Your flat rate $80 an hour will put you out of business either way.. Too high for some and not enough for many. The only way to do enough volume in leaf removal to make money for real is charge per labor hour, vacuum leaves and haul away.
Most any other way is inefficient and not profitable. That's what my 33 years of experience tells me.
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