522: The 6-Figure Side Hustle Cleaning Up Parking Lots

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week’s guest started his side hustle with the goal of earning an extra $1,000 a month. Four summers later and it’s now a 6-figure business. Blademir Hernandez of LitterFreeLots.nyc is a long-time listener of the Side Hustle Show who was inspired by Brian Winch’s story in episode 266 to start his business. Additional Resource: CleanLots Brian built a $650k a year operation picking up litter and cleaning parking lots, something Blademir told me he knew he could also do. Blademir ended up reaching out to Brian and running the idea past him, before going out and finding property managers in this area to pitch his litter picking service to. This story is a perfect example of what can happen when you take inspiration from a proven business model and execute your own game plan. Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear: more on where Blademir got the inspiration to start his litter pick-up business how he found his first customers by driving around his neighborhood how Blademir has scaled his business by hiring contractors to carry out the work Full Show Notes: How to Start a Parking Lot Cleanup Business Get Your Personalized Side Hustle Show Playlist

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0:00.0	What's up? What's up Nick? Oh, Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because your 9 to 5 may make you a living
0:05.5	But your 5 to 9 makes you alive today. I'm joined by Vladimir Hernandez from a litter free a lot
0:11.9	That NYC a parking lot litter pickup business that he started back in 2018 as a side hustle with the goal
0:19.3	Hey, you know if I can make an extra thousand bucks a month that would be pretty cool fast forward now for
0:24.7	Summer is later. It is now a six-figure business and we're diving into everything that Vladimir did to make that happen
0:31.2	But before that we got to take it back to the beginning to the idea stage the inspiration stage
0:36.3	What made you think you know what I'm gonna go spend my spare time cleaning up litter for parking lots
0:42.3	Hey, Nick how's it going? Thank you for having me on the show
0:45.8	Yeah, actually, um, I was looking at your website and I came across
0:50.4	99 ideas of how to make extra money
0:54.2	So I was going down the list and I came across trash picking service and I was like wait
0:59.9	I was like I took a look at it and we're like wait. Let me see what this is all about I
1:03.9	Clicked into it and I actually started looking at the article and it was basically saying oh maybe you can make money
1:11.6	Picking up litter on commercial properties. So at that time I was like, hey, this is something that I felt comfortable with that I could do
1:20.0	I went up seeing them. It was named as Brian and I want to reach an ounce of Brian
1:25.1	From clean lots and I was like you're brining. Hey, I'm buying a chance. Do you?
1:29.6	You think that air that service will work in my area and he got back to me says anywhere with parking lots and I was like wow, okay
1:38.2	Yeah, so you're thinking hey, this is a
1:41.0	Low startup costs no specialized skills required
1:44.2	Is it gonna work in my area? Well, yeah, I got parking lots around me
1:47.5	This is Brian Winch. You mentioned from clean lots in episode 266 of the side hustle show
1:53.5	So he kind of gives you the green light. It's like I don't see why it wouldn't work
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