How to Start $1,750/Week Lawn Care Business
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2023
- Have you ever wanted to start a lawn mowing business? In this video 3 Sons Lawn Care talks about mowing equipment, lawn care tips, landscaping on the side and how he went from a side hustle ot full time lawn care business! Check them out below:
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I'm 14 years old and last summer I started my own mowing business. Huge thanks to my parents for driving me around. This season, i have 5 customers a week and I make $360 a month. I think it is a good start, especially because of my age lol . I recently bought a lawn tractor for my moms house (used) in great condition, and I am saving up this season for a brand new walk behind.
how do you market yourself? im also your age and im struggling to get atleast a couple like you
I been in this buisiness for a long time and what this guy is making a week is right on point. Most people will lie about how much they make and how many yards they do. Yea you can make 500.00 a day but if u do that 5days a week all the time, I bet you won’t be In This buisiness long cause your gonna get burnt out and have health issues. Don’t let these fake poser lawn guys out here make you feel like your not doing good your right where you should be.
God bless you for your honesty
#facts
That amount he is making per week can't be accurate. He has overhead and taxes. Then he does it with his dad and his buddy helps on fridays. They get their cut. Then he's charging $40 per house. Do the math on that. After he takes out and puts away to pay uncle sam his cut and everything else, he's barely making anything at all and he says he's working 60 to 70 hours per week. He's killing himself for the same amount of money he can make working for someone else at 40 hours per week.
How naive.
Everybody hustle is not the same.
500 a day solo is very very easy.
My 11 year old came to me a few weeks ago with a full business plan, a website, a Google email address and an application for Yelp. He even had a finance plan to pay himself and the company and hire my 9 year old daughter while leasing my lawn equipment until he has enough to buy his own. His plan had lot of flaws but he is 11 years old. A bit of guidance, research and suggestions and he will be able to start cutting for customers in about a month. I'm not in the business. He is impressive.
That’s awesome. Specially in the landscape industry lol. I’ve been in the industry for 2 decades and manage a multimillion dollar company. What I see is guys like the interviewee that do not have budgeting and finances strengths. Every company grows by doing residents then moving to commercial properties. These guys don’t have that mindset of how to grow. If I started a company today I can bet I would be a million dollar company in a couple years.
$40 bucks a cut seems extremely low. 😮 We average $120 per cut here in CT for 2024. Even for small businesses
when i was 14 i offered people a more reasonable price to use their own mowers they had. so i only used elbow grease. they seemed to be very much ok with this and it seemed like most enjoyed me using their equipment. it was a win win. i was able to just bike to every job.
I’m in a similar situation. Landscaping and mowing with a professional company for 4 years, money wasn’t great but I loved the trade so I started my own deal. Only working Friday and Saturdays and doing estimates in the afternoons we are averaging 8k a month. We only mow 10-12 yards a week. Landscaping jobs bring in 500-3000 a week depending on the job. I’m working on bringing my mowing clientele up so I can have a reliable income and then focus on landscaping jobs. The largest issue I’ve faced is learning to estimate and learning how to be a business owner. I haven’t paid myself, living off my Monday-Thursday job. Investing in equipment and advertising is my main goal
So I started my business last year and did it part time on weekends. I charge about $40-50 a yard and I had about 5 or 6 regular customers and I made about $300 a every 2 week so $600 a month. I use a push mower right now For about 3 months. So I made about $1800 this year I plan on getting new equipment this spring I'm also getting a truck soon. I been working out of a suv.
That's how you start. Working your way up! Keep it up :)
You just load the mower to the back of the car? How heavy is the mower?
Facts
I do 5-6 houses a week Monday-Sunday
Way to go man! I'm on year two as well. Came in to this season doing less than 2k a month in lawn care. Going out doing 13k monthly!
How did you transition from 2k to 13k
@davson15 i started running google ads. Between those and word of mouth revenue went up to about $6500 monthly by June. Then, I got lucky and landed a wedding venue for $1500 per service, weekly. I live in a rural area, so the average account is around $150, which made the jump up to 6-7k relatively easy. The wedding venue is 10 acres by itself, plus trails and excessive trimming.
@@waldronibbles6027how do you go about finding contracts.
@@waldronibbles6027 150$ a cut is criminal 😭
Hey, a fellow Grand Rapids guy! Let’s gooo. Keep up the great work bro!
I always tell my clients .. "If you're happy, I am happy. " ..
I basically i do the same as you do .. keep it up
I am glad that I found this video .. makes me realize that I am in the right path
Sometimes, I want to quit, but my dreams keep telling me that I can do it all I need is dedication
I got enough out of this video to:
1. Trust you and your work.
2. Be motivated to do it myself (That's why I'm watching this video in the first place)
3. Back to 1. Maybe I'm wrong, but very rarely I just meet somebody and I can just trust them.. and you put out that vibe very well.
The number per week that the title says that you can make weekly if it's based on the number of houses that he says he does daily which is 15 is all wrong and misleading. He said he's working 60 to 70 hours per week, he says he charges everyone $40. When you do that math, 15x40 is $600 per day. $600x5 days per week is $3k weekly and he say's he's working 60 hours or more to do that. When you have your own business you have to pay uncle sam taxes and as a business owner it's a lot. So you have to put away at least bare minimum 25% away in a savings acct weekly. $3k - 25% is $2250. Then he said he spends about 700 on gas monthly. $700 - $2250 is $1550, then he said that he does it with his dad (I doubt he does it for free) and his buddy on Fridays (also has to give him a cut. That means that this guy in the video is making after everything is said and done $1k per week working 60 to 70 hours per week. If you do the math, he's working for himself and only making $14 an hour. That is terrible.
@@robmen1402bro did you even own a business because your maths don’t add up lol
If he’s making 3k a week, after taxes it’s $2250 that’s allgood math but then your taking 700$ a month out of his weekly income not monthly 😑😑 so yea it’s -$175 a week for fuel or $700 a month or he’s earning $2250 a week or $9k a month and then yes you can go 9k-$700 or you go $2250-$175 for fuel expenses bro what business did you run or do you mean you ran one into the ground??? 🤣🤣🤣
@@robmen1402so I’m short mate he’s getting $2075 and say his dad is just helping out I mean that’s his son he may only ask for 100$ a week and his mate if only Friday and he pays him 200$ for the day which is on a 10 hour day is 20$ an hour and if he is left with $1775 at 60 hours a week that is $29.58 an hour
@@robmen1402do your math right cuzz
That’s awesome, I’m from Flint MI just moved on my own this year. Cool to see this guy doing his own and working hard to succeed! Best of luck bro 💯
Did you fail yet ?
@@jwebb4423 nope. 2nd year full time and still growing. 👍🏼
never underprice what you are worth
Unless you need to put food on the table and you have no choice... lol
I’m uk based, but in lawn care, I’m clearing between 3-5 k a month now. Most of my one of cuts turning into maintenance jobs. Love this industry 😊
That guy will go far he is very very honest you can tell it in his voice
That's what I was thinking. It takes a lot of experience with a lot of different people to finally decide who the really good ones are. And I can say for sure this is one of the good ones.
Finally, a video that tells you what you can actually make solo!
i have an idea for a new type of lawncare business...there are teams of highly trained choreographed performers on the mowers that go house to house and mow the lawns...they do tricks and choreographed performances while mowing the lawns and each week they change up the routines at each house..the mowers can also be fancy looking and outlandish and adorned with led lights or smoke or other cool effects and very outlandish trucks to pull the trailers with that have led signage and sound effects like an ice cream truck...and also after the lawns are mowed they leave some sort of a cool design like the foam on a cappucino or coffee shop....they would be like a performance act as well as mowing the lawn
you can tell he is passionate about it.
I'm currently charging $75 per mow and if the Lawn is big and grass is tall $150 or better per mow
What do you Guys do during the offseason? Specifically (dec-feb)?
So how do customers make payments, is it cash or transfer
that`s awesome
This is cool im starting my business this year ima bout to go and put door hangers well see How it goes
Greetings from Colorado!
Would you be open to adding full landscaping and tree work to your services hire an extra crew and maximize
It looks like easy money but it’s hard work it really is cause it’s not one house it’s like ten of them per day
I made that my first season.
Where are y’all cutting lawns? State?
Raise your minimum.
$1,750/wk seems very low for a professional company with labor, taxes and other overhead.. That's only $350/day. 40 customers takes up 5 days a week? That's only 8 yards a day.. And for an avg of $40/cut he should only be at each property for no longer than 33-35 minutes each solo or about 17-19mins for a 2-man crew, and even considering drive time, that's not even a 5 hour day.
Seems like there's some improvements in efficiency to be made, but hope he can grow his client list👍🏻
For reference, after reviewing my own numbers, I know that in order to reach my goals, we need to make around $1,000-1,100 per day, or $5,300-5,400 per week as a 2 man crew (myself as the owner/operator and a helper), which comes to about $23.5k/mo. This is only for mowing 4 days a week with 108 clients. Then this allows you 1-2 days for other projects for additional income or rain delays to catch up on work.
thanks for checking out the video and the quality info!
@@6FigureRevenue hes learning get over it
Route density is how the profit margins really grow. It took me awhile to get it down but once you do it's so much better.
Bro, I was doing the math based on what he said as well and the $1750 per week that is in the title and it just didn't add up. 15 houses per day at $40? Then you take away taxes you have to put aside which are high because you're a business owner even with write offs, then the gas cost per week, he does it with his dad 4 days a week (I'm sure dad doesn't do it for free) then his buddy on fridays (Sure he doesn't do it for free either) if you do the math, as the business owner when you take all that math into acct, based on my estimation he's making maybe $14 an hour and he says that he's working 60 to 70 hours per week to do this. So I don't see how he's supposedly making $1750 a week.
@@robmen1402bro again 15x40 = 600 a day. 600x 5days= 3k a week then take taxes out of that so 25% it goes down to $2250 minus $700 a month on fuel which is $175 a week so that’s $2075 left and say he pays his mate 150-200$ and he does 10 hours that’s 15-20$ an hour and I doubt he’s paying his dad much if hes is anything like his son which he will be it’s his father he will just be helping him out so he can get somewhere he won’t be asking for much… if he did he would run his sons company into the ground 😂 so I bet his dad takes home maximum 200-300$ a week so minus 500 leaves him at 1575 take home pay a week divide that by 60 hours and he’s making 26 an hour seriously ain’t bad to be your own boss work for yourself and be eating 26 an hour on your first year while company is making profit staying a float and the more he does it the better it will get key is keeping the business running at a profit not a loss that is most important
Good video, But I'd say keep it to 1 person asking questions, in order to minimise the load on the interviewee. Being in front of a camera is enough to scare someone into not feeling natural, then getting interrogated adds to that.
1700 a day soft washing houses and its easier and when the grass drys out in july august your still busy :)
I mow a small business lot with a 60 inch zero turn it take me 1 1/2 hours to mow an trim i charge 150.00 for that visit i was wondering if that enough i'am out for 2 hours for that one job with driving so wonder if thats a fair price to charge
id charge 80$ an hr so $160 for that mow.
1750 is not much at all. on a 6 month a year service period. you gross 50k? at what expense? gas? insurance? this is not a 6 figure revenue in canada.
Also God bless anyone who sees this comment and many great things are coming your way
From the Midwest, I’m telling you my dude, never do a lawn for under $40, and please average $55 this year. If you’re nice to your customers like you are you’ll get run down so fast and your customers won’t care when you’re exhausted and have to sell your mowers after 5 years. They’ll literally look for another underpriced guy and use him up too. It’ll be your fault though. Much love from Indy.
What business are you working on?
Hello I’m in New England. I started a fencing company last year and we’ll do 1.5M this year. I hired my mom, my nephew, my brother. We have 2 full crews full time and and growing! I’d love an interview 🎉
@@angelcarrascoza3996 Thanks for reaching out! We are definitely interested. Send us a message on instagram or fb - extramediumstuf
Fleet washing & Prssure washing
I’m 18 and my company does a lot of lawn care and some landscape work. Id love to do an interview?
damn $40 bucks a cut even for a small business is way too little!.
insurance?
Insurance is cheap 2k 2,500 a year
No lower than 55 a cut! It’s 2023
That's what I'm saying. I've been doing lawn care for two decades on and off. Just started my own business finally and I charge 60 an hr for my labor and just bid each job off the time it takes me to do it. Like to keep close clients and take jobs that take no more than an hour or so and it's just myself.
Same my weekly yards are 50. Bi weekly are 60
Yeah I was doing all the math based on what he was saying and he is charging waaaaay too low. Considering the cost of gas and cost of living these days with inflation. Food is so freaking expensive now, interest rates are high and rent is sky high. When I did the math, he's making $14 an hour as the business owner and that's him having to work 60 to 70 hours per week according to him. I was literally going to pull the trigger to buy a used truck and try and start my own lawn care business and this video actually convinced me not to do it.
You could buy a 2nd hand mower for that lol
@@americandumpsterfire5201 while 55 a cut seems good to you, every ones lawns are different size. My solo manhour rate I try to charge by is $100/hr but my minimum cut is also $45. Some lawns take me 15 minutes solo including edging, trimming and a total blow off of the whole lawn. $55 a cut is not going to fly in my area for the under 5,000sqft lawns but they are also much higher than 100hr solo. Route density is what wins.
these interviews ate about 3 xanax a piece
This sounds terrible. He's not making $1750 per week. If he's doing 15 houses per day at $40, that's $600 per day. 5 days per week, that's $3k per week. You take away 30% of your weekly profits in a separate savings acct on a weekly bases for taxes(You're your own boss, you have to pay uncle sam his cut and when you're a business owner you have to pay all the taxes yourself, which is pretty high) and you also have to take away the money he spends on gas which based on what he said it's about $600 per month add another $100 to misc.
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That leaves it at $1550 per week and he says that to do this he's working 60 to 70 hours per week as well?? Also he does it with his dad and sometimes his buddies, he has to give them a cut. All this doesn't sound like great money per the physical labor and time he's putting into it. How much is he left with weekly? $1k?
With Inflation the way it is these days, food being so much more expensive, gas way too expensive and interest rates on mortgages being sky high and rent being astronomically higher than it's ever been, he should be charging way more than what he is currently charging.
I was thinking of taking a shot and starting my own lawncare business, but this video just convinced me not to do it, lol. That sucks.
This is why you do a 3 day work week for the recurring revenue and use the other day or days for landscaping. Trimming bushes and yanking bushes is incredibly good money for how quick it is.
30 percent of 3k is 900. 3k minus 900= 2100. You seem to be unable to do simple math. This guy is definitely making decent money and he said himself his cost are on the low side.
he said he has about 45 customers at 40 per cut is $1800 divided by 5 days a week. 8 yards a day.
$40... smh
If you can bid you won't survive
So 1750 a week minus gas and paying his a buddy he aint making but 500 a week thats horrible