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1. Energy patrol. You go around to homes to check for all the simplest things that are wasting energy. And you fix them. Two hundred dollars per visit and an average savings of $100 per year in energy costs.
2. Landscaping. A lot of people buy homes and repair them and sell them. One part of the home that is usually not changed to much is the landscaping. But for some of the higher end homes I think that a good landscaping job can make a huge difference in the value. It's a big part of the difference between a home and a manor . . .
3. Garden Design. A given home has areas that are shaded by different amounts, that are exposed to different water conditions, etc. If you determine what plants thrive under what conditions in your city then once you have a map of the home and the trees etc. you could come up with a design for a garden that could thrive. A little planning might go a long way.
4. Solar Patch. You could sell a little patch that interacts with UV light. That patch could be worn by people outside. When their UV exposure gets to a certain point they know it is time for a change. Or if they are sunbathers they know its time to roll over.
5. Educational Supplies by Subscription. Instead of having every home with devoted parents becoming full of educational supplies (like arrays of counting beads, letters, texts, etc.) you could pool many parents together and they could check out items as they are needed. (Thanks Gina!)
6. Applesauce. Gina makes killer applesauce. We could make quintuple and sell it. Then more.
7. Magnets. There is really no cooler toy than a magnet (or, better, a collection of them) for adults or kids. These things need to be promoted and given to every kid and most adults in a lot of forms. Why aren't there way more magnets in homes? Why aren't there cool magnetic toys on most of the desks in most of the offices in the US?
8. Scrap book makers. Give us your messed up piles of photos and documents and we'll make cool family books out of them. (Thanks Gina!)