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re: Kids mowing yards in the summer
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:34 pm to PrivatePublic
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:34 pm to PrivatePublic
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Why the frick did you keep cutting the grass for people who didn't pay?
When they didn't pay, I didn't mow.
Invariably, I'd go back to collect and see their grass mowed. Maybe they bought a mower, maybe they found some other sap they wouldn't pay.
What am I gonna do? Pour diesel all over their yard?
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Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:36 pm to Pelican fan99
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nah I got 40 a yard in high school
I'd charge anywhere between 30 and 50.
$5 wouldn't even cover the fricking fuel.
This post was edited on 6/25/18 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:36 pm to Tiger Ryno
Because everyone who wants to pay for their grass to be cut just pays a professional crew to maintain it all year round
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:37 pm to jimbeam
my buddy pays probably $300-400/month to get his grass cut and has a 17 year old who does nothing but play video games.
I would have none of that.
I would have none of that.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:39 pm to Tiger Ryno
My kids are not old enough yet but my son will have outside duties that will occur
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:40 pm to yoga girl
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People are scared of getting sued
My son is 9. I pay him to do stuff for me. If he does the work he gets the cash. He likes earning money and he saves half of what he makes.
When he's a teen, I'll be more willing to let him look for yards to mow, but there's no chance in hell I'd let him push a mower down the street to someone's house until then. Too many sickos out there.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:43 pm to Tiger Ryno
Mine do a 1/2 arse job so I just do it.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:44 pm to Tiger Ryno
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Whatever happened to This?
Hard to compete with Jody and his year round mobile lawn service set up. When all you have is a craftsman pushmower from June-August and Jody rolls up in his Dodge Ram Cummins trailering a $10k Dixie Chopper, Weedeaters, edgers, blowers, pump up spayers and works February-Thanksgiving it's easy to see how kids lost this business.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:46 pm to Tiger Ryno
I was mowing yards during the summer in the Springhaven subdivision behind the Albertsons on bluebonnet. I had a push mower and would charge 20 bucks a yard. I was mowing 10 yards a week. Good drinking cash for a college baw. Some shite head kid started charging 10 bucks a yard and put me out of business.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:46 pm to Tiger Ryno
man this thread sounds like a bunch of old farts bitching about "in my day".
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:50 pm to celltech1981
Yes I remember the great price wars of 85'. Times got tight and we had to take counter measures. Had a sweet deal. With a trailer park super for a while and then he decided to get cute and play hard ball. Didn't end well for him.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:53 pm to MLCLyons
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man this thread sounds like a bunch of old farts bitching about "in my day".
Yep and what’s funny is the average poster probably isn’t even 25.
Kids still mow yards but even when I did it 20 plus years ago it was just for an old lady or some shite down the road from me. Most of us didn’t go market ourselves all across the city unless you had parents who had a bunch of contacts or a dad who didn’t work much and drove you around getting you jobs. My dad worked a lot and was gone so I just mowed Mrs Mert’s yard or some shite for $10 3 houses down. Kids even today still do the same shite.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:54 pm to jimbeam
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pays a professional crew to maintain it all year round
When I left NE LA for Houston to work full time in O&G back in 1996 I had a few buddies that decided to get into the lawn care business about the same time. They did it year round although obviously they slack off a good bit in the Winter. It didn't matter though, they hunt anyway so they don't sweat that much. This was way before Hispanics even became competition. Their only competition was little Timmy with a Craftsman mower that lived next door. Obviously their selling point was the year round full service plus landscaping and maybe sprinkler systems. The thing is, they are still doing the same shite 20+ years later.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:55 pm to MorbidTheClown
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kids are too lazy
It’s easy to blame it on kids being lazy, but the truth is that kids are pretty rationale economic actors.
If mom and dad are buying Brayden that iPhone and gaming rig that he uses to play fortnite, why exactly would he go out in 90+ degree heat to push a lawnmower around? For $20 bucks? Kid just got $200 from family and friends at his overpriced birthday party.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 12:56 pm to mooseofterror
Yes I would love their number, do they live in the BR/Pville area?
Posted on 6/25/18 at 1:02 pm to Tiger Ryno
My neighborhood has a couple teenagers who are kicking arse and saving for college. Those kids do a good job mowing and developed a nice little monopoly in my hood. They cruise around on a side by side pulling their equipment trailer and mow a shite ton of yards.
Moral of the story: not every teenager is worthless
Moral of the story: not every teenager is worthless
Posted on 6/25/18 at 1:06 pm to Tiger Ryno
people scared of getting sued
Posted on 6/25/18 at 1:06 pm to maxxrajun70
quote:We all started out doing a half arse job, my dad made sure that I corrected any mistakes. I saved my parents a bunch of money. I do my own now, have all girls. No way I have the patience to try to teach them the right way.
Mine do a 1/2 arse job so I just do it.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 1:07 pm to Tiger Ryno
too many single man companies with zero turn mowers and a trailer to pull them.....
pay a kid get a half arse job, pay a little more and get a "professional job" and the professional job should also have insurance and a licence.....
pay a kid get a half arse job, pay a little more and get a "professional job" and the professional job should also have insurance and a licence.....
Posted on 6/25/18 at 1:09 pm to Tiger Ryno
Us kids that were doing it growing up turned it into a business, lol
This post was edited on 6/25/18 at 1:10 pm
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