For HVAC & other small trade-business owners
You built the business. What do you want it to do for you next?
Retire on a timeline that works for you. Build something for the next generation. Or grow toward a future sale. Legacy Trades Capital explores acquisitions and growth partnerships with owners working solo or leading a small crew.
A few questions about your business and your goals. No obligation to sell or partner, and you’ll hear back within two business days.
Three ways this can go. You choose.
Pick the one closest to where you are. You can change it, and “I’m not sure yet” is always an answer.
Retire or sell
You built it. Let’s talk about what comes next.
Tell us when you’d like to step back, what matters about your team and business name, and what you want a transition to look like. We’ll explore whether an acquisition conversation makes sense.
Grow and keep it
Build a business the next generation can build on.
You know the trade. A growth partnership could add systems, expertise, connections, and capital where they fit. Start with your family’s goals and the ownership arrangements you would consider.
Grow, then sell
Build toward a future sale, not just another busy year.
Explore better follow-up, clearer numbers, and operations that depend less on you doing everything. The goal is a better-prepared business, not a promised buyer or sale price.
Not sure which one fits? Tell us that. Helping you clarify what you want is part of the conversation.
Most buyers are on a clock. We’re not.
A private equity fund owes its investors their money back, usually inside five to seven years. That clock decides what happens to your business after closing, what gets cut, how much debt it carries, who it gets sold to next. It isn’t malice. It’s the math they agreed to before they ever met you.
We buy to hold. There’s no fund behind us and no deadline to sell into: the money is ours, and trusted partner’s when a deal calls for it. That changes what we’re optimizing for, a business still standing, still hiring, and still worth something to your family and your crew in twenty years.
The two things that move a trade business fastest are capital and relationships. Money for the truck, the second crew, the cash a bigger contract ties up before it pays. Introductions that put that contract in front of you in the first place. Better software helps, and we’ll bring what’s useful — but it’s a tune-up, not the engine.
A buyer can strengthen what you built or strip it for parts. The questions worth asking any of us are the same: who benefits, who decides, and what the agreement protects.
What we bring
- Capital for equipment, a second crew, or the cash a bigger job ties up
- A stake you can keep, so you share in what the business becomes
- Introductions to larger and steadier customers
- A balance sheet behind you when you bid
- Help finding, training and keeping good people
- Practical software for the small leaks — missed calls, quotes with no follow-up, numbers you can’t see
You don’t have to leave on closing day.
Most owners we talk to want to stay involved afterward, and we’d rather they did. It lowers what we put down up front. It turns the sale into something closer to a pension than a single check. And it keeps what you know in the room for the next deal, instead of walking out the door with you. How involved you stay is yours to set.
Sound like the kind of partner you’d want?
No obligation to sell or partner. You’ll hear back within two business days.
How we work
Know what you’re agreeing to before you agree.
The goal is a deal that works for everyone at the table. Here is how we try to get there.
- Start with your goals and non-negotiables.
- Explain proposed ownership, decision rights, contributions, fees and risks plainly.
- Discuss payment timing, contingencies, debt and personal guarantees where they apply.
- Put material commitments in writing.
- Leave room for independent legal, tax and financial advice.
Good intentions are not outcome guarantees. Fair, mutually beneficial arrangements are what we are working toward, and there is never pressure to give up equity.
How it works
Tell us what you want next.
Retire, grow and keep it, grow toward a sale, or “not sure yet.” All four are fine starting points.
Share a practical snapshot of your business.
Estimates and “not sure” are welcome. No documents, no tax returns.
Send it to Josh, Dan, and the team for review.
We read it ourselves — not a screener, not a bot. You’ll hear back within two business days, either way.
Who you’re talking to
Your inquiry goes to Josh, Dan, and the team. Here are the two of us who started it.
Josh Ritchey
Christian, Air Force veteran, entrepreneur, Bitcoin enthusiast, regenerative agriculture practitioner, and community builder. He spent a military career in cyber, intelligence, and training. Now he’s taken a different path, helping small business owners with that same expertise in his community.
Dan Galvan
Christian, rancher, Founder and CEO of G6 Cyber Solutions, the San Antonio firm he started in 2022 and has been hiring into ever since. Before that, chief strategy officer at IPSecure, executive director at IOMAXIS, and director of operations at the Army Reserve Cyber Protection Center. Veteran, Texas A&M–Kingsville.
Why we’re doing this
We’re both Christians, and that isn’t incidental to buying someone’s life’s work. It sets what we owe you: a straight answer, a fair price, and care for what you hand us. It sets what a good deal looks like, too. Everyone at the table comes out ahead, you, your crew, and your family alongside us. We’re not here to squeeze the last dollar out of a man’s retirement, and a deal that only works for our side isn’t one worth doing.
When Jesus called His first disciples He went down to the water and called working men, fishermen at their nets. “Come, follow me,” He said, “and I will send you out to fish for people” (Matthew 4:19, NIV). He called them in the language of the work they already knew. That’s the posture we want toward people who work with their hands: meet a man at his job, and build from there.
AI is going to reshape a great deal of work over the next decade, and budgets are tightening around it already. The skilled trades are one of the few places left where a person can learn a craft, earn a real living, and not be automated out of it. We want to own businesses across South Texas that find people, train them, promote them, and keep them working, businesses that are still standing when the dust settles.
You don’t need every answer to start the conversation.
Tell us what you’d like to change. We’ll start there.