Hey Twitch,
if you can get in with a builder or two it can help a lot. You can make money up front doing the prewires (even a basic prewire job with 4 each of coax, phone, network, alarm, and speaker can work out well). Later, you can sell the termination end of it to the homebuyer. If you can, set up two or three "packages" with the builder - basic, extra, and deluxe, where basic is just prewires, and deluxe includes all terminations, jumpers, and equipment like routers etc. It's sometimes easier for homebuyers to get a package instead of picking and choosing.
Doing a deal with a builder can also help forecast your work, rather than hoping you get some work next week. Just make sure you deal with a reputable builder - there are lots out there that will leave you hanging. You can eventually get it via lawsuits, etc, but you could be broke by then. That's where one-time jobs are nice - cash in your pocket right away.
You can check out the BICSI website for info...also TIA online, even manufacturers like Belden have a lot of online stuff.
As far as legal business stuff, have you checked with your local business association? Up here in the Great White North, the local chambers of commerce have mentoring programs where retired or semi-retired business people will give new entrepreneurs advice and help - for free! Anytime you can talk to someone that has been through it all, it will save you time and money. If oyu don't take care of the administrative details up front, you'll end up with one guy doing the installs and the other doing paperwork.
Good luck!
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