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

10 Pool Clients Bought for $20k 🤔

26 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube conversation (hosted by Mike Andes) about buying pool-cleaning routes/clients from brokers. One speaker reports buying "10 pools for $20k" and additional small routes (including "10 for $10k"); they discuss the economics (roughly $2k acquisition per pool vs. ~ $1k annual revenue per customer), lead-generation alternatives, and concerns that buying clients at these prices prevents scaling.

Questions this video answers

10 pools

$20,000

$2,000 per pool (derived from $20,000 for 10 pools)

About $1,000 per year

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I think I bought 10 pools for 20 grand, so.
10 pools?
Yeah, for.
10, 20 grand.
It's pretty bad, bro.
You have to do cleaning them for like two years.
So there's this broker and they pretty much let you buy a route, and the person selling it to you has to like, teach you. I want to hear your take on this because I bought another one, another route to 20 grand for 30. So a little bit better, but they're not that good accounts and they're super low prices.
Yeah, yeah.
And then I bought another, like 10 for 10 grand or something, and I was thinking about buying another one.
Why would you not just get the lead yourself and.
Kind of do.
Lead gen yourself?
I think I'm lazy partially, but also I'm not good at it, I don't think.
Because if we're constantly buying them and we're basically paying like two grand a pool, we're just never going to be able to scale. Do you know your average ticket is per year, like a thousand bucks?
Like. Like revenue.
Like revenue per customer?
Yeah. Probably close to grand.
Two grand? Yeah, probably so. But it takes a whole year to recoup the cost of acquiring them.