Bid Apartment Complex Lawn Maintenance

One lawn care business owner responded before i give you the example here let me share with you some concerns.

Bid apartment complex lawn maintenance.

The question is how do i quote estimate or bid an apartment complex that is in dire need of lawn care maintenance. Pre emergent fertilizers may be applied in late winter followed by application s or nitrogen based fertilizers in the summer and finally a winterizing fertilizer in late fall. First never give an estimate based strictly on an overhead photograph. Turf areas fertilized on a customized schedule per maintenance agreement.

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Choose a timeline that works for you most people take contracts for 12 months. I will address the question as if you already have an understanding of how to bid an apartment complex but it s in far worse shape than normal and as if you ve never bid an apartment complex before. Our program can be customized in any way to meet your lawn s needs. If this is your first visit be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above.

First they will need a bid for initial clean up. Apartment complexes are a great way to make almost no money. The apartment complex has a little over 280 shrubs all of these will be trimmed once a month they want the grass of the complex fertilized once a year and it s about an acre of grass mowing edging weed eating blowing of the walkways and pool area and parking lot i estimated would take 12 5 man hours and would be serviced weekly. I perform weekly lawn care for about 5 other customers through them too.

My advise would be to bid high. Meet with to the decision maker. You may have to register before you can post. It can give you a general idea of your bid but you have to visit the project site yourself to understand the lay of the land obstructions gradients type of grass desires of apartment management etc.

There are number of common labor jobs ranging from electricity to plumbing. No wonder that the recent study of the industry that has the most number of employees are trained workers or what we call the labor pool. Yep you have to approach them. For small and medium lawn or landscaping companies networking is the only reliable way to get more commercial accounts.

It will however tell you if you are way way off as a double check and 9 a door is a very low double checker. Create a maintenance contract as if the apartment grounds were already in perfect condition. More like 10 13. When you put your face in front of them and prove that you mean business that s a really good way to secure your bid on any apartment complex.

Then a bid for yearly lawn care sprinkler control fertilizing and fall leaf clean up. Online lawn care estimator help me bid this job. Right now your 1st goal is to simply get your foot in the door. It s not a good way to price.