Hey buddy,
Issue #3 of Business For Sale. This one has more going on than the previous two combined — a 50% price cut, MRR that's tripled in recent months, and 31 offers already received. Most interesting listing we've looked at so far.
(Quick disclosure: the link below is my referral link on TrustMRR — costs you nothing, but I wanted you to know it's there.)
What It Does: NextjobConnect monitors neighborhood platforms in real time, uses AI to classify posts by trade, and pushes high-intent job leads directly to home service contractors — plumbers, electricians, painters — via iOS/Android app and SMS. No chasing, no bidding wars, no lead aggregators. The contractor gets a direct alert when someone nearby needs their exact service.
The Listing Business: NextjobConnect LLC — real-time job lead alerts for home service contractors
Asking price: $100,000 (cut from $200,000)
Revenue: $6,891 MRR from 30 active subscriptions, $44,742 in lifetime revenue, founded May 2025
Multiple: 1.4x annualized
Verified or self-reported: Stripe-verified, last updated July 1, 2026
Where I found it: TrustMRR
The Business Model: Flat monthly subscriptions at $79–$500/month depending on tier, no per-lead fees. Contractors pay once and get leads as they come. 75% gross margins. Customer acquisition is entirely through cold calling.
Why It Caught My Eye:
31 offers already received and 8,913 buyers have viewed this listing — by far the most competitive listing we've covered in this series, which tells you something about the market's appetite for B2B contractor tools right now
MRR has tripled in recent months per the founder ($2K → $6.8K), which is the kind of trend that changes a valuation conversation entirely
The problem is painfully specific and real — home service contractors lose jobs daily to whoever responds first, and most of them have no systematic way to find leads except word of mouth
75% gross margins on a flat subscription model means most of each dollar coming in stays in
Currently live in just 4 states with a clear nationwide playbook — that's genuine built-in upside, not a made-up story
The Math: At $100,000 for a business doing $6,891 MRR, the multiple comes out to roughly 1.2x annualized MRR ($6,891 × 12 = $82,692). The listing shows 1.4x, which is calculated off the last-30-days blended revenue figure rather than pure MRR — same pattern we saw in issue #2. Either way, 1.2x–1.4x for a business that's actively growing, has proven unit economics, and has a clear geographic expansion path is genuinely competitive pricing. The $200K original ask looked defensible given the growth trajectory; the $100K cut is almost certainly what drove 31 offers into the inbox.
Tech Stack You'd Inherit:
React, Capacitor (frontend/mobile)
Python/FastAPI (backend)
Stripe (billing)
What I'd Dig Into Before Buying:
The listing description still says "22 paying customers, $5K MRR" — but the live Stripe-verified stats show 30 active subscriptions and $6,891 MRR. The description hasn't been updated as the business grew, which means you're reading two different snapshots in the same listing. Always use the live stats block, not the written description, as your working number
Cold calling is listed as the only marketing channel and Domain Rating is 3/100, meaning there is essentially zero organic or inbound traffic. You're not buying a machine that brings in leads on its own — you're buying a product that someone has to actively sell every single day. Ask what happens to that sales motion when the founder steps away
With 31 offers in and a $100K price that's already half the original ask, you're not the only one who sees this as a deal. Find out what the other offers look like — if most are contingent on due diligence you can move faster on, that's leverage
Get clarity on exactly which 4 states the product currently monitors, what the technical cost of adding a new state actually is, and whether the founder has already tested expansion or it's purely theoretical
The founder's note says "looking for my next chapter" — find out what that means on a timeline. A founder who wants to exit in 30 days is a very different conversation from one happy to stay involved through a 90-day transition
My Take:
This is the first listing in this series where I'd actually move toward a conversation rather than just file it away as a learning example. The MRR trajectory, the margins, the niche specificity, and the price cut all point in the same direction. The single biggest risk isn't in the numbers — it's in the sales motion. Cold calling is what built this business, and if you're buying it without a plan to either hire a caller or replace that channel, you're buying a product without a distribution engine. That's not a dealbreaker at this price, but it's the question that determines whether $100K is a steal or an expensive lesson.
My Verdict: Would I buy it? This is the closest we've come to a yes in this series. I'd want to understand the sales handover plan and verify the state-expansion economics before committing, but at 1.2x MRR on a tripling growth curve, the price is doing the heavy lifting on the risk side. I'd open a conversation at $85K–$90K and see how the founder responds.
What This Teaches You (Even If You're Never Buying a Business):
A written listing description and a live stats block on the same page can tell you two different things — and both are technically "on the listing." Always identify which number is Stripe-verified and live, and which one was typed by the founder months ago and never updated.
If You Want to Look Yourself:
On any listing with both a written description and live stats, cross-check them — if they disagree, always work from the verified live data
Count the number of offers received as a signal of how competitive a deal is, not just how popular — 31 offers means you need to move with information, not just speed
For any business built on cold calling, ask specifically what the sales process looks like day-to-day and who does it after the founder leaves
Ask about geographic expansion: what does adding one new state actually cost in time, money, and infrastructure?
When a price has been cut in half, ask whether it was cut because the business deteriorated or because the original price was simply too ambitious — the answer changes everything
Use TrustMRR's free APA/LOI/NDA templates once you're seriously negotiating
Pro Tip: 31 offers doesn't mean 31 serious buyers. Most offers on listings like this are lowball or conditional. Ask the seller directly how many are clean, unconditioned offers — that number tells you the real temperature of the deal.
Talk soon, Kris
