Side jobs

[Go-Fly]

It's always poor people that have the best ideas on how to make a lot of money.

 

[lbhsbz]

if you had a tiny utility trailer, I'd say appliance repair.

last week we came home to a broken dryer.... okay it lasted 20yrs... maybe time for a new one. One big issue.... we're on propane. All the new dryers have to be converted and you have to do it yourself or hire someone to do it (I converted ours back in the day when I had more time & energy). I was ready to just buy a new one, but it would still have us down a few days without a machine. I hit up a few guys on offerup / marketplace for used machines, but they took too long to respond, in the meantime I pulled the 2 bolts off the top of the dryer, diagnosed that the belt had snapped and ordered a rebuild kit off amazon for $12 and it was there the next day. Installed in 10 minutes and we were back in action.

these offer-up / marketplace guys charge $200-250 for a used working machine delivered and they pick up your old one. So they are making a good 200-225 per machine a pop. pretty quick / easy cash money w/ minimal investment.... but definitely need a truck or tiny utility trailer.

Appliance repair would be great....and easy.

If it's not something simple like a belt or whatever, or you can't figure it out in 5 minutes, just tell 'em "it needs a board" for double what the machine costs, they'll decline, collect your service call diag fee of $120 or whatever and go home.

Damn, I wish I'd have thought of this 20 years ago

 

[FreeBird236]

I have heard people make out well installing tesla chargers. I don't know how true that is, maybe someone on here does.

I hear the US gov paid six billion for eight stations.

 

[Bobby V]

It's always poor people that have the best ideas on how to make a lot of money.

Welcome back Go Fly

 

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[hallett21]

Just did these for my wife. 6ft level, painters tape and a screw gun. Took an hour from the time I got off the couch. This would be an easy $100-150 I bet.

 

[lakemadness]

It's always poor people that have the best ideas on how to make a lot of money.

Good to see you posting.

 

[Riverbound]

That isnt an issue. Its the ladders and larger items that I am more concerned about.

Easier to do when referred by a mutual friend or connection though. Not even too sure where to start that.

@Riverbound you want a Monday and Tuesday evening/everyother weekend tech out of the Burbank area? lol!

I’m always looking for techs but need more of a time commitment. You’d make a ton of money with your skill set.

Some day you will work with me.

My advice if you want to go the side job route. Do service only stay away from install don’t need much and a gorilla ladder will fit in the back of an Escalade and get you 99% of the places you need to get in.

 

[Flying_Lavey]

I’m always looking for techs but need more of a time commitment. You’d make a ton of money with your skill set.

Some day you will work with me.

My advice if you want to go the side job route. Do service only stay away from install don’t need much and a gorilla ladder will fit in the back of an Escalade and get you 99% of the places you need to get in.

My goal this year is to develop and start my own VRF team here. Just need to get a few more cogs into the mix to make that happen.

Not sure if you can afford me there bud. Lol!!

 

[Hammer]

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Just did these for my wife. 6ft level, painters tape and a screw gun. Took an hour from the time I got off the couch. This would be an easy $100-150 I bet.

Good way to meet single moms!

 

[viperized_jr]

My goal this year is to develop and start my own VRF team here. Just need to get a few more cogs into the mix to make that happen.

Not sure if you can afford me there bud. Lol!!

Side note are you using 250 or a 105 vrf crew? I have a big 1 coming up but it’s in Ontario. Maybe you can consult

 

[n2otoofast4u]

I worked 15 hour days all this week here in Portland. Im exhausted… I fly out at 4 so I’m leaving to the airport at around 2. I can’t wait to be in bed laying next to my wife. I work tomorrow but I’m taking the weekend off. 60 hours plus travel is more than enough for me oh and Sunday is another travel day so not even a full weekend.

When you back in Portland? Dinner on me!

 

[boatnam2]

The cat that handles our area for clogged sinks works 7 days a week, he only breaks out the snakes, no plumbing, going under house etc etc, did mine the other day $150 bucks, probably does 10-15 a day. His son helps during week but he takes all the late and weekend stuff.

 

[BHC Vic]

When you back in Portland? Dinner on me!

I’ll be back out in a couple weeks. Portland is my assigned shop for wabo certifications now. I actually really like it out there. Cold… but really nice

 

[JDKRXW]

Maybe UPS or Fedex over the holidays, try weekends only. Probably pays pretty good.

My son did this as a student a couple of times with UPS (Christmas rush season). He always worked with the same driver.
Good money - but they worked like rented mules. If you're not in half assed shape, you won't last 2 days.

 

[lbhsbz]

My son did this as a student a couple of times with UPS (Christmas rush season). He always worked with the same driver.
Good money - but they worked like rented mules. If you're not in half assed shape, you won't last 2 days.

There's a reason you've never seen a fat UPS guy

 

[Andy B.]

I’ll be back out in a couple weeks. Portland is my assigned shop for wabo certifications now. I actually really like it out there. Cold… but really nice

Curious have they cleaned it up or are you in a nice area.

 

[NicPaus]

The cat that handles our area for clogged sinks works 7 days a week, he only breaks out the snakes, no plumbing, going under house etc etc, did mine the other day $150 bucks, probably does 10-15 a day. His son helps during week but he takes all the late and weekend stuff.

I signed off for Pat's license and was giving Him most of them. Let him borrow a few snakes to get going. Now I am back doing it in house.

Been averaging a extra 8k a month from the plumbing and that's just regular customers. My realtor does property management now also. And picked up a few big clients. Some I go to once a month. Easy $300 for a 30 minutes. I was up until 230am shopping for another plumbing rig. Looking like 85k-110k for just tge rig no tools for a walk in body.

Just finished another repipe yesterday. They have 6 houses on 223rd by my old pad. They all need to be repiped. Already did 150k of work on there Torrance house that included repipe. Needs the drains done next. One was broken under the house so while there we fixed it and snaked the bathroom. It's endless around here with the age of the homes.

 

[LBsuperJET]

How about starting a dump trailer rental biz? I know you don't have a truck but it is something I have thought about. Park and lock dump trailer at cust location and pick up and dump for a fee. As far as I'm concerned, other than the ocassional stuck piece of junk or a repair on the trailer all you'd be doing is connecting/disconnecting trailer and driving. Seems damn easy to me.

 

[NicPaus]

How about starting a dump trailer rental biz? I know you don't have a truck but it is something I have thought about. Park and lock dump trailer at cust location and pick up and dump for a fee. As far as I'm concerned, other than the ocassional stuck piece of junk or a repair on the trailer all you'd be doing is connecting/disconnecting trailer and driving. Seems damn easy to me.

All depends on the dump fees in his area. I did this for years. Still have 3 dump trailers. Problem is my local dump raised the rates so high. $150 a ton for trash, $60 for clean dirt. $50 for clean concrete. There are guys from the 909 that will load and haul for what the dump fees are. They drive a hour home and dump there for $27-50 a ton.

Friend spent $16k on a bitchen dump trailer. Literally used it twice in 3 years. Trying. And now wants to sell it as it just sits. My trailers sit majority of the time now. Only used on my jobs.

 

[BHC Vic]

Curious have they cleaned it up or are you in a nice area.

I was right by the airport. They said they did recently clean out all the rvs and homeless that were there by the training center.

 

[n2otoofast4u]

I’ll be back out in a couple weeks. Portland is my assigned shop for wabo certifications now. I actually really like it out there. Cold… but really nice

Let me know. I am 15mins from the airport on the other side of the river. You probably go home on weekends, but if you happen to stay we could jump into the Yott and do a cruise into downtown. Lots of cool shit to see from the river.

 

[BHC Vic]

Let me know. I am 15mins from the airport on the other side of the river. You probably go home on weekends, but if you happen to stay we could jump into the Yott and do a cruise into downtown. Lots of cool shit to see from the river.

So I’m actually going to start staying through the weekends to hold open welding classes and get some certs pumped out.

 

[n2otoofast4u]

Curious have they cleaned it up or are you in a nice area.

There has been a SMALL attempt to get some of it cleaned up, and/or at least corralled a bit into controllable places, but it is still out of hand. I avoid downtown PDX like the plague but a few of our clients have offices down there so I end up down there a couple times a month. Having been in this area for my entire life and seeing it go from when it was thriving in my late teens and early 20s, to what it is now is truly sad. It is not a homeless crisis, it is a drug crisis and frankly the .gov has done a HUGE disservice to the the communities and to the addicts who are using. That to say, like I tell everyone, if you can stomach the BS for 30 mins and come to the PNW via PDX airport this area is like no other! Within 30min you are in some of the nicest and prettiest places in the country!

 

[n2otoofast4u]

So I’m actually going to start staying through the weekends to hold open welding classes and get some certs pumped out.

I'll PM you my number.

 

[jetboatperformance]

Whats your mechanical background ?

 

[boatnam2]

I signed off for Pat's license and was giving Him most of them. Let him borrow a few snakes to get going. Now I am back doing it in house.

Been averaging a extra 8k a month from the plumbing and that's just regular customers. My realtor does property management now also. And picked up a few big clients. Some I go to once a month. Easy $300 for a 30 minutes. I was up until 230am shopping for another plumbing rig. Looking like 85k-110k for just tge rig no tools for a walk in body.

Just finished another repipe yesterday. They have 6 houses on 223rd by my old pad. They all need to be repiped. Already did 150k of work on there Torrance house that included repipe. Needs the drains done next. One was broken under the house so while there we fixed it and snaked the bathroom. It's endless around here with the age of the homes.

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My newphew is learning plumbing, maybe he can work for you someday.

 

[Sharky]

What I would suggest to the OP-

Sounds like he is an old school HVAC man.

Get in the business of installing & servicing mini split systems.

I for one would like to install a heat/cool split system just for a few rooms on my Casa. I know enough I "could" probably do it but, paying someone else to do it would probably be better. Mine would be for the garage and possibly one room in the house.

Bet there are a shit ton of people out there that would like a split system for just their garage. Don't need a fully loaded truck/van to do that.


Out here, split systems are really big. You could fit everything (tools/parts) in a used Toyota Rav4. Or a used Chrysler minivan, or older G10-20 GM van.

 

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If he's not licensed, installing mini splits can be a risk. One unhappy customer and they'll report you. Or won't pay you and tell you to pound sand.

 

[Riverbound]

My goal this year is to develop and start my own VRF team here. Just need to get a few more cogs into the mix to make that happen.

Not sure if you can afford me there bud. Lol!!

You’d be surprised.