Lawn care what do you pay?

[webstertroy]

I have been doing lawn care for a few years now on the side but this season it seems very hard to get jobs with normal pricing, everyone is seeming to want a huge discount. I typically charge around $100 for a acre lot and people this season are wanting to pay $50 $60.... Just curious to those of you who pay for lawn care are paying these days.

[BBBGP]

45 a week, mow blow and go with attention to beds and timing once a month. 12k soft lot. Houston

[JakeM]

I pay 30 a week for a suburban corner lot in Deer Park.

[ThisLadyHunts]

We just received an annual quote for lawn care--52 weeks of mowing, edging, occasional pruning and maintenance of shrubs and ornament trees--$15,000.

Are you effin kidding me???

[johnpaul]

If it’s just a wide open lot, $100/acre is probably about right in my opinion. If it’s an acre with lots of trimming, edging, etc. I’d expect you’d be making more than $100.

[Mitchell8]

I was just thinking of getting into this next week for 2-3 acre lots I was thinking of charging $60 an acre just as side hustle 1-2 days a week.

[webstertroy]

Originally Posted by Mitchell8

I was just thinking of getting into this next week for 2-3 acre lots I was thinking of charging $60 an acre just as side hustle 1-2 days a week.

It's definitely not enough

[Mitchell8]

Are you including weedeating fence line and around house at $100 acre

[Radar]

Neighbor pays 150.00 for 3 acres, that includes trimming

[andre3k]

Originally Posted by Mitchell8

I was just thinking of getting into this next week for 2-3 acre lots I was thinking of charging $60 an acre just as side hustle 1-2 days a week.

Will that cover fuel to fill up the truck and the tractor?

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[Mitchell8]

Originally Posted by andre3k

Will that cover fuel to fill up the truck and the tractor?

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Ya just starting within 10 miles of house 3 neighborhoods maybe 3 gallons per yard. Only trying to get 10 yards tops. OP i think around here people are paying $75 an acre

[webstertroy]

Originally Posted by Mitchell8

Are you including weedeating fence line and around house at $100 acre

Around the house -street and about 50 ft or so down the fence line

[TA_Fab]

Cut my own but I believe my neighbor pays between $60-$70 for around 1.5 acres with trim and blow. But that crew is in and out quick. Z-turn in the back stander up front 2 guys trimming.


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[Payne346]

Originally Posted by webstertroy

I have been doing lawn care for a few years now on the side but this season it seems very hard to get jobs with normal pricing, everyone is seeming to want a huge discount. I typically charge around $100 for a acre lot and people this season are wanting to pay $50 $60.... Just curious to those of you who pay for lawn care are paying these days.

We pay $120 per cut. 2.75 acres and he weedeats all the way around the perimeter fence, weeds the flower beds, and blows off. I think this is a pretty good deal.

[tkuehn5410]

Some of y'all are getting a great value!
I own a maintenance company in Lubbock, and I'm mid-tier in pricing. My minimum is $35 for 2k square feet for mowing edging weedeating, and blowing. does not include any flowerbed mtnc or hedges or chemical/weed control. 1 acre lawns for $100 with average weed eating, and 2+ acres are just under $100. Landscape maintenance $75 per labor hour, irrigation work $75-125 per hour(yes I have a Irrigators license #20598).

[Gclyde12]

We are on an acre and we pay $70.00. He also does 2 of our neighbors as well.

[RWB]

Originally Posted by Gclyde12

We are on an acre and we pay $70.00. He also does 2 of our neighbors as well.

Just north of you and about the same at $75 mow, trim and weeds. I think our area $100 would be high.

[Johnny Dangerr]

3000 square feet $50.00 per trip. $100.00 a month...

[Bayouboy]

I had a lawn care side business a few years back. The one thing that people don't realize is that it is much more than labor and fuel. Equipment upkeep and repairs aren't cheap. And, it pays to have industrial and spare equipment when other eqpt breaks down.

There were times I over bid jobs just so I would not get the work due to wear and tear it would put on my eqpt. Also, I realized that doctors and attorneys were the hardest to collect from!

If the customer wants to low ball you and use illegals with a trailer and mowers let them have it. You are better off anyway not doing it cheap.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Bayouboy

I had a lawn care side business a few years back. The one thing that people don't realize is that it is much more than labor and fuel. Equipment upkeep and repairs aren't cheap. And, it pays to have industrial and spare equipment when other eqpt breaks down.

There were times I over bid jobs just so I would not get the work due to wear and tear it would put on my eqpt. Also, I realized that doctors and attorneys were the hardest to collect from!

If the customer wants to low ball you and use illegals with a trailer and mowers let them have it. You are better off anyway not doing it cheap.

It is a cut throat business around here, illegal lawn mower operators are everywhere.

[jgard]

Originally Posted by Mitchell8

Ya just starting within 10 miles of house 3 neighborhoods maybe 3 gallons per yard. Only trying to get 10 yards tops. OP i think around here people are paying $75 an acre

Are you running a tractor or a ztr? I run both and have a minimum I charge for both.

[Tbar]

City lot near Dallas - $40.00
4 acre yard at the farm - $200.00

[Mitchell8]

Originally Posted by jgard

Are you running a tractor or a ztr? I run both and have a minimum I charge for both.

Ztr

[Bayouboy]

Originally Posted by Radar

It is a cut throat business around here, illegal lawn mower operators are everywhere.

Let them have it. I based my work on quality. Not quantity. I gladly gave medium and low priced work away for customers that wanted good work and paid well. Once you get established that is easy to do. I finally sold out to a guy from Tampa, Fl. that bought everything I had and took over the list of customers.

[tpack]

My neighbor has exactly one acre. A crew with 3 people shows up and one weed eats while the other 2 are on ZTR`s. Don`t know what she pays, but I don`t think you could break even after paying 3 people and replace your equipment @ 100 bucks and we live 10 miles in the country. My ZTR I bought in 2018 has gone up 2500 and trucks, tires and trailers replacement cost are through the roof to.

[WItoTX]

We have just shy of an acre, with ~12 trees/things to mow around. Plus a fence. Kind of a PITA yard to mow to be honest.

We had multiple contractors quote us $70-$80. I still bought my own mower because it was too much (Admittedly, I enjoy mowing the lawn too).

[Double R 2]

It's about $100-150 per acre where we are at for mow, weed eat and blower.

[CaptainDave]

$30 per cut, twice per month for typical suburban residential lot. Just the standard cut, weed eat, edging and blow. They don't mess with the flower beds, etc. Even when the grass isn't growing much, it's worth its weight in the fall when the leaves start falling and again in the spring with the oak tree pollen. They do an Ok job, but at the price it's fair.

At least in my part of Houston, lawn crews are a dime a dozen, so pricing is pretty competitive. There's probably 10 different crews that work my neighborhood and the one next to us.

[SabreKiller]

I was paying $150 for someone to come out and mow my 2 acres. That was about every 2 weeks during a good growing season. I got tired of looking at a crappy job. It looked more like he was shredding it than mowing it. And, since I'm extremely OCD about what my yard looks like, I went out and bought my own mower. Besides, I love mowing the yard.

[McBar]

$30 per visit includes mow, edge, blow, and bag ~8k sqft lot. when I worked for a landscaping company about a year ago we charged $150 per mow (nothing else) for 1 ac. wide open lot. Also close to houston so pricing is dependent on area im sure.

[WildMatt84]

Originally Posted by CaptainDave

$30 per cut, twice per month for typical suburban residential lot. Just the standard cut, weed eat, edging and blow. They don't mess with the flower beds, etc. Even when the grass isn't growing much, it's worth its weight in the fall when the leaves start falling and again in the spring with the oak tree pollen. They do an Ok job, but at the price it's fair.

At least in my part of Houston, lawn crews are a dime a dozen, so pricing is pretty competitive. There's probably 10 different crews that work my neighborhood and the one next to us.

This is the hardest part in my part of Houston. There are crews everywhere you turn and some of these guys are charging 1992 prices. Been a solo operator for a little over two years now on my off days from the fire department. My minimum charge for suburban lots cut, edge and blow is 35$ per service, prices go up from there. When I had 54” zero turn i quoted 100$ for an acre.

[Sleepy]

I do this on the side and am still building. Up to 6 properties now and looking to add a couple more. I charge $80/hr. Anything over an acre and I knock it down to $60/hr after the first acre. When I quote a job, I just estimate the amount of time it will take. Generally I can mow/trim/blow an acre per hour. It’s usually pretty close. I also have a $50 minimum. Even on a standard 8-10K sqft lot.

You have to remember you are doing this on the side so it has to be worth your while. You aren’t out cutting 20 lawns a day. Just from fuel alone, I wouldn’t entertain anything less than $50. Don’t be afraid to turn something down.

As a side business you are also able to offer a more personable, flexible experience for the customer. Most full time lawn companies are too busy to offer that for the most part. That in itself can be worth a little more and the customer may not realize it until they need or want something last minute.

Then you have wear and tear and equipment costs. I buy $200 worth of blades, 2 extra deck belts at $125/ea at the beginning of each season. Trimmer line isn’t cheap either, oil mixes. Plus having the mowers hydros and everything else serviced. One thing I have learned in my full time job is you never let a customer down because of equipment. My first month of cutting doesn’t even really go into my pocket. It pays for everything to keep me up and running for the summer.

I personally prefer larger estate sized lots as a side hustle. You get more bang for your buck. If I was full time, maybe wiping out an entire residential neighborhood would be the better route but on the side sometimes a few big ones are better than multiple small ones.

[andre3k]

Last year I subbed out to a company that had a right of way mowing contract with the county. He cut the esplanades and the sides of the road including ditches. That was a lot of work and I would help him out on my off days with my tractor and 6 ft bush hog on the esplanades that were too high for the zero turns to handle. I enjoyed it, but you have to have an army of employees and equipment to handle those contracts.

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[Man]

They are knocking out yards in my neighborhood for $30. 3 man team will finish a house in almost 10 minutes. They have got it down to a science. I'm probably the only one left on my street who still is actually mowing his own yard. (I actually enjoy it though).

[PeePaw on Fork]

Most folks don't factor in upkeep. A trailer tire will set you back $100. I retired from it a couple of years ago but even then my minimum was $80

[3DW5]

Originally Posted by JakeM

I pay 30 a week for a suburban corner lot in Deer Park.

Kinda near DPJH?

[7sdad]

Neighbor's pay 75.00 for 1 acre.

[dustoffer]

I retired from this several years ago and at the time I charged $55per lawn for edging, mowing, and blowing. All I did were residential yards. I still mow a neighbors’ up the street and still charge $55. I can’t justify more than that for a 45-minute job. Only reason I continue is having to pay $12+ a bag for corn.

[Chase4556]

I’m in Temple. Guy in my neighborhood does yards on the side, had him mowing mine while I was out of town/deployed. Small yard, just shy of 4000sqft for the front and back. Mowing, weedeat/edge and blow it all off. $35. Had him mowing once a week during the peak growing season.

[webstertroy]

Thanks everyone. Knocked out 13 yards today just today... Anyone around dfw fortworth area have some pricing?

[Black Ice]

Originally Posted by webstertroy

I have been doing lawn care for a few years now on the side but this season it seems very hard to get jobs with normal pricing, everyone is seeming to want a huge discount. I typically charge around $100 for a acre lot and people this season are wanting to pay $50 $60.... Just curious to those of you who pay for lawn care are paying these days.

$57.50 for .87 acres. Was $55 then when gas got really high they increased to $57.50 and I just pay $60 per week.


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