Chris KoernerSerial Entrepreneur and Content Creator

I felt dumb when I first heard about this

18 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video by Chris Koerner describing a simple, profitable side business: buying municipal permit data via subscription software and selling construction-related leads to contractors. The narrator reports his friend makes about $250,000/year, pays $150/month for the permit software, and resells leads for $50–$200 each, sometimes selling the same lead to multiple companies.

Questions this video answers

About $250,000 a year.

$150 per month.

$50 to $200 per lead.

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Hot take. The best business ideas sound embarrassingly stupid and simple on the surface. So get this. My friend has a business that makes him about 250 grand a year, and all he does is pay 150 bucks a month for software that tells him all of the permits that were pulled in any given city for construction projects. If you need a pool, you need a fence permit, if you need a new house, you need a sprinkler permit. And he gets all the leads he wants. And then he calls up foundation repair companies, roofing companies, deck building companies, and sells these leads for 50 to $200 a piece. And he can sell the same lead to multiple companies at the same time, all a flat monthly fee from a website that most people have never even heard of. Yes, sometimes it is that simple.