Watergardens = 1 time application<br>need to scrape and dig for another customer to feed your family and pay your bills<p>Lawnservice = repeat, monthly, yearly, semi-yearly income with large customer base, set up correctly it will feed and pay your bills 12 months a year.<p>My suggestion would be to offer this type of work as a sideline to your existing business until it reaches a point where backlog looks sufficient to support you. Why is the biz being sold? Better look at the "books".<br>Partnerships............not me, not again! Friends and business do not mix.<p>I would add this to your business if you want to do it to fill in the voids created by the dry times or even in the off season when you have more time to do it. Find out how much money something like this can generate and if it will support 2 familys before entering into a partnership. If anything, let your friend buy the business and use your customer base to generate business for him, take a percentage of the sales that you have provided him or help with the installs and charge a percentage of the profit, you both win in this scenario and you really have no risk.<p>One thing I didn't realize when I went into a partnership was that landscape and irrigation was seasonal! I thought it would last all summer, it didn't, spring and fall around here were the busy months and summer was dead months! Never knew that.<br>Water gardens are not a necessity, they are an item for those with expendable income, that want something pretty to look at.<p>Homer