Roughly five out of six Lee County housing units were already standing before 2020. That installed base — not the permit office — is what pays for a Fort Myers plumbing company. Here is how a buyer separates re-pipe revenue from service revenue, and what each one is worth.

Lee County has 479,540 housing units and only 327,803 households living in them. Every one of those units has an air conditioning system that runs nine or ten months a year until it doesn't. That installed base is the annuity a buyer is pricing when you sell an HVAC business in Fort Myers — and after Hurricane Ian, two separate equipment cohorts are now aging toward replacement at once. Here's who buys these companies and what they pay in 2026.

Two documents decide a concrete deal: the equipment schedule and the backlog. Most owners lead with the first. Buyers pay for the second — and in Lee County they read both against three rebuild years that will not repeat.

Lee County averaged about 1,300 roofing permits a month before Hurricane Ian. In January 2023 it issued 10,326. That spike sits inside the three years a buyer will underwrite in 2026 — and he will take it out whether you help him or not. Here is the process, step by step.

Your revenue chart climbs from November, peaks in March and slides into August. A buyer reads the trough first, because that is where he finds out whether he bought a business or six good months.

NASA has photographed Cape Coral's canal network from orbit — more than 400 miles of it, perhaps the longest canal shoreline in the world. That geography is why two identical-looking Lee County pool routes can be worth very different money. Here's the per-account math a buyer runs before he calls you back.

Lee County took 283,003 Hurricane Ian insurance claims, more than any county in Florida. Four years on, that storm is still sitting in the three fiscal years a buyer will underwrite — and it decides which of your years he believes. Here is the recast, the arithmetic on a Cape Coral contractor, and the 2026 ranges we underwrite by trade.

Lee County took 283,003 Hurricane Ian insurance claims — more than a third of every claim filed in Florida. Three years on, the question a buyer asks a Fort Myers restoration owner is not how big 2023 was. It's whether the company that ran at triple volume still exists underneath. Here's who buys these books and what they pay in 2026.