PE firms buying HVAC businesses but not fixing them

Bergmann states many PE firms are buying HVAC businesses and throwing money at them without fixing operations, though the value they sometimes add is installing systems like ServiceTitan or Housecall Pro.

“We have all these PEs buying businesses and Throwing money at them is not fixing them.”

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