BIDDING COMMERCIAL JOB SITES (WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2022
- Today we're out and about bidding 5 commercial job sites before we get hammered with another 3-6" of snow! I wanted to take you guys with us to bid these commercial job sites and share my thought process as we walk around a few different sites.
Commercial work can be very profitable if you bid it right, and my opinion it all starts with a proper site walk through. Make sure you're looking at every nook and cranny of the site to make sure no stone is left unturned. The last thing you want to do is miss an important detail that can cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars on a larger commercial site.
These are just a few of our tips when bidding job sites, I hope to do a few more of these over the coming weeks. If you guys have some great tips for bidding commercial sites, leave them in the comments down below.
If you guys DO get an RFP (request for proposal) from a commercial company, and need a good contract to submit back, check out our template at Lawntrepreneur Academy. It's plug and play and is a professional document that you can use to submit your commercial bids with confidence.
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Check out our other "How To Bid A Commercial Property" video here, it was a good one! • HOW To Bid A COMMERCIA...
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What's your guys best tip for bidding a commercial site?
PS, what are you guys bidding your mowing, mulch, and cleanup prices at? Feel free to leave any helpful tips down below!
Snow baby
Brian what is your take on government accounts? Federal buildings,school contracts. That’s what I want to do. Everyone targets like yourself the warehouses and places like that. I have been looking at government contracts or gov con for short for a few years. The common stigma is too much paperwork and other such excuses. Check it out. Hit me back on your feedback would you? Thx. Good luck this year.
are those yews? hahaha....crack me up, don't forget the Jupiters/Alrighta's and Varigated Hostages...
Brian, thanks for all the insight you offer. I have been in lawn care for about 7 years solo and I am still figuring this all out. Seeing where I have made mistakes and really shortchanged myself out of some money I could have made had I known alot of this beforehand. Thanks again for a quality channel!!!!
Can't believe how much content you are able to put out! just saw your Instagram stories a little while ago and you already edited and posted an entire video and doing it right before a snowstorm. Awesome to see how much you are doing, but take some time for yourself to relax and spend with the family!
Thanks Alex! Yeah I honestly told my self if I don’t get this video out tonight, it ain’t coming out til later next week lol. We’ll see how the snow storm goes, 3-6”!
Thanks you! You have been one of my biggest motivation to go full time!.
Great job Brian. I hope people see that you are growing and grinding and the podcast and life you live just is not talk. Love the hustle it’s motivational! Good luck on the bids! Make this the best year yet!!!
Hey thanks buddy!
my landscape maintenance professor added this to our assigned videos; super helpful!
Thank you for sharing all of this information. I appreciate it.
These kind of vids are very helpful. I now see how much i have been ripping my self off. Its been a struggle to just break even. I was on edge of shutting every by next season.
I love videos like these back when Stanley Dirtmonkey made them!
Another great video. Thanks for all your insight and tips. Keep making that money
Hey you bet Cross!
Good job Bryan. You are confirming my pricing. We do 90 percent commercial sites. 4-15 acres per site.
We typically charge $100 acre. Any additional work requested is @$50 per man hour.
By the way. Thanks for the advice we got the linxup tracker.
Blessings from Athens tx.
Cleancut lawn care
Thanks for the video Brian!
Can’t wait to get started!
Great walk through!
Great video Brian, I definitely picked up a couple new commercial clients not in as bad shape as yours, but that’s why we are here is to make ugly stuff look awesome!
Congrats brother
Love the video you should always visit a property for the first initial quote and take a notes and videos. I just double the price of the flowers and add 10%. Seems to always work
WOW! VERY COOL! GREAT SITES!
To answer your question about flowers. With everything going on you need to adjust. Call your local greenhouses. I work at one here in North Dakota and hear about the fluctuation on prices.
Glad to hear the squirrel got to stay!
Squirrel lives matter!
Awesome man!!!
Love the info
Awesome brian
The ditches are called swales. They are for directing water runoff to drains or just away from the building. That’s why they’re usually filled with water.
Thanks!
Here in naples FL we always get a property appraisal b4 we start talking price and see which hedges belongs to who. Any hedges or bushes below 6ft we include it with the weekly service anything above 6ft that we need a ladder thatll be extra.
Extra: mulch, flowers, landscape ext…
Im not sure if you guys need licenses for anything but in Florida we need a license for trimming above 6ft, fertilizer, weed killer, tree trimming,landscaping, irrigation ect.
Man that’s crazy to hear.
Hey man im sam from Oakland county i been watching your videos u been motivating me to start my own business i do concrete for someone else , :( i would also like to do that on my own and start to plow of course i need to get my equipment ready , goodjob my brother all your videos are helpfull thankyou
You can get there!
Never have did commercial work before but I did have a commercial site contact me about biding for lawn care. Didn’t get call back but I see it as a win because of the experience and opportunity.
Go for it!
Sr, this information is gold!!. Thank you so much for sharing this with us I really appreciate it. I will like to get the contract temple, let mw know how I can get it.
Best of luck! Www.LawntrepreneurAcademy.com/store
You so right the I drove around on Sunday take look 27 property for quote
Great video. I ALWAYS do a walk through on any property whether commercial or residential before an estimate goes out. Always meeting the person responsible for paying you is important right?!
Facts! Once you come up with a price always get confirmation on who’s paying!! People alwAys tell us to trim this, cut that remove this, and if your not the one paying the bill then i wont do the work unless i get the green light from the one paying every month.
Hey Brian, what are you looking at for raising prices for the upcoming season? Gas is up, oil for all equipment, and raises for the new year. We are looking at raising prices 10% for lawns to compensate the rise in fuel costs. And about $5-7 per hour per man for labor cost.
10-12% across the board
Retention ponds!
Just added new commercial property to my accounts. I try to price it high enough for me. They actually emailed me back to tell me to bid higher and I would still get it. I did, and I did.
Sweet!
Hope all is well
Do you remove the old mulch before putting new down
Brian, On the first property call our friend Stanley. He will re grade that ditch and put in a drainage system for you. lol Tree work can be good money. Just learn how to climb aa tree. You will have fun. Our friend Keith offers a tree climbing class. Stanley is the only student that he has ever had. lol (see the video)
I am not ready for spring yet. I got so much going on I have to make myself sit down and get my letters out.
With the amount of leaves that you have to deal with I would think your rates should be 3-4 times the usual price.
Also, nice hat!!! I have a hat just like that that I wear all the time.
Hahaha
Nice
Hiw about following up on a bid you left if you haven't heard back? Do you do that. How do you start up the conversation?
I suck at talking
Is there such thing as residential customers doing seasonal lawn care contracts? Like pays for the season up front with spring and fall cleanups included.
Absolutely!
On the top part of that contract, where it has blanks for the contact, email etc.. Do you fill that out or do you let the company fill it out when you submit the bid? Thanks for all the info!
We usually fill it out on the word doc yessir.
What was the website you said you can print the contracts out at? 1:03 in the video. Please and thank you
www.LawntrepreneurAcademy.com/store
Brian what website can I get contract. As always great information.
Www.LawntrepreneurAcademy.com 🤘
Snow baby
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Would it be too much to ask to see what the totals came out too? That’d would be awesome!
I probably won’t share that just to keep the sites off TH-cam but if you take those numbers you should be able to formulate a price for any property!
Have to wonder if the last guy did a poor job or did the company not want to pay for the extra work? I've taken on jobs that after the first month realized why the last guy wasn't still doing the work.
Always! That's the first tip when accepting a new client, pry in and ask what happened to the last guy. These sites have paid on time since we've picked them up, so I'm happy with continuing the partnership. Great call though.
I'm bidding around $100/acre no trimming in Indiana, more if there is a lot of trimming.
sorry to say we were getting 80.00 per acre 25 years ago...there's no money in real money in weekly residential mowing...just too much competition and yahoos mowing lawns for $15...all inclusive commercial property contracts are the only way to go where YOU do all the scheduling of services. Everything we buy as landscape maintenance co. has doubled in the last 25 years, why hasn't the revenue doubled for the same work?
Most "owners" in the business don't understand the concept of "Depreciation" all trucks/trailers and equipment depreciate fast and you must recover that loss somehow. The "cost of doing business" and your "margins" must be known factors.
@@ryerob741 👍Working for me. All equipment is paid off, I'm 20 and paying cash to get through college.
@@TheWellCraftedBro01 alright cool...
Whats the ticking sound on the Ford?😬
Nothing. I think it’s just how the camera records bc there’s literally no ticking 🤷♂️
Where did you get those contract forms
Www.LawntrepreneurAcademy.com
They need to switch up there pattern. Leaving ruts
Agreed, but might be due to the standing water in that berm, might not have another choice to be fair.
Hey Brian where can I get a copy of your bid quote sheet?
www.LawntrepreneurAcademy.com under Store 🤘
@@BriansLawnMaintenance Thank you sir!
“Frozen ice” 🤣
😉
Where can I get contract from ?
www.LawntrepreneurAcademy.com/store
You got to do a job with Keith kalfas
That is a great idea.
@@BriansLawnMaintenance brian I have seen the vedoes of when you went with Keith when he did the quote on the job he did 4 years ago I would love to see you both working on that big project together bring Mike and Brandon the 4 horse men of landscaping
Can I call someone? Want to bid someone up and trying to figure out how.
Always. Just ask who’s in charge / the decision maker. We just did a new video on this topic last week!
@@BriansLawnMaintenancesorry what?
How many guys would it take to get this back in shape
Just 2-3, and a days work.
@@BriansLawnMaintenance gotcha
Hourly
First
Brian,
Thank you for all your hard work doing this.
First video I saw from you was
th-cam.com/video/aGOe1ll39io/w-d-xo.html
You talking how to get your commercial properties
Florida is hard with residential people does not want to pay and I was almost quiting my lawn care business
After seeing your video we decided to move all in to commercial
Few months laters we started we locked 3 sites, 2 years later we are around 40+ sites and waiting on more
By the way we use your Lawn care contract we bought it right away after seen your video
Thanks to God and your videos we are living now from our business and growing We were 2 now we are 4 we have 2 trucks and few trailers I can resume everything here more than it has been a blessing for us
Thank you man