@cnbcmakeit: In 2019, medical assistant Desiree Hill sought to increase her income by starting a side hustle. She began buying and renovating run-down vehicles to sell for profit, despite not knowing how to change her own car’s oil, she says. Hill watched tutorials on YouTube about how to fix or change certain car parts, or diagnose various vehicle problems. Hill stayed up until 3 a.m. nightly fixing #cars , waking up at 6 a.m. to get back to the hospital. After 15 months of minimal sleep and time with her kids, she quit her hospital job around January 2020. Over the next year, she bought, fixed and sold 38 cars, which made her around $100,000 she says. In June 2021, Hill decided to additionally work on other people’s vehicles as a mobile #mechanic , traveling to customers to fix their vehicles. Hill brought in about $13,000 as a mechanic in six months, she says. She documented her repair jobs on TikTok, which brought a wave of new clients her way. In Spring 2022, she stopped flipping cars and rented a garage at a local repair shop to keep up with demand, and quickly outgrew that space, too. Today, Hill is the owner of Crown’s Corner Mechanic. Her company brought in nearly $440,000 in net revenue last year, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. Take a look at how she built her #business into what it is today at the link in bio.

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