[berettafan]

HVAC means you're laying out big $$ for systems sometimes before being paid.

Roofing and framing require crews of immigrants and severely high workers comp costs.

Custom cabinetry if you are building from scratch can put you in some very nice homes with nice markup BUT you better be a darned good craftsman. Reselling cabinets is high inventory cost and can be very low profit.

In all cases i'd recommend strongly to avoid working too much for builders.

I think there is a strong market for small shop electricians and plumbers who charge reasonable prices as the trend seems to be for small companies to adopt high $$ marketing tools (lead generators) and the resulting massive increase in price and high pressure chase of recurring revenue via service contracts requires large amounts of capital and a comfort level selling people things they don't need.


With all of that said if i knew how to build a house and could manage effective QC amongst the trades on the job i'd be looking to eventually build a few specs a year as a side gig.