what we charged to mow this MILLIONAIRE MANSION!

Hey, everyone, it's Mike Andes. And yet again in the middle of the night, my producers have pulled me out to make sure that I watch a video and I react to it as a voiceover. Now, last week we had a contest of who could guess how long the job took. And here's the winner. This old relic garage and landscaping is the winner of MBA for Entrepreneurs. The course, it's in the link in the description, and it's worth $499. So congratulations. He gave a great answer to. Not only did he guess exactly the number of minutes, he also Talked about why P4P work and did a great job just analyz the entire video. So without any further delay, this video today that we are going to be watching, you have to guess, what was the price on this job? What did we charge for this job to be completed? We're gonna mow, we're gonna edge, we're gonna blow. And there's a lot of blowing off to do because there's a whole tennis court and a big, big driveway. It's gonna be a great one. And we're using the drone today. Let's get into it. All right, we got ourselves a drone shot coming in on this house. Now, the first thing I'm looking at is the fact that I love the color scheme of this house. Very modern. That white look with the black trim. Oh, it looks beautiful. It's actually what the headquarters for Augusta Lawn Care is going to be, looking sort of like that. But I can tell by the architecture, like the chimney and the eaves, that's actually an old house that was remodeled. You can just tell by several different things and especially the fact there's a gazebo. But let's go ahead and jump into this one. This is a pretty large lawn, and for everyone. That always gives me all the hate in the world about always using push mowers. Just for you. Today we are going to be using a zero turn. We do have zero turns. We have a route that we have for these larger lawns that require a 48 or a 52 inch mower and a trailer, an enclosed trailer. We use a 7 by 16 trailer where we can get these bad boys moved around throughout the day. And they have a specific route that is for these larger lawns. As you can see here, this property is fairly large. There's lots of hills, there's a lot of grass. And this is the backyard area. So we use the push more on this area because we do not carry multiple zero turns on a trailer, especially when you Have a property like this one, there's going to be areas where, yes, you could use potentially 20 turns, but the size of that truck, the size of that trailer gets exponentially larger as you start adding multiple zero turns onto a trailer. So typically on our trailers we only have a zero turn and a push mower. And the reason we do this is because actually most of the time we actually are only having solo routes, which means one person, one employee is on the job. The reason we have two people on this job specifically is that one of them is being trained. The one that's using the push mower there is only a couple weeks into the job and is still being trained by Kent, who's on the zero turn. So typically the routes are solo. There's only one person on it. So there's no reason to have multiple 10, $12,000 mowers if one of them is going to be sitting on the truck all day long. You got to start thinking about asset utilization. What percentage of the day is that mower actually being used by the crew? And if it's just sitting on a trailer, if it's just sitting on a truck, if out of a 10 hour day, a piece of equipment's only been used for 30 minutes or an hour or two hours, it's probably unlikely that you can actually justify the cost of that mower over the long term. So this is the backyard here. It's a lot of grass. And yes, we have to bag clipping. So keep that in mind when you look at the price here, because remember, you're trying to guess the price for this job to be completed, what we charge for this specific one. And so these gravelies that we are looking at here, we usually use the 48 inchers because we have to have the side bagging and we have this whole discharge unit on the side. It's another like 12 inches in width when it comes to the size of the mower. And we gotta get it in the back of a seven foot trailer. And if you have an enclosed trailer, you know that those cords that hold up the trailer always get broken because of the deck catching on the side and, and breaking them. It's like only like a 40, $50 fix, but it's a pain in the neck to recoil them, change out the wires and they get beat up. And if you don't change them out, it's like super heavy. Those ramps, the doors that come down off of the enclosed trailers. But we do have to bag clippings. We have to. It's a pain in the neck. And that's why we don't really focus on large, large lawns. Because literally just a couple lawns like this, of this size, if it's growing really fast in the spring rush, could literally fill an entire truck bed with. With grass. And yes, there are times when crews have to come back to the shop, empty out clippings, and then keep mowing for the rest of the day. We've minimized that dramatically, possibly even eliminated that, though, by really trying to focus on lawns that are under 10, 15,000 square feet. These larger lawns, though, they take a lot longer. They require the zero turn. So now we're hopping into the edging of the property, but we got to just get another drone shot of the beautiful Japanese maple. That maple up front, that red looking tree. It's called Japanese maple. I love those trees. And they are. They really, really work well in our Pacific Northwest climate in terms of just working well with the landscape. So, okay, we're doing some edging here. Now the big debate everybody has to have is, should you have a shield, a guard on your weed whacker? I know some people are really against it and other people think that's the dumbest thing in the world, that you should take it off. In my opinion, I leave it on mostly due to the fact that I have had some really bad experiences, Rocks being caught up in my face. And one time I got one in my eye. Back in the day when I was like 11 or 12 years old, I had to go to the hospital because I got a little tiny thing in my eye. So I'm like a little bit safety conscious when it comes to weed whacking, edging, chainsaws, and my eyes. So I still leave on the actual trimming shield. Now everyone's gonna say in the comments, well, you don't know how to use a trimmer if you can't take off the shield and not get it in your face. I understand 99.9% of the time, I know I can get away with it. And it's much nicer, much more efficient to be using a trimmer without that shield. However, again, once you have been hit many, many times, once you have got something in your eyeball, you. You try to think about these things. I only have one set of eyes. I only have one face. And you would not want to watch videos every single day if this thing was scarred up because a bunch of rocks were hitting me in the face because I didn't have a shield on. So I tried my best just to kind of be as safe as possible when it comes to lawn care and landscaping. Mowing the lawn an extra 2% faster because the shield is not on there. In my opinion, I'd rather just be safer. However, we allow our guys to take it off. Especially on these large properties with large open areas. There's not a lot of people or trucks or cars driving by. It's not a whole lot of damage. And as long as they're wearing eye protection, ear protection, and they have pants on, I'm okay with it. If someone's wearing shorts and they don't have, again, like, I just don't want someone to put a rock into their shin because they're working for me. I don't want that. And so it's one of the things that we just, I just cannot handle is when people are not wearing eye protection, ear protection, or just being unruly with using weed whacker. Those things are dangerous. I'm just saying, like, there's plenty of stories I have seen of people just really hurting themselves. And so we do leave those shields on. So get it. Bird's eye view right now of what's going on. We got more multiple front yard lawns. Look how far this is. A massive slope. Takes a lot of time to edge around all of this. This backyard area. You're gonna see a tennis court here in a second. Lots of blowing off here. A lot of this property is more about blowing off this massive driveway, the sidewalk and the tennis courts. There's the tennis court right there in the back there. I don't know they have the net up, but you can see some branches are down. And you're gonna see Kent actually holding, carrying away to that debris. But again, this property takes of a lot long time just because the. Not the square footage of the grass, but more a matter of all the square footage of the area that needs to be blowed off, trimmed around, edged around. And the size of the property means that you're walking around the property a lot. And this is where it's really important, especially for someone that's experienced to be able to pick up the fact that you can save a lot of time on this property when you're servicing it by making sure you have things like weed whacker line in your pocket because you don't want to be 100 yards away from your truck and run out of weed whacker line. You don't want to run out of gasoline or two cycle engine oil when you are again 100 yards away from the trailer. You want to make sure that before you leave the trailer, before you leave the fuel and the weed whacker line, you're loaded up. Those are the little things that really make a difference as to whether or not you can hit budget hours and make P4P pay for performance. And that's why for everyone else that's wondering, why would you put one person on this property? That's just crazy cruel. No, they make more money typically on P4P. Because what we're counting on in this case is the fact that the mowing, the edging, the blowing all gets kind of done at the same time. Well, if you get the weed whacking done, you get the mowing done and someone just blowing off, there's probably going to be at least a minute or two of waste on every single job of one person waiting for the other. That's why we really focus. A lot of our guys like and prefer the to be on solo routes when it comes to milling because you can make more money. Because you literally go from being efficient on the job the entire time, jump in the truck and you head off to the next job. That's usually the most efficient. However, it doesn't necessarily mean everyone should be doing solo routes because it means that you gotta buy more trucks, more equipment, more trailers, and that just might not be the most efficient use of your money. It actually might limit your growth because the amount of capital expenditures and capital requirements required to buy all the trucks, buy all the equipment and, and you don't need that anyways. So again, there's a balance. You might want to start off with two or three people in the truck, but as time goes on, if you're doing smaller properties, it usually makes sense to go more towards solo. The guys can make more on P4P, they make more money and they can be more profitable and efficient. However, when it comes to conserving cash and growing, you're probably going to double up or even triple up people inside of a truck and trailer. Especially if you're in larger properties, you have multiple zero turns, larger trucks, larger trailers, the bigger the amount of capital expenditure on the crew and on a single truck, typically the more crew members will be in the truck. And that's usually what makes the most sense. Alright, so there's the video. But now I need to know from you, what would you think that we would charge for this job? Whoever can guess the closest dollar and gets it first is going to win the full print package@lawn caremedia.com now if you haven't seen lawn caremedia.com it has door hangers like this. This is like for light installation, core aeration. These are things you can use in your long care business. Get jobs just like this one. This is the instant quote where you're able to fill up the actual price, put it on the door, sell jobs. It's great. You got flyers, door hangers, postcards, yard signs, a variety over 60 designs that you're going to win if you can just guess. Whoever's first can guess how much we charge for this lawn job. If you missed last week's, check this video out here where we did the exact same challenge and you got to guess exactly what the price was.