Home Maintenance Business

[celiboy]

OK, everyone takes their car in for maintenance whenever it needs an oil change, radiator flush, etc, but for the most part people ignore their houses until something goes wrong.

I've always thought that a good business would be a home maintenance service, where someone comes out to your house and inspects it to see if there are any problems with your house. This would be very similar to a home inspection except that the person who came to your house would fix small things right on the spot. It would be a thorough inspection of everthing from checking appliances, furnace to climbing on the roof to inspect the shingles. I see this being popular in that the population is getting older and many people simply do not have the time, inclination or knowledge to know what to look for. I would envision that this would be a 4 to 5 hour inspection and would price something like this at $249 or $299 for the inspection. Of course if anything major was discovered there would be an opportunity to outsource the work to a contractor where we would get a 10 - 20% commission on the work and presumably the job would be reasonably priced for the homeowner.

Thoughts?