If We Started Over Today, These Are the Businesses We'd Buy

**John Wilson** (0:00)
Today, we're talking about if you had to start over today, what home service business would you choose?

**Jack Carr** (0:05)
I mean, those are hard answers.

**John Wilson** (0:06)
It's very easy to like just complicate your life with a bunch of small sh**.

**Jack Carr** (0:09)
What I would look for is recurring revenue as a base.

**John Wilson** (0:12)
Dude, I actually might do restoration.

**Jack Carr** (0:14)
That's a good one. Yeah.

**John Wilson** (0:15)
Should we go buy a bunch of great clips franchises? People are always going to freaking get their hair cut.

**Jack Carr** (0:19)
Not me, son. Not me. Never again.

**John Wilson** (0:22)
You're out of the market.

**Jack Carr** (0:23)
I have one that you have not mentioned. This is probably the direction that I would go if I started over from scratch tomorrow. Sup?

**John Wilson** (0:37)
Welcome back to Owned and Operated, a top 150 business entrepreneurship podcast. I'm your host, John Wilson. And on this show, we talk about the home service industry and how to grow your business within it.
I'm joined by my good friend and co-host, Jack Carr, the host of Podcast Jackquisitions, which I think today is 113, bro. 113

**Jack Carr** (0:56)
Yeah, we're gonna break back under 100

**John Wilson** (0:58)
You and, you and, I keep wanting to say Grant Cardone, but it's like, who's, Tony, it's you and Tony Robbins.

**Jack Carr** (1:04)
Tony Robbins. That's like my, he's the guy I'm chasing right now.

**John Wilson** (1:08)
Yeah. In addition to beating me on the internet with a podcast idea, you put it on the fucking whiteboard.

**Jack Carr** (1:18)
Yes.

**John Wilson** (1:19)
Okay, this is cute. Okay. In addition to beating me currently in our podcast rankings, unofficial game, Jack, his sales at his company were larger yesterday than the sales at my company and Jack's company is smaller. So like there's no reason that that should be the case.

**Jack Carr** (1:43)
Yes.

**John Wilson** (1:44)
So we also set a double egg in face today. Double.

**Jack Carr** (1:49)
It's a big win for me because on one side it's, hey, you set a record in sales. On another side, it's also more than you did.
So yeah, it is, dude.

**John Wilson** (1:59)
Yeah. I mean, you guys killed it.

**Jack Carr** (2:02)
Yeah, we did really well.

**John Wilson** (2:03)
You guys killed it. Because this was all time record, right?

**Jack Carr** (2:06)
Yeah. We had three people in HVAC. Absolutely doing amazing. Then plumbing stepped up and electrical stepped up. Like it just was a day. So that's awesome. We I'm more excited like just because again, from a numerical standpoint, like 100 is just a big chase point. And we were 14 away, which is like really one sale. Like you were basically one sale away from 100, which is, I mean, for people, I mean, everybody listening, you guys understand the amount that we've done in a day was like one eighth of my first year, one seventh of my first year.

**John Wilson** (2:40)
Totally.

**Jack Carr** (2:40)
You know what I mean? Like in a week, we are doing our first year's revenue now and four years later. So it's like, you know, you get excited about this stuff just because like when you compare it to yourself four years ago.

**John Wilson** (2:53)
Yeah, it's a clear progression like this this year or this month. We're going to do more revenue than we did in 2019

**Jack Carr** (3:02)
Yeah, like that's wild.

**John Wilson** (3:04)
That's cool. All right. Hell, yeah. So today we're talking about this is actually a we did this episode a couple of years ago, and it has I'm being told is our most popular post on our website.

**Jack Carr** (3:18)
Well, that's cool.

**John Wilson** (3:19)
I can't even think of a good joke. OK, so yeah, and it's the best home service businesses to start in 2026 So we're talking about I think we're it's like a bunch of different opportunities. We're going to rank them, which are kind of fun. And then ones that we totally hate. OK, if so, our concept here is if you had to start over today, what home service business would you choose?
OK, or just the one with the best chance of building a great company over the next 10 years? Either one of those prompts.

**Jack Carr** (3:53)
So you just did an episode on. Who's scooping poop scooping? Is that your answer?

**John Wilson** (3:59)
That is a great business.

**Jack Carr** (4:00)
I'm honestly business. I hate that business.

**John Wilson** (4:03)
Oh, my God, I loved it. I think it's I think it's such a funny business. I think.