Real estate & housing
Home Staging
Owned versus rented inventory, three pricing models, the licensing line, and selling to listing agents.
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Real estate & housing business guides
Compare the work, customers, operating requirements, and documents behind each business. Choose the model you can credibly deliver before choosing equipment or branding.
Real estate & housing
Short-Term Rental Hosting and Rental Arbitrage
Ownership or lease authority, zoning, permits, lodging tax, safety, insurance, platform rules, guest operations, and unit economics.
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Home Inspection Business
A home inspection business sells a visual, non-invasive inspection of a house's major systems and a written report, mostly to buyers during a purchase contract's inspection window, with add-ons such as radon testing, wood-destroying insect (WDI) reports, sewer scopes and pre-listing inspections.
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Property Management
A third-party property management company leases, collects rent for, maintains and accounts for rental homes and apartments on behalf of owners in exchange for fees.
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Title and Escrow Services
A title and escrow business searches property records, issues title insurance as an appointed agent of an underwriter, and holds and disburses closing money for real estate buyers, sellers and lenders.
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Two businesses in the same category can have very different labor needs, collection times, licensing burdens, and repeat-customer patterns. Use the business viability worksheet to compare your own assumptions.