Sell Your Business With an Advisor Who's Been in Your Shoes
Helping California Contractor Business Owners Achieve Stress-Free, Premium Exits Through 37+ Years of Real-World Business Experience.
Your Business. Your Legacy. Your Exit.
Building a business takes more than financial savvy. It takes grit. You didn't build your business by reading textbooks. You are managing crews, solving problems, and earning your reputation one job at a time.
The traditional brokerage model, often without direct operational experience and lacking a shared history of entrepreneurship, may struggle to connect with the owner on a peer level, failing to grasp the non-monetary goals that leave money on the table, or worse, get stuck in a stressful process that goes nowhere.
Your life's work deserves more than a transaction. It deserves a stress-free transition. Sell your business with an advisor who's been in your shoes.
Selling Your Business is About Your Future, Your Employees, and Your Legacy.
Selling a family or partner-owned business is rarely just about the numbers. It's a deeply personal process tied to complex goals:
Securing Your Retirement: Monetizing your life's work to ensure financial freedom.
Protecting Your People: Ensuring a future for the long-term, loyal employees you consider family.
Preserving Your Legacy: Finding a new owner who will honor the reputation you spent decades building.
From Business Operator to Business Broker.
Stan Cortland, an Operator-Broker model, sees your business not as a set of financials, but as a living entity whose true value lies in the operational efficiencies, customer relationships, and human capital built over a lifetime of effort.
Over 37 years of experience in sales, management, and business ownership.
National Xerox Dealership Owner: Managed field service crews, built recurring contract revenue streams, and handled daily operational challenges.
❝I'm Stan Cortland. Before I ever represented a single transaction, I spent decades building, scaling, and selling my own business. That experience changes everything.❞
A Track Record of Successful Exits
successful acquisitions
7
facilitated in the last 2 years
Stan Cortland's licensing across 6 Western states creates a competitive market by expanding the addressable buyer pool beyond local markets.
Market Arbitrage: What is a "small" acquisition for a Phoenix-based consolidator might be a life-changing exit for a local owner. Expanded reach creates competitive tension, driving up the final sale price.
A National Market for Your Local Business
Our Process is Built for One Thing: Certainty of Closing
Navigating Financial Hurdles (The NMLS License)
Most deals in this market rely on complex SBA financing, a common failure point. As one of the few brokers with an NMLS license, I have the expertise to pre-qualify buyers and structure the deal to meet stringent lender requirements, de-risking the transaction from the start.
Holistic Deal Structuring (Beyond the Price Tag)
Valuation is "pure negotiation,' and the "Price is just ONE lever." We focus on optimizing the entire deal-terms, timing, and your personal goals to resolve the issues that cause most deals to collapse..
Stan Cortland | DRE# 02079242
888-315-4353
136 Echo Pl, Discovery Bay, California 94505
