Opportunities / Licensed trades
Class 2HVAC service and replacement
Fits best: a licensed HVAC tech ready to run his own shop.
Pros
- ✓Maintenance agreements and big replacements
- ✓Customers come back on a schedule
- ✓Works all year
Cons
- !License and EPA certification required
- !More capital at risk than most
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 25 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 50 jobs a month. Add air duct cleaning for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add maintenance-agreement routes and a second truck.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Add maintenance-agreement routes and a second truck.
The details
- Vehicle
- Van
- Repeat customers
- High
- Licensing
- High
- Season
- Year-round, summer/winter peaks
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
EPA 608 plus state license; maintenance agreements drive recurring revenue.
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*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (50), times 12 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: published industry sources.