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LawnMastersTx · #11 03-26-2008, 11:00 PM

I like this thread. I am on the west side of the DFW area and been reading up on your irrigation stuff on the other forums. I enjoy watching what other companies are up to in the area, especially ones run by people around my age. Plus it gets me out more to improve my own company.

EagleLandscape · #12 03-27-2008, 12:10 AM

Welcome to the site! Tell me about your company.

LawnMastersTx · #13 03-27-2008, 12:40 AM

Its a small company now, that focuses on acre plus size yards. I keep between 20-30 yards a season. When I am not doing that, i am out working on either sprinkler systems or landscaping jobs. Did you start up the business or did you branch off from a family owned one? Btw the blueprints you had on our house looked great for the landscaping. What did you use for making them?

prizeprop · #14 03-27-2008, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by jwingfield2k

Had a flier distribution company out put out 30k two weeks ago or so.

House burned down about 5 years ago. Some guy bought it two years later, but could never float the interim construction interest, so he was about to foreclosed on.

Took me about 7-8 months, but convinced the bank to do a shortsale on the property for about 1/3 of what the going cost of land is out there.

I could sell the lot and make 6 figures profit, but decided to build instead. Super awesome neighborhood and location to build a big shop on the back of the property.

My backyard is like 600-800 acres of corn. I can do whatever I want out here

Wow, thats alot of acres.Why not build the house deeper on the lot(farther away from the street)?

EagleLandscape · #15 03-27-2008, 05:36 PM

Its a one acre lot. That is a farm behind me that is owned by someone else. (I wish I could call that mine though, but I just found out I can hunt in it all I want though!)

EagleLandscape · #16 03-27-2008, 05:38 PM

No more concrete...

coif_kid · #17 03-27-2008, 08:57 PM

Good deal with the property.

So how did the flyers go? How much new work were you able to bring in with the 30k of flyers?

EagleLandscape · #18 03-27-2008, 09:59 PM

I think we've sold a little under 50k in jobs so far for this year on them. Only landscape installs though. I've only gotten like 3 calls on maintenance which worries me though. I was expecting about 40-50 by now. Hopefully this week since its getting warmer.