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detailed lawn care
02-09-2007, 07:20 PM
A guy is wanting to sell me 35 accounts that average about four thousand a month. All the customers would be staying since we serviced all of these lawns last year. Just not sure on what to pay for these accounts?
LushGreenLawn
02-10-2007, 08:19 AM
You're already only bringing in around $28 per property. If you pay very much for them, your not going to have very much left over.

My yards range from postage stamp to 1/2 acre, and I am averaging around $32 oer yard, and I'm trying to increase it because I think its a little low.

Are all of your yards really small? If there all postage stamps, I personally would offer him $3 per lawn, so you would net $25 per lawn on average.

If they are bigger, I'd wonder if its worth it or not.

I've only been doing this for 1 season, so don't rely soley on my opinion, see what the more experienced guys think.
jinx 88
02-11-2007, 01:37 PM
Does he have a asking price?
J Hisch
02-11-2007, 02:17 PM
Lush Green Lawn, Ill give you 3 dollars per lawn , when can I send you a check. So he is grossing about 35k for the season. I would offer him 10k and he walks away. that still gives you 25k to pay for additional labor cost, and you will still make money on them this year. Plus next year is all gravy. This is why I have been able to grow so much so fat is LCO's practially giving their business away. LCO's need to wake up and see just how much their business's are really worth.
detailed lawn care
02-11-2007, 02:55 PM
Does he have a asking price?

He has not set a price yet. I was just trying to get a ball park figure on how much to offer him.
detailed lawn care
02-11-2007, 02:56 PM
Lush Green Lawn, Ill give you 3 dollars per lawn , when can I send you a check. So he is grossing about 35k for the season. I would offer him 10k and he walks away. that still gives you 25k to pay for additional labor cost, and you will still make money on them this year. Plus next year is all gravy. This is why I have been able to grow so much so fat is LCO's practially giving their business away. LCO's need to wake up and see just how much their business's are really worth.

I was going to offer around 8k at first just to see what he thought.
echeandia
02-11-2007, 03:33 PM
I personally would offer him $3 per lawn, so you would net $25 per lawn on average.

The $25 is per cut. Over the season there would be what 30 cuts? So you would have to pay $90 per account. Total for year $3150.