Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

🎬 From TikTok to $1M Business Owner (at age 19!) 💰

22 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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This YouTube interview features Mike Andes speaking with a young window-cleaning business owner. The guest says he got into window cleaning after seeing others on social media and initially ran door-to-door sales to fill schedules. He recruited friends to build a team; his five-year plan is to grow the business to roughly $1–2M in revenue and then sell it. Operational details discussed include equipment-security concerns leading to storing gear at a church they clean quarterly rather than leaving it in the van, and currently operating with one truck and multiple workers.

Questions this video answers

1 to 2 million (in ~five years).

Parked at a church that they clean quarterly.

So what got you into window cleaning?
Social media. I saw it on social media. Some guy just kind of posting his numbers. Hired a guy off. Indeed. And in the beginning, it was like my job was to knock doors and fill his schedule. Went pretty well. Some of my buddies wanted to come and work for me, and so we just kind of grew our door to door team. My goal is in five years to sell it. We'll build it up to, like, 1 to 2 million.
I assume that most of your equipment you can keep in the van.
We try not to, just because at the spot we park, like, we've gotten gas, like, taken and stuff. So we don't want the van to get broken into.
So you keep the van separate then?
Yes. Yeah. It's parked at a church that we clean quarterly.
Right now it's just the one truck. So if you have like two jobs, is all three of you going in one truck, or how's that working?
Yeah, so I'm actually not on the job sites anymore. It's just these guys, and we've got one van. I'm starting to realize that it's probably gonna be more efficient if they start working solo. We're wasting a lot of time with drive time.