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

He's Dropping Residential to Chase Commercial Is He Right?

31 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this segment, Mike Andes asks the guest about the anticipated mix of commercial versus residential work for the upcoming year. The guest aims for a 75% commercial and 25% residential split and explains that hiring a full‑time crew to handle recurring maintenance could shift that balance. He expresses frustration with residential jobs, citing frequent calls about issues like dead flowers or missed watering, which he finds burdensome compared to commercial contracts.

Do you anticipate, assuming we don't change anything, that next year you're going to have a 75% split of commercial, 25% residential?
Yes, that's what I hope for. And I'll tell you what, and it may be like if I hired a full-time crew and we got the maintenance thing going, the recurring, and I had someone else to deal with all these problems, maybe I would feel differently. But what I can't stand with this landscape stuff is when somebody calls me because their flower died or they didn't water it or they didn't do this or—
residential or commercial?
Residential. It's like so such a time suck. It's like, I'm not making nearly enough money doing this. I'm going to stick with these commercial guys.