois Amish-country town straddling Douglas and Moultrie — workshops, furniture and food, and a cash-and-reputation economy unique in the state.

Tourism and wholesale to the Amish/English mix is the distinctive file; handshake history is not an earnings adjustment. Cash businesses need cleaner books than a charming street, so confirm which county the locations sit in. This is not Tuscola’s I-57 plaza and not Arcola’s broomcorn festival.

Arthur has about 2,291 residents in Douglas County, inside the Arthur area. Nearby markets buyers already compare this book to include Arcola, Tuscola, Sullivan, Decatur. That comparison changes who shows up: a buyer who will drive from Arcola is not the same buyer who will fly in from a coastal platform.

Planning facts

Typical multiple
2.5x–4x SDE
Typical timeline
4–9 months
SBA eligible
Often — confirm
County
Douglas County
Population
2,291
Metro
Arthur
Nearby comps
Arcola, Tuscola, Sullivan, Decatur
Closing clock
Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago
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Douglas County demand

East-central Illinois demand

Champaign-Urbana, Danville, and I-57 / I-74 towns mix campus, hospital, and farm-adjacent service demand. Academic-year cash flow has to be shown, not smoothed away.

State CBS-1 plus municipal licenses. Campus liquor or vendor rules do not transfer by handshake.

Arthur demand for landscaping companies is the customer list and the license path — not the Census population figure. About 2,291 residents is context for who already lives in the trade area. It is not a sale price.

Landscaping Company in Arthur

What a Arthur buyer will underwrite on this landscaping company

Arthur is not a collar-county density play. A landscaping company here usually sells to an owner-operator who already covers Arcola, Tuscola, Sullivan, not a platform that needs a hired dispatcher and a second licensed person. Municipal registrations still reset on a new entity.

Landscaping Companies statewide typically plan around 2.5x–4x SDE and a 4–9 months process when books and the lease are ready. That is a planning range, not a price for this Arthur shop. Buyers here usually argue recurring contract revenue, equipment fleet, crew size, commercial vs residential mix, seasonal balance.

Closing clock for this Arthur file: Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago. License path: Design-build landscaping is not a statewide licensed trade. The industry hub teaches the statewide rule. This URL is the Arthur application of it.

Arthur is a small town market. The first serious call is often an owner-operator from Arcola, Tuscola, Sullivan, not a platform that needs $2 million of earnings to pay for diligence. SBA 7(a) and seller financing usually matter more here than a headline multiple.

Buyer pool

Who buys a landscaping company in Arthur

Owner-operators and farm-service buyers. Arthur’s Amish tourism and manufacturing mix is unique in Illinois.

Illustration: a Wheaton-area design-build landscaper with eight commercial maintenance properties, a patio-and-irrigation crew, and a seller who still draws every bid. Not a closed sale and not a lawn-chemical route.

A landscaping company whose customers already sit in Arcola, Tuscola, Sullivan, Decatur is a larger business than one that stops at the Arthur city limit. Tell the truth about the route. Buyers will map it.

SDE recast

How a buyer will read the books on this Arthur landscaping company

Landscaping recasts on contracted maintenance plus design-build gross profit, not a single HOA install year. Add back owner compensation and equipment-loan interest, then pull one-off hardscape projects and any snow that belongs in a different conversation. If the seller still designs every patio and bids every commercial property, subtract a production manager.

Illustration only — not a quote for any Arthur shop. A landscaping company whose tax return shows $144,000 of net profit is not worth $144,000 × a rumor multiple.

Add back the owner’s $50,000 W-2 and payroll tax, $22,000 of discretionary benefits, $3,500 of accepted one-time cost, and $5,500 of personal expenses that a buyer will not run. Then subtract $75,000 of replacement labor if the owner still diagnoses, sells, or closes the books.

Adjusted seller’s discretionary earnings are $150,000. At the planning range 2.5x–4.0x, enterprise value is $375,000 to $600,000. Mid-range 3.25x is $487,500 before debt, working capital, holdback, and tax. A Arthur buyer will argue the multiple after they ride with the staff and read the lease.

At 3.25 times $150,000 of seller’s discretionary earnings, enterprise value is $487,500 before debt, working capital, holdback, and tax. That is the planning conversation. It is not a listing-site guess.

SDE line items

  1. Reported net profit (tax return, not the marketing P&L)
  2. + Interest expense
  3. + Income taxes (not payroll, sales, or property tax)
  4. + Depreciation and amortization
  5. + Owner W-2, bonuses, and payroll taxes on the owner
  6. + Discretionary owner benefits that a buyer will not keep (auto, personal travel, family on payroll with no role)
  7. + Accepted one-time or non-recurring expenses
  8. − Market-rate replacement labor for owner work that will not transfer
  9. = Seller’s Discretionary Earnings (SDE)
Illustration recast for a Arthur landscaping company — not a quote
Net profit$144,000
Owner W-2$50,000
Benefits$22,000
One-time$3,500
Personal$5,500
Replacement labor (subtract)−$75,000
Recast SDE$150,000
Planning EV at 3.25x$487,500

Recast Seller’s Discretionary Earnings, then apply a planning multiple for landscaping companies. Replacement labor is subtracted. This is a planning tool, not an appraisal.

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Before debt, working-capital peg, holdback, and tax. Educational only.

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Douglas County closing

Licenses and closing steps for a Arthur sale

Douglas (Tuscola, Arcola, Arthur) uses state CBS-1. Amish-country and I-57 interchange businesses have different license and cash-handling profiles.

Design-build landscaping is not a statewide licensed trade. Irrigation backflow, pesticide applications, and municipal contractor registrations are the live items. If the company sprays, the Illinois Department of Agriculture applicator license is personal to the operator. Chicago and many suburbs require contractor registration and dump or water-use permits that reset on a new entity.

Labor and lease

What has to keep working on Monday after close in Arthur

For a landscaping company in Arthur, the first labor question is: Multi-year commercial maintenance contracts the seller does not personally babysit.

I-57 (Tuscola). Cash and reputation businesses in Arthur need cleaner books than a handshake history.

Small-county agriculture plus a distinctive Arthur economy.

Diligence

What a serious landscaping company buyer will open

Levers that move the multiple in this vertical: Multi-year commercial maintenance contracts the seller does not personally babysit; Design-build margin that repeats without the owner’s sketchbook; Owned production equipment versus rented iron; True off-season contracted work; Property-manager relationships that survive a logo change.

Have these ready before anyone hears the name of the Arthur business: Commercial maintenance contracts: term, cancellation, and who holds the relationship; Design-build backlog versus completed one-off patios; Skid-steer, dump-truck, and irrigation-equipment list with liens; HOA and property-manager concentration; Off-season work (snow, holiday lighting, interiorscape) that is actually contracted; Pesticide or irrigation licenses on staying employees.

Buyer tool

SBA payment sketch for a Arthur landscaping company buyer

Most Illinois owner-operator acquisitions use SBA 7(a). This is a payment sketch, not an approval.

SBA 7(a) loans are the most common financing for business acquisitions. Estimate your monthly payment and required down payment based on the purchase price.

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Sale steps

How to prepare a Arthur landscaping company for sale

  1. Recast this Arthur landscaping company. Start with the tax return. Add owner pay. Subtract replacement labor if the seller still does the work a Arthur buyer must hire. Do not treat a spike year as the new normal.
  2. Name who can operate on Monday. List every credential that lets this landscaping company pull a permit or see a patient in Arthur, and whether that person stays. Personal licenses do not transfer with the assets.
  3. Tell the truth about the Arthur trade area. Map customers against neighboring towns. Buyers will. A book that already covers those towns is larger than a book that stops at the Arthur limit.
  4. Open the lease and the labor file. Remaining term and assignment in Douglas County. Whether the crew can run without the seller living eight minutes away.
  5. Calendar the notices that apply here. Illinois CBS-1 (10 business days). No Chicago 45-day city notice unless the business also operates in Chicago. Start them at letter of intent, not the week of funding.
  6. Read the statewide playbook, then talk. The Illinois landscaping companies hub is the statute and recast teaching. This page is the Arthur file. Confidential consult — no upfront listing fee.
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