Tuesday, June 03, 2025

after a decade of nursing, Desiree Hill pivoted away from the Atlanta commuting, (3 hours a day wasted stuck in traffic) and a high stress job, to start a garage far closer to her home. Today, Hill is the owner of Crown's Corner Mechanic — an auto repair shop in Conyers, Georgia





Hill started fixing cars in 2019 with no prior mechanic or entrepreneurship experience, teaching herself through YouTube videos and involving her family. Her 10-year-old daughter recently built a motor, and her son is a mechanic in the U.S. Army, stationed in South Korea for the past 3 years. 

In her first year, 2020, she bought, fixed and sold 38 cars, which made her around $100,000 she says.

In June 2021, Hill decided to additionally work on other people's vehicles as a mobile mechanic, traveling to customers to fix their vehicles. She spent a "couple thousand dollars" on her business license, auto tools, website, advertising and billing software, she says.

Hill brought in about $13,000 as a mechanic in six months, she says. She documented her repair jobs on TikTok, which brought a wave of new clients her way. In Spring 2022, she stopped flipping cars and rented a garage at a local repair shop to keep up with demand, and quickly outgrew that space, too.

In September 2023, Hill began renting Crown's Corner Mechanic's 9,000-square-foot space, initially receiving two months prorated before paying $6,375 monthly. She brought on a mechanic, a welder and a towing professional, each renting space in her shop, covering about half of the now $6,566 monthly rent. "It was the smartest thing I could have ever done."

In the meantime, she plans to keep growing her clientele through social media and one day get a mechanical engineering degree, preferably through a flexible, online program.

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