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Old 01-12-2007, 11:45 AM
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the reason we are getting out of hardscapes is for a fw reasons.
#1 reason is after almost 6 years of doing just hardscapes im getting a little burned out with it.

- i don't get enough work to support my business, with using multiple lead services
-it's very difficult to find experienced people
-it's even more difficult to train people
-all we really did was hardscapes so there really wasn't any return services that we could do.
-after taking certification classes and trying to do things the way manufacturers want, it doen't reallly seem to add up when a customer doesnt really care about overall quality but price.

we may get back into later on, its just that we are going to focus on doing maintenance and landscaping until we have the right mix of people and we can add other crews as we grow. this way there is more of a steadyt flow of work/cash coming in.

i'm not telling you not to get into it, just know what you are getting into.

we became to specialized, and i think in a way specialized ourselves out of work.
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