45 minutes. $175. Repeat all spring...

Spring is when the money starts moving.

Courses open back up. Schools sprint toward the finish line. Gutters fill up overnight. Garages get cleaned out. And every one of those moments is someone else's opportunity if you know where to look.

This issue covers four dashes that are perfectly timed for right now — but are not limited to right now. Each one of them has legs well beyond spring, a low barrier to entry, and a realistic path to your first dollar inside of two weeks.

One requires zero dollars to start. One turns a $60 garage sale find into a $280 eBay listing. One has homeowners calling you before you even finish setting up your profile. And one builds a catalog that keeps selling long after you stop working on it.

No fluff. No hype. Just the model, the numbers, and what it actually takes.

Let's get into it.

Spring is when the orders flood in. Youth sports leagues finalizing uniforms. Schools wrapping up the year with spirit gear. Small businesses ordering shirts for summer events. Nonprofits gearing up for 5K runs. Every single one of them needs custom apparel, and most of them have no idea where to start - so they Google it, land on a local shop, and pay whatever price they're quoted.

You don't need a shop. You don't need a press. You don't even need inventory. The model that actually works for beginners in 2025 is the middleman-plus-customization play - you take the order, collect the deposit, source through a wholesale decorator like Printbest, S&S Activewear, or a local contract screen printer, and pocket the margin. Once volume justifies it, a Cricut or a direct-to-film (DTF) printer brings the production in-house and margins jump significantly.

The real money is not in one-off orders. It's in recurring clients. A Little League coordinator who loves working with you becomes 200 shirts per season, every season.

There are 7 million teachers in the United States alone, and the majority of them spend their own money building their classrooms. They are also drowning in the final stretch of the school year - end-of-year projects, state testing prep, report card season, and field day planning all hitting at once. Teachers Pay Teachers exists because of this exact problem. It is a marketplace where educators buy ready-made lesson plans, worksheets, activity packets, and classroom resources so they do not have to build everything from scratch.

You do not need to be a teacher to sell here. You need to understand what teachers need and be willing to build clean, useful materials in Canva or Google Slides. A well-designed end-of-year memory book template, a testing prep packet, or a summer bridge activity worksheet can sell for $3 to $8 per download - and once it is listed, it sells while you sleep. The top sellers on the platform have catalogs of 50 to 200 products that generate $5,000 to $15,000 per month in mostly passive income. You are not starting there. But you could start this week with three products and have your first sale before the month is out.

Spring is the single best time to enter this market. End-of-year content, awards ceremonies, graduation themed materials, and summer activity packets are all actively searched right now.

Most homeowners think about their gutters twice a year - when a neighbor mentions it or when water starts running down the side of their house instead of through the downspout. Spring is the moment it becomes urgent. A winter's worth of debris plus the first heavy rains create clogged gutters, water damage, and flooded basements. The calls come in fast and the jobs take 45 minutes to two hours. Nobody is doing this for fun. They are paying someone to do it so they do not have to climb a ladder.

This is one of the cleanest entry-level service businesses that exists. The equipment fits in the back of any car. A basic gutter cleaning kit - a blower attachment or a gutter scoop and a bucket - costs $30 to $60. You do not need a truck, a trailer, or a crew. You need a way to get up and a way to get the word out. The first three jobs come from NextDoor, neighborhood Facebook groups, and door hangers on streets with older homes and mature trees. After that, referrals and repeat bookings carry the business.

Average job price runs $100 to $250 for a single-story home and $175 to $350 for a two-story. Do four jobs on a Saturday and you have cleared $500 to $900 in a single day.

Every April, people dust off their clubs. Some of them realize they have been playing with a set that is two equipment generations behind, and they go buy new gear. Their old clubs go in the garage - until someone convinces them to list it, or they drop it at a thrift store, or a reseller picks it up for $40 at an estate sale and flips it for $280 on eBay. Golf equipment is one of the most consistently profitable resale categories in the country because the buyers are serious, the price points are high, and the demand spikes every single spring when courses reopen and the itch to play kicks back in.

The model is straightforward. You source clubs, bags, rangefinders, and pushcarts from Facebook Marketplace, thrift stores, estate sales, and garage sales. You clean them up, photograph them properly, and list them on eBay, which has the deepest pool of golf buyers in any online resale marketplace. A scratched but functional set of Titleist irons that cost you $60 at a garage sale lists for $180 to $300. A quality rangefinder picked up for $25 at an estate sale sells for $90 to $140. The margins are real and the category is not oversaturated the way sneakers and electronics are.

The people who do best in this niche learn one brand deeply - Titleist, Callaway, TaylorMade - and become the go-to seller for that brand's buyers.

Four new dashes. Four real paths. All of them available to anyone willing to take the first step this week.

As always, the full breakdowns - the exact sourcing strategies, the pricing frameworks, the scripts, the platforms, and the first 30-day plans - are free inside the Dash To Cash Skool community until the next issue drops. After that they move to the Vault.

If you got value from this issue, forward it to one person who needs a new income stream right now. Spring is the best time to start something. The people who act in April are the ones posting results in June.

The full breakdown for each Dash is inside the free Dash To Cash community on Skool right now. Step-by-step instructions, real numbers, tool lists, and a 30-day action plan for every one. Every member gets access to the complete issue free until the next one drops. After that it moves into the Vault.

See you next issue.

Los & Murph
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