Build a year-round yard route: mowing, leaves, and snow

Prove the demand before you spend a dollar

0/3

Draw your service area and count the yards
2 hours
This step produces the working map the whole plan measures against: the neighbourhoods your route could serve, every property that could buy each of the three services, the gaps between the clusters of yards, and the climate verdict that decides whether snow belongs in this plan at all. The trap is drawing the area around where you live, or around what you hope is true, instead of where a tight route is actually possible. Stops a short drive apart make a route; stops scattered across town make a list of errands.
The density rule, before you draw: the area has to fit a full day of stops within a short drive of each other, because the whole plan rests on drive time staying under 15% of the working day. A cluster you would not drive between every week is a second route, and this plan builds one route, tightly. When the map is done, the boundary should contain only the clusters you would actually visit weekly.
- Drive the neighbourhoods once at the time you would actually work and note which yards are clearly mowed by a professional — stripes, crisp edges, no clippings on the walk.
- Open the county assessor’s online parcel map — search “[your county] parcel viewer” or “[your county] GIS” — and pull up the parcels layer.
- Mark every parcel that could buy a service: a mowable lawn for mowing, mature trees for leaves, a driveway or walkway for snow. One property can carry all three.
- Count the marked parcels per block and per cluster, and write the drive time between clusters in minutes.
- Pull the 30-year snowfall normal for the nearest NOAA station and write the winter verdict on the map: snow stays, or snow is dropped from the plan.

0/4 done

Contents