Home & property services
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutters, landscaping and lawn care, pressure washing, pest control, garage doors, septic.
Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
We buy and hold small service businesses in North and Central Virginia.
Mitchell Ventures Group is an acquisitions and holdings company. Not a fund, not a broker. We buy one business at a time and hold it — the aim is continuity, not a resale.
- $60K – $500KPurchase price
- $50K – $250KSeller's discretionary earnings
- 90 minutesDrive radius
The company
A permanent home for a business someone spent a life building.
We buy to hold
Each acquisition sits in its own LLC beneath MVG and stays there. There is no resale clock and no mandate to strip a business down before flipping it to the next owner.
We are local
Based in Spotsylvania County. Every target is inside a 90-minute drive, which means the owner meets the buyer in person instead of trading emails with an out-of-state fund.
Principal-led ownership
Capital comes from the principal plus bank financing. Ownership is hands-on: the person who signs the letter of intent stays personally involved in the business after closing.
Acquisition criteria
The buy box
Where we look
The I-95 and I-64 corridor: Spotsylvania, Stafford, Fredericksburg, Caroline, King George, Culpeper, Orange, Louisa, Fauquier, Prince William, Hanover, Henrico, Chesterfield, Richmond, and Charlottesville.
Target sectors
What we buy, in priority order
Route & contract services
Commercial janitorial, pool service, waste hauling, portable sanitation, uniform and linen routes.
Commercial & facilities
Light commercial maintenance, fire and life safety inspection, HVAC service agreements.
B2B services
Bookkeeping, small IT and managed services, staffing, print and signage, equipment repair.
Auto, fleet & equipment
Independent repair shops, mobile mechanics, small-engine service, fleet maintenance.
The common thread
Recurring or repeat revenue, licensed trades, non-discretionary spend, and an owner who has become the bottleneck.
Why now
A generation of owners is reaching retirement at the same time. What happens next to those businesses is worth getting right.
2.9 millionU.S. businesses owned by someone aged 55 or older
52.3%Of U.S. employer businesses are owned by someone at or near retirement age
1 in 3Owners say they have no long-term plan for the business, or are unsure
Sources: Project Equity, Gallup
Screening
What earns a yes, and what ends it
Earns a yes
- Owner is retiring, relocating, or burned out — not failing
- Three years of tax returns that tie to the P&L
- Contracts, maintenance agreements, or repeat customers
- A crew or lead tech who intends to stay
- Licensing that transfers, or a qualifier already on staff
Ends the conversation
- Revenue tied entirely to the owner with no transferable book
- Undocumented cash where the real numbers cannot be proven
- Immediate six-figure equipment replacement required
- Pending litigation or unresolved EPA / OSHA exposure
- Restaurants, retail storefronts, trend-dependent concepts
Process
Six steps, roughly ninety days
- 1
Conversation
Thirty minutes, confidential. No documents required.
- 2
NDA
Signed before any financials change hands.
- 3
Indication of value
A real number and structure within seven business days.
- 4
Letter of intent
Forty-five to sixty days of exclusivity.
- 5
Diligence & financing
Books, licenses, contracts, lease, and lender underwriting.
- 6
Close
Typically sixty to ninety days from the signed LOI.
Our approach
How we intend to handle a transition.
These are our starting intentions, not blanket guarantees. Specific terms are agreed deal by deal and written into the definitive agreement once we both know the business.
Continuity of the name
Our default is to keep the trade name, the phone number, and the local presence intact. If a change ever makes sense, it gets discussed, not imposed.
Continuity for the crew
We buy businesses because the team already works. We are not acquiring in order to cut headcount, and we will be straight with you about our plans before you sign anything.
Confidentiality
Nothing is raised with your staff, customers, or competitors without your agreement on timing. That holds whether or not we reach a deal.
A structure that fits
Cash, SBA financing, a seller note, or a paid transition role — built around your timeline rather than a fixed template.
Get in touch
If you own one, or you represent someone who does, let's talk.
Owners, brokers, CPAs, and insurance agents are all welcome. The first conversation is thirty minutes and costs nothing but time.
- Direct
- (540) 496-9667
- Based in
- Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia