We buy to keep. Not to flip, not to strip, not to roll up and forget.
We buy great businesses from the people who built them, learn what they know, invest in their teams, and hold them for good.
When you've spent your life building something, the wrong buyer can undo it fast.
A bigger company swallows it, drops your name, and the people who trusted you are the ones who pay for it.
New owners change everything that made it work, and you watch it become something you don't recognize.
Everything you know is in your head, and the buyer across the table has no plan to learn it before you're gone.
If any of that sounds familiar, we should talk.
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The check is the easy part. Trusting who you sold it to is the hard part.
In 1986 my parents left New York City for California to start a new life. My dad had started an x-ray service business, and when we moved, he let it go. I don't think he ever knew he could have sold it. There was nothing to pass down. He spent the next twenty years working for other people, and around 2005 his last employer let him go, right before his pension.
Then it happened to me. I spent sixteen years in enterprise sales and closed more than $400 million in deals. I was walked out three weeks before Christmas, weeks after landing the biggest deal of my career. Two generations, same lesson: the people who build something are often the first ones treated as disposable.
You spent a lifetime building yours. Whoever buys it shouldn't treat it, or the people who built it with you, as disposable. That's why my wife and I started Albano Holdings. We learn what you built, keep your name on the door, look after your people, and hold it for good.
"We have three little girls. We want them to learn that when someone trusts you with what they built, you take care of it, and of the people in it."Jaime Albano
And we've done this before. I've bought and run six apartment properties across three states, 605 units in all. I started my career as a systems engineer, so I begin by learning how the work actually gets done.
Four steps, start to finish.
From the first conversation to the day you hand over the keys, here's what working with us looks like.
Tell us about your business.
Nobody finds out you're thinking about this. Not your team, not your customers.
A fair offer, made in good faith.
There's no single right way to value a business. We make our best honest effort at a number that's fair to you and to us, and we explain how we got there. If it changes, it's because the numbers turned out different from what we were shown.
We close when we say we will.
Our equity and lending relationships are in place before we make an offer, so you're not left waiting to find out if the deal can close.
You hand it off on your schedule, then you're done.
You teach us what only you know, take the time you need, and walk away knowing it won't fall apart.
We're not going anywhere.
What you built won't get flipped to the next buyer while you're still around to watch it happen.
Your name stays on the door.
The name you spent decades earning stays the name over the door. We build on it, we don't bury it.
A clean handoff with a finish line.
You teach us what only you know, on your schedule, and then you're actually free, not stuck on call for years.
Your people are looked after.
Nobody gets cut just because we bought the place. The people who hold it together get a stake in what comes next.
You don't have to disappear the day you sell.
Stay close as long as you want, come by, know the team, weigh in. Or walk away clean. Your call, not ours.
Is this a fit?
These are guidelines, not hard rules. If you're close, it's still worth a call.
A good fit
- $1M to $4M in yearly profit (EBITDA)
- 15 or more years in business
- The owner is ready to step back, with or without a successor in place
- A small team, with the owner still holding much of the know-how. Other buyers see that as a problem. We see it as the reason to talk.
- Manufacturing, distribution, industrial and business services
- Anywhere in the U.S. except California, New York and Massachusetts
Not a fit
- Businesses losing money or needing a turnaround
- Mostly one-off project work, like new construction, with few repeat customers
- Oil and gas
- Restaurants, retail and franchises
- Owners who want to keep running it day to day
- Deals that only work if we cut people or break the business up
If we're not the right buyer, we'll tell you on the first call, not three months in.
For brokers
Have a seller who cares who buys, not just how much? Send it our way.
- Funded: our own equity, plus lending relationships already in place
- NDAs signed fast, and a clear yes or no within 5 business days
- We take your seller's worries as seriously as the price
A year from now, your name is still on the door. Your team is running it, and sharing in what it earns. Your phone isn't ringing with questions only you can answer. And when someone asks what happened to your business, you're proud of the answer.
Let's talk about what comes next.
Tell us a little about your business. JP or Jaime will get back to you personally within two business days, and nobody else will know you reached out.