Run a Home-Service Business — With Backing, Not the Risk

If you're a strong operator, you already know the trap.

On one side: staying an employee — running someone else's business, building someone else's equity, capped by someone else's ceiling. On the other: going out and buying a business yourself — which usually means an SBA loan, a personal guarantee, your house on the line, and months of searching for a deal you can only half-afford.

There's a third path. It's the one Legacy Trade Holdings was built around.

What the Operator-Partner Model Actually Is

We acquire established, profitable home-service businesses across the NYC metro and Long Island — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, and the trades around them. Real companies, with real revenue, real crews, and customers who've trusted them for years.

Then we put a strong operator in charge of one — to run it, steady it, and grow it. We provide the capital and own the asset. You provide the leadership. And you share in the upside you create.

You're not starting from zero. You're not gambling your savings. You're stepping into a business that already works, with the resources behind you to make it work better.

What You Get

• An established business — not a startup. Existing revenue, an existing team, an existing customer base. The hardest 20 years are already done.
• Capital behind you. We fund the acquisition and the growth. No personal guarantee, no second mortgage, no betting the family's security on a deal.
• Back-office support. Finance, HR, systems, and acquisition firepower so you can spend your time on customers, crews, and growth — not chasing paperwork.
• Real upside. An equity or performance structure that means when you grow the business, you build wealth — not just hit a bonus target.
• Partners who've done it. You're not alone in a silo. You have a team that buys, holds, and grows these businesses for a living.

Who We're Looking For

We're not looking for a résumé full of titles. We're looking for proof you can lead people and grow a business.

• P&L ownership. You've carried a number and made the decisions that move it.
• Team leadership. You've hired, trained, kept, and gotten the best out of people — especially in the field.
• A builder's mindset. You see a business and instinctively spot the three things that would make it better.
• Trades or field-service experience is a strong plus — as is multi-unit or general-manager experience — but character and capability matter more than a specific background.
• Based in (or willing to relocate to) the NYC metro, Long Island, Westchester, or Northern New Jersey.

A Day in the Seat

This isn't a corporate role you grind out from a cubicle. You're running a real company in your community.

You're with the crews in the morning. You're looking at the schedule, the backlog, and the week's revenue. You're talking to the customer whose system went down overnight, and the one deciding whether to sign an annual service agreement. You're deciding which tech to promote, which route to add, which competitor's best installer you should be recruiting.

And because the back office is handled and the capital is there, you're not buried in the parts of the job that drain operators. You're doing the work that actually grows a business — and building something that's partly yours.

Why This Beats the Alternatives

vs. staying corporate: real ownership and a real ceiling — you grow the business, you grow your stake.

vs. buying a business yourself: none of the personal financial risk, none of the lonely 12-month search, and a partner who's already done the deal a dozen times.

vs. a search fund: you don't have to raise the money, find the deal, or carry the risk — you walk into a business we've already acquired and get to do the part you're great at: running it.

Start the Conversation

If this is the path you've been looking for, the first step is simple: tell us who you are and what you've built. Every application is read personally, and if there's a fit, we'll talk specifics — businesses, structure, and what the upside looks like.