Thanks and understood

[ohmiller]

regardless of where anyone here would like to see you set prices, you need to gauge your local market for the going rate with the services you plan on offering and your profit margin goals. The machines that you have are irrelevent without knowing how they will be used. This includes travel time, sales, insurance and fuel, size of property, etc. etc., all included in your price. If you are spread all over the county and the average lawn is 1500 sq. ft. and you have only 5 customers to spread your fixed costs over, your pricing is going to be much different to make a profit than the guy mowing 30 lawns in one neighborhood. Understand? As far as purchasing a rider, no one is going to pay you more to use one, the only advantage you will gain is if it will enable you to cut labor on properties that you currently have or can sell.

Thank you for the advice Green Utah and Wski4fun this stuff is better then any books. Knowledge and understanding makes life less stressful