The Level Green Landscaping Blog

Expert Industry Advice and Property Enhancement Suggestions.

Almost everything you need to know about seasonal snow removal contracts can be summed up in one sentence: A seasonal contract for snow removal makes your life easier, eases your budget worries, and ensures your commercial property gets safe and dependable snow and ice management.

You could throw darts at a board, consult a psychic, or hire the first company that offers you a free cheese pizza — all pretty fun — but none of that will nab you a great snow and ice management company.

If you haven’t already lined up your commercial snow removal, the best time of year to hire a snow removal company is now.

Winter is always a wild card here in the Mid-Atlantic.

Sometimes it crashes in with multiple storms and treacherous ice slicks

Other times, you wonder why you bothered spending so much time searching for your boots. (Next time, maybe don’t store them in the garage behind the beach umbrella.)

It makes it tricky to prepare your property for commercial snow and ice management, right?

Businesses going green is no big news around here — Washington DC is one of the greenest cities around, and getting greener by the day.

This guy is bad news.

Sure, the spotted lanternfly looks pretty enough, with its attractive speckled vibrant wings.

But this destructive invasive insect devours and destroys plants, from orchards and vineyards full of fruit to valuable hardwood trees.

You’re probably being wisely proactive a lot without even realizing it. 

Like when you put your name on your chicken pesto panini in the break room fridge so nobody else eats it. (Hopefully. Every office has that one guy.) 

You don’t want to open the fridge, stomach growling, and find it gone. Unpleasant surprise. 

It pays to be proactive with your commercial landscaping services, too. Otherwise, you’re in for unpleasant surprises. Like when your commercial property’s lawn dies, and you have to dip into your already stretched budget to pay to replace it.

The landscape of classic cartoons is definitely not safe. 

Somebody’s always either falling into a deep hole, getting run over by a truck, or having an anvil drop on their head.

Who’s in charge of safety over there? Somewhere, a property manager is in big trouble. 

Make sure it’s not you.  When you hire a commercial landscaping company, ask how they’ll keep your property — and the people on it — safe.

Imagine all the cool services you could have out on your commercial property:

• A hot dog cart
  
• Beard trimming
  
• An ice cream truck
  
• Free oil changes
  
• A golf swing coach

That all sounds great, but it won’t do much for your landscaping. In fact, think of all the grass-trampling extra foot traffic. Yikes.

Remember when you decided being on your HOA landscaping committee sounded like fun?

Flowers! Green spaces! Pondering cool amenities like walking trails and dog parks! 

But when you’re an HOA board member, let’s face it — landscaping can be kind of stressful.

You want your community to look great, feel welcoming, and attract new buyers. You want to protect your property value. You know landscaping plays a huge part.