Buying A Pool Route Business

[poolsrus]

Finding myself suddenly and unexpectedly out of a career after 32 years, so I'm looking to buy a job, so to speak.

I've been self employed since 1978, and now I self unemployed.

So I've been drawn to some of the many pool service routes or lawn service routes I see advertised.

There are also biz brokers who seem to have quite a few of these.

Does anyone here have any suggestions?

Thanks for reading.

[spaguy007]

Finding myself suddenly and unexpectedly out of a career after 32 years, so I'm looking to buy a job, so to speak.

I've been self employed since 1978, and now I self unemployed.

So I've been drawn to some of the many pool service routes or lawn service routes I see advertised.

There are also biz brokers who seem to have quite a few of these.

Does anyone here have any suggestions?

Thanks for reading.

So if you do not know much about the swimming pool business your better sit down and really study it as there are many ways to make money in it but when the economy is doing bad usually the pool business is too because people don't spend what they are not making and money is tight these days, also the cost of buying one of those routes is usually over inflated and pretty hard to justify the cost, iv'e been doing this for 30 years and though its rewarding it also too can be a real headache when your competing with someone who doesn't have a clue as to what their doing, Just be careful. most routes worth maybe 50,000 and he needs 100 clients at that,

[AFiremanFirst]

Wow! There is alot of material to cover. I would encourage you to work for a someone who owns a pool route first! The pay isn't horrible and once you have your feet under you, you can begin to build your own customer base. I would also recommend finding a good go to service guy for the things you don't understand, or don't have time to handle. A bad repair will set you back further than a steep bill from "someone else". The pool service industry is a profitable industry, but you don't get rich quick, and there is a huge learning curve! I got out of lawn and landscape because it was so seasonal, however, it was easy, and finding help when I needed it was considerably easier than pools.

[PoolStar]

I got into the pool service business by buying a small route of 30 accounts and it has worked out well, i got up to 100 accounts which was to many for one person to service so i sold 2 routes of 15 accounts each. You don't have to buy from a broker there are sites out there of you search for "pool routes" that you can buy from private sellers and most of the time its at a lower price than buying via a broker. Great business and gives you allot of freedom.