For Laredo heating and air conditioning owners
What happens to the business you built?
I'm Dr. Olayinka Holt. I've run a business here in Laredo for fourteen years—a medical practice with staff, payroll, and a phone that rings at all hours. I want to buy one local A/C company and keep its name, its people, and its customers.
The hard question
Most owners put this off.
You've spent years building a crew, a name and customers who call you first. When it's time to step back, the choices often look like selling to a big outside group, selling to a competitor, or closing the doors. Selling to a competitor means handing him your customer list, your pricing, and your margins. If the deal falls apart, he keeps all of it. There is another way: sell to a neighbor who wants the business to stay what it is.
Who I am
A neighbor, not an outsider.
I'm a physician, and I've run a medical practice in this city for fourteen years. In a town this size, that's a known quantity. Anyone who looks me up can find my practice right here in town.
I'm not a private equity firm. And I'm not a competitor. I have no crew to feed with your accounts, no use for your customer list, and nothing to gain from your numbers if we don't do a deal.
I'm keeping my practice, and Laredo is small enough that I'll be at your shop regularly—not running it from another city. Your people know that business better than I ever will. Where there's a manager to be made, I'd rather promote one of yours than bring in a stranger.
Read more about meFive promises
Your name stays.
The sign, the trucks and the phone number stay the same.
Your people stay.
I'm buying your team, not replacing it. No mass layoffs, no outside crew brought in. Your technicians keep their jobs, their pay, and their seniority.
Every conversation is private.
Nothing reaches your employees, customers or competitors unless you decide it should. You decide when and how your people hear the news. Not me.
We plan the handover together.
Some owners want to be gone in ninety days. Some want to stay three years. Both work. We agree at the start, in writing.
We plan the license together.
In Texas the A/C license belongs to a person, not the company. We'll work out how the license carries on before anything changes, so the business never stops working.
Is this you?
The owners I'd like to meet.
- You own a licensed heating and air conditioning company in Laredo or Webb County.
- You've been in business for years and have a steady, skilled crew.
- Your work is mostly commercial—warehouses, cold storage, restaurants, offices, public buildings—or a solid mix of commercial and residential.
- You have somewhere between five and twenty-five people.
- You're thinking about the next five years, even if you're not ready today.
In my own words
The commercial side is what interests me most. Warehouses, cold storage, public buildings, schools. That work runs on maintenance agreements and relationships built over years, not on chasing the next install. It's a harder business to build and a better one to own, which is why I'd rather buy one than start one.
Dr. Olayinka Holt
How it works
A private conversation
I'll come to you—your office, a coffee, whatever suits. Nothing in writing, nothing to sign.
Getting to know the business
Under a confidentiality agreement that I sign too. Nothing involves your staff, and nothing happens on a timeline but yours.
A plain offer
In writing, explained line by line, and I'll show you where every number came from.
Your handover
On a timeline we agree on, with your crew and customers looked after.
Start to finish, this usually takes a few months, not years. You can stop at any step, and that's the end of it. No hard feelings, and nothing you told me goes anywhere.
Questions
Not from me, and not from anyone working with me. Nothing reaches your staff, your customers, or your competitors until you decide it should.
No. Some owners want to be gone in ninety days. Others want to stay for a few years. Both work, and it's your call.
One practical note: in Texas the A/C license belongs to a person, not the company. So we'll want a plan for that before anything changes—sometimes a few months of overlap, sometimes getting one of your people licensed. We'll sort it out together, and it won't be a reason to keep you longer than you want to stay.
No. The name is worth money—years of people calling that number first isn't mine to erase. And I'm buying your crew, not replacing it.
I'm working with an SBA lender experienced in buying contractor businesses, and I'll show you my financing before I ask to see your books.
Not the technical side, and I won't pretend otherwise. I'm not going to tell your technicians how to do their work.
What I do know is how to run a business that depends on licensed people, a schedule that holds, and a phone answered when something breaks after hours. That's what a medical practice is. It's also why keeping your crew and your license holder matters so much to me—the expertise I'm buying is already in your building.
Yes. A conversation commits you to nothing, and planning early gives you more choices.
Start with a private conversation.
Write to me directly. No assistant. No broker. No call center. I read every message myself, and nothing goes any further unless you decide it should.
A first conversation is just a conversation.