The COVID-19 pandemic, among its many consequences, has led to an increased shortage of home appliances. Homeowners have been forced to opt for repairing their appliances as a result. In normal times such a situation would be a welcomed one; however, appliance repair professionals face limited replacement part supplies. The virus’s impact on global production …
Free Appliance Repair Training vs. Paid Training
Free resources are available on the internet, and some of them are very helpful, but paid training can catapult you onto the next level that free training can’t. Free appliance repair training takes longer to accumulate the knowledge that paid training can condense into a much shorter period of time. There is a huge amount of free …
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How to Start an Appliance Repair Business
A few years ago I decided to start a major appliance repair business, and I succeeded. Here’s a recap of how I did it: 1. I looked for appliance repair training, including books, appliance repair training schools, free appliance repair training, and online appliance repair training courses: The best appliance repair book I found was Troubleshooting and Repairing …
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Learning Appliance Repair Online
Appliance repair can actually be learned online. Seems amazing but true that you can actually learn a trade online. How is this possible? Well, I learned it from books just a few years ago and made out just fine. I supplemented my studies with hands-on practice in customer’s homes and gradually got better and faster. …
Amazing appliance repair wizard tool – The perfect technician training tool
Uncle Harry’s amazing appliance repair wizard tool is a patented tablet computer that allows the technician to do many things. Drawing from over 800,000 pages of reference materials, it is very similar to having a huge library at your disposal. It is important to know that the wizard materials do not need to be downloaded; the reference materials are …
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Sears is Going Out of Business! – A Golden Opportunity
Sears has over 7,000 technicians running appliance service calls and those technicians are scared to death that Sears is going under and that they are going to be out of work. This translates into a gold mine for all of the independent appliance repair companies. Customers will be scrambling to find someone to repair all …
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Uncle Harry’s Mobile Appliance Wizard Review
Lack of experience was the hardest obstacle I faced as a new appliance repair technician. Nothing was harder when I started out taking service calls than to be at a customer’s house and literally not be sure what my next move forward was. Back when I started out, the only thing I could do was to study Uncle Harry’s materials ahead of a service call as much …
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What Does it Take to Become an Appliance Repair Pro?
These are the phases I have been through as an appliance repair technician and what it took me to become a pro: PHASE I: AMATEUR While I was a real estate investor, I worked occasionally on appliances in my rental properties to save money so I didn’t have to call a repairman. I fixed maybe …
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For Ex-Retirees Only…
About 3 months after I retired, the Great Recession came down on me like an avalanche and basically wiped out my savings. I could not start over doing what I used to do, which was real estate investing, because the real estate market had crashed, and I had little recent experience doing anything else. I was over …
Review of Uncle Harry’s Appliance Repair Training
I bought Uncle Harry’s appliance repair technician home study course and used it to successfully start my appliance repair business, which I write about in my startup blog. In retrospect, this is how I feel about the value of Uncle Harry’s materials and support. When I started out, I knew absolutely NOTHING about the appliance repair business, and I …
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Starting an Appliance Repair Business on a Shoestring
When I started in appliance repair, I had very little money, so I’m going to tell you the absolute minimum I think you need to get started running service calls. THE SERVICE VEHICLE: Although it is a big advantage to have a traditional service vehicle like a truck, van, or even SUV, I will tell you it is …
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Enter the Stealth Tech
It’s the back half of my second year in the appliance repair business, and I am running at full capacity on service calls all day, every day. I have multiple commercial accounts, one of which is a 600 unit planned development complex that keeps me pretty busy all by itself. My wife now works full …