Growing and reselling household plants

I was watching Tiktok one day and this video came up about some household plants and their resell prices. My jaw dropped because one of them was over $2000. Immediately I thought, “Okay how can I resell these plants too? This is great. Plants regrow and so it’s a perpetual money making machine.”

Anyway I then looked on OfferUp and Facebook marketplace for a variegated monstera albo plant. I then realized that buying a full plant was too expensive and that I’d be better off buying a clipping since those are only ~$250 and they’ll eventaully grow. I found a few listings but one looked better than the others visually. It seems the more varigated (aka white) on the leaves, the more the plant is worth. This listing had a clipping that was already rooted for $290; I tried to talk her down to $250, but she’d only budge to $270. I was impatient so I decided to buy it from her. She then showed me a picture of the mother plant:

Anyway, we met up and I bought the plant. This was exactly 5 months ago on May 27.

And here’s a picture I took yesterday:

As you can see, it’s only grown 3 leaves since then. It gave me a scare about a month ago when the main stem kind of drooped overnight (turns out it just needed a watering.) I’ve been wanting to repot it, but the seller told me to wait until the roots grew out from the bottom before I repotted it; hopefully that happens in the early spring next year. As you can see, it’s going to take a long time for me to be able to take a clipping from this plant. On the bright side, at least I get to enjoy looking at it every day. I’ll update when it’s grown enough for me to sell a clipping to get back my initial investment.