Houses, barns, concrete, fleets — with a real machine, not the box-store toy. In Elwood — Madison County, from Main Street out to the county line — a one-person pressure washing shop costs a flat $2,000 to set up — same as every other trade. Season: March–October. Here's the whole thing, itemized the way a neighbor would do it.
| The build — Indiana LLC + EIN, website with booking & card payments, business phone line (12 months), your .com & private email, brand, cards, flyer, yard sign, the trade playbook | $1,800 |
| Indiana LLC filing (paid straight to the state) | $100 |
| The card company's cut, in the open | $100 |
| THE BARN — same price, every trade | $2,000 |
| Your gear situation | Roughly |
|---|---|
| Commercial machine, ready | $350 |
| Box-store unit — needs upgrading | $800 |
| Need the machine | $950 |
1 · Where's your gear at?
2 · If you asked everybody — family, church, work, the group chat — how many would hear you out?
The build fee is our flat price — one package, every trade, itemized above; we publish it because a neighbor would. The state line is Indiana's LLC filing (filed through INBiz; we pay it directly and round to $100). The card company's cut is 2.9% + 30¢ a board, grossed into the goal in the open instead of skimmed in the dark. Gear figures are 2026 market ranges for used-and-serviceable equipment around east-central Indiana, rounded — your county and your patience can beat them. The one number we will never print is what you'll make: nobody honest can tell you that.
This is the part nobody's offered before: the whole amount is raised by your own people — family, church, the group chat — barn-raising style, $25 boards to $500 cupolas. If your people carry the barn, you don't pay a dollar for your own business. And you never touch the money: every board is paid to Hoosier Online, who does the building, so nobody has to hand cash to a friend and hope. Each dollar buys the next piece — the logo, the website, the .com, the phone line, the LLC. You do the work; the name on the door is yours; you keep 100%.
The business itself — Indiana LLC + EIN, website, your .com, a business phone line, cards, brand, card payments switched on — is a flat $2,000, the same for every trade, itemized line by line above. Your gear is separate and stays your own.
No. The whole amount is raised by your own family and friends, barn-raising style, in boards from $25. The first $99 breaks ground: your own .com registered in your name — and at half the barn you are already a registered Indiana business. If your people carry the barn, you don't pay a dollar for your own business. Opening a barn raising costs $0 — and you never handle the money at all: every board is paid to Hoosier Online, who does the building.
It stops where it stopped, and everything already paid for still stands — the name, the logo, the website, whatever the money reached. Boards are not refundable, and we say so plainly before anybody gives: nothing sits in a pot, every dollar is spent building the next piece the day it lands.
A real Indiana LLC with your name on the state record, your own .com and private email, a website with booking and card payments, a business phone line that answers and books jobs, cards with OWNER under your name, and the licensing paperwork walked through step by step.
Other shops folks start in Elwood: Mow & Plow Route · Junk Hauling · Deer Processing
Pressure Washing costs elsewhere: Anderson · Muncie · Richmond
All fourteen businesses, priced: the catalog
The whole table, machine-readable: indiana.csv — free to cite, link appreciated