Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

$1.2M Business Can't Pay Employees...🤯

29 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube interview (Mike Andes with Connor of Augusta Lawn Care) about a lawn-care business that did $1.2M in revenue last year but experienced a $150,000 loss and severe cash-flow problems. The business has high fixed costs (stated as over $50K/month), significant fleet/equipment (15 trucks, a car, ~12 mowers), recurring monthly line items (one cited at ~$15,000/month), and very limited on-hand cash (~$500). The owners have missed payroll and face regulatory/legal notices (OSHA, state labor board, potential attorney).

Questions this video answers

$1.2 million.

$150,000.

Fifteen trucks.

About a dozen mowers.

Over $50,000 per month.

Chapters

We're so in the red this year or whatnot. But then on paper, you see, oh, they hit 1.2 million. Like, they can't be that far in the red. Well, a lot of stuff goes on behind the scenes.
Like, yeah, we are today. We're in Charlotte, North Carolina, with Connor from Augusta Lawn Care.
Fifteen trucks, a car, a dozen mowers. So much stuff is breaking all the time.
Last year, he did $1.2 million in revenue, but he lost $150,000 and went into massive debt.
We're already technically not making payrolls because me and my wife aren't.
Getting paid new, bro. Yeah. What you.
What are you paying for this? It's expensive. It's like 15 grand a month.
15Amonth? Yeah.
Fixed expenses are over 50 grand a month.
Yeah, like, when we showed up, like, I didn't know about $15,000 a month. That changed everything.
Dude, the fixed expenses are way too high.
Hey, cars are not working. I'll put it on my personal card for now.
Oh, dude, it's so bad.
Like, we have $500 today.
From a cash flow perspective, this is crazy.
My name is Mike Andes. I'm the founder of Augusta Lawn Care, where we have over 170 LOC the world.
We've gotten a letter from OSHA. We've gotten a letter from the state labor board, and I'm assuming we're getting a letter from an attorney. It's bad. It's. It's grim.
You can't do that. You have to grow the 2 million.
Plus you're getting fired.