Watch the whole video or dont watch it at all. This is very good tips that will get you far in the landscaping carrer. Stay determined and keep trying. Any questions PM me and I will help you out. Some things I do that I can help with is, hedge trimming, lawn mowing, bush removal, prunning, weeding, and a lot more.
Starting a lawn care lawn mowing or landscaping business tips and guidelines
March 23rd, 2012 
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Ramps to raise the tractor off the ground are about 40 bucks. Truck ramps are anywhere from 40-100+. I started with about 6 residentials
Where did you find a ramp for your truck so cheap. I think you said it was around 40 dollars. And how many residential yards did you start off with.
Well you have to look at a variety of factors including incline, obstacles, and how far out of the way the house is. Then determine a rate and measure the yard. You can also do a test ride on your ZTR and see how long that takes, then factor in Trimming, Edging, Blowing, ETC. Just like everybodys answer be sure to factor in all the regular costs.
The only thing we want to know is: how do you determine the rates you will use? You obviously can’t charge a flat rate for all size yards…so what is the average rate per size yard/land? Or how do you find that info?
Everybody says “factor in equipment costs, gas, labor, etc.” but…for small one-two man business doing residential accounts?
Theres is positives and negatives to this of course. For the residentials its a somewhat positive for some because they can be home to inspect the work and YOU get payed up front cash which helps with Tax’s and not getting ripped off. On the other hand it will be hard to get some commercials because they like work done very fast on weekdays. When you’re first starting out it will probably be good to start with residential and then build up enough money to expand buy a ZTR and go commercial.
I’m actually in the suburban Atlanta area. I have a full time job so the only time I will have is on the weekends. Since Im just starting out, do you think that will turn away potential customers by being limited to the weekends? Am I limited to just redsidential? Thanks for your help!
Deffinetaly. Any questions just let me know and i’ll do the best to help ya out.
Thanks! I just got permission from the office manager of my fulltime job to store the equipment at one of our warehouses! I thought that was pretty cool of him.
If its a full size bed you can buy 40 dollar ramps and put a tractor up there otherwise a small trailer would do. Look for warehouses in the area and see if they’ll rent you out a small corner dont go to the rental places unless you have to.
I am currently renting a town home. Have a Dodge Ram 1500. With only the ability to carry a push mower, do you recommend purchasing a trailer? If so, where would I store it?
It varies a lot.
How much do you personally make doing it?
Good luck! Any questions just ask i’m uploading another video a followup to this with more tips. Check it out.
Awesome info bro!
Thanks for sharing! Im 20, in college and trying to start a lawn care thing!
Good luck. Any other questions just ask.
Well starting out it’s just going to be me and if it goes good I will hire a few kids and grow from there. I would like it to someday be a big company.
I watched this before you blocked your face. lol 5
Depends. How bigs the business. You obviously have labor to pay for, repair rates, quoting costs money all depends on the size of the business. If your talking kid running business out of backyard then not really but otherwise you got taxes and all that other junk. How bigs the business?
Yea. Besides equipment and fuel is there any other expenses I’m missing?
Yeah thanks for the comment. Any questions just ask.
This is a good video. I didn’t think about the idea of taking pictures before and after the job or even having a website. Brilliant.
Haha I dont know how to describe them. If you dont get what i’m talking about ill make a vid in a minute but basically they are plastic bags that have holes in them so you can put them on doors. Do you know what i’m talking about?
Door knob bags???? Never heard about that. And no I can’t do snow removal it never snows in central tx. Lol
Thanks
Well right now you might not get any bids not even a phone call because of the season. What I find is best is to specialize in an area. Take pictures and show these to potential customers. What works well is door knob bags and flyers inside. Once you have a few customers the word will get around. Do you plan on doing snow removal?