If you pay someone to mow your lawn, come in

[blueshirt2003]

Texas, have paid people working for themselves never a company, my yard is medium sized, I pay $25 right now but have paid in the range of $20-30.

[blueshirt2003]

Oh, and every 2 weeks or as needed.

[zacksbride]

texas, yard is pretty small (average size for one of the many developments they have in texas), it is an individual who runs his own business, he comes every other week and we pay $65 for 2 visits.

[ellenbrody]

Oct 11, 2012 10:43:14 GMT -5 @msstarry said:

Just curious, I know there is a ton of regional variation. Mowing the lawn is one of DH's jobs but I hate nagging him to do it.

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)? Professional

2. Approximate size of your yard Just over half an acre

3. How often do they come? Once a week, but if it's super dry in August and doesn't need to be cut, they will skip a week

4. What do you pay?

$35 a week (in NJ)

[Pom]

Our last house we did (Southeast TX) and it was 1/3 of an acre= $85 per visit. This seemed quite high, and the came every other week. Usually they mowed up to November and then restart in March.

At our new house, we have 1/2 an acre and we just bought a new riding lawn mower. I've had to mow every week since we moved in, so I am glad we are doing it ourselves since 8 times x $85 = 1/3 of the price of the mower.

[gmail]

I don't know if ours really counts here, since it's a townhouse lawn...probably 7x7

We pay someone $6 each visit. He is just a neighborhood guy, who mows everyone's lawn. I saw him one day, ran outside and asked him to start doing ours, too. A paper bill appears on my door once every 6-ish weeks.

[Deleted]

1.) It's a professional service, but he's actually pretty young and just started the company up on his own. Like, just graduated high school.

2.) postage stamp

3.) every week during the summer, every other week or so in the spring and fall when the grass isn't growing as much

4.) $20/visit, he mows, weed eats, and blows all the grass off the sidewalk and porch, it takes him about 20 minutes.

[dr.girlfriend]

Oct 11, 2012 10:43:14 GMT -5 @msstarry said:

Just curious, I know there is a ton of regional variation. Mowing the lawn is one of DH's jobs but I hate nagging him to do it.

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)?

2. Approximate size of your yard

3. How often do they come?

4. What do you pay?

1. Service

2. Smallish? But some parts of the front are very slopey

3. Biweekly. There's a few weeks in the height of summer when the dandelions go crazy and it looks awful, but not bad enough for me to pay extra for them to come weekly.

4. $30 each time, so $60 a month.

[w2w]

Oct 11, 2012 10:43:14 GMT -5 @msstarry said:

Just curious, I know there is a ton of regional variation. Mowing the lawn is one of DH's jobs but I hate nagging him to do it.

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)? Professional

2. Approximate size of your yard - 3/4 acre

3. How often do they come? - 1/week

4. What do you pay?

$40/week

[Deleted]

Texas
have paid people working for themselves never a company (I find them on craigslist)
My yard is larger sized corner lot
They come when we tell them to come.
I pay $25 right now but have paid in the range of $25-35.

[flygirl22]

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)? We have an idividual, but I think he technically owns his own lawn service business. He used to work with DH.

2. Approximate size of your yard
Not Big, I have no idea actual size though.

3. How often do they come?
2X per month.

4. What do you pay?
We pay $100/month in the greater Seattle area (so $50/service). He also deweeds and sprays our mulch area, will plant any plants we need planted, fertalizes, and trims the bushes.

ETA: I should probably mention that we likely overpay, but we like him, and since we know him we aren't going to haggle for a better price. It is completely worth it to us. He charged us $250.00 to do a start up, and our yard was a complete mess, THAT was a steal.

[yourmom]

I'll answer for our rental property.

CA - small home/lot. Front and back yard. $25/week.

[puppydoggie]

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)?
SERVICE

2. Approximate size of your yard
15,000 sq ft- very large
3. How often do they come?
every 2 weeks.
4. What do you pay?
1x a week=$40, every two weeks=$45

My parents have nearly an acre yard and pay $80 a week, includes beds.

[gnomesweetgnome]

We have an average sized front and backyard, we paid a guy (working for himself, he trolls the neighborhood pushing his mower/supplies frequently) $40 to do both recently. Normally H does it himself, though.

[bugandbibs]

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)?We use a small family company.

2. Approximate size of your yard
We have approximately 3500 sq ft of sod

3. How often do they come?
They come every week to mow and edge our lawn. They blow off any clipping on our sidewalk, patio, and walkways. They do other services as needed for an additional fee if we ask.
4. What do you pay? $20 a week.

[donthasslethehoff]

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)? Professional service, when we actually call them. We're not on a routine so we just call when we don't feel like doing it ourselves

2. Approximate size of your yard just shy of an acre and a ton of edging and hills

3. How often do they come? if we had them for the entire season, it would be every 2 weeks

4. What do you pay?[/quote] $75 each time.

[Deleted]

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)? Professional Company

2. Approximate size of your yard- Front = 400sqft Back = 1000 sq ft

3. How often do they come? every 2 weeks

4. What do you pay? $30 a month

[Deleted]

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)? gardener

2. Approximate size of your yard No idea. Back yard and front yard, not too big.

3. How often do they come? weekly
4. What do you pay? $150/month plus extra when he fertilizes, plants flowers, etc.....he just sends us the bill.

[MixedBerryJam]

I have a professional service come by.

My yard is roughly 75'x50'

They're fantastic and drive by (they have a few clients on my street) at least a couple of times a week and stop when the yard needs it. Any day I notice "Gee, the lawn needs mowing soon" they show up within about 48 hours.

$42 per visit. I was a little worried about the "per visit" when I started, because I was afraid they'd be coming every other day or something and demanding payment for it, but really, it's worked out very well. I particularly love that they clean up the clippings as part of the service, something I would never get around to when I was doing it myself.

And to answer one question you didn't ask, if I could change anything about the service, I think I'd ask them to weed occasionally. I don't put chemicals down, since I have kids and pets, so the weeds get kind of out of hand.

[hbomdiggity]

1. Do you use a professional service or an individual working for themselves (like a teenager)?Professional but small business.

2. Approximate size of your yard.
Pretty small.

3. How often do they come?
Every other week

4. What do you pay?
$40. They mow, blow, weed, and maintain the palms/bushes.