Screen every Florida business for sale before the first call

Main Street Diligence runs the arithmetic an acquisition analyst runs — owner earnings after a manager’s wage, leverage, debt service, break-even, hold-to-exit return, and the quality of the evidence behind the figures — across every active business-for-sale listing on the Business Brokers of Florida MLS, refreshed weekly. Free, no account needed. Not to tell you what to buy; so you arrive at the first conversation already knowing which three questions matter.

Main Street changes hands when a neighbour buys it. Most first-time buyers walk into that deal with the seller’s numbers and nobody on their side; this site runs the checks a professional would run, on every listing, for the buyer, before the sales cycle starts — so the careful can act and the confident get checked. Our mission, and the four commitments you can check.

The screener runs in your browser and needs JavaScript. What it does, in order: search on the filters no listing site offers (does the business still earn after paying a manager $75,000; could a lender fund it at the asking price; does the broker cite a tax return or P&L), shortlist, compare up to four side by side against the whole Florida inventory, underwrite the deal, then get a written review that names the gaps.

The numbers behind the screener, as readable pages:

• How the screening works — the four checks, the five-step path, and what the site refuses to claim
• Florida market data — prices, owner earnings, multiples and financeability for every county and industry with enough listings to say something
• How much cash do you need? — what $25K to $500K actually reaches once the SBA equity injection and debt-service coverage are both applied
• What is SDE? — seller's discretionary earnings explained, with the real Florida distribution
• Valuation multiples — what Florida sellers are actually asking, by industry
• Reports — dated, quotable reports on the Florida market: how many listings could carry their own debt at asking, and what is behind the number
• Guides & articles
• Our mission — why the site exists, who it is for, and four commitments with a test for each
• Where the numbers come from — the source, the weekly crawl, every check with its live count, and the gaps in our own coverage

Every figure on this site is seller-reported and unaudited; the checks test arithmetic, not truth. Florida only, by design. A Markdown copy of every page is at /llms.txt.