SAE:

 Landscape Maintenance

Description:

• Landscape Maintenance is very much in demand. Not just a lawn care business, but also a shrub pruning and fertilization business.
• People are willing to hire people to keep-up their lawns. Great demand for quality work.
• Must possess quality tools for quality work.
• Must be willing to work in oftentimes in hot, unpleasant weather. Must stay on a set schedule.
• Do quality work and expect quality pay. Expect to do some form of work year-round. May be raking leaves, taking soil samples, fertilizing, pruning shrubbery, controlling insects and disease of mowing grass.

 Written by Cindy Greene, January 2000

Factors To Consider

Ranking: 1 = lowest 10 = highest

Time required

9

Investment

8

Equipment needed

10

Skills required

 8

Facilities required

1

Land required

1

Labor Intensity

9

Potential for income

 10

Transportation required

 9

Expansion possibilities

 10

Expertise needed

9 

Advertising needed

 8

Susceptible to disease

 1

Susceptible to insects

1 

Suitable for residential areas

 10

Other (specify)

Length of production cycle

Year-round

Regional

no

When to start project

 Anytime

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