That's what i like to hear! 😎 glad to hear you're at a happy spot man. I agree, our own preferred personal pace is everything!

I thought you just said you retired. Then you said you're "continuing." WTF?

@@alan30189 From a 9to5👍🏽

Definitely! That is a perfect sweet spot I agree. We have the choice for if we want help or not!

Same here

I am starting a lawn mowing buissness this year and my best friend wants to work with me how do I go about paying him and hiring him legally any advice is appreciated

What kind of Honda mower

That Slow Yukon it’s a 21 inch self propelled mower.

That Slow Yukon HRN 166 cc engine

Honda’s are good machines

Is it electric? @electriccuts

Thanks so much Emmanuel! Good to know we share the same mindset 👁

Enjoy the timemaster but make sure not to overuse it! My engine blew out 2 months after buying it

@@Makemoneymowing Wow do you know if this was caused by the mower being low in oil. I've used mines like crazy and haven't had any issues?

Thanks JT! I agree. It's amazing going to sleep knowing EXACTLY what's ahead for the week and what to expect 😎

Never to late bro specially 4 years working w a company ya empiesale SI SE PUEDE!! WISH YOU THE BEST FAMILIA!

Start slow. Work late, work on your days off. Build it until one of you can quit, then get busy enough to where you can both quit. Nothing happens overnight.

Go for it

@@chente213able thank you bro! Really appreciate your comment. Stay safe bro.

@@albert0412 thank you for your tips, i will definitely take those tips really seriously and thank you for taking part of your time to write. Thank you bro and stay safe.

Will do my brother! Appreciate it

Thanks so much Bryan! I agree, people talk about money all day but we rarely see them discuss the cost of that money they are chasing. Have a great rest of your day 🤙

He’s making good money compared to anyone with a degree and he’s young he don’t need to go to school and rack up thousands of dollars in student loan debt

Most def! Yw man thanks for watching

Awesome! Kill it man good luck.

Cool men get it

Thanks sky! I hear you on that, I went through the same stuff nonstop. Good workers ARE out there... just rare like a shiny Gyarados 😁 the peace of mind of being solo is priceless!

Yessir! Thanks so much. Different strokes for different folks have to find what works for you 😁

Hell yeah man! Funny you mention Modesto, I was just watching Berner's video of him opening up the cookies store there in the valley lol. Keep that mindset bro and let's feed off eachother's energy!

Thanks man!! Awesome work, where are you located? Either a dealer or private seller 😁

Make Money Mowing I’m working outa Charlotte Nc.Its real competitive over here. I’m not sure whether to go with the common toro and scag or those other brands like John deer and great dane

Yw and ty for watching!

Nice man!! I definitely can share some tips to beat the heat I have come across, starting early is key as your body can acclimate to the weather. If I start mowing at 10-11am, my body is never primed and I move slow. Starting around 8am your body get used to the warmer temps! Also I wear all dri-fit/fishing clothing when mowing, never cotton. A bucket hat also def makes a big difference. I drink Propel as well if I begin to ever sweat! Always chug water and you should be good to go. I defintiely hear you on every needing a stander over there, complete different markets I can imagine!! That's funny, I wanted to be a web developer for a short period while in college but ended up mowing 😁

What would you say is the best way to get new clients?

@@Jacob-ru3ey I'm advertising on Facebook and Kijiji and word of mouth.

Thanks bro! Awareness is key 👁

Yessir you understand! Solo just means you need to be very picky with the yards that you take on- which is 100% doable with patience and good marketing 🙂 if you find a good worker- no problem with keeping them around on the side for extra help when needed! But i don’t want to be dependent on Anyone except for myself 💪 running the workers is more delicate than running the actual mowing business- so just be ready for what it brings and don’t let anything stress you more than needed my Brother 🙏 you are always in control never forget that & never put anyone else before yourself, as tempting as it may be with workers asking for this & that!

Thanks man! You as well. Bless up 😎

Nice man! I agree, nothing wrong with an occasional helper but I would never schedule my business around NEEDING one each and every week. So you're starting to sub out it sounds like! how are you liking selling the yards?

Make Money Mowing It’s okay. I only do it when I can’t get to all. This week I Saturday I had 10 and 3 had a lot of bushes to I subbed out 5 yards. All my regular bi-weekly. This weekend was so dam hot. Today I took off nothing and tomorrow 4 lined up so far. Now the heat kicks in. All the part timers will start to drift off..

Hell yeah man you can do it! Peace of mind a simple operation with your wife sounds ideal, you're only going to continue making more and more money as you follow your journey 💵 I appreciate it and stay in touch and keep me updated on your biz!

Gracias Michael! Let me know what other topics you'd like to hear about 🥳

Make Money Mowing what other services do you do in the winter or fall?

@@mwcuttingedge9460 Noted! Will make that a future topic. Short answer though, my first years in business I would take on lots of leaf clean ups/mulching/other landscaping work to stay busy. Towards the middle, I began getting enough customers to where I stopped doing the landscaping, and began mowing deep into December and starting back again in Early February! Nowadays, I have so many customers that I purposely block off all of January so I can take a nice vacation out of the country somewhere 🙂 let the mind and body rest from all the year's hard work- and feel fresh to start in February!

Make Money Mowing perfect sounds good! Very important to take time for yourself. Thank you! ✊🏾🙏🏾

Thank you my man!! Sending good vibes your way

Salamat po ikaw ay hanap hanap ko babae 😁

Cool

I agree it can make you faster ***IF you have the proper helper!! 😁 if not, they will def slow you down I have experienced. Don't look at it as losing money though when using a helper- look at is as allocating a piece of the revenue towards quicker completions 💵

There is def higher margins for landscaping projects if you are structured for it and prefer that style of work! We all have different goals and are chasing different methods/money. Have to find what works for you, I don't prefer doing big landscaping projects so no amount of money could persuade me into doing it sustainably! Glad to hear it is working for you. Stress + money, just have to find your balance

I got you man! What do you need help with specifically? Summed up- look at a yard and determine how much time and effort it will need, and price it fairly for whatever is needed to get you excited to do the yard!

This is my email inocente_molina@yahoo.com

Guess what happen to me 2 days ago? I stop to home depot do buy some stuff I need when ever I came back some one already had broke in my truck they only stole me the new echo weedeater now I got new lock for inside the truck

Have your equipment gassed up, keep sharp blades, have a flow you follow every visit with the trimmer and mower (make sure to change mower pattern intermittently to prevent tracks), and keeping a nice cold fresh & Freon'ed air conditioner in between yards keeps me moving fast 🙂

Make Money Mowing you’re gonna have to do some time lapse videos of this. That would be awesome 👏🏼.

In your situation I would totally agree a helper is 100% necessary! I couldn't imagine doing all of that solo. We are all at different points of our journey, following different business models, and all have different customer needs! 💵

Best way is really to go door to door or ask ur customer you have know to get the word out for u

If you have the money to invest open up a home advisor account I opened up one a week ago and I already have 2 biweekly clients !

You can do anything you want! Get it man good luck to you.

Go and do it is good money

Im 31 married and no kids and want to do this but currently got an offer for a home inspection job unlimited hours avaliable... :/

Damn that's a good question

I can totally relate! We sound like twins lol. Glad to hear you're at a good spot man, we have to play in the deep waters to truly appreciate the shallow 😁

8 clients but you make 600 how?

@@Losomar i have 8 total clients i do 4 yards Saturday and 4 sunday every weekend and i charge 40$ a yard and each weekend is pretty much a full week and a day so i add both weekend totals up and boom

I think u should if your ready to go full time ? If your content with weekend work then keep doing that but save it . Evtually you’ll get to the point where you can do more thru out the week . If your ready and want to do that . It’s going to be a lot more income thru out the week

@@angelellis7690 ok then i guess i go try to get more clients

Gageshahan13 if you are still thinking think about the pros and cons of doing that

Most definitely! Practice makes perfect 😁

I will definitely go into deep detail on my courses! Short answer, I use quickbooks and email the invoice after each mow and they pay with card/bank of choice 💰

@@Makemoneymowing you should check out Yardbook. It's free to use and gives you make customer profiles and send and create invoices using your own company logo

anthony solis I’ve heard many great things with yardbook but never had a reason to switch from QB! You can also make the customer profile and send invoices with your logo as well. I pay $9/month but yardbook is a good free alternative

You know my answer! Let's see what others say

Make Money Mowing what is your answer?? I forgot lol 😂

@@electriccuts lol I'm gas all day! If I didn't do lawns full time and only worried about my house- I would consider electric but gas tools are just so fun 😄

fuc boi ryan put an add on fb market place like in groups in fb in your area . Or even in ur personal page . Have your friends and family post in on their social media . Your business and some good things to say about u . Also make cards and ask stores if you can put your cards in there . Barbershops . Mom n pops stores etc ...

Exactly what he said! Check my advertising video if you haven’t

@@Makemoneymowing thanks bro

Def man! I meant to reply to your email but now catching you here. What city are you in again man?

Shawano WI moving to New London WI

@@CNMotorsports Damn! I went to Milwaukee a few years back and partook in some cheesiness. How do you like being up there?

Make Money Mowing Love it brother! Our sheriff is the beat in Shawano County, he didn’t enforce the safer at home order in fact he wrote a letter to governor stating he violated our rights

Danny400ss I’m in the same situation right now literally power threw your 9-5 for the next couple weeks and your probably really tired everyday after work if you find time then or on weekends go make flyers make a website or advertise as much as you can and as soon as you start getting yards think about quitting your job just remember it’s hard work and try offering a let’s say $19 first time and then after that it’s $40 just start and if you quit your job just hustle and it will work out if you want it bad enough trust bro everyone needs a yard mowed get out there homie

SKELLY right on brother 🤙

Diego Zuniga I gained my first customers from flyers and Craigslist ads! I’m still only using the simple 3 but I rank at the top of my city on google now, it goes to show quality work consistency and patience will move you to the top, slowly but surely ✌🏻

A good amount 😁 more than I ever imagined I would make from mowing 3-4x a week, 5~ hours per day!

born in San Francisco 🤯 but now living in Texas! you in chitown?

Get one of those echos from Home Depot

Shindaiwa T262 if you can afford it. Pretty much it's just an Echo 2620 pimped out a bit and it's red, not orange. Got mine for $370 out the door at my local lawn shop. Cuts like a beast, I get about 50 minutes per tank under load at wide open throttle, though I usually run it half throttle. Starts easy, choke and pull once, choke off and pull once and starts right up. I've had mine a few months now, love it!

Also I just saw ya say you work part time, 8 lawns a week. That shindaiwa t262 would be the last weedeater you'll buy for the next 5 years or so at that amount of work

Get you the echo from Home Depot. All you need and more.

I personally only use Stihl and have never tried Echo, because I have never had a reason to switch over! I hear lots of good things from Echo though. I like the Stihl FS70

.95 echo black diamond all day ✅

Make Money Mowing you don’t find that thicker line tends to throw more rocks and throw them farther?

​@@electriccuts I hear a lot of people use .105! I stick with the .95, and have not tried the .85 lol. I've never had a problem with throwing rocks, I always keep a gentle throttle combined with hyper aware peripherals when whacking a rocky area!

Make Money Mowing I feel like .105 line is for cutting down brush not grass. I also feel like it creates more wear and tear on your machine. I personally like to use .80 or .65 to reduce the risk of throwing a rock.

Kumusta na!

magandang bro salamat 💯👍🙏

Bobby Flores haha salamat po mabuhay!! 😎✌🏻🙂 where do you live?

Atlanta ga

Sounds great to me! :)

Hahahahaha it surprises me what people work for.

Markbn_14 Can’t stop thinkin bout the money bro 😂

it’s all good man all jokes, love your vids keep it up👍🏽

@@Makemoneymowing If I might add again, the balance board will help with this. As a matter of fact, that is the first thing I noticed when using it. I was not so overwhelmed while talking, that I could look at people in the eye while talking to them. Always before, I needed to look away so I could keep track of what I was saying.

Not negative at all! This is a topic that deserves it's own video 🙂 I'd love to hear how your 25 year solo journey has been! This is all I can share for how I operate & view the concepts you asked about. 1) When life happens and I can't work for weeks: that has happened as I have gotten injured from skating and couldn't work for a few weeks... I had enough saved up where me not working was not a problem at all, and I could put all of my focus into healing. Key note: I didn't always have that mindset as this is only coming from my current savings. When I started mowing and was building to this point, I likely would have been more stressed as I had much less savings & income coming in. But, month after month I slowly and surely grinded past that point of having those "emergency" money worries, and now I'm at my peak where I can instead shift that focus onto expanding- not simply just "surviving" Back to the injury- I told my customers I will do as much as I can with a helper until I am fully healed, and their yard might have to wait an extra 2~ weeks. If they are cool with that- awesome! If they are not and need their yard done quicker- I will either have a fellow lawn service cover me, or just release the yard if it came down to it. I rarely had a customer release due to me having to extend a few weeks- plus I am getting flooded with new callers every week that replacing those small amount is quick and simple. If I want to go on a 2-week vacation, I could swing that whenever I want as I just have to let my customers ahead of time. I can get their yards covered by another service, or they can wait for me. It's never been a problem as long as I don't leave during my peak busy times, which I don't do. I don't take many vacations (at least for now) because I want to continue working, but it's nice having that choice of being in control for whatever I desire! 2) When I get older and body becomes to decline, to be honest I only see myself mowing for the next 5 years (but I'm shooting for less, maybe 2-3 years). I've done a lot with my business, mowed 1000's of yards, and saved a TON of capital for my next business endeavors. I plan on ultimately creating income from this channel in multiple avenues to put me in a spot where I don't have to mow, and I can make a living from my courses helping others start & grow their business', 1-on-1 consulting, and all the other awesome incomes that can come from a large audience when you're focusing on putting out honest content. I do see 50-60 year olds solo operators mowing yards near my customers all the time, that is not my goal to mow to that age, but if all else failed I could easily mow the next 10+ years with the way I eat, sleep, and exercise, and balance stress ✅ My situation will differ from everyone else's, but this is just the comfortable position I built myself into over the past years from working, saving, and learning! I already proved to myself I can operate a physical business (which was the hardest part for me- seeing my own true potential), so I see no reason why I can't transfer that same drive towards an online business model 👁