Starting up a gardening business

nickj_2

Pennywise wrote: »

The problem with doing work like gardening, handyman, etc., is that people won't want to pay the money he needs to be able to earn. Once he is up and running, he'll have a vehicle to pay for and run, equipment to buy, repair & replace, business insurance, etc, and of course he needs to earn enough in the dry days to cover the non-earning wet days. The average OAP won't want to pay more than £10 per hour, but he really needs to earn twice that as a minimum to cover his overheads. What he'd need to do is try to get the more lucrative work, i.e. gardening for those who work all day (i.e. money rich and time poor) where he is more likely to be paid a more realistic hourly rate. Sad to say, but OAPs aren't the way to go.

you will probably find thatsome oap's have a lot more cash to spend than you might imagine -

motorguy

nickj wrote: »

you will probably find thatsome oap's have a lot more cash to spend than you might imagine -

And youll probably find that a lot dont.

yuZool

Try Craigslist along with Gumtree (as mentioned above).

McKneff

my husband set up on his own as a painter and decorator
We found the best advertisement was his name on his van. The amount of people who used to dash out at his break times to get his card or organise a time for a quote was amazing