How to start your own appliance repair business and earn income
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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I can’t believe it’s been six months since I successfully started my appliance repair business! I am surprised at some of the things I have learned along the way. Many things have been easier than I thought, and a few harder. Here are a few things I have observed so far: Overall I have surprised …
With a few service calls under my belt, I am finally starting to get past my initial fear of going into other people’s homes and fixing some appliance that I have never seen before. Honestly, I have a long way to go before I feel totally comfortable, but I was surprised at just how nervous …
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OK, I admit it, I’m a bit of a control freak. I spend my life organizing and planning the events of my day. When studying appliance repair, I found myself choosing to study the appliances that I thought would be most in demand for repair FIRST and the least likely to get service calls LAST. …
Not only did I get my first repeat customer call, but it came from my first ever customer It was for the same appliance that I serviced just a few weeks earlier – the good news is the problem was unrelated to my first repair. After the first call, this guy thought I was a …
Another service call came in, but this one threw me way off! Customer says she has a GE microwave that is dead and wants to know if I can come to take a look at it. I kept a cool tone, but my stomach was in a spin. I knew I hadn’t touched ANY of …
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It was a conspiracy of ironic bad luck that sent me on my second ever service call. I had no idea when I rang the doorbell just how challenging fate was going to make my next experience. It was not because the customer was some terrible jerk that demanded unreasonable results with no intention of paying …
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The part came to Fedex at around 1:00 PM the next day. I called the customer and arranged to come by at 2:00 PM. When I got there, the customer let me find my way to the laundry room – we were old pals by now. There was a load of unwashed laundry in the washer …
Today I got my first real service call. (Thanks to the “dress rehearsal” last Thursday, I wasn’t half as nervous taking this one. ) It was a straightforward call. The customer said his wife had broken the door latch on their Whirlpool Duet washer (GHW9200LW). I told the customer I’d come by at 1:00 PM, and actually got …
On the day before New Year’s Eve, I got my first call off a free directory listing on the internet. The customer said he had a leaking Whirlpool top loader that wouldn’t spin. From my training, I told him the spin problem could be as simple as a broken door latch or at the very …
I still want hands-on experience before I start taking calls because customers give you about 10 minutes to diagnose a problem. That’s one I learned the first day from Uncle Harry – he says they don’t want to see you standing around scratching your head. I have tried to hook up with a local discount appliance sales business that doesn’t …
I had been reading the appliance repair bible Troubleshooting and Repairing Major Appliances, by Eric Kleinert) for about a week, and I realized I needed more practical training. I needed to see a real appliance being worked on, how they figure out what’s wrong with it, get the dang thing open and what they do once they’re inside. More …