“Unlock the Secrets: 57 People Share Their Surprising Easiest Money-Making Hacks!”
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#18
Modeling in a secondary market (aka not NYC or LA). $2000 a day to be pampered, fed and told you’re pretty.
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#19
I wrote a throwaway script in half an hour for a coworker that singlehandedly got me a $20,000 bonus.
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#20
My parents lived on a 17 acre tract in North Raleigh. It was on the county tax rolls valued at $500,000. They had paid just $250,000 for it 10 years earlier and my dad was convinced it was overvalued. He had appealed the value but lost.
He called me one day to say that he was going to sell out, “some fool” had offered him the same price as the tax value. I asked what the property had appraised for, and he said he didn’t have it appraised, anyone knew it was not worth the offer price.
I offered that I would pay for an appraisal just to satisfy my curiosity. If the appraisal is higher, we can split the difference 50/50. We got the appraisal and it was double the offer. My dad said there’s no way it would sell for that.
I said humor me, it costs nothing to find out, we just put a For Sale sign in the front yard.
I said let the process run out, it sold for more than the appraisal and I made $250,000.
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#21
I started a blog about 15 years ago about a topic that was interesting to me. It didn’t get much traffic for about 4-5 years… then it took off.
I estimate it’s made a total of about $2,000,000 in pre-tax profit since around 2015.
My best year was $470,000.
But here’s the thing… a lot of the time it was mostly passive income. Don’t get me wrong, I worked on it a lot but I’d also go 3-6 months without touching it and it would still bring in $20k+/month.