Lonely-Resort-9365 t1_je091yh wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:13 PM

Reply to comment by DayShiftDave in There Needs to be Stricter Noise Ordinances for Landscaping. by [deleted]

Can testify this is 100% a fact having been in the landscape business before, in 4 hours you could only realistically get maybe 3 houses done with a crew of 4. Now if you were below the parkway you could get maybe 9 houses done. As it is when I worked a full day landscaping we only got 5-7 houses done and that was a lot, we only got that number done because 4 of the houses were right next to each other.

DayShiftDave t1_je0gfrc wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:03 PM

Plenty of places north of the Merritt could be a half day job, but those aren't the places worried about leaf blower noise either, I guess.

I had a lawn business years ago in the DC area, and it's really tough to make decent money without scale. Had one good cash cow: with three guys, I'd do 44 lawns every other Thursday. Slumlord owned about 3 consecutive blocks of Section 8 duplexes in a rough part of town. Small, flat, identical lawns with no landscaping or fences, and all in a row, it took about nine and a half hours of pure hustle and paid $1400. God bless that dirtbag.