Water damage restoration
Fits best: an organized operator who can run emergencies and paperwork.
Pros
- ✓Insurance-paid jobs with CiviClaim assignments
- ✓A few jobs make the month
- ✓Works all year
Cons
- !Drying equipment fleet and slow insurance payments
- !Little repeat business, so marketing never stops
- !Check your state’s licensing before you start
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 3 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 6 jobs a month. Add mold remediation for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add rebuild with RemodelTrak.
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 rebuild with RemodelTrak.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck or van plus trailer
- Repeat customers
- Low
- Licensing
- Medium
- Season
- Year-round, storm spikes
- Runs on
- ProTrak ClaimTrak
Drying equipment fleet; insurance-paid, so CiviClaim fits; IICRC WRT/ASD.
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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 (6), times 12 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.