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re: Thinking of lawn & pressure washing side gig - potential?
Posted on 8/15/19 at 3:05 pm to TDsngumbo
Posted on 8/15/19 at 3:05 pm to TDsngumbo
good luck. I'd hit up old people as a handy man too. Not major shite, just basic/routine chores and errands old people can't do for themselves. My elderly mom lives in Houma and its a bitch getting the simple things done when me or my brother are not there.
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Posted on 8/15/19 at 3:27 pm to TDsngumbo
quote:I would rethink this.
I’m not interested in going get licensed and paying annual fees to keep licenses just to spray round up and apply fertilizer.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 3:33 pm to TDsngumbo
Just an FYI, fert and weed control is among the highest margin in lawn care. Because no one wants to learn how to do it. You can easily provide better customer service than the big players. That is the route I’d go honestly.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 3:35 pm to TDsngumbo
Commercial insurance and equipment will be your biggest hurdle. Figure $3,000-$4,000 for GL,Auto,WC annually and your personal auto does not cover a commercial operation.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 3:38 pm to TDsngumbo
I know a few who have tried, but failed. Like someone else said, they are the types that don't like authority. Think they are working with no boss. They don't understand the customer is a bigger a-hole boss. And the successful ones work the industry like a job.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:31 pm to TDsngumbo
The lawn guys I know sign contracts and get paid the same for each job all year round for grass cutting. They cut the price for the active growing season @ 8 months and get paid the same for the remaining 4 months cutting (leaf blowing) twice a month. They supplement the free time around the holidays installing lights and pressure washing like what was mentioned. Collecting payment from customers is the biggest pain in the arse, hands down.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 8:19 pm to Daponch
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They cut the price for the active growing season @ 8 months and get paid the same for the remaining 4 months cutting (leaf blowing) twice a month.
That’s a good idea but how many people really sign a contract for their grass to be cut.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 8:58 pm to Clyde Tipton
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Christmas light hang up
This is actually a business. I gave a friend some help doing this last year.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 9:14 pm to KemoSabe65
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Commercial insurance and equipment will be your biggest hurdle. Figure $3,000-$4,000 for GL,Auto,WC annually and your personal auto does not cover a commercial operation.
I’m a landscape contractor and my auto insurance is $24,000.00 per year.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 9:28 pm to TDsngumbo
That business looks like it is getting crowded because of the low upfront capital cost to get started.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 9:44 pm to KemoSabe65
quote:huh, in La?
Figure $3,000-$4,000 for GL,Auto,WC annually
Posted on 8/15/19 at 9:49 pm to Ron Popeil
Wtf
Posted on 8/16/19 at 2:25 pm to TDsngumbo
Hey, check out Block Lawncare here: www.blocklawncare.com
It's like Uber but for people's yards. If you become a mower, you'll get a portion of each job without having to mess with all the back office admin that you would have to do if you were running your own company. You also won't have to ditch all of your customers a year later if your availability changes... you just accept the jobs you want to.
It's local and was started in Baton Rouge.
It's like Uber but for people's yards. If you become a mower, you'll get a portion of each job without having to mess with all the back office admin that you would have to do if you were running your own company. You also won't have to ditch all of your customers a year later if your availability changes... you just accept the jobs you want to.
It's local and was started in Baton Rouge.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:09 pm to armst9
Thanks, Matthew.
That’s a pretty genius business model.
That’s a pretty genius business model.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 8:07 pm to TDsngumbo
I’m retired, drawing social and have enough invested to live without doing yards. My yard guy came down with COPD and had to quit. I got several of his customers close to where I live - I have a large corner lot and needed a commercial type mower so this justified my move.
I do ten yards and they are by-weekly. I have gotten to be friends with all of them and will not work for anyone that I don’t feel right about.
Being in the Atlanta area you are competing with folks that take jobs for next to nothing, also high school kids. And washing house exteriors isn’t any easier. I’m doing this for fun money, most others are putting food on the table. And kids with pressure washers are nothing more than a disaster waiting to happen, but customers who need everything cheapest possible go that way.
Good luck
I do ten yards and they are by-weekly. I have gotten to be friends with all of them and will not work for anyone that I don’t feel right about.
Being in the Atlanta area you are competing with folks that take jobs for next to nothing, also high school kids. And washing house exteriors isn’t any easier. I’m doing this for fun money, most others are putting food on the table. And kids with pressure washers are nothing more than a disaster waiting to happen, but customers who need everything cheapest possible go that way.
Good luck
Posted on 8/16/19 at 8:19 pm to mallardhank
quote:My dad mowed for a while after he retired, I think at the end he just used it to drink about 10 cups of coffee a day as he went house to house.
do ten yards and they are by-weekly. I have gotten to be friends with all of them and will not work for anyone that I don’t feel right about.
I am mostly joking, but I know it sucked when rain got him behind.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:50 am to TDsngumbo
Just as a PSA to anyone reading this thread...
DO NOT TOUCH YOUR WINDOWS WITH A PRESSURE WASHER, or even a water hose.
The seals are made for rain and wind, not 1600 psi.
Carry on with your. biz discussion. Good luck.
DO NOT TOUCH YOUR WINDOWS WITH A PRESSURE WASHER, or even a water hose.
The seals are made for rain and wind, not 1600 psi.
Carry on with your. biz discussion. Good luck.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 8:04 am to Daponch
Advice for anyone out there doing this and chasing customers for payment. My pest control guy uses Invoice2go and as a customer, it’s great. Makes it very easy for me to pay, hell yesterday I pressed a couple times on my phone and it paid through apple pay on my phone in about 10 seconds. As a business owner, you wouldn’t even have to catch up with your client. Can resend the invoice every day until they pay if you have to.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 10:28 am to tigerfoot
Yes but I was off a bit, auto alone will be $3,000 + and that’s for owner only.
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