[BlackNight]

Originally Posted by Easy7

I like the idea of farming. Tobacco is still a good cash crop. Ginseng farming can raise some dough, over many many years. There are virtually countless medicinal plants. Tinctures sell for a high dollar. Mushroom farming is becoming popular as well. Sadly, it takes money to earn money. There are also some unregulated plant derivitives, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a key!

Easy7 is spot on. Aside from niche markets you could have regular harvests of plants like salad greens(hundreds of varieties), tomatoes, herbs and the like. Many restaurants are interested in "Farm-To-Table" deals with farmers (because it appeals to the growing scene of consumers looking for organic/local). Simple as: (1)after your first harvest, approach restaurants to show your product, (2)once you find a buyer: work out what species are agreeable for your land and also for the restaurant, (4)sow accordingly to yield requested poundage, (5) deliver the produce upon harvest, (6) get paid.

Now whatever you harvest is all that you can sell: this is understood by the restaurant. The quotas are not specific, but general.. because you could not accurately predict the poundage of produce when you sow the seed, the farmer would simply sell whatever was produced.

I have researched this idea, but not to the degree where I would say I am 100% confident conveying the idea in its entirety without any kinks, so ask if anything is unclear and I will do my best to clarify.

[Terroir]

Nice thread

What say you guys re music lessons, private tutoring for physics/ statistics.

Just saying caus i ran in to my old guitar teacher hes charging like 80 an hour now. $40 for half an hour. A friend of mine has also started doing night tutoring . Hes like close to $200 an hour cash.

Some that i have come up with are hypnotherapist for quitting smoking. Pros its a loosely organized field of folks who can, and folks who con. The local quit smoking dude to me is $500 an hour for a guaranteed for life quit tobacco treatment. He is quite busy, young and has a nice house. Who qualifies him, tests him etc i dont know, however it seems the system is rife for abuse. Sure a shit load of folks may pay on credit but there is ways around this that make your business better.

However good espresso bars make major cash. the local cafe by me us just lost me and my girl as loyal customers. For purely economic reasons we cannot keep paying almost $10 every morning for 2 large cups of coffee. The cafe owner is loosing 3500 per year in revenue by just loosing us. He has hundreds of customers. Loosing us will hurt the bottom line if he cant replace us. His shop is full from 6 am to 3.30 pm coffee to go $4.50. He would easily bank 10-20k per week cash. Sure he has cup purchases and coffee and milk plus rent etc but if you were just slipping some in it wouldn't be noticed unless you were real dumb. When a place has the hum it makes money, looks like it makes money and actually makes money all in one.

[FlowerFarmer]

Art!

Preferably scrap/recycled art. No real inventory per se except for stuff you collect from the local junk yards or trash curbs.

Can sell for several dollars, or thousands depending on the piece.
No real telling what you've got into it and what somebody is willing to pay for it.


Make a website, but also attend local craft shows, home shows. Can be sold privately, garage sales, craigslist, the local fair.

I'm particularly interested in metal art, but the sky is the limit.


Stuff like this. Small pieces like this might bring in $10 - $100 depending on the area and person wanting such a unique piece. Larger pieces can easily be sold for thousands and I imagine many art acquirers are cash buyers.



Pretty sure with a creative mind and a few select tools anyone can do something like the above.
Write off a few expenses such as a small welder, torch, etc and get to making some cool shit.... everything else is of re-used materials. Build up a "gallery" of inventory.

I visited a Home & Garden expo once and there was a guy there selling this "garden art". Pretty sure these metal flowers made out of spoon ends were selling like hot cakes ~$ 40-50!!!

[chuewy]

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[FreedomFightr]

The perfect business is some kind of service that will make people more lazy. Currently I'm running a side business called Moe's (Mobile Oil Exchange). Basically a mobile lube tech. So far I have about 20 customers with the potential to go huge.

Another fail safe business is a cigarette/cigar store. These places make good money. Think about it how many of these shops have u ever seen go out of business? None!

The easiest of all time a Lawn Care Service Company.

And if you have a lot of money to start up, open up a wrecking yard. These places are gold mines. You would be surprised how much money a wrecking yard/junk yard/specialty recycle automobile yard generates.

[festerous]

Be a pimp and start a legit escort business.

[Terroir]

Originally Posted by festerous

Be a pimp and start a legit escort business.

dinner and dates $1500 per evening with additional if sleep over. my bro was recruited. one operator in town, fully gangster crap. cannabis's much safer.

[Can420]

Coin op vending machine, toys pop and what ever else. You just have to find a spot to put it and then keep it stocked up.

A friend of mine has tow or three pop machines. He buys pop when its on sell where ever and loads up the machines. He makes a fairly good profit from what ive bin told. You can write of gas and some other car/truck expenses as well.

Ive bin thinking a small car wash would be the best. Two to four stalls and have a bit higher end soaps and waxes for the richer crowds, if that is possible.

[norcal_sourD]

However good espresso bars make major cash.

As a former owner of one such said venture, gotta disagree strongly..The IRS, State BoEqualization, sales tax, EMPLOYEE COSTS ie workers comp, insurance, etc combined with rising, unpredictable costs make this idea a NO GO in the great state o California! And, we formed an llc which we're STILL dealing with the financial fallout from, not to mention that YEARS after closing the doors, the state, Feds, and local B of Equalization are STILL calling!! Fuck red tape, f bureaucracy, and f Jerry B! {Rant off} Love the handyman, service professional ideas. Have done that for years. Can only do jobs under 500$ with labor AND materials tho...w/o contractor's lic tho. There is no Handyman lic.(at least in Cali..)Tree jobs can pay well too. Tough work tho. But whatever you do....DON't open a coffeshop buddy! Unless you wanna buy some used equip from me of course hahaha!! Still got the ice maker machine, espresso machine and a shit ton of asst grinders, espresso grinders, etc etc cluttering up the place.

[hotrodlincoln]

Buy and sell car parts. Pick a market and stick to it, for the most part anyway. There's a lot of money to be made dealing in JDM parts, Porsche engines, air cooled VWs, BMW computers, American V8's and speed parts.

Learn a toy market, whether it's Hot Wheels, Barbie, pokemon/magic cards, video games, GI Joe, or old tin toys.

You can buy at antique stores or on CL with cash and sell on eBay, then have the money deposited into your bank from paypal for all of those items. It also wouldn't hurt to buy on eBay occasionally.

Collect and sell limited release beers. Some people pay ridiculous amounts of money for limited release beers, think End of History, although you'd better actually own that one since the history of every bottle is easy to verify. better options would be a case of Samichlaus, Guinness 250th or cases of last years Sam Adam's special.

Game console mods, (you want led underflow on your PS3?) and releases. (Oh yeah, I bought an XBox 720 andsold it for 5x retail.) There's a lot of money (or more importantly, the illusion of a lot Of money) in that market :-p