755: The $295k Kids Party Rental Side Hustle

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Thank you so much for having me, Nick.

You bet. Stick around. In this one, we're talking how to get started, how to market and grow your own rental business, mistakes to avoid, and how to get it all done while still holding down a day job. Now, Tayo, my understanding is the business started with a personal pain point. You wanted to find some kid's size chairs for your own son's party, and they just weren't out there.

Yes. So we were planning our son's first birthday, and the theme was First Trip Around the Sun. And kids, kids are very visual, right? You want to immerse them into a world of the theme that you're going for. And I looked around and there was none of the chairs, tables that I thought would go with the theme. So they had a lot of plastic white chairs, but not what I had imagined would make this theme amazing. And so I just said to myself, "What if I brought this to the Bay Area? What if this is something that I could do?" And I went out and did it.

Yeah, you're like, "I can't be the only one," right? I guess there's maybe some, [laughs] some confidence in saying that. So what happens next? You go find the chairs that you're looking for through Amazon, through Alibaba? Like, where do you even go?

Yeah. So I did order some chairs from abroad. We had a basement that was empty. You know, I think it was about 1,000 square feet of storage. So I ordered these chairs. I think it was probably four styles, 20 of each chair. And I set up an Instagram page. I started reaching out to some event planners. Before I knew it, they were reaching out back, and they were asking me for packages, um, that included