Why Landscaping is Better Than Lawn Care

If you've been in business for 3+ years and you're still mowing lawns, you're destined to fail. Lawn maintenance is a good start, but shouldn't be the end goal. If you never grow out of mowing lawns, you will never make millions of dollars. So if you want to level up your life and your business, learn the landscaping game and get it rollin'.
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[@brandon6321]

$14,000 profit over 60 days = $233.33 profit per day. Mow 12 lawns at $60 each, per day= $720 gross, pay someone $20/hr for 8 hours= $160 in labor, leaving you $560 before fuel, insurance, etc. Mowing can easily make $500 profit per day. More than double your profit. Way less overhead, liability, labor, debt payments, etc. 1 good mower is $150 per month, you can make your monthly payment in 2 hours. I know getting large checks is nice, but I prefer low risk, consistent money that is highly profitable.

[@Bdigital9482]

Bartenders make $500 a day for 4 hours work and no overhead. Like he said mowing is for stupid people. And those who love ground hogs day driving on the same grass week after week. What happens in a drought? Or too much rain? I’ve yet to see anyone do well just cutting grass. Just being average is what you’re suggesting.

[@josedelacruz201]

​@Bdigital9482 bartenders don't make $500 every day though

[@jonathangraham9879]

He was using worse case scenario profit margin. Plus he’s not really working and most likely has more than 1 job site going on at 1 time.

[@colenolan1342]

I make 1000 a day landscaping and I have guys that do the work for me, I can easily work 3 days a week and take off work for days, I couldn’t do that cutting grass

[@drejaquez]

@@colenolan1342how?

[@zrob929]

Each has its advantages & disadvantages. Best to have a mix of both imo. Maintenance can give you a solid base of recurring income for the business, while the design & build division can offer bigger ticket jobs. Do an install then sell the customer on long-term maintenance. Win win.

[@dsiss45]

that's my business model works great. he is out of touch sometimes..

[@vovkam]

Fun video man. You need to compare same size crews. Profit margins will be bigger with landscaping, but maintenance is easier to scale.

[@esexavo]

i have been in business for over 14 years I started at 20 i have a 3 mil company my buddy has a 7 mil company mowing lawns that guy is too dumb he scaled his company servicing commercial and high end clients, and offers like clean ups and mulching and some planting, poor guy doesn't know he could be doing concrete work and building decks like me, I lost 40k when my smart employees mess up an ipe deck 😂

[@vovkam]

I know right?@@esexavo

[@TheGreatEscape77]

My deal is HOW to estimate concrete, walls, sod, lighting, irrigation, all of that PLUS when you dont know how todo any of the work yourself, scrambles my head🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕

[@TigranGertz]

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[@GwinnettLawns]

LOL you need a $2000 truck to make $90 in 30 minutes on a lawn, NOT 30k.

[@jeffslawnandlandscapingllc5481]

I guess I'm dumb. I've been mowing grass for a lot of years.

[@gabriellopez1966]

Everyone has to start somewhere and it’s not really for Stupid people since you can get a customer base and then go onto hardscape when your ready to offer that service

[@TigranGertz]

Mowing grass is a great start. I did it too, but the next step is landscaping

[@Holmescoss]

If you look at the top 150 landscape companies there is 1 thing they share in common and that’s landscape maintenance with H2B workers. So unless you have access to a cheap labor, landscape maintenance doesn’t make sense. Tig is a smart man but if you guys really want to have a multimillion dollar company you have to be willing to work for one of the big dogs. But by work I mean an office position at a landscape company where you learn a lot more than a KZbin gurus. But again that is the path way for someone who wants a multimillion dollar landscape business. Goat gang will suffice for someone who wants to make 100-200k profit a year

[@nathanjamesDewey]

There are a lot of big companies in my area who are getting out of lawn care simply because there is more profit in landscaping. With the pandemic, and not being able to find enough workers to keep up with all their commercial accounts, they’re getting rid of their mowing divisions, and just strictly going with landscaping

[@curtisnewman1520]

Plenty of landscape companies that strictly mow lawns make very good money. You just don’t know what you are talking about. Each company is different. Just cause you do hard scape stuff and don’t mow lawns, doesn’t mean you are better then everyone else. And you are based out of California, one of the most expensive states. Do your research before you start calling people dumb.

[@Phillipglossinger]

Very informative and correct, listen all lawn and landscape companies, you need to charge a 2024 price for your work not 2007 prices. Also when you are dealing with low quality and low paying competitive customers you are racing to the bottom with Chuck in a rusted out 87 Silverado. Be a professional service provider like T educate your self, and provide exceptional service then people will pay what you ask everyday

[@PhilipBelmont]

$14,000 over 60 days=>$250 a day? Seems like a lot of hassle if that's all you're making.

[@thepoopofcheese]

He’s running three crews so he probably makes at least 1k per day

[@PhilipBelmont]

That's good. Probably should have watched to the end of the video before commenting.@@thepoopofcheese

[@Treehandler]

That’s the net profit after everything is paid, including the bosses fat check. If each crew is netting $75000 minimum in profit every year, that’s 👌👌. He’s probably closer to 15% though, that’s where you gotta be if you want to be able to service your customers properly with reliable equipment and employees

[@anthonyshaw459]

Mr. T another good video, although I do have to disagree about the grass cutting you can be very lucrative if you do commercial / multi family, and forget residential

[@landmarkcreations1183]

What a trolling title 😂

[@TigranGertz]

😅

[@jamiepippin3892]

I admire the self sufficient companies that do fine outdoor living and construction, but also have a full commercial maintenance division and own land to produce all their own mulch, soil, plants and maintain their equipment on site. Relying on other vendors for everything is a big waste of time and gives other companies money instead of your own.

[@bootscatsworld]

imagine you go 200k+ in debt because you watched this video then you have no leads because apparently "anyone can have $20,000+ lead" or something out of no where

[@dg5476]

This video is about becoming a Contractor 😂

[@slowrider30]

Definitely got a 79 in math. Four guys landscaping with a 80k skid steer, 60k truck, 50k mini skid, 20k dump trailer with a 50k crew manager/estimator and a 40k full time office person make more than two guys in a mowing truck mowing 16 lawns. You didnt even take out the costs of the materials on the landscape job. Look I didn't even have join goat gang to figure that out 😅 You can make 140k because you have all that equipment already. Don't forget to add your salary

[@Naturespalette333]

Rent your large equipment; e.g., skid steer, excavators, etc. till you can afford to buy it.

[@mitchellgrawe2010]

If you think this guy ain’t making money you are wrong brother…

[@snypavisuals]

Clearly you did not watch the whole video 😂

[@cruzfairfield3326]

Me who casually mows my lawn (free) my grandmas lawn (free) and neighbors for no more than 20$ ever. every two weeks, "damm"

[@cm4485]

Ok but are your edge lines straight,bagged not mulched, blown, rake, and other stuff like clearing weeds, trimming bushes everybody wants a 20 dollar mow but when your a business and do more than just cut the yard it’s just not possible. if maybe just the front yard and just strictly mow nothing extra then maybe

[@Prokutzlawncareandlandscaping]

They aren’t an official/professional lawn care business

[@GarrettWilliams2017]

8 weeks on that job?? Our labor and overhead alone on that job would be 130k. Seems like way too long on a job that small.

[@davidlool4691]

Never call stupid to the mowers don’t feel more then other people because all can Change in seconds

[@danny8block]

Your biggest expense is payroll, it eats up all your profit. How much do you REALLY make at the end of the year after all your taxes & loan payments?

[@TigranGertz]

8-10%

[@billy2069]

why not do both? Have a landscaping business that also specializes in hardscaping. Now everytime you renovate a yard you also gain cash flow from them for servicing their property bi-weekly.

[@glclawncarellccentraltexas8766]

14k is not even one week in commercial mowing😅.

[@deebrown360]

How much are your payments on loans at the end of the month?

[@lawncaredave4492]

You mean overhead..

[@blackhoodiefitness5862]

Prob thousands, I like debt free better no stress

[@chucko956]

Over here we’re I live you can sell full maintenance lawn service includes weeding mowing trimming and free sprinkler check once a month wich you upsell whatever is broken and that starts around 150-350 a visit with a one man-3 man crews for 1-3 hours each property. That is what I belive can make you money in lawncare and give you recurring landscape jobs what is your opinion? I’m no were near that but it’s one of my goals to do so one day.

[@pozin05]

Need to gross 1k per day to make anything in lawn care. You can’t do that charging $60 per cut …. You have to have a staring price of $100 and up per cut…

[@vistascapes5553]

Ive decided to take the wing-it path and enjoy the roller-coaster ride.

[@Johnny83ch]

Hey I'm not even hating math is mathing. I appreciate the video and free info look forward to growing and being where you are.

[@humbertovazquez4790]

I love you T Thank You for all your help 🙏

[@nicknoh]

Took 15 minutes to say high skill labor/more risk gets paid more than low skill labor/low risk.

[@drewstrongitharm9680]

You forgot to take the material off of you $140000 landscape job.

[@drewstrongitharm9680]

Also 1 or 2 people to cut lawn. How many guys are on landscape job? 8 or 10

[@Concrete615]

Concrete is where it’s at. In and out

[@Sweitzer_conglomerate]

And you get pretty consistent work with that?

[@iornsharpeniorn7076]

Very good information. Can you make something similiar when it comes to getting ñicence here kn calofornia. Ive been lookimg to get my c27 here in california. I now how tondo the work and been doing it on my own. I have no actual paper trail on the experience side. The state website is askomg for 4 years of experience even to take the test. How can one be a ligit buisness. Thats where im at the moment. Any help will be helpful. Thanks.

[@MegaMaster04]

Do you get most of your customers from the videos you do (social media) or from references?

[@PbsGardeningLLC]

Facts bro thanks for the video

[@Lachinitayrob]

Any advice to n tree trimming? I want to grow my business. 😢

[@NoName92AZ]

Lawn mowing is low risk and can make you millions. Landscape/hardscape is high risk and can make you lose millions. Let’s be real man you’re a clown who failed in lawn mowing. It’s all good though.

[@siliconvalleylife2.048]

You can't compare monthly maintenance to landscape construction. That's just ignorant. Entirely different skills and tools. Why are you wasting time working on cars when you can build them ? What if the guy who mows lawns doesn't know how to do construction ?

[@KevinGamble-xj2jq]

But out of that 140,000 in mowing …you will take home almost 85, to 95,000 after expenses and you taking 14,000 for 8 week, so that’s only about 56 for 32 weeks..you jump your profit from 14,000 at the begin of the video to 30,000 at the end…sound good but cap

[@TigranGertz]

willl you be mowing 140k in lawns yourself or pay someone $20 an hour to help you

[@YoungAmbitionYA]

@@TigranGertzI mow 100k in revenue 3 days a week over 34 weeks (April - November) solo. Then 6000 in gutters and 40k in snow removal. All solo. Just hired 1 helper a week ago

[@Sweitzer_conglomerate]

​@@YoungAmbitionYAWhat's your average price? Do you target more commercial work?

[@Lachinitayrob]

Or am I on the wrong business? 😳

[@Olivierl.77]

14k for 8 week work ..... wtfff

[@MetroEpa-ef5yd]

T, how do you handle Customers that want an estimate then hire unlicensed people. How do you weed them out?

[@Gonzalosebastian12]

I was I GG But might come back again bro I need it

[@kevincloonan9787]

You explained this out perfectly ! Bottom line is Lawn Care is a capped business you can only make so much money

[@hernandezcompanyllc]

I love watching your videos Tigran but some stuff don’t make much sense. I don’t typically comment on videos but i wanted to provide my opinion here just for the fuck of it lol If this is really about providing value then it should be focused on that! You can get a lot of people confused with that statement. Mowing lawns is one part of the outdoor industry and some people persuade that path other people prefer the hardscaping part. Both are fine. In my area I know some companies that do both mowing, general maintenance, and hardscaping and they are making way more than )$5 millions so that would mean we are stupid in their eyes right? They run better business than us and make more money than us. But no! I think we should help each other in how to operate the business so we all do good in whatever we do. I own a landscaping business as well and we do more maintenance than hardscape jobs but we do some here and there and they are both fun and nice to do. I’m not triggered by the title of the video at all to be clear. I own a roofing business as well and if I follow this logic I would have to say that that is not a lot of profit for so many days. My roofing company has done close to $14k in profit in a single day. So compare to 8 or whatever weeks it took you to make that then is little compare to roofing. But they are just different businesses. I probably do not make more money than most guys here but im here to learn from everyone. In business if you are good at what you do anyone can make a huge business in any trade. And to add that in business the important part is the profit. So either if you are doing painting as if you are mowing lawns or hardscaping it should be focused on the profit. Im sure there are many people here that might want to do both maintenance and hardscaping jobs. And they might want to learn about both and how to be better business owners. This biz game is already tough. Let’s help each other to make more money! Gracias por su atención 💪

[@jamesnm21]

The bottom line is time is more important than money. You have a limited number of days in your life to get to where you want to be. Remember that. I know a guy who makes 200k+ a year mowing lawns. I just couldn't do the same repetitive freakin thing all day long every single day. I'd go nuts.

[@marlon_rivas]

Over head is over your head lol , you can obviously say all of that now due to all the marketing / brand awareness - and all the clients and contacts you have now . - but hey whatever works for you is all good I appreciate the video and the work - and education - All I’m saying is there’s plenty success in the green industry- lawn care - not everyone can afford that type of over head - step by step people get to different levels and you have figured your way out 🎉 You know what your doing no doubt - but there’s pros and cons - on both ends

[@jamesvillegas877]

I see landscaping itself has low profits. Its for kids. Step up with trees trimming or take downs its where the real men play 😂

[@NeiyMaritz]

A 10minute break? What kind of joke is that?

[@BrandonWheeler-xq5fy]

That sounds like a pain in the fucking ass

[@mauricioarellano576]

Title is so disrespectful not even gonna watch the video.

[@andrewlee9527]

When are you coming to Atlanta ga

[@esexavo]

Move from the getto 😂 there is no money there

[@libertas556]

Where is the Mike Andes response to this video at? Oh yeah! He is in a closet literally and figuratively.

[@knowbloc]

cmon T u know ur market is an exception not only are u primed for installs but u are in the worst lawn care market in the US. u ain’t got a leg to stand on in this topic sorry to say

[@LandscapeMaster33]

Tigran is hilarious lol

[@MetalsMontagesx]

lol id like to hear mikes take on this from Augusta lawn care and you talk about math then say some stupid shit like 45k is almost there to 80k wtf bruh yea i like the optimism you need it but also need to be realistic finding skilled labour is getting harder and harder and equipment is just going up in price unless you have the capital you need to work up to shit like this thats basic math

[@Blue-HillLandscaping]

T love the videos but some people don’t have the ability to sell like you do and so lawn maintenance gives on that reoccurring revenue

[@janeksilva]

I love how Joe biden is an expense itself 😂😂

[@eastendmafia]

you hang out with kids and have kids pay you money

[@rclawncaredenton8534]

First

[@rmr9797]

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[@sloth9669]

Joe Biden 😂😂😂😂