That 54k is in addition to the money I made from my fellowship at the university in that time, the money I saved from doing most of the remediation/renovations myself, etc.
That's just nearly free money from a hobby business that I spent less than 20 hours a month, frequently much less once I went to solely digital cards. And most of that was over 3 years, I haven't put any work at all into it since I started working crazy 60+ hour weeks every week since last Thanksgiving. So at lets say an 15 hours a month, for 36 months, that's roughly 100 dollars an hour working for myself, certainly not bad.
And that 54k isn't counting the 12k+ in inventory I have remaining, and that's all from starting with 800 dollars.