so an auto repair shop?
Haha no... like flipping houses.
As a hobby I would hit the salvage yards, or street corners, looking for cheap (yet easy to fix and popular cars) and buy them for pennies on the dollar. Throw some money into them and fix them up myself, and flip it. Depending on what shape it was in before I bought it, It could take a week or quite a bit more to get it into top $$$ shape.
About the only thing I cant do myself is huge body work (I can do small dents and dings, scratches etc...) that's where I would have to go for outside labor.
I learned to stay away from Mercedes during this lol.. bout two, and between the costs of fixing them up, I ended up losing money both times.
Toyotas, Hondas, and American sportscars are where you can flip them easily for some decent $$$
if you have money to invest in a business, say 300k-500k. go buy a few or several 100k houses. theyre paid for and people are always looking for 3 bed 2 bath houses to live in. rent them for 1k/month and be done with it. i own two different types of businesses currently (a boat/rv storage and a gym/fitness center). neither are money makers like the real estate investment. esp if your properties are paid for! and keep in mind that when all is said and done, you still own the houses! sell them in ten yrs and move to hawaii.
Buying a home for $100k (either via cash or via financing) and renting it out for $1,000 a month is a really thin margin. I don't think you could justify it. After insuring it, paying property taxes, repairs, some vacancies/evictions, etc..., you're gonna be lucky to make any real money on that. The return is too small and the spread too thin.
Yeah LV is one of those places it is hard to get a gauge on the area by looking just at listings, have to do a little more research. With construction being new, even the bad areas look pretty nice in photos/listings.
Another problem is a lot of them are in masterplanned communities so you get killed on HOA fees. Like you said though, people always gonna need a place to live...just my 2 cents
If I were you and where you are I think I actually would start a tout service. Zero over head. Do it on the square though.
I am so against being a tout. All those guys are lying scum and do nothing but rip people off. I do not, in any way, shape or form, want to be associated with any of that.
Take the VI scammers over there. They are all supposed to be "professionals" and such. Yet this year AND last year, I blew their records out of the water... yet they continue to spout and advertise how they are the best and greatest in all of sports handicapping. And that's just 1 site for example... we could talk about Langs, Budin, etc, as well.