What do you pay for landscaping / mowing service (Lindenhurst: mover, house)
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So yea, I've finally decided to go with a lawn mowing service and I must be getting old...... When I was younger ( 15 years ago ) and worked with a small local landscaper, he charged about $30-40 for most yards under 3/4 of an acre. $50 or so for 3/4-1 acre and up from there.
I contacted two local guys and just to do basic mowing and trimming on my .65 acre property I got quotes of $60-70 a week. We have mostly grass with a few trees and a curb to trim, nothing crazy.
Is that normal now a days? I was thinking $50 tops......
What size yard do you have and what are you paying?
I was paying $35/month for .25 acre last year. only includes the basic mowing and trimming. All annual or semi-annual stuff is extra. price was supposed to drop to $32 this season due to lower cost of gas, but I didn't renew the service.
We have always done this ourselves and never understood why an able bodied person would pay someone else.
Because as you get older your body starts to hurt. For instance when we first moved into our house we both took turns weed whacking and mowing the law. We did this for 2 years until hubby's back went out. Plus it's easier to have someone else do it and it's something neither of us like to do. We don't have kids otherwise they'd be mowing the lawn.
BTW we pay $30 a week but we only have the guy come twice a month for weed whacking, mowing and leaf blowing, no fall clean up but we do have spring clean up and that costs $250.
It all depends where on li too.
In Lindenhurst we have just over half acre and pay $35/week for basic moving and that's it, everything I would want extra will cost extra.
Fall cleanup that was 3 visits cost me last year $350 but it's quite the job , I have always done it myself but since I do work full time and then some I could never keep up so finally broke down and said OK get it done .
To the person saying why an able-bodied person hires a landscaper ? Well since I work quite a lot at times I had a choice either spent some time with kids and relax or spend the weekend landscaping to save $35 a week minus gas and garbage bags and wear and tear on the mover ...
When you r single or your kids r grown up and out of the house or you got nothing better to do then sure go do it yourself ...
I have a a little less than a 1/4 acre. I pay yearly, they mow, seed, plant annuals, do spring and fall cleanup and trim my hedges once a year. I pay them $1200 cash
To the person saying why an able-bodied person hires a landscaper ? Well since I work quite a lot at times I had a choice either spent some time with kids and relax or spend the weekend landscaping to save $35 a week minus gas and garbage bags and wear and tear on the mover ...
When you r single or your kids r grown up and out of the house or you got nothing better to do then sure go do it yourself ...
Agree. Our children are too young to help and our parents are elderly - we'd rather spend time with them. These sandwich years are finite. We'd rather pay $40 per week vs. the 2 hours it would take one person with basic equipment to do it. To each his own, but that's the reason why we hire someone despite being able-bodied.
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