ESS Business Services, LLC
ESS Business Services, LLC identifies itself as a York, Pennsylvania business brokerage, certified valuation, and exit-planning firm serving owners across the United States and U.S. Territories. Its public materials describe support for business sales, buyer representation, acquisition assistance, valuation, negotiation, due diligence, and closing coordination.
What stands out about ESS Business Services, LLC
ESS Business Services, LLC publicly positions its work around Main Street and lower-middle-market owners, with services spanning confidential business sales, valuation, exit planning, and acquisition support. Its stated seller process includes valuation, quiet preparation, qualified-buyer screening, negotiation, due diligence, and closing coordination.[1][2]
What does ESS Business Services, LLC do?
ESS Business Services, LLC identifies itself as a business brokerage, certified valuation, and exit-planning firm based in York, Pennsylvania, at 2536 Eastern Blvd, #446, York, PA 17402. The firm states that it serves business owners across the United States and U.S. Territories.[1]
The firm states that it helps owners sell businesses from valuation through closing, including preparation, confidential marketing, buyer screening, negotiation, due diligence coordination, and closing coordination with the owner’s attorney and accountant. It also offers business valuations using asset, income, and market-value approaches, with analysis that may include owner discretionary cash flow, asset values, industry multiples, comparable businesses, and business-specific risk.
For buyers, ESS Business Services describes business identification, negotiation, letters of intent, due diligence, financing connections, and acquisition closing support, including searches for active-listing and off-market opportunities.[1][2]
Owners comparing intermediaries can also review Auxo’s business broker, M&A advisor and investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and M&A advisor fee guide.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring ESS Business Services, LLC?
An owner evaluating ESS Business Services can clarify how the firm’s confidential process would apply to the owner’s business, including the valuation inputs, preparation and marketing plan, buyer-screening procedures, negotiation role, diligence coordination, and closing support. The valuation page states that a valuation generally requires three years of profit-and-loss statements, balance sheets, and tax returns, along with current financial information, asset and inventory information, employee responsibilities, and customer-base information.
The official valuation page does not publish a standard brokerage success-fee percentage, minimum brokerage fee, tail period, exclusivity schedule, or termination schedule. An owner should also confirm which legal entity signs the engagement agreement, what firm-level licenses or legal limitations apply to the specific engagement, and how any financing, seller-financing, real estate, or other transaction features would be handled.[1][2]
Which legal entity signs the engagement agreement and receives fees, and what firm-level licenses or legal limitations apply to the specific engagement
What are the success fee, retainer, minimum fee, tail period, exclusivity, termination, and expense provisions
Which industries and transaction-size ranges are most active in the firm's current work
What size transactions does ESS Business Services, LLC handle?
The firm’s homepage identifies buyer-success examples involving Yorklyn Construction, American Mortgage Funding, and PC Xpert. The Yorklyn Construction example describes a 2014 purchase financed with a $50,000 SBA loan plus seller financing. The American Mortgage Funding example describes an acquisition structured with no money out of pocket, while the PC Xpert example describes an acquisition by an existing operator together with real estate and multiple apartments for very little down payment.
A separate buyer testimonial describes the purchase of an existing Sparkle Wash of York franchise in 2018 and a later acquisition of a complementary service business. An official listing identifies a motorcycle retail and repair business in South Central Pennsylvania with an asking price of $595,000, SDE of $325,000, gross revenue of $3,100,000, and five employees.[1][4][5]
ESS Business Services publicly describes seller-side business sales and buyer-side acquisition assistance. Its buyer support includes negotiation, letters of intent, due diligence, financing connections, and closing support; its seller process includes valuation, confidential marketing, buyer screening, and closing coordination.[1]
The official homepage positions the firm as serving small-business and lower-middle-market owners. It does not state an exclusive industry sector or formal vertical mandate for its brokerage and advisory services. The firm’s insights page describes owner-focused guidance for business owners in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.[1][3]
What does ESS Business Services, LLC publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The official homepage does not state an exclusive industry sector or formal vertical mandate. The official homepage also does not publish the firm-level regulatory identifiers listed above. Separately, the official valuation page publishes valuation price ranges but does not publish a standard brokerage success-fee percentage, minimum brokerage fee, tail period, exclusivity schedule, or termination schedule.
The official homepage’s buyer-success examples do not disclose transaction consideration or complete closing dates for every named example.[1][2]
The profiled entity publicly identifies itself as ESS Business Services, LLC. The Pennsylvania Business Brokers Association lists Dr. Jason J. Hubler as its president and lists ESS Business Services, LLC at the York, Pennsylvania address. The official homepage does not publish a firm CRD number, SEC/IAPD identifier, FINRA firm identifier, securities license number, or other firm-level regulatory authorization.[1][6]
The firm describes its seller process as confidential. The stated sequence includes a private conversation, valuation, quiet preparation and listing, qualified-buyer screening, negotiation, due diligence, and closing on the owner’s terms.[1]
Questions to ask before hiring ESS Business Services, LLC
Which legal entity signs the engagement agreement and receives fees, and what firm-level licenses or legal limitations apply to the specific engagement?
What are the success fee, retainer, minimum fee, tail period, exclusivity, termination, and expense provisions?
Which industries and transaction-size ranges are most active in the firm's current work?
How many comparable transactions have closed recently, and can anonymized examples be provided?
What buyer-screening and proof-of-funds procedures are used?
How are valuation adjustments, working capital, seller financing, earn-outs, real estate, and transition services handled?
Sources & research notes
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