Aaron Harper

I acquired the brand in January of 23.

We took the brand to market that year.

And since then, we've grown to 326 units operating in 35 states with 115 trucks on the road.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So like I specifically like blue collar businesses because they're need based.

They'll happen no matter what.

And technology will only continue to get more and more advanced.

And and so my thought was, well, hey.

This is a space I've been in.

It's even more of a safe space to be in now than it was, you know, when I first started due to a lot of these technologies.

So when I was looking at different brands, like it was only service.

Like it wasn't like I was looking at like food or, you know, health and wellness or beauty.

Like it was just like services around the home.

Yeah, so I had a very specific methodology of how I approached the search.

I said, all right, I'm going to get a checklist of things that I'm looking for in a business.

So like some of those things were like unskilled labor, high margins for franchisees so that there was still enough like margin for a franchisor to take a royalty and a franchisee to still make money.

Like there was a whole list, recession resistant, large total adjustable market, both residential and commercial customers.

And once I had that list, then I had the framework in which I could go look at businesses based upon.

And it was just a less emotional decision because it was like, okay, what are the things that, how many boxes does it check?