I know a LOT of people who want to make that big money doing this type of work. My ex employee left last week because they had picked up a stone removal , shrub remove and replace, 4 yards of mulch job on the side, and well..you can't work for me and be my competition.
They don't have work comp insurance. They used a lawn trailer, so they spread dirt and stone all over the streets in the area. The shrubs didn't dig up with the $20 shovel like they did with my $120 shovels. It took them 5 days instead of the 2 days they told the people it would take.
Charge was $500 bucks. Expenses besides 5 days of gas pulling a trailer.. $250 plants and mulch. Took 5 days, and the lady didn't want to pay them at all...because it took 3 days longer than they said.
They also cut a power supply to her pond, so the lady took $70 off the bill for the electrician...
They were making 125+overtime a day working on my crew. But without my trucks, trailer, tractor, equipment, insurance, W-2 payments for their future, and 35 years of construction and landscape experience, they are worth what they made.
My crew would have done that job in half a day , though it would have been about $200 bucks more. I do have significant overhead running a LEGITIMATE company.
Anyone know some illegal immigrants looking to work cheap? Just kidding, I wouldn't break the law to put a few extra dollars in my pocket...would you?
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