Start a Home-Inventory Documentation Service
A registered single-member LLC with clean books, five paid pilot homes delivered through a repeatable privacy-first workflow, referral relationships that produced them, and a measured contribution per field hour with a written day-90 continue-or-stop decision.
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Who it's for
Detail-oriented US residents in storm-, wildfire- or theft-prone regions who want a low-overhead service business without construction work or employees — career-changers, early retirees, students and side-hustlers who are patient with paperwork, polite inside strangers’ homes, and disciplined enough to walk away if pre-sales fail.
About this playbook
This guide walks you from an untested idea to a working home-inventory documentation service with five paid pilot homes behind you. You test demand with phone calls and refundable deposits before buying anything, price the package from timed field hours, and only then form a single-member LLC, get the free EIN and set up the tax calendar every US sole owner needs. A privacy-first workflow — consent forms, encrypted delivery, retention schedules — is built before you enter the first customer’s home. The guide ends past opening day, with your actual earnings per field hour compared against scenario targets and a written day-90 decision. It does not teach photography, and it does not license you to appraise valuables or advise on insurance claims — those are separate, often state-regulated activities.
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Phase 1: Test whether anyone will pay
4 stepsPhase 2: Package the service and set the price
4 stepsPhase 3: Prove the arithmetic and buy the kit
5 stepsPhase 4: Make it legal: LLC, EIN, taxes and protection
5 stepsPhase 5: Run five paid pilots and earn referrals
4 stepsPhase 6: Read the first ninety days and decide
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What you need first
A dependable car and driver’s license, a computer able to edit photos and video, and comfort working alone inside customers’ homes. You need $1,000–$4,000 of riskable cash and enough fluency to interview strangers and write clear agreements. The formation, EIN and banking steps assume a US-resident owner; non-residents follow a different path.
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