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

I Used $1000 to Start a Lawn Mowing Business

8 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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Mike Andes started a lawn care business at 11 with his brother using $400 for a Honda mower and $600 in other gear. They signed 30 customers their first year and made $3,000. Fifteen years later, the business had grown to 100 locations doing over $20 million in annual sales.

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11 years old

$400 for a Honda push mower

A couple hundred dollars each (string trimmer ≈ a few hundred; handheld blower ≈ a few hundred)

A couple hundred dollars on door hangers

Less than $1,000 total

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When I was 11 years old, I started a lawn care business with my brother. And we literally spent less than $1,000 to get started. And we paid $400 for our push mower. Got a good quality Honda push mower. We paid a couple hundred dollars for a string trimmer and a couple hundred dollars for a really nice handheld blower. We then spent a couple hundred dollars on door hangers like this that you can get@longtermedia.com where we put the price in the back and actually be able to give that to the customer. And literally in the first year, we got 30 customers and we made about $3,000 in total gross revenue. Now felt like we were millionaires, but that $1,000 has now grown down to where I'm 26 years old. So 15 years later, now 100 locations around North America, and the system wide sales is over $20 million in annual revenue.