You got any money to invest? If so, how much is electricity up there? Could build yourself a little mining farm inside there and mine some cryptocurrencies. If you don't want to go that route I'd think what you have mentioned is a great idea. There's no reason you couldn't do it, and since you live in NY you'll be able to turn things over quickly. I actually know a dude that used to literally drive around on garbage night and pick up random nice looking items and furniture that people were throwing away. He was selling it on CL for basically 100% profit since it was put out to the curb. We live in south Florida and people have a little money down here so they throw away all kinds of stuff that's perfectly fine still he'd say. Anyway though, he made a nice little chunk of change doing that. He was able to pay for his condo, car payment, and other bills. He wasn't going to retire off of it anytime soon, but I think you should definitely give it a shot and see how it goes. There's money to be made for sure.