Outdoor Living & Hardscape Co. w/ $200K Equipment

This Monongalia County, WV contractor builds outdoor living space: paver patios and walkways, retaining walls, outdoor kitchens, decks, pergolas, fencing and landscape installation, plus related outdoor construction. Projects are sold one at a time to homeowners, with a smaller share of light commercial work, and the customer base is diversified with no single-client concentration and a solid share of repeat buyers.

Day to day, the owner sells, estimates and runs most job sites with a two-person labor crew, calling in two established subcontractors depending on the trade. A family member handles invoicing and paperwork, and an outside accountant runs payroll and tax filings. Nearly all work comes from inbound calls off a five-star review profile and search presence rather than low-bid chasing.

What transfers is a working operation: the trade name and DBA, website and lead sources, customer and project records, crew and subcontractor relationships, and an itemized fleet and equipment package. Best suited to a hands-on owner-operator or an existing contractor who wants installed hardscape capacity and an established lead channel in north-central West Virginia.

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Relocating closer to family

Operations run from the owner's private property rather than leased commercial space, using a 30' x 30' shop plus roughly an acre of open equipment storage, which keeps rent out of the cost structure. Included in the sale is an itemized equipment package valued at about $200,000 as of May 2026: two late-model work trucks (one with a 9-ft dump bed), a skid steer with bucket and fork attachments, a mini excavator with buckets and auger, a 10,000 lb equipment trailer, a straight-blade plow and tailgate spreader, and a full set of power and hand tools. Roughly $5,000 of materials inventory is not included. A buyer supplies their own yard or shop, but nothing else needs to be bought to keep crews producing. (Home Based)

Seller will provide appropriate training and support as mutually agreed upon by both parties to ensure a successful transition.

Demand comes from homeowners across a north-central West Virginia county investing in backyards - patios, retaining walls, outdoor kitchens, decks and fencing - with a smaller share of light commercial projects. Rather than competing as a mow-and-blow maintenance provider, this contractor sells higher-ticket build work and self-performs excavation and hardscape with owned machines, which most small local crews cannot. Leads arrive inbound from a five-star review profile and search presence instead of low-bid tenders, and the customer base is diversified with no concentration. Entry barriers for a new competitor are the equipment package, the review history and crews that can install hardscape correctly.

The owner reports more inbound work than the current crew can build, so the clearest lever is hiring a working foreman and putting a second crew on jobs the company already turns away. Owned machines support service lines sold only occasionally today - the skid steer, the mini excavator with auger and the dump truck cover grading, drainage, excavation and land clearing, while the plow and tailgate spreader already in the fleet make winter snow and salting a low-cost seasonal add. Neighboring towns and nearby southwestern Pennsylvania are reachable from the same yard without a second location. Attaching maintenance or seasonal service agreements to completed builds would layer repeat revenue onto what is now one-time project work.