Re: home : )/Amtrak/price to mow yard??

Tricia - a lot depends on the going rate in your area.  I pay John 30$ to
mow, weed eat and edge.  Takes about an hour and a half.  In Dallas you'd
pay twice as much easy.  But we're poor out here in the boondocks, so
everything costs less.

On 7/11/08, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT <
cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>
> Can't tell you about gardener prices but the local pet sitter company
> here charges $20 a day to take care of your pets.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
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> Subject: Re: [CHAT] home : )/Amtrak/price to mow yard??
>
> We pay our man-of-all-work $125.00 to mow our yard, but it's a
> lot of steep up-and-down, and he edges the beds, too.  It takes him
> a bit more than two hours, but he is always expensive.  We know
> that but he is very reliable and conscientious in whatever he does.
> I'm sure you would not pay a teen-ager anything like that amount.
> We might be able to get it done for less, too, but we can count
> on this guy for all kinds of things that need to be done.
>
> When we are away, we do pay a teen-ager $20.00/day to come in
> and feed our cats and give them water.
> Auralie
>
> In a message dated 7/10/2008 11:58:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> pdickson@sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> etsy,
> wow... that is some story.  I keep forgetting that it is going to get
> cold
> in Springfield before we get back home.
> I think I have hired a neighborhood boy, 15 years old, to mow, edge,
> water
> and feed the cat while I am gone.  Does anyone have any idea what I
> should
> pay him?  I am thinking hourly wages and more if he uses his own mower
> and
> equipment.  Does anyone pay to have their yard mowed?  I have 2 acres
> but
> tonight I timed my self on my zero turn mower.  It took me less than 2
> hours
> to get it all mowed then I went around to spray some round up and hauled
> off
> some branches that I cut off this morning to the garbage cans.  I was
> back
> in the house in 2 1/2 hours and I did have one friend stop by for a
> garden
> tour in the middle of my mowing.
> He is a good kid, but he wants me to come up with what to pay him.  I
> want
> to be fair...
> Tricia
>
>
>
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