Roofing
Fits best: an experienced sales-minded builder who can manage crews.
Pros
- ✓Very large tickets and insurance claims
- ✓A service customers already understand and buy
Cons
- !Capital, crews and liability
- !Seasonal: busiest spring–fall
- !Little repeat business, so marketing never stops
- !Thinner margins than most
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 2 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 4 jobs a month in season. Add seamless gutter install for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add gutters and storm restoration.
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 gutters and storm restoration.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck plus dump trailer
- Repeat customers
- Low
- Licensing
- Medium
- Season
- Spring–fall
- Runs on
- ProTrak RemodelTrak
Crews often subcontracted; insurance claims common.
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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 (4), times 8 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: published industry sources.