Pricing LEAF CLEANUPS Like a Pro for MAXIMUM PROFIT!

[@evildrporkchop4628]

We just got one of these at work, I work at the Stephen F Austin State University grounds department and our old bagger broke down so we got a series s bagger used that has around 3k hours on it and it's still a beast. Makes picking up leaves so kuch more enjoyable than having the rake them all up!

[@Ioannoneservicesllc]

.38-acre lot i just got $415 here in upstate NY was there for about 1.5 hrs. That included spring pruning. My average cleanup cost is around $300-$380. Starting price at the $275 . I run a 2 man team. have a 16' dump trailer and charge a $50 dumping fee even tho i dump on my 10 acres and have a compost pile that i sell as well.

[@johngibson821]

I do the Same on my property... actually grow pumpkins on the top of the compost pile lol

[@jeffgootjes8418]

All of ours are seasonal and include spring and fall cleanups. We have a 1-5 scale in our spreadsheet. 1 being hardly any leaves and 5 being 3-4 cleanups requiring the leaf vac truck. Works pretty well for us.

[@MB12116]

I did lawn mowing in HS in Northern California and that’s when I subscribed to this channel, much smaller a bunch of years ago-I remember watching you from a table in your driveway. I like to check in every once and a while. To answer the question about pricing. In California cleanups are rare. Most yards are bagged and push mowed each week by two gardeners in a pickup truck. A service will typically be weekly and includes mowing, blowing, edging, minor irrigation repair and expansion, minor pruning, hedge maintenance, minor planting, weeding, roundup application, and raking. For a house the size you showed in my area it would probably be about $65-95 per week for a 1/4 acre lot. I currently live in an apartment so don’t deal with much yard maintenance except occasionally assisting family, and I know some of them pay $250 per week for that same service on 1/2 acre lot. My Grandpa I know has a 2 acre lot and ended up buying a zero turn mower for his gardener to use exclusively on his lawn to speed it up and drive down the price per cut. Additionally, he lets his gardener use it on the next door neighbors yard, so long as he sharpens the blades, changes oil etc and washing it periodically. But, very few gardeners in our area have trailers and mowers over 30”. Granted most gardeners in my area don’t speak great English, and may run if certain authorities are in the area. I also don’t know of many that have kept their Gardner longer than a year or two, lol. Great work Brian, glad to see you are doing well. Seems like you are living the dream, sweet shop, great house, great lot, awesome pool potential, great guys, and cool equipment. Cheers from a long time viewer in CA!

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Thanks Mack

[@everettschlegel6520]

Great job on cleanup Brian. Nice to have all the guys on the job for me. I’m out there by myself. Just finished one up this morning. Did it yesterday and a little bit this morning tomorrow on the next two and small mulch job with one of the cleanups and the other one will be a trimming job and cleanup out there it’s a great feeling to be back outside working on the landscape yeah buddy Everett👍👊💪👏

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Love it, keeping on goin!

[@MB12116]

They don’t do cleanups in California, but a yard that size would probably be about $70-100 per week and that includes mowing, blowing, edging, and hedge trimming, weeding, irrigation repair, minor planting, weed control, and minor pruning as needed. That would be for two guys with a pickup for about an hourish with a push mower. I used to lawn mow when I was in HS which is why i subscribed and I like to check in occasionally. In HS I undercut all the gardeners in my neighborhood by $10 and averaged about $85 per yard for what I listed. I was very efficient and could do each yard in about 45 minutes with a 30 inch mower, most pros used the 21 Honda commercial and I was favored. Now, five years later, I believe my dad pays $120 per week but don’t quote me on that as we don’t really talk about gardening often. I know we have friends with larger yards that are paying upwards of $280 per week as I did a few during Covid when professional gardeners weren’t allowed to work, but since I was not a professional I kinda finessed a loop hole. Not sure why there aren’t official cleanups…there are some yards that have a lot of leaves, but it’s just not a thing. I loved leafblowing in the fall and found it pretty satisfying.

[@MarkWinnicki]

i love the exmarks and My favorite is still the ferris pro cut s outfront knocks ass but aint cheap

[@briangay9402]

Great Price. Here in Va it would have 50 a man hour. 3 man 150 for 4 hours equals about 600 with fuel 120 for a total of 720 here. That is what we would have come up with. Liked the video, keep during your thing. By the way we started wearing mask for all the dust. We use Rz mask.

[@wilsonperea9460]

Brian, Always keeping 💯. Our lawncare community Thanks you for making everyone level up & evaluate their goals. 👍🏽

[@isaacflores393]

Hey Brian, how big is your truck bed? I think is a really good idea to build the box with the blower/vacuum

[@Brandon-iy3pp]

Hey Brian just wanted to say I have been watching your videos for a while now and I love the cleanup videos! It is enjoyable to watch the process and I appreciate all your tips.

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Hey you bet man 🫶

[@davidcocanougher2722]

U the man thinks for good content appreciate u keeping it real like that

[@glendajune9140]

Amazing it only took y’all 1hr. Quite the crew you have Brian. The yard looked great 👍🏾 when y’all were finished.💯😀👍🏾💜✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸

[@IOSALive]

Brian's Lawn Maintenance, This is fantastic! I subscribed right away!

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Thanks for the love!

[@JGFowler121]

Great knowledge. I’ve learned more today. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@Alex.AL_26]

A property like that is probably in the $275-350 range for us. Fortunately our shop backs to a wooded area so we dump everything there and don't have to worry about dump fees.

[@EuroYardService]

Once you know your numbers and have a well oiled team I’d propose to charge for the job rather than by the hour. Classifying into light/medium/heavy properties

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Love it ❤️📈

[@AllensLandscape]

Hey Brian, where did you get your set up done? The dump insert and get the Vac mounted on the trailer? GENIUS!

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Dump insert local SiteOne and the leaf mount from our dealer custom fab job

[@cwrowe]

Love the videos…..congrats on everything…..completely fair price….same price around here in PA….

[@donaldleblanc2162]

Hi Brian we’re in Masss I try for $100 per man hr that would be a$450 clean up also I dump daily at $60 per dump I’m not working for free need to make that money to survive. Good luck on growing the business

[@tomdaly9040]

Thanks for all the tips Brian, seems like you got a great system going!

[@warrengillies-ym1td]

Hi there Brian’s lawn maintenance I have a question that I would like to ask it’s about that bagger that you guys use for that zero turn mower my question is how come you guys don’t bag during the mowing season like summer after you guys do spring clanups I understand that probably your customers don’t want their yard baged during the summer because probably most of your customers don’t want to have a messy yard after it’s mowed during summer but I thought I would ask this question because I do watch your mowing videos so I thought I would asked if I was in your area and had the same mower and bagger I will keep it on all year instead of just using it during spring and fall cleanup

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

We just don’t lol no reason other than it would be insane to haul off clippings away every mow.

[@warrengillies-ym1td]

@@BriansLawnMaintenanceokay thanks for replying back to me and I love your channel

[@tannerandrews990]

Hey Brian thanks for the content I’ve been watching for a while and have fun ally went out and started my own side hustle. We’ve been in business for a full week now and I’ve already managed to earn $4,140 and have gathered 2 weekly mowing contracts.

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Congrats man!

[@AliBaba-mp7zb]

Great job, great video. My question is dont do power raking dethatching for spring cleanups in your nick of woods?

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Not often, but we do offer it. It's not a part of a spring cleanup in our market. Separate service.

[@JuanSanchez-nn1db]

Nice set up 👍 thanks for sharing

[@peterfreeman3299]

Need to make your roof vents smaller. All the dust gets into the cracks and crevices and will rust your truck out

[@LawnCareNinja]

I am at $315 minimum for cleanups this year. That gives me and 1 other guy about 1 hour to do the cleanup to hit the minimum which is usually pretty close to what it takes. I did one this past Saturday for $475. A bunch of perennial grass trimming and leaves around the house in south Denver. Took us about 2 hours for the cleanup ($142.5 per man hour rate) and we also did aeration and fertilizer his bill was $670. I have been getting a little pushback on my pricing this year. I did not increase it much from last year but I think people are really starting to feel the effects of the state this country is in. I still watch your videos even though I rarely comment nowadays. Great video as always, Brian!

[@davidcampbell5979]

So what kind of blade do you have on there? Im also assuming that you raise the deck up higher as well. Great job though. Love the videos bro!!

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Just highlift blades, nothing crazy. We mow with cleanups at 2.75-3" on average.

[@MRbloodshed97]

Right now I charge $180 an hour for a three man crew with a minimum of $240 plus dump fee. Our prices have only gone up haha

[@spstoopst4363]

Id be curious if that exmark blower matches up with the entire opening of the deck. I have the ezvac on my toro titan hd but has an extra piece in there to fill the gap between the deck and the ezvac blower. Have bad blowout and leaves everywhere but because of the extra steal piece, one cant install a blowout kit.

[@josephmarshall612]

What price/hourly rate do you recommend for solo operators doing fall leaf clean-ups?

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

$175/hr for a 2 man team, more if you're disposing material or performing cutbacks/pruning.

[@jus_des96]

I’m at $225.00 for a same sized clean up. Still bagging leaves for now 😪 but aiming for a nice f350-f450 with a dump and debris loader someday soon!

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

You’ll get there in no time with good rates. Up yours a little, it sounds like you have room to! ❤️

[@jus_des96]

@@BriansLawnMaintenance I am solo at the moment, at what price threshold makes most sense for LMN? Waiting on 2 big contracts starting May 1st and if I secure them I will be doing 200k ~ by myself. Buuuuut I would like to make sure my numbers are as profitable as possible, as you said, should be more then $225!

[@Honeybuns69]

4 man hrs $340-400. Depending on if i can take other clients debris to the dump. If I have more clients lined up before dump run closer to $340. If I just have a few closer to $400.

[@kodypilger]

I would think if at all possible, would make sense to dump grass directly into truck.

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

That would be amazing, maybe one day!

[@drewslawncare1913]

Should I be charging by the hour or job with leaves? I've heard both

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

By the job unless you really really don't have any idea how long it will take.

[@bryonkennedy1863]

Good looken Ford!

[@Dave098712]

What about cutting prices are you the same per hour ? Or less

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

This is a $45 weekly mow.

[@christianwitt30]

Hey Brian how much does your leaf box hold?

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

5 yards but that’s reduced I think 3:1 or 5:1 bc of the BillyGoat

[@christianwitt30]

@@BriansLawnMaintenance sweet. I’ve been considering doing that to my F250, but I’m solo and not sure if it would make it any more efficient.

[@briansmith5235]

For that size of yard with 4 guys is $1200. Thats with about $75,000 for all the equipment

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Lol. Love to hear how you came up with that number, because I must be low balling! :)

[@SuperDave21]

Most people in my area don't worry about leaf cleanup. I'd probably charge 250.00 and lose money to keep the business.

[@quincyvenable2279]

Love it brother thank you

[@beeslandscaping]

Also dump fee

[@cory5157]

Say you charge $349, are you adding tax onto that or do you factor taxes and fees into the total?

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

No taxes on this type of service here in Michigan.

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Fees yes (like dump fees).

[@cory5157]

@@BriansLawnMaintenance gotcha. here in PA lawn maintenance and most services are taxable. I normally add tax onto everything except mowing I just factor it into the price.

[@davidcocanougher2722]

I just subscribed thanks bro

[@michaelgirard6352]

Preach brother!

[@richardparker8426]

I’m at $225 but I’m solo.. and I feel like I still need to charge more

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

That's not bad at all mate.

[@austinmackay6644]

Hi

[@Aaron-p-q9b]

Ol’e LAZER still running good.

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

2,500 hours still going strong ha.

[@MRbloodshed97]

Tempted to get an exmark just for the bagger. The one on my pro Z 100 was useless.

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Ultravac has been decent for us. Few minor qwirks but overall it's been a giant revenue generator.

[@MRbloodshed97]

@@BriansLawnMaintenance Good to hear. It looks like the impeller is attached to the mowing deck? If that is the case I definitely like it much better than the cub having its impeller attached right near the bagger. It was basically $3000 down the drain due to it lol

[@normanfoster9810]

Your’s is the typical pricing model these days. Price it so it hurts, and then add a bit more. Congratulations on your success but I am doing my own (watching videos to get tips). $450 is $800 pre tax. That takes a lot of effort to earn and for most of us, and those earning opportunities are limited. With prices and taxes as high as they are these days I don’t understand why people spend the way they do. We were raised to only hire out what we can’t learn and do on our own. I’m happy for you that you can find customers who are willing to pay those rates. Be careful because your overhead doesn’t matter to many customers, only your competitiveness.

[@Guerrero1187]

$350 per hour with just about the same set up 👍🏼

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

That’s about what we came to with this cleanup.

[@Guerrero1187]

@@BriansLawnMaintenance add a wind storm and leaf plow a speed up large clean up👍🏼 I’ve been running a really lean team because nobody wants to work so I bought equipment that makes up for bums that call in and don’t want to work hard. Instead of 8-10 guys without my new equipment now I run 4-5 guys with all efficient equipment it’s so much better and faster

[@Athletesperformance1]

Why is the mower guy not dumping and moving. Smh He has the easiest job in the crew, keep moving!

[@billdwyer7897]

$600

[@xephael3485]

They'll just hire the guy with the $2,000 truck and the $500 trailer, who doesn't pay taxes, an may have questionable legality for being in the country $100hr 😜😂

[@pinecedar7748]

Cash jobs are the best man...

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Sure, and when he disappears in 2-3 years, we’ll still be here. Trusted, timeless, professional and dependable help always outlasts the fly by nighters ❤️

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

No, they’re actually not..

[@pinecedar7748]

@BriansLawnMaintenance hey man, if you're fine with taking money from other people, just to give it to the government, so they can ship it halfway across the world to go towards some war.....have at her. I'm not here saying do all cash jobs, but if you can help a good customer out every once in awhile....what's wrong with that?

[@xephael3485]

@@BriansLawnMaintenance I'm just giving you grief, but just understand there are people that trying to undercut you...

[@hossmoss3378]

Shots fired 😢

[@valentinoblanding4967]

Job like this $220🤷🏾‍♂️ and it just me.

[@rklawncare9018]

40 per man hr

[@OutdoorsEquipmentInFargoND]

I do leaf cleanup $20/hour

[@BriansLawnMaintenance]

Let's hope you're joking

[@justp1009]

U better double that