Lawn Care & Landscaping Bussiness

**pacificfame** · 01-15-2007 06:37 PM

A few of my friends and I are thinking about starting up a landscaping business for my local city and surrounding towns. Does any one have any previous experience or any experience at all in this business. What should I charge? What should I be prepared for and are some mistakes you learned from?

Thanks

**Jason G** · 01-15-2007 07:20 PM

My first question would be do you have the necessary tools to complete the job? I live in a some what busy town, however we have a lot of retires here (Florida) and they’re very cheap, so the only thing that excites them more than anything is to save money, which being retired they have all the time in the world to call every lawn service/ land scaping service in the yellow pages.

Anyway, I charged $20 bucks per lawn, each lawn was roughly .25 of an acre and it took me nearly 30 minutes to Mow, Edge, Weed eat, and blow off their drive way. It was very time consuming, if you want to make some serious cash, think like an Entrepreneur.

Provide the tools and the contracts for your friends, while you set back and scout out more jobs and earn more profit. Manuel labor sucks, so figure out away around it.

**Envydia** · 01-15-2007 07:33 PM

Check with your competitiors and examine your pros and cons.

**pacificfame** · 01-16-2007 03:21 PM

Well we have one riding mower and two push mowers, along with weed whackers and a truck. Basically, if we are doing a bigger job we have one guy on the riding mower and one on push while the other does touch up and weed whacking. If it is a house in a addition with a smaller yard, just put two guys on push mowers and one on weed whacker. This way we can schedule more houses to be mowed in a day.

**bizkid2007** · 02-27-2007 09:51 PM

If you want some lawn business tips, you should go to a site I recommend often.

This guy knows his stuff and plus he's young.

He started a lawn business when he was a teen and has built it to a massive size. He's down to earth and is pretty ordinary.

Anyway, his site is: www.howtostartyourlawncarebusiness.com

Hope that helps ya.

**FormPay** · 02-28-2007 12:04 AM

Are you starting this as a side job or a serious business? Are you in school still or have you graduated yet? For a high school side job i wouldn't charge more than $20-$25 per lawn. How ever if you are starting a serious lawn care business. and will be doing this for a living (which can be very profitable, my old neighbor made over $200k per year) then you will probably want to charge on a monthly basis. ex. $100 per month. This is the average around here (Tampa Fl) This will also guarantee income for the winter months when you might only do a lawn once in two months. here you sign a six month contract. most companies give the option to cancel in the first 3 weeks with a 50% refund. after that there is some kind of cancellation fee. Also, if you a truely serious about this. it would be a good idea to hire some one (even your sister/mom/Girlfriend) to take calls from potential clients during somewhat normal business hours. like 11am-5pm (you probably wont get many call before 11) another smart idea would be to setup a website were customers could go a sign up for your service. this will get those impulse buyers who might read your ad at 1am and want to signup but if he had to wait and call may end up not doing so.

**badzy** · 01-14-2009 07:33 PM

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the demand for landscaping services is growing faster than the national average for all occupations.

As long as you have the desire, you can become a landscaper and start your own landscape company. No special education or experience is necessary to break into this career and succeed. You don't need a college degree or a lot of money to get started in the landscape business.

**hdblue** · 07-20-2011 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by badzy

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the demand for landscaping services is growing faster than the national average for all occupations.

As long as you have the desire, you can become a landscaper and start your own landscape company. No special education or experience is necessary to break into this career and succeed. You don't need a college degree or a lot of money to get started in the landscape business.

Thanks for posting.I want contribute for developing my project. I'll post when I finishes it.

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