Worst Lawn Care Business Experience
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- Worst lawn care business experience. When you do these kinds of lawn care jobs you have to make sure you get the price right. If anything I would suggest you over bid because doing a job like this and not getting paid enough is not a good feeling.
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September 2012: Similar thing happened to me where I walked away from a mulch job that I had about 4 hours into + 2 cubic yards of black dyed. Woman was being real irrational and refused to pay claiming she did not like the smell of mulch & she would be sick from it so I walked away.
I think he played you. So that he did not have to pay.
Get it in writing before you start the work...Work Order...Customer signs it. Works every time. Get Paid before you start the job.
if someone let's that yard go to that point... red flag!!!
Weeds aren't "trees" by any stretch. This guy did a shakedown on you.
13 years in the industry. Honestly if I drove up to a job like that I'd just flat out say I'm not interested. People that let their property get to that state are usually trouble. I find I've become an excellent judge of character over time. Also as you pointed out it's hard to quote accurately, it's hard on your equipment and there's always the risk of damage due to hidden objects. Cheers
This type of behavior is unbelievably common. I'm speaking from experience.
As soon as someone uses the fixed income excuse, I bail. I know they are going to be a problem. One lady asked me why I didn't want to do the job? I said right to her face, "I've heard every sob story and excuse to not getting paid. You've used the three most popular ones in our conversation. I know you will never pay me a dime. You won't get a minute of free work out of me."
A friend of a friend asked me to take a local at all the new trees and landscaping work they had done. Everything was dead, and I mean everything was DEAD. Before I did anything I found out who the contractor was, "who had an incredible reputation" I called the contractor in front of the owner, the contractor was never payed for close to 10K of materials and labor. The owner was a POS. The contractor came back and literally salted the earth. I stood in front of the owner and laughed until I had tears in my eyes. Homeowners are crooks
You made me felt a bit a better about myself that with your experience, you have the same issue as me. Taking job and working for free and sometime at a lost.
I feel this on a spiritual level. I’m only 21 but have been mowing lawns since I was 13. Well, when I first started it was just a few people in the neighborhood... decent size yards, hills, good bit of weed eating.... easily a $250 for a lawn care business but since I was 13 they practically made me their slave. I would get up every Friday morning and go mow these yards, usually took me about 6 hours sometimes 7 1/2, and i only got paid a total of $30 at the end of the day. Well, after a few months I called them and told them the only way I would be able to continue mowing their lawn is if they each paid me at least $25 per lawn ($75 at the end of the day) but the daughter freaked out and said im ripping her off and that I don’t even weed eat (straight up lie) and that she’s gonna go tell everyone in town that I’m a bad worker... so I called her a dumb cunt and told her she’s been making me her slave all year and I’m done with it and good luck finding someone else to mow her yard for $10. Not long after saying that to her, her mom and dad (the other 2 lawns) dropped me, and that’s the best thing that’s ever happened. Big relief. Horrible experience
i have to deal with old people like that at my job. hard to respect elders who don't have any integrity...
Sounds like he set you up so that he had leverage on the costs. I know it wasn't easy, cool to hear you kept it professional.
I hate when I hear stories like this. The one time big clean up client almost never gives you more work so charge high or just pass. It's just not worth it.
many good points!
I know exactly what you mean brother. A guy saw me at the gas station and asked for a card, he called me yesterday and asked if I could swing by and take a look at his property because he needed his grass cut. While I was on my way there I thought that it was just going to be a simple lawn mow and that's it... surprise surprise. I get to his property and it's a huge front yard with high ass grass and obstacles everywhere... I priced him between $400- $500 and let him know... he never contacted me back lol. I don't give a shot anymor... I will rather lose the job than cheat myself out of money. I know that we're all guilty of it but once you learn there are no more excuses. I'm no longer doing jobs in the crappy part of town... let those cheap bastards cut their own lawns.
Makes me think for any tree to be cut, it needs to be physically marked and signed off by the customer first before I do it.
Good that you took the low price initially to help the customer, shame you got grief. I hope you get blessed for your hard work and ethics
Wow. Sorry this happened to you....chalk it up to experience and never let it happen again. I've been in the business 25 years and nothing surprises me about people anymore. I've also had customers refer to non-trees as trees so I can absolutely see how this could happen.
Hey man - thanks for being so honest and sharing your experience. It's really good of you to allow others to learn from what you went through. All the best for your business in the future.