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    Question about landscarping quote?? any pros?

    I was asked by a friend of my mothers to do some landscaping at her house, so i get there yesterday and bangs off this massive list of shit for me to do, so u know how mothers are? my mother thinks I should be doing everything said below for $100 bucks , so I tell her I was thinking more along the lines of say $750, IMO everything listed below is a shit ton of work, and I have never quoted anything for landscaping before. does anyone on here do landscaping or what would you think a fair price on this would be

    I dont want to rip her off but I feel if a real landscaping company did this it would cost up upwards of $2,000 because its so time consuming

    clean out gutters I know the general rule is $1 per linear Ft

    till up and pull weeds and 10 medium sized bushes out of 2 beds that come out to be about 180Sq ft. and also mulch the beds

    clean up last seasons leaves about 2 hours worth with thing that sucks the leaves up into the bags.

    tear out all the old black border lining the beds in the front of the house and replace with new

    clear out her dranage ditch that is covered with leaves and looks like a pond that is 35ft long and 4 ft wide

    and build a small rock wall on the back of her property.

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    yeah....$750 would be a nice price to get since it's your buddies mom. A real landscaper would get what you said, in the $2k ballpark.

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    burn her house down... that way you don't need to do any of the work or worry about the head ache cause by charging her to much or less...

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    How much did she offer to pay you? If it was 100.00, I would tell her to scratch!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ccusum View Post
    How much did she offer to pay you? If it was 100.00, I would tell her to scratch!
    It sounds like she hasn't offered any price, but his mom told him to pay the friend $100...

    $750 sounds much better, thats a shit ton of work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zboner View Post
    I was asked by a friend of my mothers to do some landscaping at her house, so i get there yesterday and bangs off this massive list of shit for me to do, so u know how mothers are? my mother thinks I should be doing everything said below for $100 bucks , so I tell her I was thinking more along the lines of say $750, IMO everything listed below is a shit ton of work, and I have never quoted anything for landscaping before. does anyone on here do landscaping or what would you think a fair price on this would be

    I dont want to rip her off but I feel if a real landscaping company did this it would cost up upwards of $2,000 because its so time consuming

    clean out gutters I know the general rule is $1 per linear Ft

    till up and pull weeds and 10 medium sized bushes out of 2 beds that come out to be about 180Sq ft. and also mulch the beds

    clean up last seasons leaves about 2 hours worth with thing that sucks the leaves up into the bags.

    tear out all the old black border lining the beds in the front of the house and replace with new

    clear out her dranage ditch that is covered with leaves and looks like a pond that is 35ft long and 4 ft wide

    and build a small rock wall on the back of her property.
    Sounds like i'll keep cleaning out my own gutters (thank goodness I have leaf guards on the worst side). I'd be looking at $150 or so just to do that!

    No way is $100 enough for all that work. Sounds like you need to charge by the hour.

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    Tell her $500 dollars and you need half up front....then never go back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z View Post
    It sounds like she hasn't offered any price, but his mom told him to pay the friend $100...

    $750 sounds much better, thats a shit ton of work.

    thats waht i figured it is a shit ton of work that ill be doing on my off days

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    Quote Originally Posted by ntimid8r View Post
    yeah....$750 would be a nice price to get since it's your buddies mom. A real landscaper would get what you said, in the $2k ballpark.

    see thats what i figured it would be for all of that, and going buy there calculations that would seem about right or close

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge View Post
    Tell her $500 dollars and you need half up front....then never go back.
    but he would have to go back to burn her house down...

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