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Carpet cleaning.
Get yourself a van with all of the included equipment used for like $5K to $15k and you can charge businesses and rental properties about $300 per cleaning, only takes about an hour or two tops. 50 jobs and the equipment is paid off.
Bit more expensive than I would usually say for a side hustle, then with insurance/maintenance on the van if you have to take time off from it you lose money.
But if you live in the right area I can see how it would work. Probably even better if you already own a vehicle that would work and just need to buy the equipment.
With all the drop shipping and MLM side hustles that are on the internet, I try to avoid encouraging any and all side hustles that ask for large up front investment.
Imo the equipment-van-combo is necessary unless you have experience bolting 100 gallon tanks and large pumps with mixing bay and motor into vehicle interiors.
If you did go for a more mobile solution then you could do taller builldings where hoses don't reach, though.
Good point! Yeah I'm just always leery of side hustles with high opening expenses. Too many people in bad spots got into worse ones because they invested what little money they had, or heaven forbid went into debt, to try a side hustle that just did not pay enough.
So that's why I personally try to never recommend things like that. But the idea does sound good and does sounds like you're knowledgeable!
Yeah all your concerns are justified. I was more fixated on time investment than startup costs.
True! So not a bad suggestion, just one I'm not educated enough to have an opinion on I think XD