The $599K Cemetery Deal That Could Last 100 Years

**Mills Snell** (0:00)
Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of Acquisitions Anonymous, the number one podcast for small business M&A. I'm Mills Snell, one of your co-hosts. Me and Heather Endresen today talk about a fascinating business for sale in West Virginia that Girdley's Claude Scraper found and generated for us. It's a $10 million total revenue potential cemetery in West Virginia.
Super interesting, very off the wall, kind of a real estate play, kind of an operating business play, but a fascinating deal. We talk about a lot of death care specifics across the industry. Heather and I both had some experience there, and it's a fascinating conversation. Stick around after a quick word from our sponsor.

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**Mills Snell** (2:21)
Welcome back everybody to another episode of Acquisitions Anonymous. It's me and Heather holding down the floor today. Heather, how's it going?

**Heather Endresen** (2:27)
It's good. It's an early Friday morning for me. So I'm up, I've had my coffee, and I'm ready for whatever exciting deal you've brought for us today.

**Mills Snell** (2:36)
Heather is such an overachiever because this is 11 a.m. Eastern and 8 a.m., but usually 7:30 a.m. Pacific. So she brings the A game even early in the morning, when she needs to be catching up on e-mails.

**Heather Endresen** (2:54)
Yeah. My e-mails are full.

**Mills Snell** (2:57)
We have a deal today that Girdley found, and I think it was from his like Claude scraper tool that we really haven't talked about that much, but it's on Biz By Sell, and it's in Williamson, West Virginia, and this one really stood out to me for a few reasons. So I'm going to read it, Heather, and then we'll jump right into it. So this is a $10 million plus built-in revenue potential from an established cemetery. The asking price is 599,000. There is no cash flow or SDE disclosed, no EBITDA, no revenue disclosed in the header, but they say the real estate is worth 599,000 and it's been around since 1986
And I've got to pull it up on the screen if you're on YouTube. But it says price reduced, now 599,000. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a fully operational, long-established cemetery situated on approximately 12 plus acres in Lenore, West Virginia, offering immediate income and extraordinary long-term upside. With 2,286 remaining burial plots and current pricing already established, the property holds an estimated $10 million plus in future gross revenue potential, all backed by real estate, infrastructure and a business that has been operating since 1968 So the numbers are reversed in the header and in the description, but either way, it's been around for a long time, longer than I've been alive. This is a true turnkey operation that includes an on-site residence, office building, warehouse and all necessary equipment to continue operations seamlessly from day one. The groundwork has already been done. This is a fully entitled approved land with built-in inventory and a perpetual care fund in place. We'll talk more about that. Opportunities like this are nearly impossible to replicate today due to zoning restrictions and barriers to entry, making this an exceptionally valuable and defensible asset with consistent recession-resistant demand. At just $599,000, this offering is aggressively priced to move and represents a fraction of the embedded value. Whether you're a funeral home operator looking to expand, an investor seeking a stable long-term income stream, or an entrepreneur ready to step into a scalable business, this is a high upside opportunity with immediate and future returns already built in. Deals of this level of upside security and pricing do not last, serious inquiries only. There's a flyer here I'll open in a minute, but it says the FF&E is $9,184,845 and it's included in the asking price. I'm not sure how they're coming up with that number.