Codie Sanchez picks home services like window cleaning and roofing, plus laundromats and car washes in rural areas. Look for old businesses where the owner wants to retire, buy with a 3-5 year plan, run it yourself first, then add modern tech to scale.
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There's three businesses I would buy right now. I'd buy home services. Number one, the reason is window cleaning, roofing, landscaping, painting. They're all ready to be disrupted and they don't require a lot of money upfront or a ton of expensive trade labor that's really specialized. Then number two, I'd keep buying laundromats and car washes but in rural areas they aren't going away. AI isn't replacing them, but they're expensive in the cities. Here's the formula. Old business, three to five years, owner ready retire. Not a lot of marketing you want to try getting your hands dirty to start and then scale it up with 21st century technology. Those are the businesses that I would buy today that everybody thinks are lame. The Internet thinks are not cool, but we actually cash flow on them. My favorite CEO, he used to say, well, everybody makes fun of dry cleaning. We make millions.