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[QUOTE=BristolCavendish;7634118][QUOTE=bdex75;7634061] Paid for my Deere in less than 2 years at that rate. Assuming the high school aged son doesn't crash it into a tree.
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25 May 2017, 09:46 AM | #34 | |
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Saw that a bit while on vacation in Laguna Beach. I guess if you have a small enough yard and like an inconsistent cut! They don't do worth a darn on a sidewalk edge either. Just fast. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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25 May 2017, 09:54 AM | #35 |
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Aaahhh condo living is awesome.. no lawns and the like
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25 May 2017, 10:07 AM | #36 |
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My brother in law does my yard maintenance and I do his tax work ...love the barter system
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25 May 2017, 12:42 PM | #37 |
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Have a gardener for the lawn and some of the big jobs and di some ourselves
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25 May 2017, 12:44 PM | #38 | |
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25 May 2017, 02:51 PM | #39 |
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I employ this guy:
It saves me a few hours every weekend and it gets the job done. |
25 May 2017, 03:31 PM | #40 |
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Yes. I did it for years. Am gladly paying to have it taken care of now.
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25 May 2017, 06:16 PM | #41 |
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in the UK its getting increasingly difficult to get a half decent gardener and now they want £25/hour in the north of the country not London and the south east
there are plenty with unmarked vans from the gypsy/traveller community but they are incompetent and thieves really £25/hour to mow a lawn and leave the cuttings in your waste bin? and many are cash only so not paying tax/national insurance etc also they have a pricing structure depending on the part of the village you live in and the car on the drive - i now park the Range Rover on a neighbours drive when seeking a price from any trades people |
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My guy would be here for 15 or so minutes flying around on his ride on (little over half an acre). Quick edge and blow. Probably took him longer to put the invoice together...
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The only thing our guy doesn't do is trim our palm trees. We have to hire someone else to do that. |
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My house in Canada I did it myself because I find it relaxing.
Over here I have a Gardner but the service is included in my lease agreement. So if I own, I do it myself. |
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26 May 2017, 05:49 PM | #48 | |
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in the UK the minimum living wage is £7.50/hour - which makes a gardener at £25/hour very expensive especially outside of London and the South East |
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The landscaping service quotes ranged from $200 to $400 a month to mow the grass. They would mow once per week. Total time on my property estimated at less than 30 minutes. That's $100 to $200 an hour to mow the grass. FWIW, I would pay a proper, educated gardener $100 an hour, provided he applied horticultural sciences and managed all the trees and shrubs as well. But there's no way I'll pay common labor that kind of money for a job I can do equally well. |
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26 May 2017, 10:10 PM | #50 |
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26 May 2017, 10:35 PM | #51 |
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We have a service that maintains our property. They provide basic lawn cutting on a regular basis and if we want more done like pruning or mulching then we ask and they give us a price. Reality is that for most of the companies today it is a basic service they provide and that is really what most customers want and most importantly what most customers are willing to pay for. If you want someone that does more than cut your grass and could plan your landscaping and actually treat your landscaping like a true gardener...they are out there but you are going to pay for it (and most are not willing to do that).
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My dad used up make me cut the grass for my allowance.
Today I write a cheque for condo fees. Our landscaping compamy does a great job too. |
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That's kind of the deal with the trades. You either do it yourself or if you're not willing or able you pay someone else and they are not going to do the work that others aren't willing or able to do themselves for free or cheap. |
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Our HOA employs a landscaper and he's the best. He also provides other building/ construction services to me and many of my neighbors.
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Whilst I can cut the lawn, tend the borders and water the tomatoes and hanging baskets I'll carry on, but I draw the line at housework, get somebody in to do that, I have for the last few years, it's GREAT, she does a great job. Also, on the same theme, don't wash your car, there are teams out there who do it willingly, quickly and better than you ever will. Inside and out, wax and polish £10, what's not to like!
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We used to have a person who mowed our lawn (once the kids went off to college) and a separate lawn maintenance service which took care of aerating the lawn, trimming the trees and bushes, etc. We gave all that up when we moved into an apartment. Now the rental company handles all that for the building, including shoveling snow. And I'm loving it.
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Going back in time (up to about the early 1960s), countless upper-middle class families had regular gardeners and/or domestic housemaids/cooks. The cost of living was far lower in those days and domestic help was not regulated by current employment laws (i.e. income tax withholdings, SSI, state disability and unemployment insurance etc.). Gardening services (as in today) was still a privately contracted or agreed upon arrangement.
It would be great to have a gardener/chauffer, cook, housemaid, butler and maybe even a governess/au pair if one's living situation warranted such necessities. Unfortunately it would be incredibly expensive to fiscally cover all of these household-related expenditures given today's inflation and cost-of-living index. I would imagine that very few today can afford (or have the option of) employing and maintaining a full-time domestic staff. |
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