Food truckFort Myers, FL
- Asking price
- $85K
- Cash flow
- $65.3K
- Document checked
- Multiple
- 1.3x
Checked Listed 4 days ago
NextOwner is a marketplace for buying and selling businesses, where no listing goes live until its figures have been matched to the seller’s tax returns and bank statements and checked by a verification analyst.
Six stages, in this order, for every listing. A listing that stops at any of them does not go live.
Software reads the documents and flags mismatches. A person makes every approval decision.
Documents received
The seller uploads 3 years of tax returns and profit and loss statements, 12 months of bank statements and the papers that show who owns the business.
Software reads the documents
Software reads each document and records the figures on it: revenue, expenses, deposits and what the owner is paid.
Numbers reconciled
Each year's revenue is compared with the filed tax return, and the return with the profit and loss statement and the bank deposits.
Risk and financial analysis
Software checks that the files are unaltered and agree with one another, and flags anything that does not add up.
Analyst review
A verification analyst reads every flag, asks the seller for anything missing, and approves or declines the listing.
Approved and published
The listing goes live with a numbered report of what was checked, against which documents, and when.
A verified listing links to a numbered report. Anyone can look up the number to see whether the report still stands, and compare a copy with the original.
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Seller stated. Entered by the seller. NextOwner has not checked this figure.
Document checked. Matched to Form 1120-S line 1a and the profit and loss statement, checked Nov 6, 2026.
Document checked. Rebuilt from the Form 1120-S return, with add-backs an analyst accepted, checked Nov 6, 2026.
NextOwner Verified
Checked by a NextOwner analyst on Nov 6, 2026
Food truckFort Myers, FL
Checked Listed 4 days ago
Car washKansas City, MO
Checked Listed 7 days ago
HVACColumbus, OH
Checked Listed 7 days ago
Courier and last mileMississauga, ON
Checked Listed 8 days ago
Med spaNashville, TN
Checked Listed 11 days ago
Pet groomingRaleigh, NC
Checked Listed 11 days ago
| Practice | Typical listing site | NextOwner |
|---|---|---|
| Who checks the numbers | Nobody. The listing shows what the seller typed, with a line saying the site has not checked it. | Software matches each headline figure to the seller's tax returns and bank statements. A verification analyst reviews the result before the listing can go live. |
| What a buyer needs to contact a seller | A name and an email address. | A confirmed email address to send a message. A signed NDA and the seller's approval to see the business's name, address and documents. Sellers can also ask for a checked photo ID. |
| How results are ordered | By who paid most for placement. | By how recently the listing was verified, how much of it is document checked, how quickly the seller replies and how new it is. Nobody can pay to move up. |
| What happens to stale listings | They stay up until someone takes them down. | Every 30 days the seller confirms the business is still for sale and nothing material has changed, or the listing pauses. A verification stands for 180 days; then the listing comes down until it is checked again. |
| Where conversations and documents live | In email and on the phone, once the site has passed your details on. | On NextOwner, from the first message to the offer. Phone numbers and emails stay masked until the seller approves access, files never travel in chat, and every document opened in a data room is logged for the seller. |
| What a verified mark covers | There is no mark to read. Each listing carries a note that nothing was checked. | NextOwner Verified. The seller's identity, their right to sell, and the headline financials were matched to documents and checked by a NextOwner analyst on the date shown. The mark always carries that date and opens the report. |
Free to use, and built so you can judge a business before you spend a weekend on it.
About an hour of questions and uploads. Then software reads your documents and a verification analyst reviews them, with a target of 2 business days.