It’s not always easy for HOA board members to agree, but can we all agree HOA landscaping budget management can be challenging?
The Level Green Landscaping Blog
Expert Industry Advice and Property Enhancement Suggestions.
Expert Industry Advice and Property Enhancement Suggestions.
If you’ve been showing up to work wearing hip waders, maybe you already realize you have a drainage problem on your commercial property.
Got your mittens ready? Your parka? Your boots?
When winter blasts in with extreme cold, you’re covered.
But what about your plants?
Here’s a look at how to protect trees, shrubs, and plants from winter damage.
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.
You have high standards for yourself, employees and properties — and that’s part of the reason the owners and tenants are so pleased with the sites you manage.
But, you can’t directly handle every aspect of the commercial property, that is, unless you enjoy sleep deprivation and exhaustion. So, it’s important to find others who have that same high standard and thrive to be the best, especially when it comes to choosing your landscape maintenance company.
Maybe until now, everything you need to know about weeds has been how much would it cost to rent a flamethrower to torch them all for good.