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Own a hair salon franchise run by a manager

Owns a franchise hair salon that is managed day to day by someone else.

At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
Category
Services and freelancing
63% sure
x
Earns from
RentLow confidence
28% sure
x
Startup cost (estimate)
Over $10k
93% sure
x
Time it takes (estimate)
Hands-off
83% sure
x
Where
In person
76% sure
x
Coding
No coding needed
99% sure
x
Source
Hacker NewsComment by imroot in “Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?”, October 29, 2019

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