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HELP ANY LANDSCAPERS ZTR or Kubota 7800 for rural suburb area
I agree with Murf and Art. Start out slow and cheap. You need a decent mower with bagger, weed whacker, blower, edger, several sizes of hand and electric pruning shears, a small generator with 100 ft or more extension cords, tarps along with a pickup truck and trailer to haul equipment and yard waste. A place to dump the stuff or recycle into compost.
I do some mowing on the side and most of my accounts are smaller residential lawns and a few condos. They generally want you to mow once a week and don't want clippings lying around. To mulch you need to mow every 3-5 days which is too often. They also don't want big tractor marks on the lawn and a sub-compact is too tall to fit under ornimental shrubs. Usually you trim shrubs once or twice a year. They want you in and out fast without allot of noise and no mess.
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HELP ANY LANDSCAPERS ZTR or Kubota 7800 for rural suburb area
My suggestion is to start out slow and do a few jobs to get a feeling for project times so you don't underbid on your estimates. Don't quit your dayjob yet. Yes, Yuppies and Seniors in single family units and duplexes are my target areas. Seniors are so prompt with payment and generally nicest to deal with. I also give them price breaks.
Basically, I string trim,blow debris off of landscaping, then mow with bagger and do a final blow off on sidewalks. I trim sidewalk edges with a string trimmer every other time and use an actual edger once or twice a year. I usually charge the same price although early spring has more growth. Mid-summer has less growth. Falls has leaves to deal with. When edging, I charge an extra amount as well as for trimming shrubs. Running an add in local papers will get you started in the late winter/early spring to get things going. Word of mouth helps to get a few more. Remember happy Customers!!! You will find that allot of people are doing this(more younger people). Seniors feel more comfortable with "older" people doing the work, they are more trusting and reliable. Develop a good relationship with your people as Hardwood has said. If you have a ladder cleaning eavestroughs is a good fall thing.
I have lots of stuff, so when I run an ad it reads as follows:
-Lawns mowed
-Weeds whacked
-Gardens plowed & tilled
-Shrubs trimmed
-Trees pruned
-Stumps dug
-Soil, stone and mulch hauled
-Driveways graded
-Potholes filled
-Boulders placed
-Gutters cleaned
-Critters trapped
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Free estimates & reasonable rates
I've been told that allot of people cut out my ad and place it on the frig. waiting for things to happen.
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