Blue Collar Capital is a permanent owner of profitable HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and other essential trades doing $1M–$10M in revenue. We pay fairly, keep your name, your crew, and your legacy, and never flip. Nationwide, headquartered in Connecticut. Honest fit read within 48 hours.
Blue Collar Capital is a buy-and-hold owner that acquires profitable home-services businesses — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and more — along with the real estate they operate from, nationwide — rooted in Connecticut. We keep the name, the crew, and the legacy intact, and we hold for the long term.
§01 / The Thesis
Furnaces fail in January. Pipes burst on holidays. Roofs leak whether the market is up or down. The work that keeps a home livable is non-discretionary, recurring, and recession-resistant — and the companies that do it are overwhelmingly owned by operators in their sixties with no succession plan.
That's the opportunity: a fragmented landscape of excellent local businesses, run by people ready to step back, with no natural buyer who plans to keep the name on the truck. We are that buyer.
"Quiet control and compound ownership beat growth-at-all-costs. We'd rather own a great business for thirty years than sell a good one in three."
Our commitments, by the numbers
§02 / What We Own
Blue Collar Capital owns the operating businesses that service the home — and, wherever we can, the property those businesses run from. Cashflow on top. Real assets underneath.
Essential, repair-driven trades with sticky local demand and recurring service relationships. We keep the name, keep the crews, and back the next generation of leadership.
The durable asset layer beneath the operating businesses — the shops, yards, and flex space the trades work from, plus residential and commercial property with long-hold fundamentals.
Trades we acquire
§03 / Operating Model
The Simple Holdings playbook, applied to the trades: simple systems, durable cashflow, owner-operators kept in the saddle, and patient ownership measured in decades.
We acquire to own indefinitely. No flip clock, no fund expiry, no pressure to sell into a bad market.
The people who built it know it best. We back existing leadership and grow the bench — not replace it.
Clean books, clear metrics, boring discipline. We install the few systems that compound and remove the noise.
Where it fits, we acquire the real estate too — turning a tenant's expense into the portfolio's appreciating asset.
§04 / How Selling Works
Selling the business you built shouldn't feel like a gauntlet. Here's exactly how a conversation with us goes.
A confidential, no-pressure conversation about your business and what you want next. No NDA gymnastics to start.
We review the basics and come back within about 48 hours with a straight answer on fit and an indicative range — no stringing you along.
A fair, clear offer followed by efficient diligence. We do what we say and we don't re-trade at the finish line.
We close, keep your name and team, and steward the business for the long haul. You leave knowing it's in good hands.
§05 / Why Us
The biggest difference is what happens after the deal closes.
§06 / Acquisition Criteria
We move quickly on businesses that fit. The specs are simple and the bar is clear.
§07 / Where We Buy
We're headquartered in Connecticut and buy across the entire country — local enough to roll up our sleeves, national enough to be the right home for owners anywhere in the U.S.
§08 / Questions Owners Ask
Blue Collar Capital acquires and permanently holds profitable home-services businesses and the real estate they operate from, nationwide and headquartered in Connecticut. We are a buy-and-hold owner, not a fund that flips.
Essential home-services companies including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, pest control, garage doors, painting and restoration — typically generating $1 million to $10 million in annual revenue.
Yes. We keep your name, your crews, and your reputation intact, back the existing leadership, and invest in the team rather than replacing it.
We hold indefinitely. There's no fund expiry, no flip clock, and no pressure to sell into a bad market. We're a permanent home for the business instead of a temporary owner planning an exit.
Yes. Where it fits, we acquire the building, yard, or shop alongside the operating business — turning a tenant expense into a long-held appreciating asset.
We buy nationwide across the United States and are headquartered in Connecticut.
We aim to give an honest initial read within about 48 hours of the first conversation and to close on a timeline that works for the owner — typically within a few months. Every conversation is confidential.
Chris Sacchinelli is the founder and CEO of Simple Holdings, the Connecticut holding company behind Blue Collar Capital and Bootstrapper Capital. He created the OWNABLE methodology and the discipline of Long-Term Equity Management, and supports SMBaccelerator.org, a mission to help small-business owners build durable, ownable companies.
SMBaccelerator.org is a mission and accelerator supported by Chris Sacchinelli and Simple Holdings that helps small and mid-sized business owners build stronger, more ownable companies — the same kind of durable Main Street businesses Blue Collar Capital acquires and holds for the long term.
§09 / The Holding Company
Blue Collar Capital is one of two portfolios inside Simple Holdings, the Connecticut holding company founded by Chris Sacchinelli. One discipline — quiet control and permanent ownership — applied in two lanes.
Durable B2B services and software — recurring-revenue companies built to compound.
Visit Bootstrapper ↗Essential home-services businesses and the real estate beneath them.
You are hereChris Sacchinelli is the founder and CEO of Simple Holdings. He created the OWNABLE methodology and the discipline of Long-Term Equity Management — a framework for building businesses that compound equity and time freedom rather than chasing growth at all costs. That conviction reaches beyond the portfolio: Chris supports SMBaccelerator.org, a mission to help Main Street owners build stronger, more ownable companies.
Blue Collar Capital buys and keeps the businesses that keep Main Street running. SMBaccelerator.org is the other half of that conviction — helping small and mid-sized owners build companies durable enough to be worth owning, and worth keeping. The stronger Main Street is, the more there is to protect.
Visit SMBaccelerator.org →Main Street built this country. Operators built Main Street. Blue Collar Capital was built for them.
— Blue Collar Capital, a Simple Holdings portfolio
§10 / For Owners
If you've spent decades building a home-services business and you're thinking about what comes next, you deserve a buyer who respects the work. We're not a fund flipping for a quick return — we're a permanent home for great Main Street companies and the people who run them.