Building and selling computers

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Except those are probably student licenses. Either way, the school is paying for it and then you're reselling it. It's not really kosher. If you had a reseller's permit, you would be able to go to a distributer (like CDW) and buy software and hardware at wholesale prices. You would then resell that and charge sales tax to your customers. You would then report your sales to the government on a quarterly basis and pay sales tax.

Of course, doing all of that legitimately makes it extremely difficult to compete with larger companies that do the same thing but at a massive scale. They can get greatly reduced pricing because they are buying in bulk. When you go to CDW and buy a single motherboard, you aren't really getting much of a discount.

This was a bad industry to try to get started in 5-10 years ago. My brother got started in IT doing exactly what we're talking about here. He eventually realized what I'm telling you and started just suggesting that people use Dell or an equivilant. He started focusing more on the IT support and service. The big money was in setting up servers and infrastructure. He eventually started to try to get into managed services (in other words monitoring and managing entire networks) but then the industry switched gears towards the cloud, and little IT companies basically have nothing to do in that model. If anything, the shift is that IT companies act more as consultants. Basically managing all of the different cloud services and recommending what services to use. That sort of thing. But that is extremely difficult to sell since it is pretty easy to manage as a non-IT person.

Honestly, start looking at real estate. The real estate and property management industry is booming right now. There are so many available homes that are being bought up and rented out. There is so much that there can't really be enough competition.

But, good luck with you computer thing.