FTM.Services Holdings
A Permanent Buyer of Florida Service Businesses

The fourth option for founder-owned Florida service businesses.

FTM Services Holdings acquires and continues operating local service companies from founders who care about what happens to the name, the employees, the customers, and the community after the sale.

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For Founders

You built the company. We help protect what happens next.

Most owners get three options: sell to a competitor who folds the company into their own, sell to a fund that plans to resell it in five years, or slowly wind it down. FTM Services Holdings is the fourth: a buyer who purchases the company to own it, keeps the name on the trucks, keeps the crews on their routes, and pays the founder over time.

The fourth option is for owners thinking about succession, partial liquidity, or a reduced operating role, without handing the company to a buyer who plans to strip it, flip it, or erase it.

We are not the highest bidder. We are the best successor.
Our Process

Quiet, private, and at your pace.

01

Private conversation

No broker, no obligation, no pressure. Just a direct conversation about what you want next.

02

Mutual fit review

We both decide whether this is the right match before anyone shares a number.

03

Basic financial review

Simple and confidential. Tax returns and bank statements, not a data room.

04

Transition plan

Your role, your timeline, your people. Written down before anything is signed.

05

Letter of intent

Plain terms, including how you get paid and what we commit to in writing.

06

Diligence and financing

Confirming what we agreed, with respect for your time and your staff's privacy.

07

Closing and continuity

The name stays, the phone keeps ringing, and good people keep their jobs.

Investment Philosophy

We buy to own.

Built for the long haul

No fund, no clock, no flip in the plan. We buy to own and run the company.

Seller alignment

We prefer structures where the founder receives monthly income over time and stays connected to the outcome.

Local brands stay

The name stays on the trucks and the community relationships stay intact. We improve the back office, not the identity.

Good people stay

A sale should never cost good people their jobs. Crews keep their routes, and the office manager who knows every customer stays.

Leadership

Joseph V. Ferst Sr.

Joe has spent seventeen years building and running service operations across markets, crews, contracts, vendors, and customer relationships, from a family business to executive commercial leadership at institutional scale. FTM Services Holdings reflects that operating background: a buyer who has actually run the work, not just financed it.

He lives in Central Florida with his family, and he is building this company to be the successor he would want for his own.

Contact

Thinking about what comes next?

Tell Joe a little about you and your company. He reads every note himself. Every conversation is private.

No fund, no bank committee. Most deals take shape as a down payment at closing and steady monthly payments over the years, with your accountant in the loop from the start.

Prefer to write directly? joe@ftmservicesholdings.com