Is it just me or have the small guys been dissapearing?

[pseudosun]

Some potential customers fail to realize the obvious. When they try to tell me how much they paid their old lawn guy, i ask "well, what happened?" That's when the himmin' and hawin" starts.

[ralph02813]

I tired of hearing well my current LCO only charges $30 to do their lawn and they let it be known that he is a cop, etc, and my $50 price is to high.

I tell them I can't charge $30 because I don't have a $100,000+ public sector job to subsidize my business costs. I don't have that FT income to buy new trucks, commercial mowers, etc. [/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]

I lost two that I was wondering why I took them on in the first place - they were side by side, I was only charging $35 each, , not a 1/4 acre between them but it took an hour of hard work to do both very hilly. Some guy in the neighborhood is now doing everyone on that street for $20 each.