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Sell My Gas Station in Florida — Confidential Valuation and Sale Advisory
The Gas Station Group is a Florida gas station broker that helps owners value and confidentially sell gas stations, convenience stores, and truck stops statewide. We are a petroleum-specific business broker and convenience store broker: we underwrite monthly fuel gallons and margins, inside-store sales, P&Ls and tax returns, real estate value versus business value, brand and fuel-supply agreements, and UST and environmental records — then run an NDA-controlled process from valuation through closing. The practice is led by Bobby Berrido, CCIM, CMAA, and all transactions are brokered through Fausto Commercial.
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Bobby Berrido walks through how The Gas Station Group guides Florida owners through a confidential, structured sale — from valuation to closing.
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Confidential outreach for Florida gas station, c-store, truck stop, and fuel real estate. A specialist responds within one business day.
(305) 518-1545Why Owners Decide to Sell
Every sale starts with a personal reason. Our job is to translate that motivation into the right strategy, timing, and buyer pool — without disrupting your operation, your staff, or your supplier relationships.
Portfolio Consolidation
Multi-site operators frequently sell underperforming locations to redeploy capital into higher-volume corridors or modern c-store formats with food service.
1031 Exchange & Diversification
Sellers exchanging into passive triple-net investments or other asset classes benefit from disciplined timing and qualified intermediary coordination.
Environmental or Tank Compliance Pressure
UST upgrade requirements, Phase II findings, or aging canopy and dispenser systems often trigger a sale rather than a multi-million-dollar reinvestment.
Brand Conversion or Supply Contract Expiration
Owners nearing the end of a fuel supply agreement often sell rather than re-sign. We advise on fuel supply restructuring vs. exit.
Unsolicited Offers
Receiving a direct offer is flattering — but rarely the highest price. By exposing the opportunity to qualified buyers and creating a competitive process, we work to maximize value and negotiate the strongest possible price and terms for the seller.
What Goes Into Selling a Gas Station
Selling a fuel facility is not a residential transaction. Gallons, inside sales, fuel supply contracts, environmental status, lease structure, and brand affiliation all materially affect price. Here's how we manage each stage.
1. Confidential Valuation
We underwrite your station using market cap rates, gallons-per-month, inside sales, fuel margin, c-store P&L, and real estate comps across Florida. No public listing, no signage.
2. Sale Strategy & Positioning
We decide together: real estate only, business only, or both. Branded buyer pool vs. unbranded. Owner-operator vs. institutional investor. Each path produces a different price.
3. Document & Data Room Prep
Three years of fuel volumes, P&Ls, tax returns, environmental records, UST registrations, lease/franchise agreements, and permits — organized into a buyer-ready data room.
4. Confidential Marketing
Blind teasers go out to our vetted database of operators, family offices, and 1031 buyers. Identity is protected until NDAs are executed. See our off-market process.
5. Offer Negotiation & LOI
We negotiate price, deposit, due diligence period, financing contingencies, non-compete, training, and inventory transfer — and present a side-by-side comparison of every qualified offer.
6. Due Diligence Coordination
Phase I/II environmental, UST compliance, fuel volume verification, lease estoppels, franchise consents, and SBA or conventional financing coordination — managed end-to-end.
7. Closing & Transition
Title, escrow, inventory count, fuel meter readings, employee transition, and supplier reassignment. Most Florida gas station sales close 60–120 days from accepted LOI.
What Sellers Should Expect From Us
Absolute Confidentiality
Your employees, suppliers, and customers learn about the sale only when you decide they should — not before.
Specialist Underwriting
We transact only in gas stations, c-stores, truck stops, and automotive retail. Generic CRE advisors routinely undervalue fuel assets by ignoring gallons, margin, and environmental risk.
Qualified Buyers Only
Every buyer we introduce is pre-screened for capital, operating history, and brand approval — no tire-kickers, no wasted disclosure.
Statewide Market Reach
Active buyer relationships across every major Florida fuel retail corridor — from the Panhandle through Central Florida and the southern tip of the state.
Proven Experience in Complex Fuel Real Estate Transactions
The Gas Station Group recently completed the $23.5 million sale of the Mobil truck stop at 12200 NW South River Drive in Medley, Florida. Situated on approximately five acres, the transaction demonstrates our experience navigating high-value fuel real estate involving operating businesses, strategic locations, and sophisticated buyers.
We bring that same specialized knowledge, confidentiality, and transaction management to gas station, convenience-store, and truck-stop owners throughout Florida.
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Why Florida Owners Choose The Gas Station Group
A short, verifiable summary of who you are working with. Every closed transaction referenced below is publicly reported and linked, so you can confirm it yourself.
Credentials You Can Verify
The practice is led by Bobby Berrido, CCIM, CMAA. The CCIM designation covers investment-grade financial analysis and the CMAA covers merger and acquisition advisory — both directly relevant to a gas station sale, which is an operating business and a piece of real estate at the same time.
Brokered Through Fausto Commercial
The Gas Station Group is the specialist fuel-retail practice; all transactions are brokered through Fausto Commercial, the licensed Florida brokerage entity. You always know which licensed entity your listing agreement and escrow instructions run through.
Publicly Reported Track Record
Our board shows $150M+ in transaction volume and 50+ closed deals brokered. Individual closings are documented on our recent transactions page, each linked to the independent deal record on Traded.
Verified Florida Closings
Examples include a $23.5M Medley truck stop and travel center, an $8.5M Florida City gas station sold to Sunshine Gas, and a $5.5M southwest Miami-Dade station sold to Sunshine Gasoline Distributors — all reported publicly. See the full transaction record.
Petroleum-Specific, Not General Business Brokerage
We are a petroleum-specific business broker and convenience store broker. Gallons, fuel margin, inside-store margin, supply agreements, tank age and environmental records drive the price, and a general business broker rarely underwrites them. More on how a specialist broker works.
Statewide Florida Coverage
We work with owners across Florida, from the Panhandle through Central Florida to the southern tip of the state, with buyer relationships in every major fuel retail corridor.
Seller's Guide: Answers for Florida Gas Station Owners
Short, practical answers to the questions Florida owners ask most often — grouped by where you are in the process. Start anywhere; each guide stands on its own.
Prepare and Price
- Land, building or business — what you are actually selling
How the property component and the operating component are valued differently.
- Getting the station ready before you go to market
The records, repairs and housekeeping that reduce friction later.
- Recasting earnings and defensible add-backs
Which adjustments to owner profit a buyer or lender is likely to accept.
- The paperwork buyers will ask you for
Ten categories of documents, and which ones buyers order themselves.
- Setting an asking price you can support
How estimated value, asking price and acceptable net proceeds differ.
Market and Evaluate Offers
- Who buys Florida stations, and what each type wants
Owner-operators, multi-site operators, investors and distributors compared.
- Is a cash offer really the better offer?
Thirteen terms to weigh before assuming cash means faster or safer.
- Running a discreet, staged sale process
How buyer information is released in stages, and what confidentiality cannot promise.
- Keeping the sale private from your staff
Site visits, need-to-know limits and planning the eventual announcement.
- Handling the sale yourself
An honest look at the work involved and when it can reasonably work.
- Specialist representation versus a general business broker
The specific tasks a fuel-retail specialist performs on a live file.
Due Diligence and Deal Execution
- Supply agreements and environmental records to review early
Commitments and files that shape what a buyer can and cannot do.
- Can underground tanks stop a sale?
Common tank findings and the range of outcomes they lead to.
- From letter of intent to the closing table
The sequence of contract, diligence and approvals in a Florida deal.
- How long a sale usually takes
Stage-by-stage timing and what tends to extend each one.
- Where deals break down, stage by stage
Twelve failure points and the alternatives to termination.
Closing, Tax and Handoff
- Price allocation and what you actually keep
How allocation categories affect tax treatment and net proceeds.
- Exchange planning when you sell
What qualifies, who does what, and when the planning has to start.
- Closing day and the operational handoff
Legal transfer versus operational readiness — licenses, accounts, fuel and staff.
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Off-Market Gas Station Opportunities
Exclusive, pocket-listing and off-market fuel station acquisitions sourced through our operator relationships.
Fuel Supply Agreement Advisory
Fuel supply contract review, brand conversion analysis, and unbranded vs. branded structuring.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Most confidential sales close 60–120 days after an LOI is accepted. The full process from engagement to closing typically runs 4–8 months depending on environmental status, financing, and franchise consents.
Not unless you choose to tell them. We market with blind teasers and require signed NDAs before disclosing the property identity. Confidentiality is the core of our sell-side process.
Value is driven by gallons-per-month, fuel margin, inside sales, real estate, fuel supply contract terms, brand, lease structure, and environmental condition. We provide a confidential valuation at no cost during your consultation.
Not necessarily. Many sales close with environmental matters credited at closing or assumed by the buyer. We structure the deal so known issues don't derail the transaction.
Yes. We frequently structure sales as business-only (with a long-term ground lease back to you), real estate only, or combined. Each path has different tax and cash-flow implications we'll walk through.
Our sell-side engagement is success-based — we are paid a commission at closing, not upfront. The initial consultation, valuation, and strategy session are free and fully confidential.
Plan on three years of monthly fuel gallons and fuel margin reports, inside-store sales and margin detail, P&Ls and business tax returns, and your fuel supply or branding agreement. Add UST registrations and environmental records, deed or lease documents, permits and licenses, and an equipment list showing what you own versus what the supplier or a vendor owns. Which items a specific buyer requests depends on transaction structure and buyer type, and some records — such as a buyer's Phase I or Phase II environmental assessment, title work and survey — are ordered by the buyer rather than provided by you. Everything is released only under NDA, in stages, and never to unqualified parties.
Yes, in most cases an active supply agreement does not prevent a sale — it shapes the buyer pool and the structure. The agreement may be assigned to the buyer with the supplier's consent, may require the buyer to be approved for the brand, or may need to be bought out or allowed to run to term. We read the agreement early — remaining term, volume commitments, assignment and consent language, branding and image obligations, rights of first refusal — and price the transaction around what it actually permits. Contract interpretation and any buyout are matters for your attorney and the supplier; our role is brokerage strategy, not legal advice.
Before any confidential information is released, we ask for proof of funds or a lender commitment, the buyer's operating history in fuel retail, and confirmation that they can be approved by the brand or supplier where that matters. Only then does a signed NDA unlock the property identity and the data room, and sensitive records are released in stages as the buyer advances. This is how we protect your staff, your suppliers and your customers from learning about the sale prematurely, and it keeps your time focused on buyers who can actually close.
Fuel and store inventory are normally counted at or just before closing and paid for by the buyer separately from the purchase price. Fuel is measured by tank stick or meter readings at the moment of transfer and valued at your cost; inside-store merchandise is counted, often by an independent inventory service, and typically valued at cost with agreed exclusions for damaged, expired or unsaleable goods. Lottery, tobacco and alcohol stock, along with change funds and vendor deposits, are handled as separate line items on the closing statement. The exact method is written into the purchase agreement, and your accountant should confirm how the amounts are reported.
An accepted LOI starts due diligence and moves the parties toward a definitive purchase agreement, not to an automatic closing. The buyer typically deposits escrow funds, then works through financial verification, fuel volume confirmation, environmental and UST review, title and survey, lease or franchise consents, and financing or SBA underwriting while the attorneys paper the contract. Findings can lead to renegotiation, an extension, an escrow holdback, a cure, or in some cases termination. Most Florida gas station sales close 60–120 days from an accepted LOI, subject to environmental status, financing and any consents required.
A gas station is an operating business and a piece of regulated real estate at once, and the price turns on details a generalist rarely underwrites. Monthly gallons and fuel margin, inside-store sales and margin, real estate value versus business value, supply and branding obligations, tank age and environmental records, and equipment ownership all change the number and the buyer pool. As a petroleum-specific business broker and convenience store broker, we underwrite those items, market only to vetted fuel-retail buyers under NDA, and coordinate the environmental, financing and consent work that most often delays these closings.
Ready to Explore a Confidential Sale?
Schedule a private, no-obligation consultation. We'll provide a complimentary valuation, discuss your goals, and outline the strategy that maximizes your after-tax proceeds.