Lawn Care Customer Fired Me, But I Got the Last Laugh

[@zalapski9399]

90-10 rule: 90% of the problems come from 10% of the people. Get rid of those customers and focus all your energy on the good customers.

[@jonesey1981]

You’re a humble man Jason. The fact that you pointed out you’ve made the same mistake before makes you a great man who thinks of others. It’s a rarity in people to put others before yourself. I wish there were more people like you in the world.

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Definitely mix some iron in that mix for your next trip out when it's growing! Drawing that lush line is always fun...

[@WagyuYeti]

I would gladly do it at my own expense just to make that line all the better.

[@americantroy77]

I had a customer of the company I work for yelling at me from her garage while I was spraying her lawn. Since I was by the truck I couldn't hear her and thought she was saying hello. Well she runs up behind me and says you idiot I'm unloading groceries and I don't want those chemicals in my food. She then proceeds to yank the spray gun out of my hand and ends up spraying herself in the face with solitaire and nitrogen.... Talk about getting the last laugh 😃

[@hashrosinking1608]

So it can be fun working for the public! 😅

[@WagyuYeti]

I’m reel mowing my personal property in Houston Texas every other day. Keeping Bermuda low can be a chore but it looks amazing.

[@cardiackid48]

Thank you Jason for all the info you give us with your lawn care service..It has helped me greatly in caring for my own lawn..

[@lawncarelife]

Glad to help. thank you for watching

[@mikewest712]

What's the point of hiring someone to treat and fertilizer your lawn only to mow every two weeks?

[@isidroreyes1988]

I'm glad you have a space to share those experiences, we enjoy those stories. thanks

[@traeannahbrown5699]

🤣 most improved poa in the county! 😂

[@dennissteul5445]

You gotta love the general public!

[@rbljackson]

Poetic justice right there. Like ya said....we shouldnt argue with a customer, but boy can they be inaccurately Persistent sometimes.

[@activegreenlawncare8472]

Jason, thanks for sharing your experience. I know that it is not easy to be the owner of a lawm care company, but I think that the best thing is to do annual contracts. very good video

[@benjamindavis5762]

You’re a goofball Jason! Most improved Poa in the County! Hahaha Good one and thanks for the videos. Tim

[@lawncarelife]

Just trying to keep it interesting

[@rf2642]

The guy thought the neighbor paid Jason off to ruin his grass and keep theirs nice :D ! *Knee slap* lol

[@amosdarnall6865]

Well maybe he was happy with the Poa since it was green ha ha

[@lawncarelife]

Definitely one way to Green up a lawn

[@Roughdraft214]

In my neighborhood we all have Bermuda. Some of the home owners must have had st. agustine in the past because they keep their yards at 4 inches but they’re pretty leggy. The bottom half is brown for sure, so if they cut down to 2 inches suddenly, their yard would be completely brown. Even in the growing season.

[@elainenilsson5472]

Being in lawn care you are going to be accused of many things, mainly damaged gates etc, screamed at, etc. I have found that by the time the customer gets to that point, they are now in a confrontational state of mind and has lost respect for me. At this point you can't win. I tell them what they need to know and walk away. 9 times out of 10 they will contact me about the situation. Sometimes I respond and we clear things up. Sometimes we don't.

[@mkgunter]

I have squared up with a couple over the years! He may have been going through some life that stressed him out and you was the outlet!

[@elainenilsson5472]

I live in Virginia where we have both bermuda and fescue. I find that 90% of the people feel they know more than I. They feel powerful firing someone but in the end they lose. When they accuse me of something like that I tell them to have a soil sample tested.

[@ridethepace6005]

He needed an excuse to let you go, he couldn't afford the service anymore, but didn't want to say it. That's why he was a two week mower also. Broke.

[@antoniobryant2516]

Thanks for sharing! I am thinking about planting some Bermuda to replace my centipede. However, I have a lot of shady areas because of trees. Do you have recommendations? I live in eastern NC. Thanks

[@wilmac247]

Do not use Bermuda then! It loves full sun.

[@doubledragon2074]

Get em Jason!

[@robertkenney6002]

Damn. 1” lol we’d never cut anything shorter than a 3” in midst of summer preferably 3.5” Boise, Idaho

[@yoko180]

Jason, maybe the crazy customer thinks the POA is good grass? 😂

[@haroldeldridge2255]

Jason I wondering if there is a color code for the different types of chemicals Like black for 100% kill Red for insecticide Yellow for selective herbicide - Bermuda Etc

[@wilvertperez]

Hello mister Lawn Care Life. You story reminds me of this lady that it call me that she thinks that I never kill her white grubs. So I when back and she make me make 5 holes with the shovel and we don’t find any one

[@johnslawnseasttn4489]

I hate losing a customer bc there opinion is wrong. But I love being able to show them I was right. Hate when it goes the other way though. Keep up the vids brother always appreciate it John's Lawns East Tn

[@richscott2952]

In New York we just yell “ go back inside “ !!

[@doubledragon2074]

Jason I bought a new home last year and moved in in August. I have bermuda grass in South Carolina. I put 10-10-10 pellets down and some humichar. I never sprayed weed treatment since new bermuda sod was laid. I started getting these linear stripes you are talking about. I thought it was something wrong with how I was spreading but now you make this video and say its scalping. I maintained my grass and never chopped more than 3rd off at a time and still had this linear striping while cutting once sometimes twice a week. I didnt realize i was scalping maybe? Its been confusing me because we also dealing with red thread because of pine trees being in the area my home was built. Its a fungus I thought was causing the striping. I am not sure what the hell is going on!

[@ccww9]

You can't tell people anything. It gets old. They always know better than you.

[@donna-donna]

... But there's more 😂 😂 😂

[@Charlie-fc1mh]

This was food for thought. Don't worry, he'll be back. Sounds like he should have fired his yard crew.

[@hashrosinking1608]

That's the problem with penny pinchers they can't afford to pay the mower guy weekly therefore he can't afford to pay for spraying services. Not a qualified customer.

[@NottaBot_TrustMe]

This story is eerily similar to something I have going on.

[@Mtownraven]

Most improved poa. LOL

[@josh-e3j]

“Neighbors yard looks excellent and my yard look horrible” lolol!! Great story lol I love listening to your crazy stories. No one can tell a story the way you do with the humor lol. Yeah I’ve had yards were it didn’t work out as well between me and a customer but I would have the yard next door. Lol just out of spite I would kill myself spend probably way more time on their yard than I should just to rub it in their face 😂.

[@ZeroshotCinema]

can you explain how cutting the grass on a less frequent basis can hurt and brown the lawn a bit further? I was always under the impression lawns burning up was from cutting too short too frequently and not letting it grow. Sorry if i sound ignorant but want to understand.

[@lawncarelife]

And it might be better to cut it less often if it's not growing but this situation involved grass that was growing very fast

[@Sutherland420]

You never want to cut more than 1/3 of the height of the grass off. So if you are cutting at 3 inches you want to cut no more than 1 inch off at a time. Mowing more frequently will help you lawn get thicker. Mowing too short will hurt it. It depends on the grass type for what height you should cut at though. I live in the north east so everything that grows here we cut at 2.5 inches or 3 inches, never 2 inches. We also only cut weekly and never bi-weekly. From what I have heard, Bermuda grass is cut at 1.5 inches and again weekly. Cut frequently but never too short for your grass type. If you let grass get too long and cut it, the grass will go into shock

[@ZeroshotCinema]

@@Sutherland420 Thanks this was a good take. I did golf course work for 10 years and recently switched to lawn care so seeing different types of grass and making a plan for each property was definitely different than maintaining the same property the same way for so long.

[@Matt_W8]

You gotta know what grass type you have and how it grows. Bermuda grass grows like a weed but only green on the top 1/3 or so, the rest is all brown. You have to cut Bermuda 2 inches or less to encourage it to spread and grow thick. So if you want a thick, green Bermuda lawn, you have to cut LOW and OFTEN. Weekly cuttings are a minimum. Cutting Bermuda high never looks good. The top might be green but all your edges will be brown.

[@yardking9075]

Another thing if he's gotta dog peeing all over his yard that'll turn it brown as well and weeds will grow back in that spot just like when a cow or horse uses the bathroom in a pasture. You drive by a pasture and it has green weeds growed up as big as a paper plate in patches all over its because of the animals using the bathroom.

[@dorapolin4560]

😂

[@ilovemoney2762]

When he fired u U shouldve said " thats fine with me boy"

[@lseeber01]

Was he an older guy? I've seen some long term customers (in another business, not lawncare) that suddenly started to change somewhat and it was related to aging and health issues that started cropping up. One guy became a diabetic and wasn't controlling his sugar levels well and if you've been around someone like that you know that their mood can have dramatic swings and they have no control over that until they fix the medical issue. Just a maybe anyway. One time I had a customer that suddenly just kept insisting I never sent the product to them. So, I sent another, then again..same thing. He reported me to the powers that be and it turned into a big stink. I had actually never had an upset customer until that point. As it turned out... he had alzheimer's and had every product I had sent...but he kept forgetting that he received it. Sigh.

[@lawncarelife]

He was a little older. That's a good reminder

[@goaheadmakeourdayscooterpe9644]

The guy was cheapskate for sure cutting every 2 weeks in peak growing season. He probably argued with the mowing crew too and fired them.

[@typedbyben]

biggest poa in the county!

[@davetires7300]

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