TweetDave, if you want my personal opinion, booze is always a way to go. Open up a beer distributor. I have several beer distributor who are clients. They rake in over $175,000 a year. You work from 10:00 to 9:00pm, you sell beer, lottery tickets, some cigarettes, etc... It's easy money. Aside from Jewelry, that is the 2nd most interested business I would like to get into. You can never go wrong with beer. See if this guy is interested in going in with you on a distributor. You would probably need $200K to start up.