Entrepreneurs

The Outdoorsman said:

I just bought a RV for a good deal should make 3 grand off it after some improvements...

Need something more solid though. Im going to try making those plant hangers like RyantheRhino posted, keep em coming people!

Also I am starting a larger than normal garden this year and am going to practice making pasta sauces, salsa's and other canned goods so that I can one day sell them when I get good enough

None of these are solid business's but all are ideas and ways to make money and that's what I'm trying to do!

Thanks for all the good ideas you people are inspirational!

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tip for salsa.. you cant use just picked tomatoes and peppers. Boil the tomatoes for a short time and drop them in a bowl of ice water. this will make it very easy to skin the tomatoes. skin the tomatoes and add some chopped peppers. place both in a jar with a little bit of salt and let it sit in your refrigerator for a day or 2. after that you can use it to make salsa.. I dont know why but it wont taste right unless you do this.

Make whiskey an sell it. I know several people who live in the Everglades who make it all the time.

I have succesfully started another endeavor, my companys name is Griptape Bandaid. I started out selling these to people at the local skatepark and now im getting a few people online . Soon Ill post it for sale on ebay but for now an email w zipcode info and how many of what size you would like ,will allow me to give you a price on your order through USPS. I accept paypal only! Here is the link to the promo vid:youtube.com/watch?v=WKHqNbDFgvc

High end real estate developer. Mostly spec homes and small condo developments. A few long term buy & holds. A few rental properties. A few speculative farms. 2-3 projects going at all times. 95% in Central America (Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras). Got a house in Cuba we did and apartments in Manhattan and House in Sonoma,CA. All long term investments.

Also own a import business & shipping company in Costa Rica.

Started out on Wall Street and quit in 2005 to do this fulltime. Best move I ever made. 10 times the money and 1/10th the stress.

i have a few friends in c. america. one who's a reg in hundorus, one owns a ski mt/hotel in argentina, the list goes on. its sick down there, great skiing on the west coast. never thought of real estate as a business as cheap as everything is. I know a guy getting ready to buy a hotel/beach/mt/ water fall in hundorus right now, not for the business but because it is so god damn cheap.. lol

either way, good for ya. C. America is where i might end up when i'm done and retired

cerberus said:

i have a few friends in c. america. one who's a reg in hundorus, one owns a ski mt/hotel in argentina, the list goes on. its sick down there, great skiing on the west coast. never thought of real estate as a business as cheap as everything is. I know a guy getting ready to buy a hotel/beach/mt/ water fall in hundorus right now, not for the business but because it is so god damn cheap.. lol

either way, good for ya. C. America is where i might end up when i'm done and retired

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Cheap in general but where we are developing is very high end tourist and ex-pat areas. Prices are up there. $1,500,000 - $4,000,000 for a single family home. 3,000-4,500sq.ft. Million dollar condos and even $10-$60 million estates, farms, and master planned communities.

I own a small contracting bussiness with a few employees. Carpentry, roofs, floors, stairs. We build just about anything. Been doing this for over 20 years. Legit licenced and in the phone book. Lately I been buying properties to rehab and sell. I'm figuring that in 10 or 15 years I won't be able to work like this so I been thinking about rental property. I also manage 100 rental properties around here and I noticed how there seems to be a good profit in it when managed correctly.

Jack Harer said:

Uh, not true. Marijuana = Cannabis Sativa L. Hemp = Cannabis Satliva L. Both one and the same plant, grown for two different end results.


I can't believe that I haven't seen any others in Window Film. Tinting cars will earn you a living, but commercial and residential glass tinting is where its at. Improve energy efficiency of a home, reduce glare, and all but stop fading and sun damage. I also apply safety and security film to Government and commercial buildings for bomb blast mitigation. This same film I sell to residential customers as "Invisible Burglar Bars". It's a good business. Take home potential of 65K and up.

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Hey Jack,

whats the competition like for the filming and tenting in your area and how much did it cost to start? I really like the filming idea.

Edit: didnt realize how old this thread was lol

The start up costs are fairly minimal, $3000 will get you started in grand style. it's the ABILITY to do it well. It's a whole lot harder than it looks to get it applied clean and "factory" looking .Practice, pactice, practice!! Its a predominantly cash business, so if you have some extra cash that needs to be "legitimitized", it's a great thing.

I just started trying to make money selling cell phone lines through Solavei. It its pretty cool. $49 a month for unlimited talk, text, and data through T-Mobile's 4G cell towers. It really is great. A lot better service than Metro or Cricket and cheaper too. Solavei uses sim cards too so you can still use ATT or T-mobile cell phones and you can transfer you current number as well. Best of all, NO CONTRACT.

Get more info at solavei.com/activation

Sorry but yea thats what I started doing. Y'all should really check it out, we all need cell phones, right?

wow guys goo work

i sell treadmills.

How is the treadmill business these days?

Worked for myself a lot of my 20's.

Dismantled 100+ year old barns in eastern ohio and western PA, salvaging the wood to sell to rich people as wide plank flooring, hand hewn beams, etc. I started with $5k and my mom's neighbor gave me a big 3 story barn for free as long as I cleaned it all up once it was down. It was right on the road and there were a number of people setting barns on fire the prior year so the guy wanted to get rid of it.
From this (Im standing by the roof) To this: I rented that 53' semi on "uship.com" for $4300 to take it to the west coast, which was about $1500 cheaper than every company I called to get a quote from.

At another point I worked construction for a commercial general contractor here in Seattle. Long story short I rounded up all the mexicans from that company and started a drywall business. I negotiated jobs with a developer and the largest job we did was 7 townhouses and took 1450 sheets of 12' long drywall. It was too stressful though, developers aren't trustworthy. They'll string you out getting you to do a lot more than is in the contract, then not pay you. I finally got paid but it almost got real nasty. I was going to fall down the stairs or jump out the window if the guy didn't pay me.

I've been a landlord for a long time, bought some shitty shacks in OH and rent them on Section 8.

Now I'm back in school @28 doing computer programming, have been making video games for 2.5 years with Unity 3d and html5, but mostly unity 3d with C# making games for Android OS. I will switch to iOS when I get a mac and ipad (i have the $400 license for the engine to make ios games), but for now I just have android phone/tablet to test with. Most rewarding pursuit ever. Right now it's a hobby but someday I hope to make enough to live off and just do it full time.

tumorhead said:

Worked for myself a lot of my 20's.

Dismantled 100+ year old barns in eastern ohio and western PA, salvaging the wood to sell to rich people as wide plank flooring, hand hewn beams, etc. I started with $5k and my mom's neighbor gave me a big 3 story barn for free as long as I cleaned it all up once it was down. It was right on the road and there were a number of people setting barns on fire the prior year so the guy wanted to get rid of it.
From this (Im standing by the roof)View attachment 2384633 To this: View attachment 2384636 I rented that 53' semi on "uship.com" for $4300 to take it to the west coast, which was about $1500 cheaper than every company I called to get a quote from.

At another point I worked construction for a commercial general contractor here in Seattle. Long story short I rounded up all the mexicans from that company and started a drywall business. I negotiated jobs with a developer and the largest job we did was 7 townhouses and took 1450 sheets of 12' long drywall. It was too stressful though, developers aren't trustworthy. They'll string you out getting you to do a lot more than is in the contract, then not pay you. I finally got paid but it almost got real nasty. I was going to fall down the stairs or jump out the window if the guy didn't pay me.

I've been a landlord for a long time, bought some shitty shacks in OH and rent them on Section 8.

Now I'm back in school @28 doing computer programming, have been making video games for 2.5 years with Unity 3d and html5, but mostly unity 3d with C# making games for Android OS. I will switch to iOS when I get a mac and ipad (i have the $400 license for the engine to make ios games), but for now I just have android phone/tablet to test with. Most rewarding pursuit ever. Right now it's a hobby but someday I hope to make enough to live off and just do it full time.

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Which license cost $400 for the engine to make iOS games?

Kush2180 said:

Which license cost $400 for the engine to make iOS games?

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They have a weird structure where to have full featured "pro" version you have to buy the base engine for $1500, then you can buy various other licenses to port your code to other platforms, the basic android license is $400, the pro android is $1500, same for iOS, flash, then consoles cost a lot more if you can even get accepted as a developer by nintendo, sony, or xbox, and it costs a lot more for the game engine license to port to each of those.

But at the same time you can write your code in C#, and can port your game to a dozen platforms (if you have license to each) with a couple clicks, it outputs native apk files for android, native xcode for iOS, flash, xbox, ps3, windows8(coming soon), web browser, etc...

They give away a free version of the engine that outputs to PC, Mac, or web browser, you write the code once and can port it to whatever. The free version doesn't have a few things to entice you to buy the pro version, like dynamic shadows and post processing "polishing" effects, and removing/customizing the splash screen, but you can build a networked game with the free version and sell it commercially.

At the same time if you pay $4500 for the pro android, iOS, and base version, you can make however many games you want, where many of the others charge based on what you make. The most successful game I can think of made by 2 people with Unity is battleheart, omg pirates, and the other games made by a married couple making up the studio "mikamobile". I saw in an interview they've made 1.5 mil per year since 2009.

Edit:: If interested in the engine check out this free line of tutorials you can do with the free version of unity to make a standalone or web browser rpg game. Great for getting started and seeing the workflow for coding within the engine. http://www.burgzergarcade.com/hack-slash-rpg-unity3d-game-engine-tutorial

The other thing for resources is the wiki site has tons of free code, the Unity asset store is accessible only through the engine but has lots of free models/textures and ones for sale(by individuals, you or I can sell assets there and Unity keeps 20% commission but handles payments and downloads). The free ones are great placeholders. You can use either blender or 3ds max to create models and import them into the engine, throw a few scripts on them and code the interactions you want. They also have free example games you can hack up and use commercially, or just use to see how an entire game is put together.

Here are some of the games I've made for mobiles, android OS using my kindle fire to test on: View attachment 2389463