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LoCo86

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Lol then they call me :) I want to make enough to be comfortable. Not interested in getting bigger. Don't want to hire anyone ill fill up my 7am to 4pm with as many houses as I can then stop :)

I get just wanting to be content with working for yourself and by yourself, but what are you going to do when you're 50 years old and can't mow 20 yards a day. I hope you have a good 401K or and IRA or something set up for retirement.
 

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I get just wanting to be content with working for yourself and by yourself, but what are you going to do when you're 50 years old and can't mow 20 yards a day. I hope you have a good 401K or and IRA or something set up for retirement.
lol that's the difference between owning a Lawn Cate business and buying yourself a job
 

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I get just wanting to be content with working for yourself and by yourself, but what are you going to do when you're 50 years old and can't mow 20 yards a day. I hope you have a good 401K or and IRA or something set up for retirement.

My retirement is going to be rental properties. We are looking at one now :) pay them off in 30ish years and when I retire collect rent or sell. My children can have and do what they want with my business :)
 

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I get just wanting to be content with working for yourself and by yourself, but what are you going to do when you're 50 years old and can't mow 20 yards a day. I hope you have a good 401K or and IRA or something set up for retirement.

It all depends on when and how you approach the business. I started my business at 50 yrs of age and I'm now 62. There's money to be made in Lawn-care and if you decide at say 20 yrs old that's what you want to do for a living be prepared to work because there's a lot of ups and downs. There are those of us that are content working for ourselves and making enough money to pay the bills and have a little extra to put in our pockets and then there are those that have the greed factor as I call it and can never make enough and will never be happy or content.
 

jay stortini

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I don't mind competition :) there plenty of lawns to go around. Besides most big companies wouldn't touch my lawns for the same price and most wouldn't do as good a job :) its the kid down the street and the unlicenced jackhole in a Toyota that are my major problems :)
Dude I drive a Toyota would never drive anything else
I am licensed and get along great with all the competition:)
 

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It's not about the Toyota.. it just represents the Joe homeowner who shoves his craftsman mower in the back of his old Toyota and says I can make a buck and doesn't pay taxes and such
 

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It's not about the Toyota.. it just represents the Joe homeowner who shoves his craftsman mower in the back of his old Toyota and says I can make a buck and doesn't pay taxes and such

Haha! My Toy makes me lots of $$$$ hauling my ferris's. Soon to be bobcats!
 
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