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My maintenance side does just slightly better than breaking even. Around here, there are a lot of guys who come home from their regular job and go mowing part time. No insurance, no sales tax, no worker's comp. Tough to compete with and make a buck.
I strive to do better work than these guys can and provide full service. Even so, there's not a lot of money to be had. I look as my maintenance crew as a marketing tool, it gets my lettered truck out in neighborhoods on a regular basis plus we get landscape work from regular accounts. The grounds crew brings in higher quality work.
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