Without working on the job-site, needing 15+ years of experience, or even tons of capital
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Why Contracting Arbitrage?
Instead of spending 20 years in the trades working for someone else’s dream, you become the owner. You connect homeowners who need a project done with the tradesmen who can do it, and keep around 30% for putting the whole thing together.
No Decades of Experience Needed
You don't need to be a chef to own a restaurant. Owning a contracting company is a different skill than working in one. I built mine at 19.
Never Touch the Job-Site
You find the project and sign the contract. Experienced, licensed tradesmen do the labor. You run the show.
The Market Is Wide Open
The guys who own this industry are 50, 60 and retiring. They can't run ads or sell online. Young guys who can are taking over.
Find the project
Get homeowners who need renovations, remodels, and home projects to come to you.
Hire the crew
Bring in experienced subcontractors from your list to complete the work.
Keep the margin
Take home around 30% on $20K–$500K projects for putting it all together.
Being The Laborer vs. Owning The Trades
See the difference between staying the labor and becoming the owner.
Hourly work has a ceiling. Owning the margin on the project does not.
- Old way: Trading your body for a capped hourly wage. New way: Keeping the margin on $20K–$500K projects.
- Old way: Waiting 10–20 years to “get enough experience”. New way: Starting now, because owning is a different skill than laboring.
- Old way: Someone else's schedule, someone else's dream. New way: Your company, your hours, your name on the truck.
- Old way: Chasing dropshipping, day trading, and “online business”. New way: A real, physical business with demand that never disappears.
- Old way: The money stops the day your body gives out. New way: Your subs do the labor, you run the show.
From Laborer at 19
to a $100K+/Month Contracting Company
Anthony Stalteri
Founder & CEOMy name is Anthony Stalteri.
Straight out of high school, I went into the trades. No college degree, nothing to fall back on. It felt like the safe play.
Up at 6AM, 10-hour days on site, a boss always hanging over me, coming home too drained to do anything. Then waking up and doing it all over again. I'd look around and see 50-year-old dads still out there trading their time for a paycheck.
I knew I didn't want that to be me.
So I tried what everyone tries. Dropshipping, remote sales, even day trading. I lost money on courses and my own capital, competing with thousands of people chasing the same thing.
Then one day my boss pulled up to the job-site in a brand new Lamborghini, while the rest of us pulled up in Hondas. That's when it hit me: working the trades and owning the trades are two completely different games.
So I started on the side, with $200 and while keeping my job. I found homeowners who needed work done and hired the guys who could do it. My first month I signed a $14,000 bathroom reno and walked away with about $5,000. Month two, $40K. Month three, $80K.
Today my company does $100K–$200K a month, and I never touch the job-site. I hire subcontractors to do the work and work with clients double my age.
Now I'm showing other young blue collar guys how to do the same thing, without the years of trial and error.
Think Contracting Arbitrage Could Be Right for You?
Book your call and see what building this in your local market could look like.
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No. Running a contracting company is a different skill than working in one, and the marketing, sales, and quoting are systems you get handed inside. No experience just means no bad habits to unlearn.
You're the middleman between homeowners who need a project done and the tradesmen who can do it. You sign the project, hire the labor, and keep around 30% for putting it together.
To be completely honest, it depends. I started with $200 for registration, business cards, and a little marketing, but it took me months longer to figure out than I wish it had. If I had money to invest upfront I would've been 5 times further than I am right now. That being said, aim to have at least mid 4-figures to start if you want to see results the quickest.
No. You build this on the side and keep your paycheck until the business stands on its own.
It depends where you live. A lot of US states and all of Canada need none to start, and stricter states have workarounds we'll map out with you on the call.
The demand is always there. The guys holding the market are retiring and can't market or sell, so young guys who can are the ones taking over.
If it's high-ticket, like plumbing, HVAC, electrical, renovations, construction, or roofing, yes. Low-ticket work like cleaning or lawn care has margins too thin to be worth it.
You'll book a strategy call with me or someone on my team who's actually running contracting arbitrage. We'll look at your situation and your local market and map out what starting this would look like for you.