Entrepreneur

A house. Welcome to being a landlord.

Companion for the night to escort a lonely person to make them happy and feel wanted.

It depends on where you are wanting to rent things out at. I remember on spring break people rented out scooters to ride around town. They had to have great business year round living by the beach. I’ve been in the mountains and people rented out Jeep’s and slingshots. I know a woman after her divorce she rented out the motorcycle she got from her ex. Would make 400-500 a weekend. If you have a certain set of skills rent your self out teacher those skills with first hand experience. If you have land buy storage containers and rent those out for people to store things.

Vintage car for photoshoots, wedding rentals etc. this is a very popular thing in the south asian community.

Portable toilets. Good money in this but it’s shitty work

Rent a friend Rent a dog Rent a family Rent an uncle

(They all exist here in Japan)

Pressure Washer? Leaf Blower ?

Maybe look at low priced rentals. Super small Homes that can be bought for $15,000-$25,000. Get a loan, put 20% down which isn’t much and take that passive income. These low cost rentals still rent for big dollars in comparison to purchase price. Rent for say $750, have $100 in expenses, make $6,000-$7,000 per year in revenue after expenses

If you have money, you can invest in equity. If it is in the secondary market, it can also get the rise of stock price and dividend income at the same time, double income

Your car

Scooters in a touristy area

I am today literally working on a case study for Party Rentals.

What do you want to know?

We have some clients using us - SwiftCloud - for eDocs i.e. agreement, waiver eSign etc - also client management.

Good biz, not exactly passive but somewhere in the middle - pickup and dropoff, stuff has to be cleaned (kids..); weddings, kids jumpy houses birthday parties, corporate parties etc.

Good margins, but there is some asset depreciation, the houses don't last forever.

Upside - not that much to start, like $5k can get you going even though probably more like $20, then like any biz it takes some work to get the momentum, but then the referrals and repeat biz starts flowing.

PM if interested, I'll put a case study up on YouTube soon

A trailer on outdoorsy or car on turo

Young guy in my neighborhood started a balloon delivery biz. Simple and dumb as it sounds.

Tell him how many you want and what colors and such, he brings them to your house at the prescribed time.

They are big high quality balloons with nice ribbons. He has the little weights if you need them and knows how to affix them to whatever you need.

He would text a link with the colors and also had a sample book he would come by with so you could choose. He started with kids birthdays, graduations and such delivering maybe 5-10 balloons at a time. Eventually he was doing events as well where he would do the balloon arches and that “higher end” kind of stuff.

He started in high school and did it through college. All word of mouth, no real marketing at all. It was a nice little side hustle for him.

The key I think for him was that he was extremely nice and personable, dressed nicely, was very punctual and always 100% of the time “made it right” for his customers.

my dad bought a compactor (second hand) for around 1k to make the patio in their backyard. once he was done he put it up for rent on Kijiji. pretty sure he made the money back.. lol

Just go to your local supermarket/fastfood/town hall and ask people that question. If they have ideas, offer them to take their email and you'll contact them soon. Once you have a certain answer coming up multiple times, dig on that idea

I was playing around with the idea of buying and renting out a Kegerator for parties.

Parking space or something

Tools.

Become a pimp

Some women buy boobs and then rent it and themselves out by the hour. The good thing about this is unlike bouncy castles there is no need to inflate it or deflate the boobs as they are constantly perked up. Not sure if you want to go this route.

Another thing to consider is that you dont need a brick and mortar store for this as the silicone boobs attracts a lot of attention and it would be easy to get people to rent by the hour if you set it up on a street corner.

Heard of a guy who leases those credit card/debit card terminals stores use. It took him a couple of years to get enough customers but once he had a few thousand out there at $39 a month he was rolling in money.

Why do this?

Man I just saw a TikTok with a ton of suggestions. I should have saved it. This guy rented out barrels for weddings and events, trash cans, chairs, arches, so many things you’d legit never think to even offer but he makes good money on them. The trash cans got me.

A garage or warehouse.

Rent out corner balancing scales to autocross/ road race enthusiasts.

Furniture for staging model homes/apartments. Places rent it by the month.

Arches for weddings, big yard games, Photo Booth, I’ve seen all sorts of tik toks on this. If I had space I’d do it too.

The biggest challenge in renting equipment (other than actually acquiring the customers in the first place) is that anything you rent out gets destroyed quickly, due to transport and whatever setup/teardown you have to do. A piece of equipment with a 5 year lifespan may be designed with the assumption of 1-3 transport/installations over the course of its entire life, and here you are moving and reinstalling it every week. Not to mention, your customers will be less experienced with using it, so they are more likely to break things.

The key to being able to compete with larger rental companies on price and reliability as a one person operation, is to rent out something that you know how to work on. This will give you a big competitive edge because you don't have to replace anything or hire expensive third party repair services for basic maintenance and fixes.

Large work site equipment like generators and stair climbers could work. You could also do event stuff like sound systems and stage lights. You could do boats or work vehicles. Camera gear is a hot one, but my god is it fragile and expensive.

Low cost start up. Buy a bunch of yard signs celebrating birthdays graduations new babies. Run service that sets them up in people’s yards. It’s big around me. Not going to be a big money maker but definitely a decent side hustle

Huh

What about party speakers, big tents, excevators, power tools, cars, office furniture, real estate, academic books, boats, cameras, lights. There are so much to choose from and you came up with bouncy castle, tables and chair, and not a camera, but photo booth? 😭

Glamping tents

Baby stuff. Specifically, infant stuff. Most parents only need the infant stuff for a few months so may prefer renting.

When I had my firstborn I rented this Snoo bassinet that can automatically rock the baby to sleep. I think I paid $300 for 2 months. the retail price is about $1000. The shop has a lot of other baby stuff for rent too.

Babies, pets and beauty - people pay big money for those.

Construction equipment, but you deal with big players depending on area.

My buddy started off with 2-3 generators, and expanded to air compressors, light standards, and continued to build.

Went from 1 piece of equipment, to 50 or more.

However...he already had good contacts in the construction field in his city so he had a head start.

If your budget allow it.

Buy an RV.

Go to RVshare.com and rent it.

Buy several and you can make a living out of it.

Nice passive income.

Tools

Here is another thought. Instead of asing reddit. Ask people the most wil likely be your costumers. Or at least be very observant around them. People will tell you their wants.needs.and pain points in normal conversation.

Taking care of people's wants needs and pain points = money in your pocket.

Landlord

Rent cars on toru

Tik Tok guy

Check this guy out on TikTok, he has a rental business where he's very open about all the different things he rents out.

Porta potty

Tools, stuff like ladders, idk the big stuff people need once or twice but then don't need .. home depot sux for policies n prices if u can beat their prices I'd say go for it

2 rental ideas I’ve toyed with:

vending machines that basically replace a Walgreens/cvs. Sell DayQuil, toothpaste, tums, light healthcare items that are usually under lock and key at CVS.

Nostalgic video game systems. Think Super Nintendo with 4 controllers and Mario cart. Comes with every hdmi adapter known to man to enable your own setup. Sell to businesses for in-office corporate rentals / parties.

Bounce House for parties!

Parking space / garage. Pressure washer

ChatGPT will give you more answers than I can think of right now