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Unit economics
Pricing from a blank sheet, not a vendor's spreadsheet
Building, running + growing a bounce house company in the United States
Unit economics, insurance exclusions, state-by-state regs, DOT thresholds, Section 179, safety programs, pricing, scaling — 38 chapters and 7 appendices, sourced + dated. The kind of book usually written by someone selling you something — except nobody's selling you anything in this one.
Pricing from a blank sheet, not a vendor's spreadsheet
State-by-state, honest about the 22 states nobody has published
The exclusions that leave inflatable operators uncovered
What defends you after an incident
The thresholds that only bite at scale
Worker rules the DOL rewrote in 2024
The numbers that tell you if it works
Section 179 and the lessor limitation nobody warns you about
What to look for — a capability test, not a sales pitch
Plus Appendices A–G: regulatory table, safety forms, contract annotation, insurance checklist, worksheets, DOT reference, glossary.
Every safety threshold, legal rule and tax figure is traced to the agency or standard it came from. Every operating number without a published source says so, and shows you how to produce your own from your own records.
This is not legal, insurance, tax or engineering advice. Standards and law change (several did while this book was being written). Verify everything with your own attorney, broker, CPA and state agency.
Chapter 37 names competing products and lists what each publishes about price and features — including Get Rental Flow, treated by the same test as everyone else. Research completed October 9, 2026.
Get Rental Flow (the software described in Chapter 37) is $99/month flat, with AI that answers the phone + plans the Saturday routes. Try it alongside the manual — it's how we test what we wrote.