Whats up /biz, Im looking to invest about 10k, and I have been thinking about "Building Dehydrators", which is hopefully the right translation from the German word "Bautrockner". I have been calculating it the last few days and buying some of these machines makes sense to then rent them out and building a little business around that. There are a couple of Dehydrators that are not that expensive and could still potentially bring in about 50 to 70 Euros a week. Which would be great for a 400 to 800 investment per machine. Does anyone have experience in that regard? Im also thinking about renting about washing machines and dryers for private households.
The hard part is finding the customers. I tried similar business with ground penetration radar, it pays for itself in only a few jobs, but it was difficult to find enough customers to make it a full business
>>62796337I like building dehydrator translation lol. They are called dehumidifiers in the states. I usually see the industrial ones when a basement or building floods. Could you sell it as flood remindiation rentals that you could drop off at places for a while? But those things look prime to get stolen
>>62796346Flood remediation*
>>62796337dehydrators are for drying out food
>>62796343Interesting, there are definately some machines/gadgets that dont cost too much and which pay off fairly quickly if you use that in a Business, i.e. your radar idea. So the machines I mentioned are used in construction as well as when something happens in private households - For example flooding, or when pipes burst and the walls get wet. Its not something that will get rented out 100% of the time, thats for sure!>>62796346LMAO thanks, dehumidifiers makes much more sense and I heard that before as well. Exactly my thought by the way and as mentioned above, as far as I learned its being used by construction workers (to help finish dry walls faster they worked on) and if something happens in private households like mentioned above. I looked at other Companies that offer these services and all of them offer a drop off for a fee or the renter can pick it up at the location the machines are stored at.
>>62796337hello german fellowdont building companies already have these machines for themselves?
>>62796394Hello right back at you! That is a good question, I suppose the bigger ones do have some of those in their inventory. But in Germany, nowadays a lot of times subcontractors get used and they might not have it in their inventory. Its also not only for building companies but also for private households. As I researched it a little bit, especially in Winter-times these machines are being sought after because the walls dont dry as easily as in the summer heat/time.
>>62796419German here, worked at a Company that did that, wenn bankcrupt 10 years ago. Buying and reselling them is cheaper as renting, you need to run it for weeks after all.Only the large ones are profitable, but good luck getting enough customers for that to work out.
>>62796337I think what you'll find is that buying such machines will soon become a liability as newer models come out, and then customers will refuse to use older models at the same price as newer onesDehumidifiers are extremely cheap and anyone who needs one has already bought one. Either learn to become a salesman so good that he's capable of selling contact lenses to blind people, or give up.
>>62796453Hey, thank you so much for the Input German fren. Very interesting to hear that! May I ask how big that Company was? While I researched this idea, I found two big-ish companies that do this renting thing with those machines. Im sure they are not renting these machines out 100% at all times, but how did your Company go bankrupt? Was there absolutely no demand 10 years ago? The Re-Selling point is interesting because I made those 10k I have via Re-Selling. I kind of looked for machines or whatever else to buy and rent to have cash-flow, you know what I mean? It wouldnt be my main thing but just a Side-Hustle so to speak. Danke Dir!
>>62796474If that is the case I would do it like this: If I buy the newest machine on the market and if it takes a year or two for a newer one to come out (which I dont believe) then the investment/machine would have been paid off already surely. If it happens like you said and a newer version comes out, then I would just sell the older one (which means a profit because the machine already paid itself off) and buy the newest one. I agree with you that in these type of business you always should have the newest one in your inventory - Even though I do not believe that these get updated as quickly as PCs or similar machines. Im sorry if my English is weird or not that good, its my 3rd language.
>>62796478Small Company, 10 people max. Rented out all kind of equipment, mostly gardening stuff and dehummifiers. Sold new ones as well, hardware just became so cheap that renting no longer had enough demand and selling hardware lost against the Internet.Dehummifiers are a bitch to maintain by the way, you get mold easily.I doubt that there is much income in reselling small stuff nowadays, the market is heavily contests here. Find your niche I guess.
>>62796337https://x.com/mhp_guy/status/2111527866920042973Look through this guy's account for good business ideas
>>62796499Thank you very much for your informations fren. I hope you recovered well from the bankruptcy and closing of that Company 10 years ago! So how I look at interest/potential regarding Businesses or Products is for example at "Kleinanzeigen" - Im sure you know that App. Its basically like eBay/craigslist for our American Frens here. In my area there are like I said 2 big-ish companies that offer these machines for rent and those adverts have thousands of clicks AND they get "liked" a lot which shows me there is interest for sure. The maintaining part could be tricky for me, because Im not the best in these kind of things. Luckily I have a good friend that knows more about these kind of machines than me and he would help me there at least.
you could use them yourself to dry food/wood/biomass? Rent them out for their actual purpose when demand is high.
