EMERGENCY MONEY DISCUSSION:

Umm, hard pass.

Them vans sure look nice and new, but I don't want to be paying for one

 

What I think maybe the case is an entrepreneur guy or gal will buy 3-4 routes from Amazon and then hire drivers to work the routes. Amazon seems to follow the old RPS business model of doing things. I know they look like they are employees, but I'm not totally sure that's the 100% case.

 

A bunch of new ones popped up in our yard at my work they appeared overnight must be 70 of them. All brand new. There system I think is a lot like FedEx ground.

 

Not sure what you're doing with all those leaves, but, if you shred 'em up good, pile them and let them breakdown for a year or so, you'll have some real good soil additive to bag and sell to the backyard gardeners that you're picking them up from.

Also, contact your local tree trimmers and see if they'll dump their chips in a pile for you too. They're probably having to pay to dump them somewhere now. These will take longer to breakdown to soil, but when it does, it is real good also. These can also be sold for mulch by the bag or pick-up load.

We have a lot of sawmills where we are, and I've toyed with the idea of buying a descent hydraulic feed chipper to chip up the mountains of slabwood that I can get for nothing. Problem is, around here not much demand for bagged mulch/chips, as it's more of a city or suburbia thing.

 

There is an older guy in my neighborhood here on the sandbar. Not many houses in it, maybe...15..20? He does just about everyone's yard. 20 bucks. All he does is mow. Most these people have come through every week. He's making an easy 200+ every week. No hard work. He jumps on his mower, rides to the first house, does this thing an continues on.

The lawn companies down here charge a crazy amount. Last time I had one, they quoted me 70 bucks. I laughed. At the time I lived 2 streets over from the beach an ocean. It wasn't a large lot, under an acre, probably closer to half of one. Not much grass but enough to need it mowed.

I spent 50 bucks for a mower on CL. Have used it for the last..8 or so years. Now that I'm on bigger piece of land, an a lot more grass...I still love saving all that money.

Anyhow the point...You can make decent money doing the lawn thing, or pressure washing, or like the fella a few posts above..leaf removal.

Find a service you can provide an run with it. You might be surprised at what folks will pay for.

Good luck, always good to have another way to make money.

Sirscrapntruckalot - Don't be a Corona Salesman.

 

My Schwans home delivery guy said he can't keep up , maybe those drivers will finally get there due.
BTW the South Koreans bought Schwans.

 

What the hell job sites are u delivering to ? There aint a jobsite open up and down the west coast . flatbed is going to be the first part of trucking to hit the ####ter

 

Keep in mind that every state has different quarantine rules and enforcement, and that some states have none at this point.

Here in California they are still working on road and I believe the rail projects.

 

$15-$18/hr. It's not worth it.