13 Low or No Skill Services To Start a Side Hustle Business Today

honey gang Donnell from blue-collar diy.com today we're going to be talking about thirteen low or no skilled services you can offer to start your handyman business today while back I was talking somebody he said you know I want to start my own handyman business but I don't have no construction experience and you don't need no construction experience to be a handyman and so we'll got talking a little bit more about several services he could do that he knew how to do he could offer and it doesn't take much people it just doesn't take much so got me thinking I wrote down thirteen lower no skilled services you can use to start your own handyman business and so here's number one me tell you how it came about making this list up first off I didn't want anything to do with plumbing or electrical I know a lot of us know how to put a new light fixture in a ceiling fan or replace a faucet or a flush kit but here's the deal in some states even those little jobs like that require electrical license or formalising so this list is a list that you do not need any license for in any state that I'm aware of even California believe it or not so your you should be good to go with these thirteen so that's why I did not include or you don't need a lot of knowledge that's why I didn't include things like sheetrock occurs not hard if you know what you're doing but most my sheetrock jobs are a lot of them are fixing other people screw-ups because they don't know how to blend textures they don't know how to blend sheetrock she brought the perlite and I get a lot of calls for that so it does take a little bit skill it's just like painting paintings good but a lot of people think they can paint with the cane I've seen your work out there I know you can't or you just don't give a damn ladies day a lot of the things that are starting to paint interpret soon she goes I painted mountainside I'm looking there's paint on the floor there's paint on the ceiling that's not shouldn't just wall paint on the ceiling on the trim yeah obviously tried to cut it in by hand he didn't have the steadiest hands or that way okay a lot of painting is prep work that's probably the biggest heart success but it takes some skill and so that's why I'm not included on this list these things I've included here takes very little skill or no skill at all and that's gonna help you get your handyman business started okay first service you could offers dryer duct cleaning and go down to Lowe's get that or Home Depot order Amazon I'll put a link in the Amazon foot to them's on page for guard cleaner but you get two dryer duct cleaner people you fit and have stuff over your dryer duct because then it gets all up in here keeps the flapper open you look hot and cold air out of it so anyway your arms are clean you get those a lot of people are you know they're charging anywhere from 90 to 150 dollars clean ducts and it's pretty easy you just clean that off but it's pretty easy and I bought the kit I think it's thirty thirty thirty-five bucks at Lowe's then I bought the extensions because I was at the time of cleaning a dryer duct that run up through two stories and I think the extensions were eleven or twelve dollars but you could run an ad on Facebook or Craigslist $99 special something like that and probably do three or four of these maybe five a day and then but you do though something's got me there you do have to know a little bit about your dryer your transition ducts those things you don't need to clean those out because they're like 10 bucks get new ones charge the homeowner a little bit more for going getting one bringing one and stuff like that so anyway that's the first one dryer duct cleaning lawnmower services come summertime around here you see a lot of people in their 5/8 trailers where lawn mower sometimes riding mower to push mower a couple rakes we whacker we blower and there they make a nice killing during the summer also cleaning out flowerbeds weeding flowerbeds putting mulch back in stuff like that these people stay busy and they're bringing down some major major income done that so you know hey it doesn't take much get started the next thing is deck repair and I'm not talking about building decks painting them by the way few paint decks or somebody ask you paint decks don't just don't do yourself a favor and don't you don't paint decks I don't care what products I got out there that says oh you pay attention screen because sooner or later you're gonna write someone's deck out and you're going to be paying for it or they're gonna start bad-mouthing your business just do yourself a favor don't ever paint a deck but what I'm about is then take a lot of skill to take this board out the new board in do that on deck now you may have to stay in it this in need stains they don't want to stain it or they don't wanna pay me stain it they don't I don't think they want to pay nothing but you can remove these it's not rocket science put a new one down and charge them for it same way when the the railings something's damaged they need it fixed you take it off you know you advertise deck repair and maybe if you know somebody who builds decks then you could subcontract out any deck building or anything like that and make a little bit on that now when you do replace a new one on something's been stained recently you know last few years whatever if it's not faded out like this one then you're going to have to try to match staying and you you're not going to do it because you're gonna have weathered saying versus new saying and so you may have to stain the rest of the deck which is added money so it's it's their option just telling us not going to match because you got weathered staying versus new stain so anyway that's another service you can provide that does very well in the summer time window washing either mobile car detailing service or washing windows or home there again this is a service that some people that's all they do wash windows in a home and they don't charge five bucks apiece for them either some of them they do very well I will Detailers or washing the car windows pick up windows and stuff like that do a good job do you get a couple of those lined up a day you're doing pretty good so might we call around some people in your area and see what they charge but it pays the next service you need to think about is offering junk removal its huge business in this people don't want to handle their junk so they're willing to pay people like you and me to haul it off now don't think that you're gonna do I'll hold it up for twenty bucks you just killing yourself I got six and a half foot bed and I charge ninety dollars top my bed okay and I don't take construction to debris or anything like that just household stuff this trailer 16 foot it's been parked here but it's a $250 load right here people just they don't want to mess with the junk investors have rent houses you know renters move out leave credit all over the place they don't want to mess with it hey they just want it done cleaned up that's where you come in people let their stuff go they just you know the garages attic stuff oh just come and clean it out for estate sales stuff like that plus the thing is once you do that you get stuff you can resell a lot of times that's good they just they just want rent on it blows my mind people just want rid of it and it's good stuff they just don't want to mess with it no more that's where you come in you make money out so anyway think about it junk removal next service gutter cleaning leaf removal I added those together because a lot of times they do go together especially in the fall and I don't when I clean a gutter I'll use a scraper I don't use a power washer because it blows crap all over the place and don't tell me well I'll build it for 20 years I'll do a car wash I'll never blow stuff all the place yes you do I don't know how many people I see this where they don't and go drive by the house and the oh yeah you do but I touched dollar foot with a scraper one story only how do you not do two stories most your average homes around here is going to have 60 to 100 feet of gutter man you can usually do that under an hour I got scraper in a bucket leaf removal same thing in the fall after leaves start falling it's huge business people begging to looking for someone to come by and write their leaves or you know use a you got you know know somebody's got one of those pulled behind the leaf box man you can you can make some serious money in the fall but gutter cleaning gear round so anyway something for you to consider server sided there again there's people who only do this gutter cleaning leaf removal yard work stuff like that hanging pictures still blows my mind the number of calls I get for people who want me to come over and hang pictures and I charge my minimum service charge to do that and they will still have me come over and hang pictures usually they have more than one so and sometimes they're big ones and this is where you really gotta be careful if you go over and you're hanging a five thousand dollar picture and you falls and breaks into million pieces you don't have insurance it's who they're gonna be coming looking for you got any dreams cuz they gonna take those two so you really got to know what your hanging if you're just hanging the Walmart pictures or water Target or whatever your general good weather proofing a house whether they call it weather proofing this is checking the door seals room you know putting new door seals around the doors talking the windows talking any other penetrations they might have but one little dog Marco Tomlin so anyway that's huge spread cleanness in the fall and before it gets cold and in the spring before it gets hot people want to save money and that's why you you advertise it you save money now you know keep the cold air out keep the cool area in whatever depending on the season keep the water out don't let it come in and leak and destroy your windows and what walls and whatnot that's a big business if you market it right no people people need that let's see what else we got here on the list another monthly service you can offer is to go in and replace the heating and air filters you know central systems have filters and a lot of people either don't want to replace it or don't know how and and the other thing is the smoke alarms you go in and you can twice a year those batteries and every be replaced and so in the fall and spring and usually they say good at the time changes in them you know add a little monthly service for that you get 10 15 20 people a month that you're changing filters on and and getting some other losses you know minor stuff when those people need a bigger job done they're going to call you if your smoke alarms are 10 years old or older they need to be replaced they're obsolete don't care place you think they still working on doors already be replaced and so those people make no go down by the $5 many smoke detectors you don't charge them ten dollars and you know for you going getting them all that I see people on top are you you're marking stuff up that's gonna be another video that there I think I've got her I got it made I have but people just get it bent out of shape when you mark up stuff that's business hello anyway another one garage clean out an organization man all the time I see people Walter grunts I do a lot of it right now I did a little bit of building garage shelves and organization racks and stuff like that but there's people who just want their garage cleaned out and organized there again that's a service they don't want to do and when you can find a service that they don't want to do a lot of people don't want to do you've got your business model right there say it's almost on the same level not quite but close to the emergency services say their vegetable sprayer head comes off third kitchen sink and it's spraying water or over place they don't know where shut-off is but they're just calling somebody ain't come over and fixes can you fix this they want your word right now and they're willing to pay to get it done so it's another good service blind cleaning and installation I don't think your people all the time look nobody's gonna pay clean blinds what can you have to expand it you're thinking these people high-end homes the ten 12-foot ceilings windows bigger than your front door windows go away the ceiling the got all these blinds cleaning lady she ain't gonna touch it he ain't gonna getting on the ladder okay there again those are you're still the same good customers for winter cleaning as well clean lady can't go getting on a ladder clean those big old windows you know how to install blinds a lot of people just buy the blinds or have you buying and they want them stall but these people with a huge windows it get through their blinds dusty they just want somebody in come in and their blonde give me a price and go do it I don't want anything else to do with it they want to look up and see clean blind checkbook how much do you want to clean my blinds there again takes no skill do it right take a little time no skill furniture assembly man little Tolan swing set assembly and stuff like that will share the same place they can go back by those $200 sheet metal sheds and they want you to assemble it there's a lot of good money they're encouraged by the iron mostly never act always start by are never charged by the job because sooner or later something's gonna happen it's gonna get your dough swing sets I hate the damn thing in fact I won't hardly do them anymore unless I shoot a high price and they're gonna pay me but soon secular lot I'm now come with China instructions they were translated from Chinese and let me tell you there's a lot of words in our language there is no word for Chinese the same vice versa and so you're sitting there going on okay what do they mean here because that's not a real word I have no idea what the definition is so be aware of that but it is a good sideline just changing out doorknobs and locks there again brenards moving in investors have renters move out you got a big wide variety there of customer but a huge customer base there another thing is look into security for the doors and stuff as security longer screws in the strike place beefier strike plate there's a kid out there now it's about 80 bucks it has protectors on the doors on the hinges all this I can't think of the name right now but about 80 bucks okay if you charge the right price you can do several days a week and and they are moneymakers people especially more and more people are getting where they want security they're not sure how to do it they're willing to pay you to come out and enforce or reinforce their doors I had their security they want to feel safe that's one of those things basic necessity people are willing to pay for they want to feel safe in their homes

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Id: ec9jw1Q4oYs

Length: 19min 34sec (1174 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 15 2019