Business License

[jekjr]

Just bought my Business License in two towns yesterday. In rural South Alabama you have to have a license to go into every little town to work. It gets expensive. I am curious how much licenses cost in other places.

 

[Ric]

Mine cost me $33.75 It's a Business Tax Receipt it's all we need here and it's a county, allows me to work anywhere in the county except inside city limits of the town I live in.

 

[jekjr]

Just bought my Business License in two towns yesterday. In rural South Alabama you have to have a license to go into every little town to work. It gets expensive. I am curious how much licenses cost in other places.

Here as long as we sell nothing we don't have to have a county license. However every town we work inside the town/city limits of we have to have a seperate license. They range from $37 to $85 a year. To stay busy you have to go all over. Infact I will pull 30 miles and if the job is big enough to justify it I will pull further.

 

[Ric]

Here as long as we sell nothing we don't have to have a county license. However every town we work inside the town/city limits of we have to have a separate license. They range from $37 to $85 a year. To stay busy you have to go all over. In fact I will pull 30 miles and if the job is big enough to justify it I will pull further.

I used to do that but found out real quick I was not making any money. I gave up all the outside work and just stayed in one sub-division and built the business from there. I never drive over 3 or 4 miles a day and that could cover all my clients.

 

[possum]

Im not in the lawn care business. But have been in home type service years ago. If you can only drive 3 or 4 miles to provide your service that is quite a money saver. The folks that come here every spring to do lawnwork are called Real Racers by the locals. They have no understanding of low miles. Every town around here requires a permit fee to provide a service as well as sell or buy anything. On certain days items can be sold free with no permit such as garden produce. Residents can sell on their own property or rental as long as they do not advertise as a business. Events are exempt but you pay a fee to the event. Kids mowing a few lawns for neighbors are overlooked. Trimming or removal of any tree require a permit and insurance and a bond, same as stump grinding, trenching, spraying or for that matter anything the city considers contractor work. Inspection fees run pretty rampant as well.

 

[jekjr]

Im not in the lawn care business. But have been in home type service years ago. If you can only drive 3 or 4 miles to provide your service that is quite a money saver. The folks that come here every spring to do lawnwork are called Real Racers by the locals. They have no understanding of low miles. Every town around here requires a permit fee to provide a service as well as sell or buy anything. On certain days items can be sold free with no permit such as garden produce. Residents can sell on their own property or rental as long as they do not advertise as a business. Events are exempt but you pay a fee to the event. Kids mowing a few lawns for neighbors are overlooked. Trimming or removal of any tree require a permit and insurance and a bond, same as stump grinding, trenching, spraying or for that matter anything the city considers contractor work. Inspection fees run pretty rampant as well.

It would be nice to work in only one small area. Unfortunately that is not an option here. Maybe if I could be in business for a lot of years and slowly weed out that business that is a driving distance it would be possible.

 

[Ric]

I can go any where in the county and do business unless it's inside city limits and they want more for there fees than the county. I can leave my house and do twenty plus clients and drive right at four tenths of a mile. The rest are within a mile and a half either direction from the house. Not having to travel saves me a ton of time and gas money which allows me to pass on some savings to the clients and I spend more time working. It's a win win all the way around.

 

[Ric]

It would be nice to work in only one small area. Unfortunately that is not an option here. Maybe if I could be in business for a lot of years and slowly weed out that business that is a driving distance it would be possible.

That's exactly what I did and it took a couple of years but every time I added a client here I dropped one on the outside, soon everything was here.

 

[Carscw]

Just bought my Business License in two towns yesterday. In rural South Alabama you have to have a license to go into every little town to work. It gets expensive. I am curious how much licenses cost in other places.

In 35 years I have never had to show a license of any kind to any gov official.
I have a state business license for Alabama and Georgia

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[jekjr]

In 35 years I have never had to show a license of any kind to any gov official.
I have a state business license for Alabama and Georgia

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I live in the on the outskirts of a town of about 500 people and if you go through town with a zero turn on a trailer and they do not know you have a license they will see where you go and if you cut grass for somebody you will buy a license or you will be ticketed.

There is another little town about three miles further up the road however that told me when I went in to get a license there to come back and get one when I had several yards that they hated to charge me for no more work than I had in town.....