Restoration Growth
PE Is Buying Your Competitors and Renting You Your Customers
1 min
Key Points
- Bodyne’s view: private equity money is moving into restoration and home services, and the lead platforms independent contractors depend on are built to keep contractors renting visibility.
- When a contractor is hard to find online, that contractor pays for leads, and the platform has little reason to change that.
- Owned visibility (your site, your reviews, your listings) is the alternative to renting customers.
- A free growth assessment at bodyne.com/score shows how visible your business is today.
Here is a pattern we see in the restoration and home services industry that many independent contractors have not connected yet.
Here is how we read it.
Our view: private equity firms are buying competitors, and lead platforms are renting you your customers.
We think the money flows in the same direction. Toward the firms. Away from you.