Each one has its own suppliers, its own customers and its own margins. Nobody has to run more than one, and most operators start with exactly one.
Desktops, laptops, servers, networking gear, monitors and phones coming off business refresh cycles.
The oldest stream in the book, and the one this whole model came out of. A business replaces a floor of machines every three or four years and needs them gone with the data handled properly. Most units still work.
Data handling is the whole ballgame. An operator who can document a wipe gets the corporate accounts; one who cannot gets the household castoffs.
Refrigerators, washers, dryers, HVAC units, water heaters, and mixed ferrous and non-ferrous metal.
Cleanouts, remodels and property turnovers produce this constantly. Some of it resells whole, the rest is weight, and weight has a published price.
Refrigerant recovery is regulated. Check your state before you take the first unit.
Desks, chairs, cubicles, conference tables and shelving from downsizings, relocations and closed offices.
Bulky, low value per piece, high value per truckload, and almost nobody wants to handle it. That is exactly why the margin is there.
Storage is the constraint, not supply. Do not take a load you have nowhere to put.
Cabinets, doors, windows, fixtures, lumber and tile recovered by careful deconstruction instead of demolition.
A kitchen four years old comes out whole if somebody takes the time. Contractors will often let it go free rather than pay to dump it.
This one is labour, not logistics. Price the hours honestly before you quote a job.
Clothing, shoes, linens and fabric, sorted into wearable, resale-grade and mill-grade rag stock.
Volume business with three exit routes and a sorting step that decides which one each piece takes.
Sorting labour eats the margin if you let it. Decide your grades before the first bale.
Commercial ranges, coolers, prep tables, smallwares and dish machines from closures and remodels.
Restaurants close on short notice and the equipment has to be out by a date. Speed is worth more than price in this stream.
Know what needs certification before resale in your state.
Wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds, shower chairs and durable medical equipment.
Steady supply from estates and facility turnover, and steady demand from people who cannot buy new.
Cleaning and inspection standards matter here more than anywhere else on this page.
Wooden pallets, crates, totes, drums and gaylords repaired and put back into circulation.
The least glamorous stream and one of the most predictable. Repair and resell, over and over, to the same buyers.
It is a route business. Build the route, not the inventory.
The package for any stream covers startup costs, margins, licensing and how to land the first account.
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