Duct Cleaning Service business. Business Overview Cleaning furnace and air-conditioning ducts has become a routine home maintenance practice for many homeowners. Duct cleaning is relatively inexpensive, and the health benefits are numerous, as anyone suffering from allergies or other breathing-related health problems will tell you. Perhaps these facts are what makes starting a duct cleaning service such a good choice for a new business venture. A duct cleaning service can be...

Home Inspection Service business. Business Overview Providing you have construction experience, and you are also prepared to invest some money and time into an instruction course that will enable you to become a certified home inspector, then you can earn a very good living from owning and operating your own home inspection business. Millions of homes are bought and sold each year in North America. As a condition of sale or subject to sale, most of these homes have to be...

Mobile Dog Wash Service business. Business Overview The purchase of a secondhand van or enclosed trailer is the first step toward starting a mobile dog wash service. You will have to outfit the truck or trailer with a water tank and some other basic equipment such as a hose and brushes. You can market a mobile dog wash service by creating promotional fliers and placing the fliers on display at pet retailers, vets, and the local SPCA. This type of unique service should be...

Storm Window Installations business. Business Overview Anyone seeking a part-time low-investment and easy business start-up may find this opportunity to be of particular interest. Starting a business that provides residential homeowners with a service of installing storm windows in the fall and removing the storm windows in the spring is a very straightforward business to initiate. While this business will not make you rich, it can provide a great seasonal income of $15 to $25...

Window Washing Service business. Business Overview Window washing is the granddaddy of all home service businesses to start. Some of the reasons why are as follows: *. Proven consumer demand with millions of potential repeat clients. *. Low start-up investment and low fixed operating overheads. *. No special skills or business experience required, and the business can be managed from a homebased office with or without staff. *. Flexible full- or part-time hours,...

Blind Cleaning Service business. Business Overview More and more residential and commercial property owners are now using window blinds as opposed to window curtains, and this fact creates a fantastic opportunity for the enterprising entrepreneur to capitalize on by starting a blind cleaning service. There are a couple of different approaches that can be taken for starting a blind cleaning business. The first is to remove and label customers' blinds and take them to a central...

Garden Tilling Service business. Business Overview During the off season when you're not installing Christmas lights or removing snow from roofs, why not start and operate a garden tilling service, as this service is in demand and the business is very inexpensive to get rolling. The terrific thing about many small seasonal business start-ups is the fact that they do not require a great deal of investment or practical business expertise. And a garden tilling service falls into...

Moving Service business. Business Overview The investment needed to start a moving or a moving and storage business can be very large and will vary depending on the size and operating format of the business venture. However, a small moving service that specializes in short-distance residential moving can be launched for less than $10,000 and has the potential to generate an income of $25 to $35 per hour for the owner/operator of the business. Once you have established that...

Maid Service business. Business Overview A good-old traditional residential maid service is still a very good business enterprise to set in motion, as there will always be a demand for house cleaning services. Best of all, a maid service can be started for peanuts and requires no special business skills or experience. The equipment needed to operate a maid service is not costly and can be purchased in any local community hardware store. Currently, house cleaning rates are in...

Christmas Lights Installations business. Business Overview A roof snow removal service was featured earlier in this chapter, and a good fit with that business is to also provide clients with a service that installs Christmas lights, as well as taking the lights down after Christmas. Even though millions of people decorate their houses each year with Christmas lights, there would probably be millions more, if it was not for the fact that a lot of people simply do not have the...