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Originally Posted by Happydaz
In newer neighborhoods you see a lot of 14 inch by 14 inch signs permanently placed in shrub borders that advertise for Deans and Zoysia Green lawn service companies. These companies give discounts off their yearly service if homeowners agree to have an advertising sign in their yard. My neighbor told me he got a 10 percent discount for displaying a Deans sign in his yard. You see many of them south of 466A in newer neighborhoods as newcomers are signing lawn care contracts when they move in. These signs must be allowed as some of them have been up for over a year in Pinellas. I also see them in the new Lake Deaton area. I know you can't have large landscaper signs up as Home Watch asked me to take mine down even though it was up for only a week. These smaller lawn company advertising signs must be OK as they are all over the place. They have nothing to do with a pesticide treatment warning. These are permanent signs.
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I think such an agreement with a company is rude and defies the rules, and the neighbor who agrees to do it is enabling it.
Their big trucks, trailers and mechanical equipment parked in front of the houses for hours and days, while doing a job, is more than enough advertising.
The way they park and sometimes clog up the narrow streets tells us whether to hire them or not.
The next best way to know whether to hire them is to watch and see how often they show up while the snowbird homeowner is gone for the season. Then see if they actually mow or trim or whatever is contracted, or if they sit in the truck on the phone and write up an invoice for "work done"....without even getting out of the truck.