OnwardLandscaping and snow business with year-round contracts
I built this to be a business, not a job — the crews run their own routes and the foreman quotes most new work. I'll stay through a full season if the right person wants me to. What matters is the commercial accounts keep getting the service they've had for fifteen years.
About the business
Two-crew landscaping operation with commercial snow contracts that carry the winter. Recurring maintenance accounts are most of the summer book. Equipment is owned outright and the routes are tight — no windshield time wasted.
What customers know us for
Snow. Anyone can mow. We are the ones the property managers call at three in the morning when it is coming down, and we have never missed a contract morning.
The crew
Eleven in season, five year-round. My brother runs the snow side. Two crew leads have been with us since the second year.
Why now
We are not in a hurry. My brother and I are both in our fifties and we want to know what the road out looks like before we need it.
How much runs without the owner
The estimating is mine and the relationships with the four biggest property managers are mine. The crews run without me. Those relationships would take a season to hand over, and I would want to.
Where the work comes from
Roughly seventy percent is commercial contracts that renew every year. The rest is residential, mostly referral. The snow contracts are what make the winter.
Room to grow
Hardscape. Customers ask for patios and walls every spring and we send them elsewhere. We have the crews and the equipment; we never had the estimator.
Someone who understands that the snow contracts are the business, and who will keep the two crew leads whatever else changes.
Ember is where you line up with what they asked for.
Terms Ray is open to
Every figure and description here is the owner’s own. Onward verified that they own the business. Figures are published as bands, not exact numbers, so the business can’t be identified. Nothing here is a valuation or a recommendation.
Figures are published as bands, not exact numbers — an exact figure would narrow down which business this is.
- Every number and description on this page was entered by the owner. Onward did not review, verify, or adjust any of it.
- Nothing here is a valuation, a recommendation, or an opinion about this business.
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Owners decide who sees the rest. Members ask Ray directly — no broker, no queue.
- Profit and loss statements, last three yearsReady
- Tax returns, last three yearsReady
- Equipment and vehicle listReady
- Customer or contract listReady
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