Slope mowing with a specialized remote-controlled machine
Buy the one expensive machine nobody in your region owns — a remote-controlled mower built for steep slopes — and sell hillside clearing to realtors and civil engineering firms, validating with a website before buying the machine.
physical BOTH Service / Consulting / Agency
From Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast — 11 Proven Businesses My Viewers Started + How to Copy Them at 20:30
Problem: Steep slopes can't be mowed with a skid steer without lethal risk, and nobody locally owns a purpose-built slope machine.
For: Land realtors with unsellable overgrown listings, civil engineering firms needing right-of-way cleared, and hill-country property owners.
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Examples
- Tim in western North Carolina: $21,000 on his first job (9 days), two more quotes moving forward worth about $8,000, all as a side gig next to a remote full-time job.
Other takes on Local service businesses
- Parking-lot and driveway maintenance business offering line striping, seal coating, and crack filling
- Premium concrete coating business focused on garage floors
- Seasonal porch-pumpkin decorating and delivery service
- Local junk removal and hauling business with resale and scrap revenue streams
- Residential forestry mulching and land clearing service
- Local estate sale company that liquidates household contents for clients