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At the very bottom of the list is the URL for the first thread I posted. Somewhere in it is a discussion I have about starting a home cleaning business with possible expansions to that idea.

Feel free to add your own small business opps/low investment ideas to this thread.

OK, here it is. Low cost. Good money. But you gotta have some hustle and some grit and some initiative. If you want to drag your ass into work at 9:00 every morning and sip coffee with your mouth open for an hour, forget it.

Stand on any street corner in the country and look around. What do you see? Windows. Dirty windows.

Go down to the thrift store and get some white shirts and white pants. Cheap and disposable. A buck or two. Get a bucket and a couple of squeegees and hit the street. Build your capabilities from there.

I owned two convenience stores twenty years ago and it was a hundred bucks per store every month then. The guy spent two hours per store max.

Go cut-throat on price. Get your foot in the door. You will be turned down a hundred times for every account that you do get but you don't need too many to have a solid foundation. Hit the better neighborhoods, get some residential accounts. Get some commercial accounts. Ask for references. Build. Build. Build.

You will spend a lot more time selling than cleaning windows at first but when that equation shifts, you will have a business. Do a good job and keep after it. No excuses, git 'er done. Do what others won't. It works in a city or it works in a small town.

What can you make? A couple hundred to a couple thousand a month as part time, early mornings, nights and weekends. It depends on your aggressiveness in selling. When you are solid enough to go full time it's somewhat self limiting but I have seen some guys making in the $60,000 range for doing something no one else wants to do.