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

Day 1: $1M Lawn Care Business in 1 Yr

21 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, Mike Andes explains how his lawn‑care startup leverages a low‑cost coworking space to house multiple ProMaster vans, dramatically reducing monthly parking expenses compared to a traditional shop. He outlines the practical benefits of the coworking location: 24/7 key‑fob access, a conference room for technician training, and a professional setting for applicant interviews. Andes also details the immediate operational priorities—installing rear ramps and applying vinyl wraps to the vans—to both improve service capability and satisfy Google Business Profile verification requirements, which hinge on a visible, branded physical presence at the verified address.

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All right, we found its brother over here. 2 of them, ProMasters. Putting the rack in here on the back. We'll have caps for the bottom part so grass doesn't get in there. We gotta put the racks up, tools. We're also using this coworking space, and we do that because we can park all the vans here, which just if you had parking for a shop space in this market, you're already looking at a few hundred thousand dollars a month. Whereas this is $250 a month. We have an office space. We can use multiple coworking spaces around the town. So it's great for interviews. If we are interviewing an applicant, instead of meeting at Starbucks or in the truck, we just go here. We have 24/7 access with our key fob. And then we can also get a training, like a conference room for the days when we're doing technician training. So that's why we're doing it here at a coworking space. But the biggest thing is the ability to be able to use it for Google Business Profile. So we'll verify this specific address. But to do that, we really gotta have the vans wrapped. So that's the number one thing we're focusing on right now is getting the ramps on the back installed and then the actual vinyl wraps that'll go on the outside of the van.