Home-services transaction focus
Jason Taken is the point of contact and named author for Illinois Home Services Broker. He works through the HedgeStone Business Advisors platform and focuses this site on the financial, operational and transition questions that arise when Illinois HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, cleaning, restoration and other service companies are bought or sold.
Contact Jason at jason.taken@hedgestone.com or (224) 249-3213. A written engagement—not this website—identifies the responsible legal entity, scope, registration status, fees, conflicts and duties for a particular assignment.
Illinois business-broker registration
The Illinois Secretary of State explains that covered business brokers must register unless exempt and offers an official registration search. Readers should verify the current person and firm before retaining any intermediary. This site intentionally uses “business broker serving Illinois” rather than treating registration as a generic professional license.
Read the Illinois requirements and access the registration search.
Editorial and evidence standard
- Financial, legal, lending, licensing and market claims are linked to primary sources where available.
- Examples are labeled illustrative unless they come from a disclosed dataset.
- Asking prices are not described as closed transactions.
- Precise multiples, premiums, market sizes and contractor counts are not published without a reproducible source and definition.
- Regulatory pages display a review date and direct users to the issuing agency.
- Legal, tax, accounting and lending content is educational and should be reviewed by the appropriate professional for an actual transaction.
How corrections work
If a cited source changes or a factual error is identified, email the page URL and supporting authority. Material corrections should update the review date and preserve a short change note. If this site's summary conflicts with an agency, lender or signed agreement, follow the authoritative source and qualified adviser.
What the site does not claim
The site does not guarantee a sale price, financing approval, closing date, search ranking or uninterrupted license transfer. It does not present an unpublished transaction database as a statewide benchmark. It does not replace counsel, a CPA, a lender, an appraiser or an issuing regulator.