Yard maintenance (mow, trim, edge)
Fits best: a hands-on outdoor worker who likes routine and building routes.
Pros
- ✓Customers stay for years once they’re on the route
- ✓Customers come back on a schedule
- ✓No special license to start
Cons
- !Mowing is crowded and price-shopped; winter needs a plan
- !Small tickets need volume and tight routes
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 140 visits a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 280 visits a month in season. Add residential snow removal for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add snow removal for winter, then lawn health once licensed.
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 snow removal for winter, then lawn health once licensed.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck plus open trailer
- Repeat customers
- High
- Licensing
- Low
- Season
- Apr–Oct
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
Commercial mower $8K–15K is most of the cost. Pair with snow removal for winter.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (280), times 7 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.