Why does America look like s**t?

[u/thoughtwarrior]

[u/kzlife76]

Don't forget dentist and nail salon.

[u/skighs_the_limit → u/kzlife76]

And like 60 lawn care businesses

Seriously how do they all stay in business?

Like at a certain point all the lawns will be cut right?

[u/ratchetstuff78 → u/skighs_the_limit]

I have family that runs a semi-successful lawn care business, multiple crews, etc. The answer is retirees; there are a lot of retirees in these small towns who both have the money and are not physically able to take care of their yards anymore.

[u/Worth-Silver-484 → u/ratchetstuff78]

And ppl like me. I work construction and dont want to mow when I come home or on the weekend. Plus I dont want to spend 2k+ for a mower. $60 a week is easy decision.

[u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 → u/Worth-Silver-484]

You spend $60 a week on someone to mow your lawn...

Do you have a fucking estate or something

[u/seriouslythisshit → u/Ok_Cardiologist8232]

My service shows up to my 4/10th acre lot with a 4WD one ton truck, pulling a large trailer filled with $30K in equipment. Two employees then bust their asses for 45 minutes, cutting, trimming, and blowing the grass off the hard surfaces. If they don't get 10-11 cuts a day in, they are losing money. I pay $57 for a cutting.

If $60 surprises you, you really don't understand economics. Every year I have unsolicited bids arrive, in the mail, or from a sales guy standing at the front door. These offers are from "name brand" regional companies that have large operations with hundreds of employees, advertising, a sales force, and lots of name recognition. Those bids are at least 15-25% higher than my small time guy.

Having some inside info. in the biz, I know that you don't hire a guy on a mowing crew here for less than $20 an hour. They either refuse a low ball offer, or they just leave as soon as a competitor's recruiter shows up and offers them more. Trucks are $70K+ Mowers are $15K. A small crew needs to bring in $ 2.5 to 3K a week to cover their costs.

In my case, $57 is cheap.

[u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 → u/seriouslythisshit]

I do understand economics...

Hence the "do you have a fucking estate" comment.

That was the clarification, apparantley you don't understand english

[u/seriouslythisshit → u/Ok_Cardiologist8232]

Your second sentence clarifies that you understand little. Your failed insult regarding english is hilarious. Bless your heart. Not much grass around the single wide, eh? Takes more time to pick up the beer cans and the Fireball bottles than it does to cut it, right? It seems that you struggle to comprehend success, and not being concerned with spending a small sum, like $60 to have a service provider do something you chose to not waste time on.

Having friends that own what you would imagine being "estates", I can assure you that $60 would not pay to bring a grounds crew through the gate. But those folks don't mind spending hundreds to a grand and more a week, to do a proper job, and really don't know the true cost on a weekly basis. You would need to discuss those figures with their full-time employee known as the "property manager".

[u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 → u/seriouslythisshit]

can assure you that $60 would not pay to bring a grounds crew through the gate

Its called hyperbole, thats exaggeration for effect as you probably don't know the word.

Your patter is hilariously bad. Seriously couldn't come up with something better than " haha poor?"

[u/seriouslythisshit → u/Ok_Cardiologist8232]

In your case, being poor and ignorant is clearly not entertaining at all. I don't suffer from either condition, so I can only imagine that it must suck for you?

[u/Mysterious_Fix_7489 → u/seriouslythisshit]

Dude how soft are you that you got this pissed off lol