Make অতিরিক্ত 228 per hour in your spare time

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I broke my pickup mirror. My friendly dealer wanted $ 431 to replace it (parts, labor, taxes). One had to wait, because the parts had to be ordered and there was a lack of opening in the service schedule.

Impatiently, I found a Chevy dealer on the other side of town with parts in stock. They cost me 203. A YouTube video tells me how to disassemble a truck door. Within an hour I mounted the mirror and reassembled the door.

My effective salary at this hour: $ 228. Tax free. I am not going to pay income tax or salary tax on this money.

Have you thought about all the ways to earn side income by acting as your own pro? Tax Maker, Pastry Chef, Plumber হ Be Everything You Can Be. Or, if this kind of thing scares you, just invest in a DIY event. Below are tips for stocks that would benefit if the self-e-e-e-self increases speed.

There are two reasons why it could. One is that the internet is getting better at finding the things you need, such as repair equipment, tips and videos

Another, and bigger, reason is the instability of government over professional work.

I am not dissatisfied with the Chevy dealer who has quoted a strict price for installing a mirror. In the dealership I can handle not only the time of the mechanic, but also his income tax, his salary tax, his medical insurance, his place property tax, a scheduler, a service manager, an OSHA inspector, a bookkeeper, a tax CPA, dealer 401 (k). However a compliance team of stock brokers and possibly a small business administration consultant. Plus a sales tax is levied on all of the above. My $ 203 includes sales tax, but on much smaller bills of goods.

Which companies will gain ground and which will lose in a service economy where the cost of overhead is increasing unreasonably?

You probably want to Intuit (INTU, 370), Which earns more revenue from the supply of DIY tax software than from professional hand-holding supplies. You want to avoid H&R Block (HRB, 33)Which has the opposite revenue mix.

You please Morningstar (MORN, 228)Which sells database subscriptions that allow retirees to choose their own funds and you will be rejected Morgan Stanley (MS, $ 73)Which charges huge sums for the same work.

You can choose Williams-Sonoma (WSM, 119), Which sells equipment to Julia Childess. You want shame from afar Darden Restaurant (DRI, $ 114).

I would say that the practice makes the stock picking business perfect. That is not the case; Fate is the main factor. In the case of mechanical work, however, gaining experience and scraping at first or frustration in the end gives way to the result of saving money. Here are three of my recent projects.

Broken mirror

A tree collided with my 2019 Silverrado and crushed the motorized side mirror next to the passenger. Can I replace my own part? Once he looked at the door, he got scared. It was not at all clear how I would like to get access to the mirror bolt.

Google came to the rescue with a video of the car model and a video that matched my needs in the task. To get to the mirror mount you unscrew the door, loosen the hidden screws, and untie the wire harness by clicking on certain clips.

I guess a professional mechanic can do that in 20 minutes which takes me an hour. His tools were six feet away; I had to make multiple trips to the basement for the metric socket and whatnot. He would not have been so timid to make a fuss. Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person.

How can an investor bet on the expansion of the auto repair video universe? It has 5,64 shops O’Reilly Automotive (ORLY, $ 587) Serving auto parts, mostly to amateurs on weekends. Stock to avoid: Snap-on (SNA, $ 196). Its equipment is of high quality, but, since the Pro is almost entirely sold to the crowd, it is tied up with OSHA inspectors and service managers.

Broken switch

An accident took away the stem of a speed switch from my 1993 Garland Range hood. With a simple drill with the equipment you can type the model number on the manufacturer’s website, get an explosive diagram of the device with the part number and buy the part from the manufacturer or one of several well stocked parts companies. .

At Garland, a dead end. The company, which mainly supplies stoves to restaurants and hotels, says it stopped selling in the residential market in 1999. Its website does not acknowledge that it has sold any ventilation hood to any consumer. It says that a Scotsdale, Arizona company would supply parts for Garland’s residential products, but that company informed me that it only works with stoves, not vents.

What will a pro do next? Perhaps I recommend that I remove the entire device from the ceiling and start with a reliable brand at a cost of $ 1,000 or more.

I opened the electric box. The switch read KBMC-13BVL.

The Internet has once again jumped on the bandwagon. Google and Nexis publish:

—KB Electronics, a firm whose founders were named Knauer and Bueller, started in Brooklyn. Shortly after I bought my stove vent, KB escaped from New York taxes and regulations and was relocated to Coral Springs, Florida.

ালCoral Springs Operations has been sold to Nidek Corporation, a Japanese motor company.

IdeNidec responsibly holds the product line and publishes a detailed spec sheet that, for my purposes, will fix a KBMC-13BV.

—KBMC-13BV is available online, on Amazon and other retailers.

I didn’t have to replace the ventilation hood. I replaced the part for $ 27 including shipping and tax.

Stock to choose from: Nidec (NJDCY, $ 15).

Stock to dislike: Wellbilt (WBT, $ 24), Parents of the traitorous garland. Planning to buy an Italian clothing wellbilt. When integrated, the WBT will sink like a cast-iron stovetop.

Aging heater

A water heater can reasonably be expected to last only as long as a cat. My 30-gallon Superstar, installed by a Pro 20 years ago, needs replacement.

This plumber is so busy now that he doesn’t even return a phone call. Can I handle the task on my own?

Any amateur can install an electric water heater. But the superstar is driven indirectly, which means it closes a loop in the baseboard central heating system. Due to some strange complications of my situation, I will make 31 joints.

The unfortunate feature of copper piping is that most of what you have done is to tear off and punish a bad joint by forcing you to start all over again. Very forbidden. If the probability of a joint leaking is 50-50, then the probability of all 31 getting better is 1 in 2 billion.

After a lot of sweating I installed the thing, without any leaks, to go first. A real life plumber would get the job done in half the time. He was not intimidated. Also, he didn’t have to watch YouTube videos to clear the boiler loop.

You will be surprised to hear who is the hero and who is the goat in this part of home improvement industry. Home Depot (HD, 271) Practically synonymous with DIY. Its business model involves a low-paying, high-turnover staff that includes a handful of experts and a large number of ignorant clerks. That model works fine for the hammer but it doesn’t work for the plumbing supply. There HD is competing with supply houses that have better inventory and behind the counter, who know the difference between a CxC 1 ”coupling with a stop and a drop off.

Is there at least HD bargaining? No. In one of these supply houses I paid $ 1,185 inclusive of tax for the HTP Superstar Plus Honeywell thermostat. HD $ 1,771 wants

The company of choice is a low-cost wholesaler that sells to supply the house: Ferguson (FERG, 110). FERG is a bargain that is 11 times the earnings, from 17 to HD.

Now, you might be curious how I resisted this with the tree and I have a confession. I was using a truck to move a load of dirt. This was to save a landscaping fee.