Steve Hunsaker | Home Service Accelerator

“Pressure washing is a great business” -People who aren’t in home services https://t.co/nZwXW1I1Le

@rampulla_andrew I will die on the hill that you would be successful in literally any home service trade with your skillset therefore you view residential PW as wonderful because you saw success at it 👀

@HammerTimeSales 🫡

@WillBrowne72043 Absolutely not! Look around you! Big businesses everywhere 😎

@fishniw Skill issue. You just needed Claude

If you own a residential pressure washing business right now you have two choices if you want to scale up: 1. Go heavy on commercial 2. Start doing window cleaning on service plans https://t.co/nZwXW1I1Le

@rathbunholdco Was hoping you’d comment lol

@Skillzie2 Start knocking!!!!

“All the people from tech layoffs are going to join home services/the trades” One thing everyone is missing: Starting a service business from scratch is absolute hell and the amount of 6 figure earners willing to eat shit for 6-18 months for 25% of their old salary is very low

@ToddLlewellyn I literally ate rat shit lifting a couch on a hoarder junk removal job once so this speaks to me

@jamesonhaslam Yes extremely

@terrence_ads Wut

@FrontierBDesign Maybe I was being generous 😂

@thedavescience Agreed

@JoshInEncinitas Hot yoga in a stranger’s attic 😂

@radagascar1 It took me 4-5 years to get back to my sales job take home salary but that was a skill issue on my end for sure lol

@haulamerican Same haha

It’s April so I’m here to remind you that auto detailing is the worst SMB you can start outside of trash can cleaning

@KenziesPoolBoy I love pools

@dylthorn 😂😂😂

@ecomkris Love it! 2 man crew?

@Vondersupporter I posted first 😂😂😂😂

@MrMrMisterL I am not 😂

Kitchen cabinet industry needs to be innovated somehow. There is ZERO reason these should cost what they do holllly shiiiiteeeee

@simplesamtx I got 4 quotes ranging between $8k for complete dog doodoo up to $60k for custom

@TomCrawfrd these cannot be painted lol

Home service businesses that absolutely crush as a solo op and suck balls at scale: 1. Any sort of custom remodeling (bathrooms, kitchens, etc) 2. Pressure washing 3. Landscape lighting 4. Painting 5. Handyman

@NickRunsAds I have seen owner ops PRINT money doing it. Very few massive guys.

@NickRunsAds Basically impossible to standardize processes when every job is so different. Has that been your experience too?

@ForkMeMaddie @NickRunsAds 😂😂😂

@irentdumpsters Please don’t

@markfzhuk You can dial in deez

@MaxKrakow_ I actually think it’s the exact opposite of what you described and I disagree completely. It’s 100% a fulfillment and quality control problem at scale, not a marketing/lead gen issue. But I’m more than happy to be wrong and I appreciate your opinion

@Alex_li Tell me more

@ghcDrew @MaxKrakow_ My experience via lots of remodeling contractors in HSA as well

@ztyler So that would be when it’s still easy and why it kills as an owner op biz in my opinion

@irentdumpsters 🤣🤣🤣

And you’re afraid to stop pressure washing garbage bins because you bought a $20,000 rig in 2021 and still haven’t turned a profit https://t.co/XlqMZRf3NM

@Dom__Schroeder That’s the way. Just don’t focus on bins lol. Also there’s some really smart guys in HSA that do it you might be able to get access to for free. Andy from Blue Cactus, @rathbunholdco , @mucoucah and lot more in HSA do exterior cleaning

And you’re afraid to stop pressure washing garbage bins because you bought a $20000 rig in 2021 and still haven’t turned a profit https://t.co/XlqMZRf3NM

@ToddLlewellyn I only know numbers based on how many water softener installations that equates to

probably because a car wash that sold for $300k wouldn’t profit enough in a year to pay off the loan in any scenario But everyone on this app with IQ’s above 70 thought this already The reason most people “aren’t doing this” is because this post is a complete fabrication😂 https://t.co/yiSUzCJXeq

@ikehobbs I like to think of it as an awareness campaign 😂

Absolutely absurd. Garage doors selling for a tech multiple lol Home services 📈📈📈 https://t.co/i3cxUNjvHX

@markfzhuk BULLISH ON INFO FOR EQUITY

The more I do this Christmas light business the quicker I realize it’s an amazing starter business but not such an amazing wealth building business

@jamesonhaslam Diversification Jameson, diversification. Down payment from lights Mortgage from info. The way the Lord intended

@23d_rock Yeah man it’s not that deep I just should rather have a business that makes money 12 months a year and not 2

Top home services I’d go into if I had to start from 0 today: 1. Electrical 2. HVAC 3. Plumbing 4. Roofing 5. Pool/pond construction 55. Pressure washing 199.🐶 poop scooping 1983. In-home urologist for seniors (pro bono) 1984. Auto detailing 1985. Remote cleaning

@carpenterRobOH Probably 11-20. Great business to become upper middle class, not a great business to become a millionaire

@dylthorn @carpenterRobOH Yeah it’ll put you in a home but not a supercar

@captainNOpantz I don’t want to touch poop

@NickRunsAds Maybe this is a bias but I know a lot of rich roofers 🤣

@realpaytonm Pest control high if you don’t need to pay yourself as an owner for the first couple years. Garage doors is a weird one for me I don’t know enough about it

@OhioRizzin I like businesses with some technical barrier to entry to keep the crackheads out

@justinsberman I know nothing about that trade unfortunately

@shawngorham Electrician to me seems like the absolute no brainer

@dylthorn Junk removal is so much higher on the list. Trash bin cleaning is terrible i will agree with that

@ToddLlewellyn I don’t like poop

@KenziesPoolBoy That’s actually my point. I like trades with a learning curve. Less crackheads

@jerryd1236 Because of the poop aspect

@Jeffinsac Why I like them

@KenziesPoolBoy There’s individual crackhead stories with airline pilots and Wall Street guys too. Point being: A crackhead is going to have a much easier time trying to do junk removal/pressure washing than landing a pool building contract

@KenziesPoolBoy This is true Mr pool boy

@captainNOpantz High labor low avg ticket and margins

@MrTriggerDon Residential cleaning even with a local team (not remote cleaning) is low due to just how little the average tickets are relative to CAC. Also customer churn rate makes the enterprise value of the recurring aspect of the business get less appealing too

@sternburger_ You inspired me

@mark_hindley It being the most difficult is why I want to be in it.

@shainadenny Oh no I love the MRR I just don’t personally want to touch 💩. I touched enough nasty stuff in junk removal for 3 years

@Unholyjobs Absolutely not

@LoughlinCody 🤣🤣🤣

It’s been a while since I’ve reminded you all that 99% of auto detailers take home less than Taco Bell cashiers

@dylthorn Never met a poor electrician who does his own thing. Dude one of the biggest businesses in HSA is a water softener installation company. Doing 8 figs a year in multiple markets majority coming from meta ads. Doesn’t want to be a testimonial

@ToddLlewellyn One would have to assume the Taco Bell employee would consume tacos at a substantially higher rate

@ToddLlewellyn @dylthorn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jamesonhaslam Same math but the remote cleaning business guys post Rolexes

@pathofpro I hate your AI replies but I don’t block you because I enjoy making fun of you for it

@PaceJordanMorby Yep. The average ticket size compared to labor costs just never makes sense. Even the guys doing all the supercars in PV aren’t printing. Also I was at your office on Friday for @fishniw mastermind. Pretty wild operation you guys have there with the in-person stuff

Until I had Home Service Accelerator I was blissfully unaware of how many home service businesses basically shut down during winter months. Unless they’re in sunbelt states a huge chunk of people just stop working or their business cuts down by more than 50%.

I’m from Arizona it was never even a thought that cleaning windows or building pools would be substantially difficult in below freezing temps

@jamesonhaslam Hard to pressure wash in North Dakota right now. Very difficult to incentivize someone to clean exterior windows and gutters in Chicago right now. I imagine decks in Wisconsin get built less in January than they do in May

If I had to start over at 24 years old: electrician or plumber. That’s the only answer.

@mucoucah Yup. Anything with decent barrier to entry

@rampulla_andrew Absolutely not. While you and I compete with every tom, dick, and Harry on Christmas light jobs an electrician with a 20 review GMB’s phone rings all day

@rampulla_andrew Bof

@JosefZhovtis In AZ I’d go electrician for sure lol

@jamesonhaslam Start over at 24? I’d just buy bitcoin and build decks for fun

@owoldestiny Ai slop

@1_badkarma If only Iived in a hot state so I could relate…

@PeterPetrovic Yeah that’s why I said “if I”

@LeggetScranton @ToddLlewellyn is a great guy.

@GoughnourDavid I genuinely think 4 years of junk removal did more damage to my body than being an electrician would

@natedell99 Are you okay dude

@Jaredkotter Because that’s much more work than tweeting about it

@BeyondFakeNewz No but RIP Matthew P

@dylthorn I’d say about 10-15 if I had to guess

@dylthorn It’s so owner dependent it’s insane. See window guys doing $40-$50k a month at incredible margins and people hate that trade. See HVAC guys who have been in business for 30 years and still don’t have an active GMB. At the end of the day, it’s founders. Except auto detailers

My guess is that we’ve got 1-2 years left of home services being the “hot thing”. Take it from a seasonal business: new guys got rinsed this year. And early guys who tried to aggressively scale got smacked in the face. Paid marketing in home services ain’t what it used to be,

@SMB_path 100% Cream rising to the top with the skill gap for sure

@travisyoder1981 Brother. I built my entire junk removal business off of Google PPC in 2021. We used to get have days where we’d get in the truck with 1 job on the board and consistently end the days with 4 or 5 jobs completed. Cost per acquisition tripled by my last year doing it.

@thedogfather I might be slow but I don’t get it. What does that mean

@clay_popham Agreed

@GetMyJunkVa @travisyoder1981 Dude Jack (my old operator) and I talk about this a lot. If we had to go back we’d do exactly that

@willyzimmm @GetMyJunkVa @travisyoder1981 We had a junk removal business for 3.5 years before going all in on lights and Home service accelerator

@nick10bk @clay_popham Junk removal and pressure washing 2020-2022 just went through this 🤣

@goodlordgeorge What does that even mean

@sensarpensar The attention and gold rush energy they have will go away. They’re a social media darling right now

@TomMarren4 Anecdotal, but I’m in AZ and we saw market change in line with what guys in other markets are saying. And we don’t have any weather issues

@realAAAbbott Yes

I can tell you with confidence auto detailers are by a large margin the most broke of all SMB’s. I’d rather open a restaurant than be an auto detailer

@justbetterlux 1. Auto detailers 2. Mobile auto detailers 3. Brick and mortar shop auto detailers 4. Luxury auto detailers 5. Remote cleaning

@theJeremySchmit It’s an age old battle between charging what you need to and perceived value of the service to the customer

@rshorter1 Revenue.

If people understood how hard it is to start a home service business and get to $200,000 of take home income as an owner we would not have this many people getting into the space Seriously, the IRS says that even achieving $200k net profit is less than 8% of SMBs in the trades

@mucoucah I’m still waiting for the passive part

@jamesonhaslam Per usual… I could be spreading misinformation