Then check out the individual competitors. Are they struggling or do they appear to be busy?
Go to local hardware stores and ask the owners about the local demand and supply for HVAC service providers and the market in general.
Go to the local chamber of commerce. Ask them how the town is doing. Any new businesses coming to town.
Study, study, study.
Leave no stone unturned.
Wishing and hoping don't matter.
If your hubby is good, then the only concern is the market.
two counties. One major company with a less than steller reputation for one county.
Other county hashes out between 2 smaller companies, one with a bad reputation (that hubs used to work for) and a larger company that generally services a major metro area just to the west of us.
One of the counties to the north of us that hubs would be covering has a LOT of older hvac equipment that he could sell to newer equipment very easily (hubs is also a VERY good sales person and could sell snow to an eskimo)