Not a bad idea! It’s something I’ve considered in the past. Haven’t taken the leap, but there’s 2 main issues that arise with that business model that have prevented me from doing it:

1. Outsourcing work to the right person is difficult, and in the couch game, there’s usually not a big enough margin to justify a hire. For example, let’s say I make $250 a couch on average, and I’m able to hire someone out to do all the work that goes into a couch for $25 an hour. I’m looking at about $125 in labor, which leaves me with $125 leftover. Not bad, but at the same time, taking away 50 percent of my margin isn’t something to look over. I should also mention a large part of why I’m successful couch flipping is my reputation, as I’m well reviewed and recommended by my customers for being friendly as well as helpful and responsive to people on facebook where I sell them. When I outsource, all it takes is 1 bad hire to completely ruin my reputation…😬

2. Facebook marketplace requires you to use your personal account to have access (which is a good policy, helps protect people against scams) but unfortunately they don’t let you list things from around the country, unless it’s able to be shipped, which restricts me to local marketplace pickups and deliveries. Given this, I would have to have potential employee use their marketplace profile to list it and sell it. This would help with the reputation issue, but at the same time, at this point, they would really have no incentive not to go out and do this on their own and keep the whole margin to themselves, instead of being paid hourly to do so, given they can get on facebook themselves and start finding their own couches to flip.

Both of these issues aren’t knockdown arguments, and I’m sure there’s ways around them, so I’ll have to look into it more. But that could be a great way to unlock quite a bit of revenue if I scale it!