My wife does the furniture flipping thing. I don't think we make any money on it β but we have much nicer furniture than we could afford otherwise and between reselling the items we get rid of the low prices we pay for the incoming, we're certainly not spending money on it, either, and that's counting the cost of renting trucks to move it around.
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Well getting nice furniture from a hobby sounds pretty chill regardless!
Every now and then my eyes pop at the cost of new furniture.
how is nobody afraid of bedbugs?
We don't fick with upholstered furniture for exactly that reason. Tables, dressers, cabinets.
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Maybe if you live in an area with mostly SFHs so bugs can't spread as aggressively? I'd never take furniture off the street. I'd rather sleep on bare floor than deal with bed bugs.
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My side hustle is real estate photography. Very flexible timing and I already had all the equipment. If I didnβt already own the equipment I wouldnβt have done it.
Good excuse to buy a drone.
You have to have a license to do that in the US. It's not super hard to get but not as easy as just buying a drone.
I know here in Canada if a drone is 250g or under, you don't need a license. I'm pretty sure that maby of the camera-drone manufactuers make variants that are just under 250g to make them more accessible.
The DJI Mini Series comes to mind. They are great little drones.
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Higher education tripled my income, so that seemed to work, and I dont have to do anything but sit in an office 40 hours a week.
DegreeForum.net is a forum of education hobbyists that do accelerated online degrees (Bachelor and Masters level) for fun.
If I ever picked up a side hustle, it'd be basic editing. ChatGPT has displaced the ghost writer but it can't polish its own turd.
Editing ChatGPT generated content sounds soul crushing tbh.
I think the thing that would keep me sane is that I'm fascinated in trying to figure out how a single AI-generated paragraph can be accurately detected.
But yeah, the common permutation of multiple pargraphs, the first starting with reaffirm/validate/reiterate is downright obnoxious.
'I'm sorry to hear you're having such difficulties with editing ChatGPT-generated content. It can be challenging and even frustrating at times, but with' lol
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I haven't known anyone to do this but I always thought managing social media accounts for small businesses would be a good side hustle. A steakhouse restaurant nearby went out of business in a year. They spent a ton of money on remodeling and a billboard with a logo but weren't even listed on Google Maps. I'll wager some businesses would be willing to barter in order to keep things simple
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My Etsy shop hit a very niche market and was pulling around $3k a year. I didn't put any effort into advertising, it kinda did that on its own
I'm also a performer which is a great side hustle for my creative fulfillment, but pays nearly nothing
You donβt have to confirm/deny - but Iβm going to pretend this niche is selling tiefling horns/ears.
Flaming nipple tassels
You read that right π
Curious! Is your main market other fire dancers, joke gifts, or weird sex thing?
Or do you just not ask questions and happily take your little bit of cash?
Cause 3k a year ain't nothing to sneeze at. $200ish a month if you are only clearing your bills by $50 can make a WORLD of difference.
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The only one Iβve heard of working really well was 3D printing copyrighted material that is usually way overpriced. Board game pieces, figurines, etc.
Honestly, 3d printing and selling designs online is a good side hustle I've seen, but they can't be straight up copies of someone else's work.
A little bit of legally dubious action to pay the bills and siphon money from billion dollar companies never hurt nobody!
$50 dollars for THREE, UNASSEMBLED, and UNPAINTED minis? Yeah man, I ain't gonna question why the texture of your warhammer minis are different. Game on.
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.
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Furnace/water heater replacement.
There are lots of states that will straight up ban you from doing this without a gasfitter ticket.
Can low water pressure in the whole house be attributed to a bad water heater?
Low water pressure is usually a sign of low water pressure.
Only if you have good pressure on cold water but weak pressure on hot.
Whole house suggests an issue with the supply line, for example an old galvanized pipe which is filling with rust deposits.
No.
Ours was exactly that, the oulet and inlet pipes in the tank corroded badly. Cold pressure fine, hot pressure was flow restricted
European here without education for a plumber, just barely scratched the profession for a few years.
Low water pressure occurs in bigger complexes with a pipe to small for the consumers. The water pressure in suburbans and cities comes directly from the local water station.
If you have issues with this, there are special armatures for low water pressure.
The cheapest improvement is replacing the water disperser with a current one.
Other then that, one could install a pump to improve the water pressure, but these things are expensive and have high maintainability costs due to pumping drinking water, not water in a heater pipe.
Perhaps your pipes are too wide.
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