Can Solo Guys MAKE A LIVING Mowing Lawns???

There's no point in landscaping anymore ...since covid boom now every dick and Jane is a landscaper and also offering too many services for the person just starting out to be competitive enough

Get some huge corporate lawns...make big $$$$$

I'd like to do this but I can't get the ZTR to stop leaving skid marks. They're ok in ur drawers but not so great in the lawn.

Midwest……$600 per day, 5 days a week, 25 weeks per year. Not enough meat on that bone.

On Long Island ny. Everything is extra. And you have to have crews. Because the trimming will slow you down. We all have sidewalks patios pools paths all have to be trimmed. Then the shrub work is all day Saturday and Sunday. Not easy.

I love St. Augustine lawns they’re easy to mow usually one pass and the clippings disappear. I have a few here in Va. Beach but mostly fescue which can require some extra work.

How do you get your gravely to cut well ? they don't cut well in Long Northern grass

Lawns like that you can cut 20 a day no problem. Make it so when you un load your trailer you cut four on the same street or five on the same street

Thanks for the info

Aint no way you left those stripes in the clients yard like that. You went back over them…. Right?🤣

Why don't you weed eat first

I been doing it solo for 20yrs.
Bought my truck an I got a house 2010 ....2day I owe less then 5k. Did it solo Dolo!

I have a brand new f250 and 2, 13k zero turns on my trailer and some well seasoned stihl handhelds. My trailer has 4 different rusty rims and bald tires to give the haters something to talk about. 😂 sorry too busy working to care about my trailer rims.

What about winter?

youre a pro? first 2 stripes parrallel to street are in same direction

Glad you mentioned RECOVERY at end of day. Drinking or Smoking to relax will put you on the unemployment line. Rest, Diet, Recreation with Family are Key.

You got me with the "lawns don't have to be beautiful to make money". I'm listening to this as I reorganize my routes and am working out a $1,000+ solo day with "ugly" yards. They are my best customers as far as efficiency and hourly income on the day! LOVE IT

I do 550 on my main lawn day. Trying to fill up a 2nd. Other days i do cleanups and hedge trimming. Some of those are around 800. I do all push mowing though and collect clippings.

I like the cluster analogy brah.

I only do an average of 5 to 6 a day. I don’t even try to max my self out anymore it’s not worth it, you’ll just burn your self out and your equipment. Not to mention the more you make the more u gonna pay Uncle Sam at the end of the year. Sometimes less is more. 6 hours a day and I’m done I’ll turn that phone off. Don’t kill your self for these customers cause they can replace u the next day.

I'm having alot of trouble getting clients when starting my small care business. What do you recommend I do>?

im a critical care nurse with tons of liability and mountains of stress and have to deal with tons of Sh@t from all the karens in HR doctors co workers families patients etc. nothing is more stressful than what im doing now. and i make 600 a day. its not worth it id rather cut grass

$50 a pop….thats a great price where I live

12-15 yards a day. Are you weed eating, edging, blowing etc. I even spray the cracks for weeds. Getting after it for me is just over an hour for $65. I’ve tried looking at it in every way possible. I just don’t see how you can knock out these yards in 30 minutes or less and do a quality job. For all I do with service visits I’m actually charging too low but nobody’s is going to pay $100 bi-weekly

I do 3-4 yards a day. That sustainable. 16-21 customers. If I had around 50 solo, I would be so behind during a week with 4 straight days of rain.

I want to generate 6 figures AFTER TAXES, it just seems like lawncare just won’t bring in that kinda of money. I want to be bringing home 300k-500k a year

I work electrical Monday/Thursday and then mow Friday Saturday. My Fridays start at 4:30 A.M. and end anywhere from 6:30 P.M. all the way to dark sometimes. My route density is horrible 🤣 in the middle of the day I’m driving thirty minutes across town to my other set of lawns throughout another city. And I only have one neighborhood where i have two right next to each other.

was unable to cut my yard as of last year due to stage 4 cancer, so I hire a guy to cut it for $100.00 he has 10 other yards within a 2 block area around my house he cuts them with a push lawnmower, and hauls everything in his car no big trailor

There was another gut in the area that had his Trailor two riding lawnmowers and all his equipment stolen, someone just pulled up to his trailer and hooked up to it and pulled off, I tell people to get them airtags on all the equipment so if it gets stolen it can be tracked

I love ugly lawns. Perfect lawns take a lot of labor to keep perfect. Those property owners like to haggle on price and will call and complain anytime a blade of grass is out of place. Leave those account to the big companies that bring an army of low paid guys to the property. Solo and small crews should stick to the normal properties of normal working people that want to go do something fun on the weekend instead of cutting their lawn

Worked 6 years solo cutting grass on the side while going through nursing school. I then worked for two years as an ICU nurse while I continued to mow grass. I had around 15-20 clients at a time and made around $40,000 a year. Saved my ICU pay for 2 years and paid cash for my anesthesia schooling. I am forever indebted to the lawn care service and cherish my time that I had on my mower for those 6 years. Hard work!

Heck yea a Gravely guy !! I run a pro turn 148 and I’m solo

❤ thanks for the inspiration. I have clusters on each day. It does make all the difference. And the recovery taking care of yourself is a big deal. Working in heat and humidity day after day takes a toll

I cut lawns for 44 years by myself no big deal

Clusters of properties is great logistics. So are add-ons like weed management or fertilizer packages.

Usually fertilizer and weed spray only need 3 or 4 visits per season, and take so little time that multiples revenue for minimal additional output or travel

Don't it's not worth it it will kill u in the long run

New amputee here trying to get back into the fray of self employment. It's a lot harder trying to deal with the southern heat and humidity on a prosthetic leg. Good video.

I’m solo, I absolutely bust my ass and charge more because I am the owner who also does the work…so I care.

I’m at 91 yards that average $224 a yard. That took me 7 years of quoting the highest quotes and getting only about 5% of the quotes bc my price was high.

I have about 48 small beach yards that I charge a minimum of $200 a month. They take me anywhere from 5-10 minutes to complete.

That took a lot of patience and time to get where I’m at.

Also, i began to record my work and my channel has over 100k subscribers.

There’s also one time jobs I do on the weekends every few weeks.

I’ve had months of 35k but I’m usually around 20k now. Not bad money for cutting grass by myself.

I started at like 4k a month and my route density and pricing sucked bc I inherited most of it.

Happy I found you and looking forward to learning from you.

1.5 years in. My ideal lawn is 2 acre lawn. That’s weekend homes for folks. Don’t have to deal with customers hardly ever. Very niche

I do 3-5 a day. 500$

In order to get clusters starting out you need to accept as many jobs as possible. The clusters will start forming. Then as time goes on "thin" out the weeds as your clusters grow.

I can easily do 15

You charge seasonal or per cut

Not really, it’s a low profit business.

Question please. How much (%) have you raised your prices since 2020? You said $50-$55 in this video and that sounds like it might be the same as what you were charging before the covid inflation.
Genuine question, THANK YOU

Great tip on taking care of your health!!!

Physically I feel good. I do about 14 a day and that's on about a 10 hour day. I have some yards that are 1 acre and bigger. My #1 issue is dealing with late payments or people that refuse to pay for work that's already been completed.

Here is something you need to think about...those standup mowers will ruin your knees over years of use...you are young now...but knee replacements are in your future...sooner than with most professions.

Too much competition and low margins and no money to invest in your 401k or health insurance. Part time maybe but even then too much work for little money and equipment issues.

I have 80 lawns, all in same neighborhood which has 500 homes. Lots are almost 1/2 acre to .38. It takes me 10 hours 5 days a week. Rarely rained out. I also do all landscaping on Saturdays. I have one helper. I have had offers to expand into commercial mowing but then no life ever.