A Couple More Ways to Make Extra Money

Here are two additional money making suggestions left as comments on my post titled 11 Great Ways to Earn More Money. The first suggests renting out a portion of your home:

I live alone in a large house. I'll rent out rooms to people from my company who are visiting from over seas for a few months. It's cheaper for the company than a hotel and the employee gets a more cultural experience living in a real American neighborhood.

BTW, you can also rent out a portion of the home to allow people to store their stuff. There's big business in those storage lockers you see all over the place!

Next, here's a tip I love:

I would suggest becoming a referee (youth or adult) in a sport you enjoy. There is always a need. The pay is usually a bit higher than minimum wage, and the time commitment is totally up to you.

A bit above minimum wage? The refs for my son's basketball team get paid $35 per game for less than an hour's work. They can ref three games a night at the same facility, so they can make some good income if they ref several nights each season.

BTW, being an official also helps you physically as you're running/walking for much of the time. (Especially at the end, when you have to run from upset parents!) ;-)

Finally, here's a testimony for the missing money site I noted in the post:

I was bored at work, so I went to the link for Missing Money and searched for me--nothing. You DID help my sister out a lot, though. She lived in New Orleans during the hurricane and as it turns out, never got her last check from her employer. She just got back an extra $900 owed to her thanks to your post. :-)

Wow! $900 for about two-minutes of work! Not bad at all!

Comments

[Brian]

I really like that tip about becomming a referee? How do you go about doing so?

[FMF]

Brian --

Depends on the type of referee you want to become. Some suggestions:

http://www.refblog.com/pivot/entry.php?id=6

http://www.naso.org/BeOfficial/

http://www.dallasref.com/how_to_join.htm

[Brian]

Probably just for the local games, nothing professional. I always loved basketball, this sounds like a great opportunity. Thanks for the quick response, I'll try to look into it some more.