Northeast Landscaping / Snow removal

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by a searcher from Keene State College
in Norwalk, CT, USA

5yrs ago

Northeast Landscaping / Snow removal

Does anyone have experience pricing landscaping and snow removal work in the northeast?

I know this isn't a search question but there are several landscape operators on here that may have some insight.

Primarily talking about snow; is it best practice to price per sq ft, per inch, per storm or some combination of this on a seasonal contract? I've seen massive estimate swings from a few thousand dollars to $100k to plow a few of my apartment properties for a season. Most folks won't even give me an estimate or require that they have a year contract for landscaping too.

With the density of resi & comm apartments and warehousing in my specific location, this leads me to believe there has to be a demand for a responsive, data-driven snow removal business. Will continue to research this market...

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reply by a searcher 5yrs ago
from Harvard University in New York, NY, USA

Agree - there are a bunch of other helpful tutorial videos recommended just from Chin's one. I've seen some of them... not all are fantastic throughout, but each person does provide something additional that is helpful.

reply by an investor 5yrs ago
from University of Notre Dame in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

We were involved with the Winter Services team in Milwaukee which only does larger commercial snow removal - think Amazon distribution centers and corporate headquarters, malls, etc. Contract mix is more art than science and technology investments can help with pricing/bids. You have to decide what you want to be/focus on because residential vs commercial is obviously different and do you want to compete on price and volume vs high touch/demanding customers. Ron above said the mix/options well and you can basically build in a hedge. We spoke to a gentleman who ran his entire business on per push and he had a $2 million EBITDA year and the next was $9 million - that was the pure variable model but he was fine with that. I would also add look very closely at SALT pricing. Its a huge input/material cost and can be very variable if you don't have the scale to lock in pricing.