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Exactly! I'm paying $20 for 15 minutes. Seems excessive?
You need to enjoy that deal while it lasts.........
I've always paid between $100 and $180 a month. Winter is a 3X a month cut, summer is every week.
Doesn't matter what the cost is, I do not want to do it! I do a lot of stuff myself, I just never liked lawn work between the noise, the dirt/dust and the time! I definitely don't want that equipment in my garage either (the smell is annoying).
0.8 acres, $60. Our guy bought a brand new Dodge 3500 w/ Cummins, has an enclosed trailer for his zero-turn, and he mows while his partner does the edging. He's here what seems like no more than 30 minutes, but he REALLY tries to minimize drive time by scheduling everyone in the same area on the same day. Hard working guy.
Those trucks can be had for 50K in work truck (tradesman trim). The trailer is simply smart business: "enclosed = THEFT PREVENTION." Drive time kills profits, you make $zero while driving to the next job.
A buddy owns a sizable tree business. He opened a new location the next county north. With 5-7 guys getting paid hourly the trip up/back to the original location was costing him almost 2 hours per day, per guy!
Even at $15 an hour (X 6 guys X 2 hours = $180 a day in travel time)........$1000 bucks a week for NOTHING!
I bought one from a local pawn shop for I think $60 three years ago. I was able to start it up so no worries if it worked or not. Three years and it runs fine. I don't mind doing it myself its good exercise. When I am not in town I pay someone to do it.
I "inherited" a defunct mower at a rental house and took it to a mower service place to see if they could get it running. Cost more to repair it than to buy one of their "loaners". The loaner was who knows how many years old by then, but they claimed it would start no matter what (hence its role as loaner). They decided to sell it because it didn't have the cut height adjustment customers started preferring at the time. Think I paid $50 for it. Sure enough, the thing was so bombproof it was boring. Every spring it fired right up with no fuss and started every single time you pulled the cord. Once it was running it stayed running until you switched it off. I used it for many years afterwards. It really was a bargain. Finally gave it away once the uneven clumpy grass-covered clearings surrounding my houses could only be euphemistically referred to as lawns.
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It depends on where you live,in Houston,some are still paying 25-35,my friend and his neighbors pay $25 for last 25 years.and you wonder why property tax in Houston is so high.
Question,
I have the same kid for years,now he is no longer a kid,I always tape the money in an envelope on my front door and they pick it up.
YeSterday,it was picked up,but this kid knocked on my door and said you have not paid us?Is he being a con man?
Those trucks can be had for 50K in work truck (tradesman trim). The trailer is simply smart business: "enclosed = THEFT PREVENTION." Drive time kills profits, you make $zero while driving to the next job.
A buddy owns a sizable tree business. He opened a new location the next county north. With 5-7 guys getting paid hourly the trip up/back to the original location was costing him almost 2 hours per day, per guy!
Even at $15 an hour (X 6 guys X 2 hours = $180 a day in travel time)........$1000 bucks a week for NOTHING!
That's amazing. No regrets opening the 2nd location?
Added bonus: Enclosed trailers allow for larger logos!
YeSterday,it was picked up,but this kid knocked on my door and said you have not paid us?Is he being a con man?
Same kid who's no longer a kid? Another kid? You can't prove who actually picked up the money unless you witnessed it or have a door camera. Someone else who noticed your little routine (every time the lawn mowing kid was due, an envelope magically appeared on your door. When he left, the envelope went with him) could have put two and two together and snagged the envelope before the right kid got to it. Maybe you need to modernize your payment method.
Get a goat! At the end of the growing season call it a BBQ. No storage needed.
Don't think I didn't look into it. Not allowed within city limits.
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