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    <title>Daniel Tom: Portable toilets, ~2,000 units (Bay Area Sanitation)</title>
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    <description>A fleet of almost two thousand toilets, nineteen employees, and a 4 a.m. start.</description>
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    <title>Dave &amp; Carla Menz: Laundromats, 4 locations (Queen City Laundry)</title>
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    <description>An $85,000 Craigslist laundromat, renovated into a four-store chain.</description>
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    <title>Marcus Gram: Vending machines, 6 states (Joyner Vending)</title>
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    <description>Two machines and $10,000 of savings became a six-state route.</description>
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    <title>Brian Winch: Parking lot litter cleanup (Cleanlots)</title>
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    <description>Started in 1981 with about $250 in hand tools. Still walking the lots.</description>
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    <title>Nick Huber: Self-storage, 40+ facilities (Bolt Storage)</title>
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    <description>Sold his student-storage startup, then bought rural mom-and-pop storage at $40-70 a foot.</description>
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    <title>Joshua Brown: Pressure washing &amp; roof cleaning (Brown&#x27;s)</title>
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    <description>Started with $5,000 and a Google search. Hit $1M a year within four.</description>
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    <title>Steve Hunsaker: Holiday light installation (Valley Christmas Lights)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/steve-hunsaker.html</link>
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    <description>A Reddit thread, a ladder, and a Ford Fusion. Now $800k in eight weeks.</description>
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    <title>EJ McCoy &amp; Josh Cahill: Pet waste removal (Scoop Soldiers)</title>
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    <description>Professional poop scooping, franchised into 90+ territories in 16 states.</description>
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    <title>Sam Evans: Junk removal (You Call We Haul), sold 2024</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/sam-evans.html</link>
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    <description>A $1,000 truck, forty Facebook posts a day, and the database&#x27;s first documented exit.</description>
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    <title>Mike Andes: Lawn care franchise, 200+ locations (Augusta)</title>
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    <description>Skipped med school to mow lawns with a spreadsheet. Now 200+ franchises.</description>
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    <title>Cristobal Mondragon: Residential &amp; Airbnb cleaning (Bumble Bee)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/cristobal-mondragon.html</link>
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    <description>A $5,000 start with his wife Sandra. Now $120k months and a second city.</description>
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    <title>Anna-Marie Ortiz: Residential cleaning (Cool Aunt Cleaners)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/anna-marie-ortiz.html</link>
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    <description>Started with her last $2,000. The newest, smallest, and hungriest entry.</description>
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    <title>Johnny Robinson &amp; Sergio Silesky: Window cleaning, sold (Orange Window Cleaning)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/johnny-robinson.html</link>
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    <description>Two seventh-grade best friends, $150 of gear, and an exit before age 25.</description>
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    <title>Kyle Landwehr: Junk removal (Slam Dunkin&#x27; Junk)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/kyle-landwehr.html</link>
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    <description>$6,000 in, $10,000 back in month one. A millionaire by 22.</description>
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    <title>Ryan McCoy: Pet waste territory (Scoop Soldiers franchisee)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/ryan-mccoy.html</link>
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    <description>Left restaurants for a corporate-built poop route. $900k in year one.</description>
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    <title>Mike Haskell: Abandoned storage unit flipping (Mike&#x27;s Unique Treasures)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/mike-haskell.html</link>
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    <description>Eighteen years old, bidding on strangers&#x27; abandoned lockers.</description>
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    <title>Clayton Roll: Dumpsters, containers, equipment (Rolling Operations)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/clayton-roll.html</link>
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    <description>If he owns it, he will rent it to you. The stackable-side-hustle doctrine.</description>
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    <title>Brannon Fowler: Trash bin cleaning (The Trash Can Cleaners)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/brannon-fowler.html</link>
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    <description>Pressure-washes the thing your garbage lives in. A thousand subscribers.</description>
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    <title>Ian Hecht: Dumpster rental lead generation (Dumpster Rental Enterprises)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/ian-hecht.html</link>
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    <description>He never bought a dumpster. He bought the search results.</description>
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    <title>Haley Gallagher: Commercial cleaning (Moonlight Commercial Cleaning)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/haley-gallagher.html</link>
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    <description>A bar her husband guarded needed cleaning. She asked for the contract.</description>
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    <title>Christian Sanya: Laundry service &amp; laundromat (The Laundry Room)</title>
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    <description>Washed strangers&#x27; laundry at night until she could buy the machines.</description>
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    <title>Joel &amp; Hunter Davis: Pool service route (father and son)</title>
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    <description>A telecom executive and his son, running weekly routes in the Texas heat.</description>
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    <title>Dan Spracklin: Septic pumping (Gray Brothers, est. 1929)</title>
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    <description>Bought his father-in-law&#x27;s 84-year-old tank business and tripled it.</description>
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    <title>Kim Hatch: Septic pumping (Turner Septic)</title>
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    <description>Eighteen jobs a day, 400,000 gallons a month, Starlink in the truck.</description>
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    <title>Luke &amp; Heather Menear: Parking lot striping (1-800-STRIPER)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/luke-menear.html</link>
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    <description>Twenty years of painting lines, then they franchised the paint.</description>
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    <title>Alan Tursunbaev: Mobile auto detailing (GoDetail)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/alan-tursunbaev.html</link>
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    <description>Started with $500 between high school and college. Now $75k months.</description>
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    <title>Adam Hill: Vending route, 100+ machines (Hill Vending)</title>
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    <description>Bought a $60,000 route from a departing owner. Now works two days a week.</description>
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    <title>Trevor Kokenge: Landscape maintenance, design &amp; build (Plan-It Vision)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/trevor-kokenge.html</link>
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    <description>A $50 lawnmower, a borrowed shed, and a recession with no jobs in it.</description>
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    <title>John &amp; Tom D&#x27;Eri: Car washes, 3 locations (Rising Tide)</title>
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    <description>Bought a failing car wash so a son with autism would have a job. It worked twice.</description>
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    <title>Nathan Lenahan: HVAC, acquired (Bart&#x27;s Heating &amp; Air)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/nathan-lenahan.html</link>
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    <description>Bought a $1.2M HVAC company for $400,000 with no HVAC experience.</description>
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    <title>Dan Burnside: HVAC, acquired then lost (bankruptcy)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/dan-burnside.html</link>
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    <description>The database&#x27;s first documented failure. Everything that can go wrong, did.</description>
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    <title>Frank Rolfe &amp; Dave Reynolds: Mobile home parks, 250+ communities (MHP Funds)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/frank-rolfe.html</link>
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    <description>Sold billboards for $5.8M, then bought a trailer park four months later.</description>
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    <title>Brian Scudamore: Junk removal (1-800-GOT-JUNK?)</title>
    <link>https://boringmillionaires.com/brian-scudamore.html</link>
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    <description>A $700 pickup truck in 1989. The junk still isn&#x27;t glamorous. The number is.</description>
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