Home Based Business Ideas (Legitimate & Profitable)

With a rising craving for many to flee the rat race and work from home, many people are demanding to start a home based business. Running business from home not only offers freedom and independence but there are also some huge home based business tax compensation as well.  If you are craving for that condition, I encourage you to work to figure out what it is that you would love to be doing and keep at it until you reach that goal. Huge ideas and business degrees only go so far. It is determination and strength of mind that true sources of success for most businesses. I compose a list of legitimate home based business opportunities below.

1.  Establish a Woodworking Business

Do you feel affection for woodworking? Even without a vast workshop, you can create some of the most accepted crafts and sell them.  And like most things, your success in business is not necessarily linked to how skilled you are as a woodworker. So if you can figure out which products clients want and just create those, you could have a good business plan.  Farmers’ markets are a great place for advertising and selling.

2.  Driving For Uber

Have you ever attention to drive for Uber? Depending on your city you can make handsome amount per hour all while having 100% manage of your schedule. If you don’t know what Uber is, basically it is the 21st century version of the taxi.  You just use your own car and when someone near you wants a ride you get a notification on your phone you go pick them up and drop them off where they want to go and then you automatically get paid.

3.  Tutoring Students

What subjects do you have a good working knowledge of? Parents will often pay to see their kids excel at top.  If you can help, then it sounds like a business.

4.  Start a Christmas Light Hanging Business

If you aren’t afraid of heights and can handle being out in the cold, this is a pretty great business opportunity.  Some people get a full-year’s salary just hanging lights for 2 months each year.

5.   Car Mechanic

Do you know how difficult it is to find a fine and responsible mechanic? Maybe it is just me, but I feel like I have had way too many experiences with mechanics not be honest with me that I would gladly pay more and give all my business to an honest one.  If you know your way around a car and have a few tools, this could be a great business idea for you.

6.  Mobile Oil Changes

Build off the previous idea, what if you presented a service where you came to the customer’s residence and changed the oil in the street? I would pay to do that and would be willing to pay more since I didn’t even have to do something but make a phone call.

7.  Lease Your Home on Rent at AirBNB

AirBNB is a site that allows you to rent out your home to other people who may just want to visit where you live. You can rent it out as little or as much as you want and can list it to rent by the night, week, or month. They offer a $1,000,000 guarantee to protect you from any kind of property damage that was caused by renters. They also have a renter rating system, so you can choose whether or not you want to rent it out to a particular renter. If you have a spare bedroom or guesthouse, it could be a great way to turn it into some easy money.

8.  Wedding Planning

People will always be getting married, so in theory they will always need wedding planners. If you love all things weddings and can handle the pressure from the brides, this might be a profitable business.

09.  Start A Daycare

If you love kids and are exclusively gifted with a lot of patience, you could always start a home based daycare.

10.  Handy Man Service

If you are handy, there are lots of little old ladies who are willing to pay someone to do odd jobs around the house. There are even franchise opportunities available with certain companies. Aaaah!

11.  Lawn Care

Don’t forget lawn care or landscaping. As we become more and more aware to the air conditioned lifestyle more people are going to want to pay someone to do landscaping. If you like to sweat this one may be for you.

12.  Photography

Photography is also great way to start business from home and expand, I get asked to video record weddings all the time. If video or photography is up your alley, starting a wedding photography business could be a great idea for you. If doing weddings are not your thing, there are other ways you can make money as a photographer as well.

13.  Virtual Assistant

Virtual Assistants are just like a secretary in another part of the world. This industry is growing very quickly.

14.   Window Cleaning Business

A lot of businesses and homeowners need windows cleaned. If you are not afraid of heights, cleaning windows could be a decent side or fulltime gig.

15.  Litter Removal Business

One of our readers sent this suggestion in and it looks like a great home business opportunity, especially if keeping your community clean is important to you!

16.  Candle Making

A few years ago I started making my own beeswax candles, because they were so rotten expensive to buy. In the process of learning, I found that there are a lot of people who use candle making as a home business.

17.  Massage Therapy

The massage therapy business has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last decade, tripling in volume. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook, it should grow by an additional 20% through 2016, meaning this home business has strong potential for growth. And, because all in home massage services are necessarily local in nature, its work that can’t be outsourced to another country.

18.  Clean Business Offices

A lot of small businesses need people to clean their offices and this is a business that you can start with a very small investment.

19.  Professional Pooper Scooper

Maybe not the most glamorous work, but in recent years I have seen many dog waste removal companies pop up, so there must be some money to be made.

20.  Senior Care Services

More and more seniors want to avoid nursing homes in lieu of staying in their own homes. Offering non-medical home care by assisting the elderly with regular daily tasks could be rewarding and profitable.

21.  House Cleaning

I have known a few women carved out a flexible home based business by cleaning homes. You probably already have the skills you need; now you just need to get the word out.