Highest Paying Home Service Businesses No One's Talking About in 2026
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Hayden Garlock
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Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Hayden Garlock — the 27-year-old who built California's largest bird control company from a single door-knock observation, installed pigeon deterrent systems in 7,500 homes, and sold the whole thing for seven figures before most people figure out what they want to do with their lives.
Hayden exposes why dirty, unglamorous service businesses are the fastest path to millionaire status right now, why "burn the boats" is dangerous advice for most entrepreneurs, and why the online gurus selling success have never actually built anything outside the internet.
The trend chasers are losing, and those doing what nobody else wants to do are winning. This episode shows exactly why — and how to be one of them.
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| 0:00.0 | A service-based business is the easiest way to become a millionaire, I think right now. |
| 0:04.0 | It's a gold mine. It's the last thing that AI is going to come for. |
| 0:07.0 | You quite literally can't go broke if you do things that people don't want to do. |
| 0:11.0 | Cleaning up bird sh** all day for four years, it was hard. |
| 0:15.0 | What made it hard? |
| 0:16.0 | But the money made it worth it. |
| 0:17.0 | You cannot become a millionaire in your 20s without sacrificing a lot. Everyone |
| 0:22.6 | needs this instant gratification and I think it's melting our brains. I think you need to |
| 0:27.6 | What it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio. folks, I got a real treat for you. |
| 0:42.8 | Entrepreneur Hayden Garlock in the house, 27 years old, already had his first exit. |
| 0:44.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:45.2 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:45.8 | This is fun. |
| 0:55.7 | So you wanted to come on the show to basically spread a little light on the fact that building the business isn't easy. Exactly. And you're only 27. You already had an exit. Yeah, six months ago. How'd that feel? I think that people don't |
| 1:04.1 | think about enough is selling your company is actually kind of sad. It's like you built a baby. |
| 1:10.2 | You took care of a baby, and giving away, |
| 1:12.9 | obviously the checks really, I mean, it's the best feeling in the world, but you're giving away a baby. |
| 1:18.4 | You worry about it, but no, it feels incredible. Yeah, it wouldn't bother me at all. |
| 1:25.5 | You say that, but it really is sad for a sec but i mean there's well how long did you build it for four years yeah that's that's probably why like this is 25 years yeah like if i sold this i'd be like hey it's been fun yeah but uh I mean, I don't think there's anything quite like getting a check and immediate reward, |
| 1:51.6 | like a physical reward for selling something. |
| 1:55.0 | Yeah, but now you know all those monthly net checks are gone. |
| 2:00.2 | Exactly. |
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