Student Entrepreneur Provides Mobile Laundry Service

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Student Entrepreneur Provides Mobile Laundry Service

November 26, 2006 by Rich Whittle | 4 Comments

Tuskegee University:

Times haven’t changed much. Freshmen attend college miles away from home with little money, no transportation and using what little time they have after studies doing that dreaded laundry.

Tuskegee University student Bernard Height, a junior sales and marketing major from Redlands, Calif., came up with a solution.

Height, 20, made a dream reality by starting his own business – Advantage Plus, a mobile laundry and dry-cleaning business. The business that he started as a freshman caters to students, staff, faculty and the local community in Tuskegee and Auburn, Ala.

Advantage Plus began with three clients and now services about 350 clients a week. Yet, the laundry service wasn’t Height’s first business venture on campus. He started off with Cutting Edge Barbershop, a mobile hair-cutting service. “I would go to every dorm on campus, and that’s how I figured I could start another business,” Height said.

It’s nonstop work for Height. When he gets out of class at 3 p.m., he goes straight to work and gets off late in the evening. “I stay busy,” he added.

Photo by Tuskegee University.

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