Hey man we need more than one video per month of your knowledge lol. Thanks for all the great content

This channel makes me feel like I have a personal guidance counselor for starting a mowing business. Incredible.

Pricing schematic make things so much more helpful. We use one as well and it makes getting estimates back to the customer way faster since it takes away over thinking things

I watch a lot of green industry KZfaq shows, I like yours the best. It’s because of you and how genuine you are. Best wishes in 2021.

When I was getting started I asked everyone I knew who used a lawn survice how much they pay and it was all over the place. I just kinda picked somwhere in the middle and went from there.

You are awesome...keep up the good work and thank you for all the great information!!!

This info is helpful to so many. Keep it up brother

Have always loved your videos. Cant wait to see your yardbook videos and your take on biweeklys. And getting policies and procedures in place along with hiring your first employee. I'm a full time firefighter and only able to work 3 days a week but wanting to expand!

Man thanks for these videos. So informative thank you

It's nice seeing there's folks out there helping others to succeed. With out Any thing in return. Thanks

Fantastic video dude. My goal is to only have one day per week of lawn mowing and the rest of the week will be for landscape jobs, which I find to be more profitable for many reasons. But, that being said I still have room for about 10 more clients and plan to market that heavily in the next month. I’m not interested in just filling the roster at this point, I only want quality mowing accounts because it is very easy to lose money mowing. This is a great guide to help me to not succumb to the temptation to give a low bid in order to just get the account. I’d rather have a one in for closing rate on good accounts then get three out of four when two of them are breakeven proposition. Thanks again for the great content.

Excellent chart there. Thank you!

I like the man hour method best, the one you posted on a different video. Numbers dont lie.

this really helped us alot

Thanks Brother I've hurt my bottom line more times then id like to admit lol I'm still figuring this stuff out

Great video, thanks for information 👍👍

I use yardbook and i love it

Great video! Thank you. Subscribed 😎👍

Hey I agree with you in many ways, I live in southeast Texas I have property from 4K sqft to over 5 acres I have cemetery’s churches gas stations garden homes to open pastures. My market here is anything. There is no consistency in my town. I have home builder I cut for and install landscaping, lot sizes can change from home to home. We don’t have many neighborhoods with consistent lot sizes. We also have a lot of weekenders and Illegals who will under cut u in prices but they only last a season and then those customers think everyone will do it of pennies and when I tell them the actual price they don’t know what to say. It’s hard to get the price needed to operate.

Awesome video Fam!

Great content for sure, thanks

Hey Johnathon! You should make a video on how to use yardbook the best way with SCHEDULING. I have put my customer in on a recurring schedule but it has been a complete mess when we have a rain delay and for customers that for weekly and others that are bi weekly. Show us what you do on yardbook, thanks!

Thanks thanks... appreciate the nuggets. Giving me a moment to reevaluate moving forward. I want to run efficiently & grow profitably as possible

1st year for my business. I am 2 months old. With the summer, mow jobs are very hard to find and I dint want to kill the grass. So I found using nextdoor and fb, I found oddball jobs (bushhogging, weed removal, cutting trees that have fallen, mulching, and bush trimming) Those jobs have generated me more money than mowing. 1 client had 3 large trees down from a recent storm. I charged 12.00 per cut (1 foot cuts)

I just look at the yard and find how many things are in the way and how big the yard is then come up with a price I think would be reasonable price to charge wich is usually between 15 to 45 a hour

Great vid! I made a cheat sheet years ago that also includes lawn chem apps, shrub trimming, core aeration, mulch install, and leaf cleanups.

I realllllly appreciate this video. Being new, I burn myself more often than I’d like to.

Good advice .

Relate a lot to this guys concepts and come up. Started just like him with same exact mower ( 42 inch raptor ) and that little mower and starting set up has put us both in a similar situation. Much respect. And the fact we are both in Florida makes his content much more relatable. Keep it coming! Following fully. Thanks

Thanks for the video. As someone who is still In the thought process and buying equipment still your video helped alot thanks again

I'm only just diving into your work here but it's helping me wrap my head around starting out solo. You are doing exactly what I envision so it's highly motivating and insightful! Do thanks. One thing I must ask is if you have a link to any of your pricing or invoicing so I can get them to base things off of. Maybe I'm asking too much Haha. Anyways keep it up your an inspiration. Maybe speak on any impact covid 19 is having on things for you and how you navigated the issue.

Thank you!

Finding the correct pricing in your market is one of the hardest things in my opinion. I've been doing this for 10 year now and still make mistakes. Great advice

Love those shirts! I wear mine all the time!

All these mowers don’t want to show their prices, like does the grocery store not show prices? I hate that. Show your prices and let your work be proof of your worth, then competition will have to keep up. Anyone can just charge anything and no one knows what’s fair.

Just saw this video. This gives me great direction on how to simplify my estimates! Thanks, from another LE guy, going into lawn care.

Another great video! ;-)

that is good just for mowing, what about trimming bushes, trees, spraying for weeds, fertilizing aeration, sprinkler repairs, etc

great video

I charge the same for weekly as I do bi-weekly. I just let the customer know its not going to look well maintained. As soon as I hear a complaint I bring that back up. I mow everything from big to small & charge based on time. I'd be loosing out on a lot of business in my area if I only did one size yard. If the customer wants it cut & will pay my price, then we are all happy. I do add 30% for a commercial property, because they usually are more demanding clients. I've been doing lawn & landscaping for 12 years. Sometimes I get the bid, sometimes I don't. But I always make money or I'm simply not doing it. Learn the customer, you should find out quickly if that's someone you don't want to work for. Someone that's a cheap skate or extremely critical of the cost, is a customer you want to move away from.

Sage advise - much appreciated.

Thanks 🙏🏼

Thanks

bi weekly i dont do but for here a 50% markup on top would be best

That’s another this u just said about pricing, we have accounts that are 30$ a cut which is about the lowest we go and have accounts up to $160 $250 $400 per cut on some places. If we could get 300-400 garden homes that’s all we would probably do. My cousin in Austin Texas has a little over 6000 accounts of 1/4 acre or less they cut weekly with 30, 3 man crews. They r crazy big.

When I used to paint I would get quotes from four or five different companies and depending on what the what it was I would try to beat it by five or ten percent and most of the time customers would eat it up you know like for example if somebody charged $200 to do it I would do it for 8085 sometimes 90 just depending on what it was so you know just some jobs you can't really ever quote until you get in there and doing so much you're going to till you've got a little know-how but like if you're just freshening up paint putting a new coat on something that's already been painted and blah blah blah and you can pretty much guess how much pain it's going to take and if you're doing like a new construction it'll it'll always take more than what you think it is usually but I mean I know that's apples and oranges but that's how I used to do it on my business is like try to beat the competitor by a certain percentage and if you can find it for any cheaper than that then you better check their arm off you know so but anyway

Do you price differently for new lawns that have been neglected. Can sometimes take twice as long as expected.

I still struggle with leaf cleanup pricing. Like today for example. Took it in the shorts again. 🥺But my last time out, I made $250 in one hour on the first gig(3guys) SMH. 🙀

I agree with this prices here in central Florida a lot of newbies are still charging $25 per cut that is insane, your pricing and mine are about the same I hope the newbies watch this video so they can have pricing reference

I have a z125s here in Orlando, what size would you suggest I aim for? I use it to mow my 6 acres currently. (I really need a tractor for myself lol)

I would love to know what you love abt biweekly. I am starting out this year. I am told to stay away from them. Please drop the knowledge for me. I lo e your other pricing video. Min÷HR÷Cost ÷2-3 man crew/ love it! It let's me know if I'm undercharching. Thank you!

what would you charge for 2 archers ??

What if you did front yard and backyard then how much?

Hey; thanks for the knowledge; great videos; Ive been driving trucks for 16 years trying to ease out of trucking into lawn care; i just started my lawn care here in Augusta ga about months; I’m a week warrior😂 Friday-Sunday but I love lawn care; Im thinking about biding on a small commercial; like a local hardware store or restaurant or something ; just gave no idea on bidding; do you bid the same on commercial or higher; thanks in advance; keep making great videos

Amazing content, has helped me a lot, considering how close to the same geographic region, Jacksonville. Only in my second year of being in business, so here is my question. We haven't gotten a lot of rain over here this year and the grass is pretty dry. Some of my yards when I mow them, two weeks later they have hardly grown, except for a few weeks. Do y'all normally go ahead and cut the yard just to get paid or do you contact the customer to hold off for another week? Need the money but not willing to charge for services that they don't need yet. Advice appreciated.

What a great video sir. Excellent info! Wish I could do more than click on LIKE and SUBSCRIBE and say thank you.

I also love the by weekly but I don't agree with just 20% upcharge I charge 30%

When you say to add 20% for bi-weekly can you explain that? So if someone only has you mow bi-weekly you charge more per cut vs mowing weekly?

I charge $50-$70 per yard. Average time per yard 20-35 minutes. We mow 40 yards a week.

You have to be fair with the customers so you can get customers I just started 2 and 1/2 years ago and up to 39 customers

I've had people tell they paid very low prices. It's not 1985 anymore.. If people start to haggle I just tell them my price and say 'see you later.' And walk away. Sometimes they come back because they can't get anyone else

I don't want to charge too much, because I won't get many customers. But on the other hand, if I charge too little, I might lose money for things like maintenance costs, gas, etc

Have to bid by sqft. Plus taking I to account the amount of weedeating and edging. Also there has to be a minimum charge . Im not unloading my mower for less than 30$ thats 5000sqft or less

Is this total lot size or the actual lawn SQ footage?

Do you have an updated version for this year??

Hey how much would b good to charge for 3 acres of land

Let's say you have a regular weekly lawn mowing customer. Then come mid summer you get a drought or they just ask you to skip a week of mowing. When you go back do you still charge them their weekly rate or do you tell them they'll have to pay the biweekly rate? Thanks for your time and your great videos!

Really interested in your take on bi-weekly. My experience has been that these are people who can't really afford lawn service and they tend to be chronic complainers. On top of that, it is rough on equipment. Most importantly, I don't want the neighbors of these properties seeing our branded trucks out there when it is overgrown and shaggy and thinking that's the way we maintain lawns. Currently we do not offer bi-weekly but I am always interested in opposing views

It takes me an hour to mow I’m 14 how much should I charge them also I’m up north

I guess I got spot on from just a guess. I live on 0.25 acres and so does my neighbor. I mow my neighbor's yard for $60. I mow, weedeat and edge. I don't pick up clippings or debris and certainly don't clean up the dog poop.

Thank you very much informative.

I have question if i moe a yard for $49 2 years ago i want to know what to price now

$👍!

What does k stand for

Great video! I am a one man show in upstate ny, I mow 50 to 53 lawns per week in a suburb where the lawns are 1/4 to say 3/8 acre...average. Generally I charge between $35 to $45 per cut. I spin trim all relevant areas and only bag if the customer has a wooded area where I can dump, otherwise I have years of practice dispersing the clippings such that the lawn looks no different unless you are super critical. I can do up to 16 lawns per 9 hr day but at 61 I don’t like to work that hard! Question. It is tough to get specific feedback on pricing but I most often find that when a new customer levels with me about the last company that mowed their lawn I find that my quote is low by sometimes $20 to $30 per cut. Just last month a small lawn that takes me, the old man, 20 minutes was a $65 lawn for the last guy, I charge $35 based on my $60 plus per hour goal. Many of my competitors have 3 to 4 person crews, Hugh trailers, and does this business model create higher lawn mowing costs in a residential area? Secondly, my lawns look no different from the “super crew” lawns, theoretically why would I not charge the same price? The older I get, the less cheap I’m willing to be and more I see fair is a two way street.

I’m confused. When you bid on a lawn do you bid that price for just the front or for both front and back. For instance level 1 it says 30 so you would price that for front and back or just the front.

I have a price list of sorts. $30 - $65 range for weekly service. From 1/4 acre up to 1 acre. I don't mess with bigger properties right now. Just residential.

When you say 5-6k Is k for thousand Square footage?.

8700 square feet in Tennessee , they charge $55

Cant forget the pita factor lol

I already own an unrelated business. I have 25 employees and make 7 figure gross a year. I watch these videos because they interest me. I have no plans going into lawn care. I like your approach to you business. I watch a lot of lawn care vids. The thing i don't see is marketing. Good marketing skills. These skills can make or break a business. The single reason we don't make our protential. Where would MickyDs be without good marketing campaigns. Knowing business skills is as important as doung a professional job on every lawn. A professional skills set is how we dress going to clients. How we communicate is a skill. Our body language. Advertising eith vehicle graphic or business cards our ads in local news phone book.etc. Their is so much we must do first before we can even say we are a real business. Business plan. Executive summary the whole organisation of your business. Account skills and bookkeeping Tax structure of a business. Either sole propriater LLC or corporation 501C or 501B Self employement Taxes Quarterly Estimates of earnings The list goes on. Failling to do this stuff is a setup for failure. It also land some people in jail is you cut corners or big fines. None want this. Not even the government. Uncle Sam is our biggest cheer leader. The IRS will get some of your money. Possibly your state or city. Do not cut them out from their slice. My first time i flopped. Payed my fines and a year later tried again. Again i failed. But i paid my obligations. It was 3 years before i tried again. This time i had a checklist. Now after 24 years im still going. Yes! I stuggled. But i did everything right. After 5 years i was seeing the return of my hard laber. Every year was better. Things slowed but i was not paying myself more than my business could handle. Cashflow will kill a business. Growing to slow or to fast. Your subscibers need to research and do more research. Do it right! Straight out of the gate. Need help contact SBA. They exist to help startup busineses.

thanks for the excellent content, I have another question though, Once you have established your lawn maintenance pricing, what would you then quote for trimming various hedges and pruning shrubs ? How would you estimate the pricing based on height and length of hedges or shrubs .. thank you ..

when the chart said bi weekly do you mean twice a week or every second week? i think its every second week but wasnt 100% sure yk

Was that turf or lot footage? Also I am dying to here how eow is good

I can understand why you wouldn't add 100% price for bi-weekly (double the work, double the price), but 20% seems SUPER low. 50% seems way more reasonable for you.

Do you measure each yard or just kinda eye ball it ??

Good ideas, I just don't care for the idea of calling other companies to give prices. It's a good idea, but I wouldn't appreciate it personally as it would be wasting my time. I try to weed people out over the phone. I tell them I will have to look to give them an exact price, but as you learn the neighborhoods and average property sizes you can give them a basic price range and if you are too expensive up front, you don't waste you time going to the property.

What percent up charge are you at now?

30 ..35..40 etc para cobrar en $?

Do any of you just charge by the hour? Why or why not?

KISS ! & making money

I do have a question with the high increase of living costs going up do you find yourself having to charge more than you usually would any information would be helpful greatly appreciate it

What is that app called that you said you used?

I don't do it by the property I do it by the hour $50 an hour here in Upstate New York or 50 an acre I have 39 customers and work by myself

What does the k stand for and the numbers on the left of the chart

How much have you gone up now?

I use the Task Easy app...it helps me determine prices! Just put in the address and mark the areas you’re mowing...and it gives you two prices to pick . 💯

Corner properties $20 no more standard

How do you guys in Florida pull off by the cut? For a few winter months you must be eating ramen noodles and burnin candles since the power bill wasn't paid. Per month is the ticket

Stay away from Bi Weekly IMO to cheap to pay for weekly service not gonna get a lot of extras here on long island