How to Start $1,750/Week Lawn Care Business

$40... smh

That’s awesome, I’m from Flint MI just moved on my own this year. Cool to see this guy doing his own and working hard to succeed! Best of luck bro 💯

you can tell he is passionate about it.

Wow the lawns are smaller in Waldorf, Md and we pay $75-80 just for cutting no edgings or removing clippings. You would be rich here!

I’m in a similar situation. Landscaping and mowing with a professional company for 4 years, money wasn’t great but I loved the trade so I started my own deal. Only working Friday and Saturdays and doing estimates in the afternoons we are averaging 8k a month. We only mow 10-12 yards a week. Landscaping jobs bring in 500-3000 a week depending on the job. I’m working on bringing my mowing clientele up so I can have a reliable income and then focus on landscaping jobs. The largest issue I’ve faced is learning to estimate and learning how to be a business owner. I haven’t paid myself, living off my Monday-Thursday job. Investing in equipment and advertising is my main goal

This sounds terrible. He's not making $1750 per week. If he's doing 15 houses per day at $40, that's $600 per day. 5 days per week, that's $3k per week. You take away 30% of your weekly profits in a separate savings acct on a weekly bases for taxes(You're your own boss, you have to pay uncle sam his cut and when you're a business owner you have to pay all the taxes yourself, which is pretty high) and you also have to take away the money he spends on gas which based on what he said it's about $600 per month add another $100 to misc.
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That leaves it at $1550 per week and he says that to do this he's working 60 to 70 hours per week as well?? Also he does it with his dad and sometimes his buddies, he has to give them a cut. All this doesn't sound like great money per the physical labor and time he's putting into it. How much is he left with weekly? $1k?

With Inflation the way it is these days, food being so much more expensive, gas way too expensive and interest rates on mortgages being sky high and rent being astronomically higher than it's ever been, he should be charging way more than what he is currently charging.


I was thinking of taking a shot and starting my own lawncare business, but this video just convinced me not to do it, lol. That sucks.

Hey, a fellow Grand Rapids guy! Let’s gooo. Keep up the great work bro!

Way to go man! I'm on year two as well. Came in to this season doing less than 2k a month in lawn care. Going out doing 13k monthly!

So how do customers make payments, is it cash or transfer

Raise your minimum.

No lower than 55 a cut! It’s 2023

I got enough out of this video to:
1. Trust you and your work.
2. Be motivated to do it myself (That's why I'm watching this video in the first place)
3. Back to 1. Maybe I'm wrong, but very rarely I just meet somebody and I can just trust them.. and you put out that vibe very well.

never underprice what you are worth

That guy will go far he is very very honest you can tell it in his voice

1700 a day soft washing houses and its easier and when the grass drys out in july august your still busy :)

I been in this buisiness for a long time and what this guy is making a week is right on point. Most people will lie about how much they make and how many yards they do. Yea you can make 500.00 a day but if u do that 5days a week all the time, I bet you won’t be In This buisiness long cause your gonna get burnt out and have health issues. Don’t let these fake poser lawn guys out here make you feel like your not doing good your right where you should be.

$1,750/wk seems very low for a professional company with labor, taxes and other overhead.. That's only $350/day. 40 customers takes up 5 days a week? That's only 8 yards a day.. And for an avg of $40/cut he should only be at each property for no longer than 33-35 minutes each solo or about 17-19mins for a 2-man crew, and even considering drive time, that's not even a 5 hour day.

Seems like there's some improvements in efficiency to be made, but hope he can grow his client list👍🏻

For reference, after reviewing my own numbers, I know that in order to reach my goals, we need to make around $1,000-1,100 per day, or $5,300-5,400 per week as a 2 man crew (myself as the owner/operator and a helper), which comes to about $23.5k/mo. This is only for mowing 4 days a week with 108 clients. Then this allows you 1-2 days for other projects for additional income or rain delays to catch up on work.

What business are you working on?