![]() HOAs are goldmines, if you can get an in with the president (who usually lives there). Residential has a rep for being laid back, less pay, but better quality of life - so turnover might be lower. Atleast that's what I'm guessing from what you're paying. But afaict you're doing residential work. Expect turnover to be constant if you're really pushing your guys (10 hour days, go go go mentality, etc.). "Good workers are hard to find," because good workers can get better pay and better conditions elsewhere. ![]() That's the deal with the trades - especially unskilled shit - you're dealing with people who can't get jobs anywhere else. Oh yeah, and just about everyone I worked with had problems. I've seen some "talent" poached from the neighboring Idaho region, where minimum wage is shit-all. You technically need a landscaping engineer (or whatever it's called) to legally call yourself a "landscaping" company though. On the other hand, the hardest workers were the ex-tweakers (who were usually chugging energy drinks and smoked a pack of ciggies all day).Ĭonstruction landscaping is another avenue to look into. And there's a ton of hispanics in WA state. The best workers were always the hispanics with families or had something going back on at home (Mexico, e.g. Though we did fertilizing four times a year (for what reason, I don't F*cking know) sprayed as-needed "blowed" patios, walkways, and driveways "every week " edged twice a month and mowed every week. I had just been doing maintenance (HOAs, commercial, high-end residential) for one of the big, long-standing landscaping companies in the area (WA state) - after burning out at a startup. It does have its nuances which other companies overlook and then their lack of success is confusing or seems random. I get so much time to think only about this, visualize it, imagine the details and the plan over and over. And then reverse engineering that to happen as quick as possible. Always thinking about what the company will look like at 1M a year, 10M a year, 100M a year, etc. Regardless, the entire focus is always long term. It's more of a headache to schedule one time jobs like light installations which is why we do the recurring work 95% of the year. I think we can do it as long as I can be disciplined/effective enough to schedule enough work for them. 24k a month in the winter going straight into my pocket would be very nice. The goal is to have the christmas lights replace the payroll costs for the winter so that the lawn care money is 100% profit. When I hired these men I told them the job is not just seasonal so I have to stand by my word and keep them for the winter. ![]() In the future I think we will shave off some of our workforce in the winter months when we are at a larger scale. I'm paying for the time so I'm going to get my money's worth. This winter we will have the same revenue so we would be able to have employees go on a 3 month vacation and be okay. "we can change your plan to only be charged during the growing season, your monthly price will just go up, it doesn't change the yearly price" It's a 1 year contract, 12 equal payments for billing simplicity That's what allows us a 50% profit margin with only about an hour a month dedicated towards handling billing since all 160 customers are on auto-pay with a card on file in our billing system. We only service small residential properties that take 15 minutes or so to do. Easy and cheap to have redundancy so if one breaks we aren't screwed. ![]() 0 liability in case the mower's blade break isn't working properly on an expensive mower and a guy gets his fingers chopped off and I get sued for a million dollars.Įach crew has two of them. It fits through gates so we can do backyards at small residential properties (the most profitable properties with the fewest complaints) It's kinda funny but it makes so much more sense. We buy a $400 mower, use it until it breaks in a year, and get another one. It is tedious to sharpen blades and change oil. Bought at Home Depot.Įmployees will break stuff and misuse stuff. Click to expand.Walk behind self propelled honda residential mowers. ![]()
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