Pest control, backflow & water safety, and fire protection — delivered with disciplined operations and long-term accountability.
We started Rincon Service Group because we saw a gap: essential service businesses with loyal customer bases and strong recurring cash flows, owned by founders who'd built something real — but with no clear path forward when it came time to step back.
Our approach is straightforward. We acquire well-run compliance service businesses, keep the teams and culture intact, invest in shared infrastructure, and build a platform that's worth more than the sum of its parts.
No quick flips. No financial engineering. We're here for the long term — in the same communities our businesses serve.
Rincon Service Group operates essential service businesses that communities depend on. We focus on recurring, compliance-driven services where reliability matters more than marketing. Our model prioritizes disciplined operations, documented processes, and long-term accountability over short-term optics.
Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties — three growing commercial markets where we live, work, and have deep roots.
We're hands-on partners, not passive investors. We stay involved in operations, share infrastructure, and take a long-term view on building value.
We're not outside investors who discovered the Central Coast on a spreadsheet. We grew up here, raised families here, built careers here. When we say we're invested in this community, we mean it in every sense of the word.
Chris brings a background in commercial banking and business development to RSG, with deep experience evaluating businesses and structuring deals across the Central Coast. He has spent his career building relationships with local business owners and understanding what makes service companies operate at their best.
Connor has spent his career in operations and business management across the Central Coast. He brings firsthand experience running field-based service operations, managing teams, and building the systems that allow growing businesses to scale without losing what made them great in the first place.
Both partners have families rooted on the Central Coast — kids in local schools, involvement in local business communities, and a genuine stake in the long-term health of this region. We're not looking for a quick win. We're building something here because this is home.
The best businesses aren't always the most visible. We've built our thesis around mandated services that commercial properties must have — regardless of economic conditions — where the right operator can build durable, lasting value.
Pest control, backflow testing, and fire protection are legally required. Demand doesn't evaporate in a downturn — it's structural, not cyclical.
Annual contracts and mandatory renewal cycles create predictable cash flows — the kind that support patient, long-term investment decisions.
Most compliance service businesses in the Central Coast are small and founder-owned. No dominant consolidator exists — creating real acquisition opportunities at sensible valuations.
Many owner-operators are approaching retirement with no established exit path. We offer a thoughtful alternative to a third-party sale or simply shutting the doors.
Businesses sharing the same customer base can share back-office infrastructure and cross-sell naturally — improving margins across the portfolio over time.
We're not looking at this market from the outside. We know the tri-county area, its regulators, its commercial property landscape, and its business community.
We're deliberate about how we grow. Each acquisition has to make sense on its own and as part of the broader platform.
We target established operators with recurring revenue and a loyal customer base. We're not turnaround investors — we buy good businesses and make them better.
The people and relationships that make a service business valuable don't transfer through a spreadsheet. We retain field teams, maintain customer relationships, and preserve what the founder built.
Scheduling, fleet management, compliance reporting, back-office finance — these don't need to be duplicated across every business. We build once and share across the platform.
A property manager who trusts us for pest control is a natural candidate for backflow testing. Multiple mandated services under one roof creates stickier relationships and higher lifetime value.
Three categories of mandated compliance services — each with structural demand, recurring revenue, and natural cross-sell opportunity within the same commercial property customer base.
Our anchor vertical. Licensed, recurring, relationship-based — with high customer retention and strong platform economics as the foundation of the RSG portfolio.
Anchor VerticalState-mandated annual certification. Highly adjacent to our pest control base — same property managers, same service cadence, natural cross-sell.
Growth VerticalCode-required life safety inspections for commercial and multi-family properties. Recurring certification cycles, regulatory tailwinds, same customer base.
Adjacent VerticalIf you've spent years building a pest control, backflow, or fire protection business and you're starting to think about your next chapter — we'd like to talk. Not to pressure you. Just to have an honest conversation.
We're not a typical buyer. No outside investors pushing us toward a quick exit. We don't cut staff to improve margins on paper. We're here to preserve what you built and grow it responsibly.
Conversations are always confidential. No commitment, no timeline pressure.
Start a ConversationWhether you're a property manager looking for a compliance services partner, or a business owner curious about what a transition could look like — we're easy to reach.