Is It Realistic?

NO, not unless you have startup capital that will buy you some telemarketing and ads including fliers door-to-door.  

Assuming you do 2 jobs per day and that it takes 4 days to get 3 days worth of work so that is 6 jobs per week.

Assuming you work only 50 weeks a year.

That is an average of $100 per job with a porty and a rotovac or whatever rotowand you are referring to. 

You are new.  Going up against how many cleaners?  Do you think you can land 6 jobs per week just starting? 

And what if you could sell them on scotchgard?  Fast and cheap addon.  Let's say you give that away at $100.  Now you need 3 of those jobs per week.  Can you do that?

This is like sales.  It is either the hardest work with the best pay or it is the easiest effort with the lowest pay. 

Your chances with any business are complete failure 95% of the time within the first 3 years.  Not from under capitalization, from piss poor management.

Do you have what it takes and do you have a family willing to get behind you and help you?  If not, put your money into something like SMC and sell wholesale to stores in your state.  That might be a better fit for your sales talent with less risk and good residual.

Good luck

I think u can make 30,000 if u believe in yourself.I just got into carpet cleaning and i got about 10,000 in jobs with word of mouth in two months and have repeat cleaning already set up.. i own a cleaning company for ten years so have some know how....my goal is to clear 50,000 in the first year...I have never put my name in the phone book or even on my van and have made a good living for myself so go for it .....

Aaron its not easy to start up but u have to go into it with big ass balls and go for it dont let people talk u out of it i had everyone tell me ten years ago not to start my biz and know i work 3 hours a night and make more then they do so while im golfing all day and they are working im loving it...Same thing with carpet cleaning i got about 1,000 dollars in over head no one thought i could break even each month...so far im doing what i thought i would do and on my way to the bank to cash a ckeck that most of my freinds cant make in two months i made in one weekend...

It is very possible to do 30K in the first year, I did, If you have sales experience more power to you. Most people that get into the business have no idea how to sell. Focus on commercial accounts and the rest will follow. If you have to, pick up a part time job that you work your schedule around for cleaning. Good luck to you!

In my area, with good advertising, we had many days where we made well over $500 a day per technician.  It was a lucrative business, but not a physically easy one.