Landscaping and hardscape
Fits best: an experienced builder ready to run crews and bigger projects.
Pros
- ✓Large projects and strong referral value
- ✓A service customers already understand and buy
Cons
- !High capital and a crew from day one
- !Seasonal: busiest spring–fall
- !Little repeat business, so marketing never stops
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 2 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 4 jobs a month in season. Add landscape lighting install for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add maintenance contracts so installs feed recurring revenue.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Add maintenance contracts so installs feed recurring revenue.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck plus equipment trailer
- Repeat customers
- Low
- Licensing
- Medium
- Season
- Spring–fall
- Runs on
- ProTrak RemodelTrak
Skid steer or mini excavator drives the cost.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (4), times 8 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: published industry sources.