How to Open a Lawn Care Business

Anyone can can open a lawn care business.

The primary job for most lawn care businesses is mowing the lawn. Busy families who don't have time to tend to their own lawns in the fast growing seasons of spring and summer look for a lawn care business that can do it for them. For teenagers and other entrepreneurs, this can be an ideal way to stay fit, make money and create your own schedule.

Things You'll Need

• Lawn mower
• Garden tools
• Truck
• Cellphone

Instructions

1. Check your available tools. If you're going to open a lawn care business, you need to provide your own lawn mower, seeder, weeder, edger. Your tools need to be sturdy and easy to transport.

2. Plan locally first. For most teenagers wanting summer work, you're going to need to be in walking business of the clients. Luckily, most teenager lawn entrepreneurs live in neighborhoods. Go to door to door with your lawn mower and offer to do a complimentary trim. The average lawn takes 30 minutes or less to mow. Give the homeowner your contact information and pay sheet.

3. Create your own business cards. If you have a home computer, this is easy. Your business card can be centered at the top of a sheet paper and your price list below it. The average lawn care service charges $20 to $25 per lawn trim and extra for other services such as weeding flower beds, animal feces remova.

4. Think in terms of what you can do. If the average lawn takes 30 minutes, you can probably do six to 10 houses per day. You need to remember to hydrate, especially in the heat of the summer, and don't commit to trim lawns that you can't do.

5. Expand your business gradually. Keep your tools in good shape and rely on the goodwill of your clients. Most home-based businesses that include lawn care services rely on word of mouth to grow their business.

Tips & Warnings

• Teenagers should talk to their parents about starting a business.

• Keep your equipment in good working order.

• Try to have a backup lawn mower for those unexpected breakdowns.

• Always make sure to fuel the lawn mower up ahead of time.

• Plan to leave lawns in pristine condition, never skimp.

• Don't promise or perform services such as pet feces removal without talking to the pet owner.

• Beware dogs in backyards so they don't get out and you don't get bitten.

References

• Entrepreneur: How to Start a Lawn Care or Landscaping Service