All Side Hustle Ideas

Rentals and assets side hustle ideas

Earning from something you own: renting property, rooms, equipment, vehicles, parking, vending machines, domains.

Startup cost
Under $100$100 to $1k$1k to $10kOver $10k
Time
Hands-offA few hours a weekPart-timeNear full-time
Where
OnlineIn personOnline and in person
Earns from
AdsAffiliateSubscriptionsOne-time salesService feesRentMarketplace cutSponsors and donations
Coding
No coding neededNeeds coding

5 ideas

  • Rentals and assets
    Student apartments managed by a rental agency
    Owns apartments rented to students and managed entirely by an agency that finds tenants and handles upkeep, paying a fixed guaranteed income.
    Over $10kHands-off
    Hacker News, 2018
  • Rentals and assets
    Rent out VR headsets through a website
    Bought a VR headset and set up a site where people could rent it. Ranked well on Google for rental searches, then shut it down.
    Hacker News, 2016
  • Rentals and assets
    Buy and sell premium domain names
    Holds a portfolio of valuable domain names and sells them, using brokers to handle the deals. Income comes from large one-off sales.
    Over $10kHands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2016
  • Rentals and assets
    Buy and sell domain names
    Sells domain names from a small portfolio.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2014
  • Rentals and assets
    Cryptocurrency mining rig
    Runs hardware that mines cryptocurrencies.
    $1k to $10kHands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2014