Well it's kinda hard to explain but when you set up your business and your making a living at it you set up your life style according to the money you make and you do the same with commercial accounts. with residential properties the cost involved isn't that bad vs what you make a month whether say $80 or $100 month per lawn and when an individual doesn't pay a bill or you lose a client you can pretty much absorb that loss. Now if you have say three commercial accounts and your making say 20K a year on each and you spend 20/ 30K on equipment to do these accounts, at that point you've got one heck of an investment made and your life style is great and everything is fantastic until one of clients decides he no longer needs you or he finds someone else that will do the same thing for half what you charge. I can absorb $3 or 400 a month but 20K a year and still make a house payment or car payment, That's tuff, one client or commercial account can cost you big. The other thing about commercial accounts is the fact they can come up for bid every year and there's no guarantee that you can get it back every year. AS far as a license goes here you have to get a county and city licenses both which in reality is a Tax number so you can file your taxes at the end of the year. You keep records of all expenditures, equipment, parts, fuel, oil for your mowers and Vehicle, vehicle mileage anything you spend on the business you'll need a receipt and record of so you can claim it at the end of the year. Oh yeah unless you have a wife to keep the books that can cost to unless you have time to mow lawns, answer the phone for new clients, send out all the bills at the end of the month and all the other things that people never think about. Man doesn't all this sound like fun :laughing:
