About

About Me

Private Business Buyer | Nationwide Acquisitions

I am a Wisconsin-born private business buyer with 12 years of marketing and operations experience, focused on acquiring laundromats, vending routes, car washes, and self-storage from owners across the US. No brokers. No pressure.

I'm Louis.
I Buy and Operate Small Businesses
the Right Way.

Not a fund. Not a firm. One person with a clear track record of helping businesses scale, now taking my track record in making sure the businesses I acquire keep serving the communities they were built in, while helping business owners leave a legacy for themselves and their loved ones.

Where I Come From

I grew up in the Midwest, in a town called Stoughton, Wisconsin. That upbringing shaped how I think about work, about people, and about what it means to do something with integrity.

Midwest values are not complicated. You show up. You do what you said you would do. You treat people fairly. You don’t cut corners just because no one is watching.

These are not things I learned in a classroom. They are things I watched the people around me live out. I have carried them into everything I have done professionally since.

I now call Arizona home. But the businesses I look for are not limited to a single zip code or state. I acquire owner-operated businesses across the United States. Geography matters less to me than fundamentals. If the business is working or has upside, and the owner is someone I can work with honestly, I want to have the conversation regardless of where the business sits.

What I've Spent 12 Years Doing

My professional background is in marketing and operations. Twelve years of it, across organizations of all sizes, where the work was concrete, and the standards were high. This experience taught me a specific set of things that matter enormously when acquiring and running a small business.

How systems work
and why they break.

Most owner-operated businesses are held together by the owner’s personal involvement. When that owner steps away, the system either holds or it doesn’t.

I know how to look at a semi-absentee or hands-off operation, identify where the fragility lies, and build the processes that keep it running without requiring someone to be present 60 hours a week. This is what I have done for the owners I had the honor of working for when I was in the corporate world.

This is what I look for when I am looking to partner with an owner who wants to enjoy a new life without running a business.

How to read what the
numbers are actually saying.

Revenue is not the story. Margins, owner adjustments, utility rates, equipment depreciation schedules, and lease obligations are the story.

I have spent over a decade working with operational and financial data in environments where the wrong read had real consequences. I bring that discipline to every off-market business deal I evaluate.

How to automate what should be automated and leave alone what shouldn't.

Efficiency is not about stripping a business down. It is about finding the right leverage points so that the business runs better, not just leaner.

I use modern tools thoughtfully. I know the difference between a system that saves an owner time and one that alienates the customers they spent years building relationships with.

Here is the fuller one.

There is a generation of business owners who have built something real over 20 or 30 years. A laundromat that the neighborhood depends on. A vending route with accounts that have trusted the same supplier for a decade. A car wash that people drive past two others to use. A self-storage facility that has held people’s belongings through every major life transition.

I hear it on every first call: a retiring business owner with no succession plan and no clear path forward. Or burned-out operators, or sellers navigating a partnership change, are all sitting on something valuable with no obvious buyer in sight.

I want to be the answer to that problem. Not as a passive investor waiting for appreciation. As an operator who takes what was built, respects it, runs it well, and makes it better without erasing what made it worth buying in the first place.

That is my goal.
One good direct-owner acquisition at a time,
anywhere in the country.

What You Can Expect From Me

A response within one business day.

Every time. No exceptions. Whether you own a laundromat in Ohio or a self-storage facility in Nevada, you will hear from me directly.

A straight answer when I'm not the right buyer.

If your business does not fit what I look for, I will tell you clearly and point you toward someone who may be a better match.

No pressure and no timeline imposed on you.

Most off-market seller-financed deals start with a conversation long before anyone is ready to sign. You move when you’re ready.

Full confidentiality from the first contact.

I sign a mutual NDA before receiving any financial information. Your employees, customers, and competitors do not need to know we are talking. This is how every absentee business acquisition process begins.

A real offer with real terms in writing.

Not a verbal range. Not a letter of intent with seventeen contingencies. A number and a structure I can stand behind.

Let's Talk

If you own a laundromat, vending route, car wash, or self-storage business anywhere in the US and you’re thinking about what comes next, I’d like to hear about it. No brokers. No intake process. Just a direct conversation with me.