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.
How trendy are you?
Do you have a dog park, a fire pit, and permeable pavers?
No? Let’s try again.
Do you have a mini golf course, a green roof, and robot lawn mowers?
No? Hmmm. Let’s get to work boosting your property’s commercial landscaping trends.
Check out these popular landscaping ideas for commercial properties:
Nobody needs to tell a property manager about rising costs and pinched budgets.
It’s impossible to escape.
So when it’s time to renew the contract for your commercial landscape maintenance, you probably expect to see that cost increase, too. It just makes sense.
“It’s been a tough market,” says Larry Leon, director of business development at Level Green Landscaping.
Prices are up across the board, he says, but not everybody understands that affects the landscaping business, too.
What factors affect the cost of commercial landscape maintenance in Washington DC?
It's spring cleanup time. That means things are about to get real busy for commercial landscapers..
Does your commercial landscape maintenance contract include the spring cleanup services your property needs?
Hint: It needs a lot.
If RFP, to you, stands for Really Frazzled Person, it might be time for you to ask for an extra hand with your university landscaping.
Weeds are sprouting by the campus signage, students have trampled one corner of the Quad lawn, and the rose bushes outside the president’s office have weird black spots on their leaves.
If you manage a municipality, you know all kinds of landscaping needs pop up.
Hundreds of acres of finicky grass that needs mowing three times a week. Historic buildings that need landscaping that looks like it did in 1906. Environmental disasters. So. Many. Pavers.
Lots of great relationships involve hand-holding — it’s a key part of sunset strolls on the beach, right?
But when it comes to your relationship with your commercial landscaping company, you don’t have time for hand-holding. You need them to take the lead, get the job done, and make both you and your landscaping look good.
