7 BORING But Realistic Businesses that Make Millionaires (85%+ success rate)

While Silicon Valley burns through billions of dollars chasing the next tech unicorn startup, there's a different breed of entrepreneur quietly building wealth in the most stupidly boring ways imaginable. And these aren't businesses that get featured in Forbes or make for sexy LinkedIn posts. They're the boring ventures that actually work. In fact, many of these mundane enterprises boast an 85 plus% success rate because they solve problems that never go away. From keeping buildings well-maintained to managing life's messier necessities, these businesses demonstrate that boring isn't just beautiful, it can also be profitable. And in this video, I'm not only going to be showing you what businesses those are, but I'm going to be giving you real examples of people that have successfully done this and how much they've made. So, if you appreciate all the research we put into these videos, let me know by gently tapping that like button. And let's jump into it right now. All right. First on the list, we have an HVAC business. Now, when I say the word HVAC, you probably know what it is, but do you actually know what HVAC means? Well, HVAC means heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. And this is what keeps your house warm in the winter and cool during the summer. And this is the exact business that my brother Zach owns. And he just has a small business in California, and he makes multiple six figures a year with this business. But Zach is more focused on lifestyle. And if you really want to take this business to the next level, there are companies out there making hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars. And if you think I'm exaggerating here, I'm not. So, for instance, Johnson Controls sold their residential HVAC business to Bosch for $8.1 billion. So, yeah, it doesn't take that long to get into. Depending on the state you live in, you might have to go to trade school, you might have to do an apprenticeship. A lot of time, you can start and just get trained on the job as well. And then after a few years of working in the HVAC industry, you can start your own business. All right, next business on the list is a self storage facility. And this one has a ridiculously high success rate of 92%. And this one can be almost completely automated. In fact, if you use fancy new technologies, in some cases, it literally can become completely automated. But realistically, very minimal staffing required. And you can make a ton of money with this. So just as an example, Nick Huber by age 34, he owned 63 storage facilities worth over $150 million. And Nick started with one facility in 2015. And then he used creative financing and reinvested cash out refinances to buy more, writing industry growth. And in under 10 years, he built a storage empire and even pocketed 2 million in cash from refinancing one property. And I can see why people make so much money because when I went to travel the world, I decided to store some of my more important things. cuz it wasn't that much, but I wanted to store it. And in the last few years, I've paid like $3 or $4,000 in storage fees. All right, quick break. This Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time, I'm hosting a free live workshop called How to Finally Profit from YouTube with AI. It's happening live on November 11th, 2025. So, make sure to mark that down right now. So, if you've been struggling to find your niche or you don't want to spend months or even years creating videos in a niche that's not profitable, then this workshop is for you. Because for everyone who shows up live, I'll be giving away my niche validator 2.2. This is the newest version of my AI powered niche validation tool that helps you to instantly test and uncover profitable YouTube niches before you waste time creating content that doesn't convert. And it's been refined and updated based on real channel data. And I'll be giving it away completely free, but only during this live workshop. And just a quick heads up, I will be turning this into a full software product at some point in the future. So, this version may not be available for free much longer. So, if you've been waiting to get it, this is a good time to do it now. So, attend the free live workshop by clicking that link down the description and the pin comment below to grab it. Oh, and by the way, you'll also be able to ask me questions live. So, I look forward to meeting you. See you this Tuesday, 9:00 p.m. Eastern time. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming. All right, next one has almost as high of a success rate, and that is Laundry Mats. and they have a 90% success rate. So, an example for this one, in 2010, David Mens bought a run-down laundry mat in Ohio. And a decade later, he and his wife Carla owned four laundry mats generating $1.8 million a year in revenue. Now, laundry mats take a lot more work, right? They're not as automated as self- storage would be. And with that being said, there's probably also a higher barrier to entry in getting into the laundry mat business. But a higher barrier to entry isn't always a bad thing. That means less competition. Oh, yeah. and that Ohio couple who bought the cheap laundry mat on Craigslist, their net worth is now $3.4 million. So, yeah, a lot more hands-on, probably a lot more difficult to run, but at the same time, there's a higher barrier to entry. Now, a really good thing about some of these businesses I just mentioned, uh, HVAC, laundrymats, especially self- storage facilities, is right now private equity is buying up these businesses like crazy. And they do it in what's known as roll-ups. And what a roll-up is is basically when you pull together a bunch of different businesses and sell them all in one transaction to a private equity firm. Now, they love to do this. Usually, when you sell in bulk, you actually get a discount. But they actually do the opposite. They pay more when they sell in bulk because it just makes sense for them to do that with their cash flow, right? Rather than doing like a hundred different little deals, they do a bunch of different deals all in one. And it saves them a massive amount of time, effort, and money. And because of this, they'll actually pay significantly more than the market rate. So you can start one of these businesses and once you get it to a certain level, private equity would be very interested, probably be knocking at your door to buy your business and you can sell it to them at 3, five, even 8x multiples in some cases. All right, next one. Number four is a business you might have never heard of, but this actually makes a ton of money and that is a floor scraper machine business. Now, this is a business that you can do in two different ways. Okay, the first one is actually doing the floor scraping. And this is basically where you kind of like break the floor on the ground. You know, for whatever reason, you don't like your floor, so you break it and then you replace it with a different floor. And you need a special machine to do that. So, that's the first way you could make money. And businesses typically charge between $320 to $1,120 for 160 square ft area. Now the second way you can make money with this business and other similar type businesses is selling the machines, right? So selling floor scraping machines. Now this is a super niche machine, right? It's not like a tractor or a truck or a semi-truck or anything like that, right? So big companies like John Deere or different, you know, automobile manufacturers are going to make those types of vehicles, you know, tractors, semi-truckss, etc. So you're going to have a massive amount of competition. But for these super random types of machines like floor scraping machines for instance, you don't have nearly as much competition. And that's exactly what this guy Derek Olsen did. He basically created a company where he creates these floor scraping machines. And it's called National Flooring Equipment Incorporated. And they make about 10 to $50 million a year. So yeah, in this case, floor scraping on its own is probably a pretty good business to get into. it might be kind of like attached to a different business, but sometimes it's best to sell the picks and the shovels, not to mine the gold yourself, right? So, sometimes selling the equipment that actually does the work can be a better business than doing the work on your own. All right. Next is waste management for hazardous materials. And an example for this one is Triumphirate Environmental, founded by John McQuillian in 1988. and they provide hazardous waste management and environmental services to healthcare, educational, industrial, and life science sectors, including medical waste treatment and recycling. And the company was valued at $1.8 billion when a stake was sold to the private equity firm Berkshire Partners in February 2025. So again, these types of businesses are very easy to sell just because of the fact that they have such a high success rate. And yeah, it's basically just getting rid of waste, waste management in general. Now, there's a lot of different kind of niches within waste management, and one of them you could potentially argue is the next one on the list, which is portable toilet rentals. And this is exactly what it sounds like, portable toilet rentals. You can rent toilets to a festival that's happening in a town or rent it to people that are doing a construction site, etc., etc. And Chad Howard, for instance, left his corporate job at Proctor and Gamble to buy and rebrand a portable toilet rental company called Halftime Rentals in Charlotte. And he raised $1 million to acquire the existing business. and has generated over 1.2 million in revenue in just eight months since launching in 2024. So, he left Proctor and Gamble to run a porta-potty business. Let that sink in. And it's probably going to be a good decision for him because again, these are the types of businesses that you can sell. All right, the next one I really like. I think this is a phenomenal business to get into. I'd say this is probably my second favorite on the entire list behind self- storage, and that is senior care. So, the United States and a lot of countries around the world have an aging population. After World War II, you had the baby booer generation where basically they had a ton of kids when they got back from World War II. And so, that is a massive population and they're aging right now and they're going to start needing senior care. And an example of this is Frederick Lloyd George, a former Welsh Guards officer who co-founded Hamilton George Care, which provides premium senior care to very rich old people. So, in that particular case, it's kind of like premium senior care, but you don't have to do premium. You can just do senior care in general. And they made4.5 million pounds in revenue in 2025. And this is not a rare story. There's tons of senior care facilities all over the US and all over the world. All right, now let's go over a few honorable mentions. I'm not going to spend too much time on these, but property and real estate. I think everybody knows about that one, so I didn't want to mention it, but it is pretty good and has a very high success rate. Car washes are also quite good. They have a pretty high success rate, too. The vending machine business, actually pretty good. Um, a little bit more of a side hustle. You could turn it into a full-time business, of course, but it has a relatively high success rate, too. Pest control services. This one is really good, but most people probably don't want to do it, but it does have a very high success rate, too. Commercial cleaning has a super high success rate. I mean, let's be honest, like, who wants to clean in the United States? Recycling and scrapyard business, really, really good one, too. What's happening, guys? in the editing process of this video and I have an opportunity for a select group of people. So these are people who are serious about growing their personal brand on YouTube. So basically we figured out recently how to grow a personal brand and combine all the upsides of a personal brand with the upsides of automation, right? 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So basically doing any of these types of businesses and then posting about it on social media, there's so many different ways to monetize that. And that's exactly what I teach people how to do. For instance, Sean initially made his money teaching people how to create books. These books are sold online, but they can also be sold in physical copy version as well. Then he made it to around $30,000 a month making these books. But then he started teaching other people how to do it. And at first, he was stuck on YouTube making around $30,000 a month. But after working with me, we were able to scale his business to over $500,000 a month. Two, if you're interested in building your social media presence, book a strategy session with myself or my team in the description in the pin comment below. It's a totally free strategy session where we will help you figure out what you're doing now, what your goal is, a plan to get there, and if we're a good fit to work together or not. 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