Fortenberry Roofing

Fortenberry Roofing has put roofs on West Texas homes, schools, and shopping centers for 31 years from Littlefield, a small town outside Lubbock. The book of business mixes commercial and residential work, anchored by deep expertise in insurance-claim roofing, the owner's specialty since 2010. He ran it lean on purpose: a small office team, subcontractor crews, equipment owned outright, and commercial relationships that carry the company through West Texas winters.

Founder Michael Fortenberry built the company around a simple idea: make sure clients don't get cheated by their insurance companies. At 69, after three decades on the job, he wanted to step back and travel with his wife while they could. He wasn't looking for just any buyer. He wanted someone with real money in the deal, someone he could trust with clients who had been calling him for decades, and he offered to stay on and train whoever took over.

Rejigg's team sourced and qualified the buyer, and the two connected in March 2026. The first offer arrived within a month. Rejigg introduced the buyer to a lender for SBA financing, the bank's independent review of the business came back clean, and the purchase agreement was signed in late May. The deal closed in July 2026, about four months after the first conversation.

The buyer runs an established roofing business about two hours away and was already expanding into the Lubbock market. That made him the rare buyer who could evaluate the company as an insider: the screening calls read like two contractors trading notes on shingle brands, software, and crews. He picked up the brand, the commercial relationships, the equipment, and the subcontractor model in one move.