Small business

[Anonymous No.15023701]

Just made 2200$ on copper ama

>I run a cleanup/demo company

[Anonymous No.15023714]

>>15023701
What made you think making this thread was a good idea?

[Anonymous No.15023721]

>>15023714
I’m bored watching teenagers load my truck, plus, no one on here ever actually talks about business. Just gambling. I run a fucking business and figured y’all might be interested.

[Anonymous No.15023731]

>>15023714
Figured folks might be interested in starting a business themselves and would like advice. I’m 23 and cleared 120k last year telling 18 year olds what to do and driving a deuce and a half 3 hours a day.

[Anonymous No.15023744]

>>15023701
Pretty cool man. What did it take to start an operation like that?

[Anonymous No.15023756]

>>15023744
That’s a big question. Mostly desperation. I was that teenager I tell to load my truck like 2 years ago. I got fed up and started looking for funding. It was about 13k to start up.

[Anonymous No.15023760]

>>15023721
Ive made 75k over 2 months from shitcoins, good luck "working hard" and getting lung cancer

[Anonymous No.15023779]

>>15023760
Again m8, I sit on my ass. Most of the day. I worked like a Mexican for 2 months.

[Anonymous No.15023833]

>>15023760
I tell everyone, I don’t work hard. I just own the deed to a money farm. People pay me a few grand. I move a little of that money around and bring a truck to the dumb/scrapyard and I pocket the difference. Last month my paypal hit 10k literally just from selling other people’s furniture on eBay.

[Anonymous No.15024070]

I don’t get it. What exactly are you doing? Just going to scrap yards and picking up shit?

[Anonymous No.15024083]

i dont understand how people have the confidence to think theyre worth anything

how do you do that?

[Anonymous No.15024107]

>>15023701
so how did you start? tell us about you biz anon

[Anonymous No.15024144]

>>15023833
>10k literally just from selling other people’s furniture on eBay.
Yea right, who the fuck buys furniture on eBay?

[Anonymous No.15024314]

>>15023721
>I run a fucking business and figured y’all might be interested.
I am interested. But I'm too creatively bankrupt to come up with an idea to make money. How'd you get started?

[Anonymous No.15024528]

>>15024314
>>15024107
>>15024083
>>15024070
So, the idea of the business is pretty simple. I charge folks for cleanup and demolition. So whenever the housing inspector or insurance folks have a fire or hoarder, they call me. I negotiate with the owner and hit a price that covers all my costs and employees and a little extra then I do the job. Most hoarders or fires leave everything behind. So I have connections in shit like jewelry, electronics, scrap metal (from the pipes and wires mostly) and “reclaimed lumber” so I make a bunch of my profits off that kind of stuff. But the jobs themselves I always aim to profit atleast a thousand dollars. Typically that’s about 3 grand per job and a job normally takes between 3 days and 2 weeks.
As far as start up goes. Honestly I put together a business plan and I spent months seeking investors. Struck a pretty good deal for a 13k loan and I bought a truck and some tools and did it myself for 2 months. Then I had enough saved capital to hire someone. I put them to work and saved enough for another employee. After that I started growing until I hit 2 trucks and 3 jobs at a time.
Now I mostly just drive a truck around. Store the stuff I make money on and take the rest to the dump/scrapyard.

[Anonymous No.15024585]

>>15024528
Sounds very nice anon, glad you’re making it, I hope to be like you one day

[Anonymous No.15024607]

>>15024314
As far as creatively goes. I kinda neglected that. I was working for a contractor who complained like a motherfucker about demo so I saw a niche and I jumped. For the first couple jobs I just did his demo and clean up work and then eventually I started calling appartment complexes and (((underselling))) their own maintenance guys and following fire trucks. My advice on creativity is look for shit no one is doing and try to figure out a way to make money on that. No one wants to shovel through ash and mildewy clothes for copper. But copper sells for 2 bucks and pound and the average single family home has hundreds of pounds of it.

[Anonymous No.15024630]

>>15024585
Don’t go to (((banks))) especially if you have shitty credit and debt like I did. Try to find some sucker in a suit and convince him you can pay him back.

[Anonymous No.15024661]

Basically you're in restoration? I do flood sales storm chasing. Adding copper scrap would be a good idea.

[Anonymous No.15024680]

I’ll end my rant here. If you can lift 50 pounds and can pay a teenager 15 bucks an hour, buy a truck. You can start a fucking empire around literally just owning a truck. The government sells off deuce and a half’s for 5-8 grand a piece. You can do residential moving, scrap removal, landscaping (buy a zero turn lawnmower too) car towing, snow removal, literally endless avenues you can take if you literally just own a truck. Almost all of those can be done with this little guy too; and it only cost 3k imported from Japan and you already have a shtick with it. You can be fuckn “Tiny Truck Movers!” Or some shit

[Anonymous No.15024764]

>>15024661
Now, do you guys do instillation? And are you mulitstate? I’m looking to expand but i dunno how expensive it’d be to get permits and licenses.

[Anonymous No.15024803]

>>15023721
Based actual entrepreneur
How large is your penis? Describe it

[Anonymous No.15024832]

>>15024144
Lmao, this.

[Anonymous No.15024874]

>>15024803
>>15024832
4 inches wide and veiny.
I assume college kids. I sell 10 dollar dressers+shipping.

[Anonymous No.15024884]

>>15024528
Any permits or licenses required where you are? You a burger? If so, which state, if you dont mind me asking

[Anonymous No.15024896]

>>15024884
New York. I get away without contracting licenses because I only “lower” the value of places but general business stuff is a drag.

[Anonymous No.15024929]

>>15024528
i congratulate you
but at the end of the day, i have no self worth and i hate myself
but u wish you all best man

[Anonymous No.15025004]

>>15024896
Gotcha. I'm down here in dirty Jersey and the "home improvement license" requirements actually aren't terrible, I'm assuming that's what a biz like this would require here. Just need to be bonded for a $mill I think, dont believe it's crazy expensive to get that coverage. I guess in your case why the fuck would you need to carry crazy insurance since you're walking into shitshows regardless.

[Anonymous No.15025042]

let me see you keep doing it. I'll tell you if you "run a business" or not.

[Anonymous No.15025290]

>>15025004
Right so that’s what I’m saying. In ny we have the same license. But this doesn’t require that or bonding because legally, I’m not improving anything, I’m making it worse. Made it far easier to start out.

[Anonymous No.15025315]

>>15025042
I have no idea what this means. But I’ve been doing it for 2 years now.

[Anonymous No.15025350]

>>15024680
13k startup costs? mind breaking that down a bit?
>Office supplies
>Marketing
>Actual truck cost
etc
Also who and what are you searching for on google who could need this? Junk haulers? I'm assuming theirs others in the area how are you competing with them?

[Anonymous No.15025383]

asbestos health and safety inspector here
exif data has been sent to state authority

enjoy prison

[Anonymous No.15025763]

>>15025383
So are you actually in asbestos? I’m trying to figure out my way in removal, I found all the legal shit I need but I can’t find the equipment I need.
>>15025350
So
>5 grand for the truck (plus another thousand for the taxes and insurance and stuff)
>marketing is interpersonal and phone calls
>office supplies were about 2 grand for a computer, software and iPhone
>the rest was mostly operational costs
Bags, dump runs, tools(shovels and cans and respirators and stuff) gas was a bit.
Starting out I followed firetrucks then the next day called the owner, I called apartments and contractors. Talked to inspectors, insurance guys, got in contact with frats at the end of the year. Shit like that, now if you mean how you’d find me? It’s a little tricky. You almost have to google me by name. I think I pop up if you look for fire cleanup or hoarding clean up, shit like that. I also have adds out for scrap metal removal.

[Anonymous No.15025817]

>>15024607
Isn’t it illegal to strip copper ?

[Anonymous No.15026143]

>>15025817
I mean. If your breaking into people’s houses for sure. But I sign a contract that says any assets inside the house become mine. On the same note. I become responsible for removing all the materials. Even if they are hazardous.

[Anonymous No.15026593]

Also. If your a creep, this is the job for you.

[Anonymous No.15027400]

>>15026143
>I found all the legal shit I need
>I become responsible for removing all the materials. Even if they are hazardous.
>watching teenagers load my truck

no seriously fuck you, you are actually giving 18 year olds cancer down the line

do you get a hazmat survey completed 10 working days on every material in the building before sending these kids in? these are EPA regs you fuckwit

this work costs actual companies $30k+no wonder insurance companies will gladly work for 4chan retard and his lung cancer crew

[Anonymous No.15027539]

>>15027400
It's a doggy-dog world anon...

[Anonymous No.15027618]

>>15027539

[Anonymous No.15027894]

>>15027400
When abestos or lead is present (after my engineer has been through and shows me the floors and Ceilings are safe) I turn down the job and recommend they find someone else.

[Anonymous No.15027920]

>>15027400
>>15027894
And furthermore. I have respirators and suits for the dust and ash. I supply gloves and glasses. I follow any and all applicable OSHA requirements. In this business you have to follow the rules because it’s only a matter of time before Uncle Sam comes to check out a jobsite.

[Anonymous No.15028022]

>>15023701
Now THIS is fudracing

[Anonymous No.15028061]

>>15023701
thats literally 1000 lbs of copper.
not possible

[Anonymous No.15028086]

>>15023731
Dafuq is your business?

[Anonymous No.15028103]

>>15023731
Upps, you are OP, ignore the previous post

[Anonymous No.15028185]

>>15024528

Thats a very good and sound plan honestly. I'm very impressed with what you've done.

[Anonymous No.15028329]

Do you invest your leftover money in shitcoins or in stocks?

[Anonymous No.15028438]

>>15023701
How can I make money out of trash?