Deal Fit report: Pet sitting and dog walking business
Run October 14, 2026
Compares one public listing with your Business Fit and Financial Fit answers, using the seller's numbers. Nobody has verified them yet.
A good match if you can buy it for about $318,000.
Deal Fit: Match at a lower price
Recommendation: Email the broker and ask for the financials.
- It fits your Business Fit results: the industry is on your shortlist and the team is close to the size you wanted.
Listing Information
"At its core, this business grows because it delivers consistently great service and creates a memorable experience for clients and their pets, every single time. That focus on the experience is what turns a first-time booking into a loyal, long-term client, and it's the foundation everything else is built on."From the listing
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
- Established
- 2011
- Employees
- 1 full-time, 1 part-time, 30 contractors
Three of your answers decide whether this listing fits how you want to work:
- How many days a week the business needs you
- The two things you said you'd rather not deal with
- Whether the industry is on your shortlist or one you know
The other rows are worth weighing, but they don't change the verdict.
Your role and your time
| What you're looking for | What the listing says | Result |
|---|---|---|
| You want more than twenty people working for you. | 32 people work there."32 (1 Full-time, 1 Part-time, 30 Contractors)" | MatchesThe team is close to the size you want. |
Customers and revenue
| What you're looking for | What the listing says | Result |
|---|---|---|
| You'd rather have revenue that renews on its own. | It has recurring revenue."Recurring Clients" | MatchesThis is the revenue pattern you prefer. |
| You'd rather sell time and expertise. | It sells time and expertise."All services take place at client's home." | MatchesThis is what you'd rather sell. |
Size and industry
| What you're looking for | What the listing says | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Your Business Fit shortlist is pet sitting and dog walking, home care agency and cleaning and janitorial. | The listing is a pet sitting and dog walking business."This is a well-established, profitable pet sitting and dog walking business" | MatchesDecides the verdictThis industry is on your shortlist. |
| You're looking at businesses priced from $250,000 to $750,000. | The asking price is $380,000."Asking Price: $380,000" | MatchesThe price is inside your range. |
Assumes: You manage the business day to day, and your pay is what your household needs: $5,000 a month, out of the cash flow.
| Line | At the $380,000 asking price | At the price that works for you |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $380,000 | $318,000 |
| Cash needed to close | $43,511 within your cash | $36,803 within your cash |
| Your cash | $75,000 | $75,000 |
| Loan amount | $391,600 | $331,229 |
| Monthly loan payment | $5,175 | $4,657 |
| What's left for you each month after the loan | +$5,658 | +$6,176 |
| Your household's monthly need | $5,000 | $5,000 |
| Debt service coverage: the cash flow left after your pay, divided by the yearly loan payments. SBA lenders want at least 1.25. | 1.13 below what lenders want | 1.25 meets what lenders want |
If sales drop, and after the loan is paid off
- If sales drop: At the asking price, sales could fall by $67,900 a year (14% of the revenue the listing reports) before the business had nothing left for you after the loan payment. This assumes the business's other costs stay the same.
- After the loan is paid off: The loan ends after 10 years. From then on, the $62,100 a year that went to loan payments stays with you.
- The most you could pay: about $318,000. Above that, the cash flow wouldn't cover the loan payments and your pay with the cushion lenders require.
The loan is an SBA 7(a) loan of $391,600 over 10 years at 10.00%, the most the SBA lets a lender charge. These use the same loan math as Financial Fit.
These start from your Financial Fit answers. Changes here apply to this report only.
Who manages the business day to day
Check these against the listing. If one is wrong or missing, change it and the whole report updates.
| Number | What the listing says | Used in this report |
|---|---|---|
| The price and what it includes | ||
| Asking price | "Asking Price: $380,000" | |
| Inventory | Not in the listing | |
| Furniture, fixtures and equipment: the physical things the business uses, such as shelving, coolers, machines and vehicles. | Not in the listing | |
| Real estate | Not in the listing | |
| The part of the price paid for the business beyond its physical assets: its name, customers, staff and the cash flow they produce. Worked out as the asking price minus the inventory, equipment and real estate it includes. | Worked out from the numbers above | $380,000 |
| Earnings and costs | ||
| Seller's discretionary earnings: what the business earns in a year before the owner is paid and before any loan payments. Listings usually call it cash flow. | "Cash Flow (SDE): $130,000" | |
| Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. It usually comes after the owner's pay, so it is smaller than cash flow, which includes the owner's pay. | Not in the listing | |
| Gross revenue | "Gross Revenue: $470,000" | |
| Rent | Not in the listing | |
- The owner's role today:
- The listing doesn't say.
- Owner's hours:
- Owner-operated
- Manager in place:
- Yes
- Staff:
- 32 people
- Training from the seller:
- full 3-month transition period with hands-on training, flexibility to extend
- Why the owner is selling:
- Pursuing another successful, growing venture
Owner Readiness is in the works. It will compare these with your own experience.
- The questions come from what this listing leaves out and what doesn't match.
- Change anything you like, then copy it into an email from your own account.
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