This YouTube episode ("SHUTTING DOWN a $1.2M Business...", Jan 10, 2026) follows Mike Andes (founder of Augusta Lawn Care) visiting Casey of Epic Lawn and Pest in Washington to assess a failing lawn-care business. The company projects about $1.2M in annual revenue but is cash-poor, with hundreds of thousands in overdue invoices, a recent high-interest 'shark' loan, and an immediate need to collect roughly $120,000 within a week to meet payroll. Mike outlines a six-week turnaround plan and estimates only a ~10% chance of success.
Hate to say it. I think you should try to get out of business. Today. We're in Washington visiting Casey with Epic Lawn and Pest.
Has it been kind of stressful? Hell, yes.
We have to get a business loan. I go, if we don't get a business loan, we're not going to make payroll. We're going to get shut down because we don't have money for L and I. And he was like.
Well, I don't want to.
Is there a rush in it to see how we can kind of keep going with it? Sure.
The business is on Track to make $1.2 million this year, but they have no money. We have to collect $120,000 faster than Tom, like, within a week to make payroll. They have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of overdue invoices. Why do we keep doing service if we're not gonna get paid?
I wanna go choke some people.
They took out a shark loan to make payroll this week.
I mean, our business loan that we got was only enough to actually get caught up.
I told her not to do it.
She did it anyway. Casey bought the business and has no idea about his numbers.
It's all wrote down. Lawyers, blah, blah, blah. Oh, here we are.
They know they sold you a bill of goods. Cause they were bleeding cash every month until the day they sold it to you. This is the business Turnaround show. My name is Mike Handes. I'm the founder of Augusta Lawn Care. We have over 190 locations around the world. I travel the country fixing struggling businesses. Our goal is to give Casey a strategy to turn around the company in the next six weeks. All right, so here's the road out, and I would give it a 10% chance of working.
