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Buy a Septic Business & Make $3m ARR

Dan Spracklin acquired a septic pumping business doing $1M annually, then grew it to $3M and margins to 30% in 2 years.

Key points from Dan's story:

Gray Brothers was a septic pumping business founded in 1929, run by Dan Spracklin's father-in-law.

It was generating about $1m per year in revenues from 22,000 customers. Septic pumping companies typically have margins of 10-15%.

Dan & his wife added adjacent septic services to Gray Brothers and improved operations. Within 2 years, they'd pushed revenues to $3m and margins to 30-35%.

Septic pumping is a great lifestyle business for existing…

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