Calling out to fellow traders on the idea of starting a brick and mortar business. That is, involving a physical product that must be made, transported, deposited and sold. Essentially, anyone wanna associate with me to get this going? The problem is not money but grit. Because shit's hard. At this point as you may have noticed, all low hanging fruit has been picked. Which is not to say there's no more money to be made, only they are going to be somewhat harder to make. Like Romanian zacusca: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacuscă . Which is sometimes called "replacement caviar" if made well enough (there's a Russian movie where the tzar in the context of WW1 shortages gets the proposal "your majesty, there's no caviar anymore but we can serve you Romanian zacuscă, which is said to sometimes match it in finesse of taste"). Story goes in the early 90s a wealthy American landed in Romania and was served "caviar-level" zacuscă. He was ecstatic and wanted to turn that immediately into a business. Only he was introduced to the process and he disinflated very quickly: "this thing can never be produced industrially". And he was right. Attempts to introduce industrial made zacusaca are no short of number but they all taste from disgusting to at most acceptable when you're so hungry you'd eat anything. Not the "caviar" you get on the proper home made receipt. Anyhow it's in the zacusca's ballpark the idea I'm circulating. Only it's not zacusca, it's even harder to make and consequently tastes like the better than caviar you never had but I enjoy on a regular basis. Again I stress that the problem is not money. I have money, European Union has various programs where they hand in the $50k with the line "please do something with them". Money is not the problem as much as resilience in face of the obstacles that will arise. If we do this business right it can sell in the $100M before we move to something else. The $1B business of course, which I target next because it's not bounded by brick and mortar. AMA here but more info to who writes me privately. Cheers, Aquarianz. https://www.aquarianz.com/
I like food so I do it myself: So today I made pork çorba with tarragon: Turkish language, from where we got the "chorba" word makes distinction between sweet (a soup) and sour (a chorba): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorba Also made risotto. Some of the ingredients are trademark secret.
commercial construction is the best business, you can always lose money for taxes and make a fortune doing it. you partner with a developer and a bank build the project and don't pay anyone at the end. then you restructure and buy the project back in bankruptcy sale for half what it cost or less. rinse and repeat.
That is quite unscrupulous. You are basically driving people to bankruptcy on purpose and jipping people on pay just so you can buy something cheap to flip later? And besides this is so inefficient. If you are looking for something cheap for you to flip, why don't you visit the foreclosure auctions.
Unless you have some original ideas of a product/service that you want to sell, the easiest way for you to get a brick & mortar business is just to take over a business that's got a good product/service but are closing it down because they are having trouble running it. The best ones are the turn-key ones where the founder of the business is not able to pass it down to his/her descendants because the children have no interest in it but it's got a proven solid client list (not like Twitter) and established suppliers or franchises with a known brand in a good location. If you've got money but don't want to get down to the nitty gritty details of finding a business and running it, hire a business manager who will do all the leg work and the running of the business for you. Btw how are you with your wife?
The OP is not looking to trade the stocks of a company though. He's looking to run a business that sells an actual product or provide a service from what he's written. That's why I suggested taking over a family business or just run a franchise.