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My South or Central American lawn cutter and crew is back. I have no idea what their status is. I just know my wife got rid of several services before them because she thought they did a poor job edging. This crew gets an excellent grade.
The mowing season literally is April to November
Hint..hire American if you dont want ICE on your property
Is it more difficult to get the crews you need, or have you had the same people for years?
Actually the owner is Hispanics and his crews but he’s probably a US citizen. I don’t know or care.
I don’t think I need April or November. I’m a retiree and don’t have much money. I know everybody accepts it without question.
The grass along the fence in the back and the curb and driveway in the front. She wants it to be cut a certain way.
Lawns need to be cut. Its a business. Don't be cheap
Yes
Some of services did a lousy job especially along the fence. We have 1.5 acres and the backyard fence is a lot.
Maybe they can do a parody of Rich Maddow's rusher collusion fake newscasts next.
Its going to be a hefty charge for that kind of detailed work..sidewalks are understandable..some people want the clean edge others dont care. Fences though are tough to keep pristine and if you walk to hard you chip the fence away or basically go down to dirt and only weeds will grow
Throw this into the CE garbage can please.
Mostly agree, which is why my financial adviser said to sit tight, but it was the bond market that likely led to the pullback, as people selling stocks off but not buying Treasuries wasn't in anyone's playbook; Trump's "queasy" comment in reference to this might be the understatement of the year. I just feel sorry for folks who cashed out and missed the rebound. For me, though, it was all just so unnecessary. Market theater - made for great drama, but pissed off many and we're still down 9% from 2025 highs and still have an overvalued market, historically.
Great post. It was market theater with DJT in the leading role. We likely would've been in the same place without the market angst and without pissing off every other country in the world (and many here), if the original proposal was, hey, we we're going to raise tariffs to 10% and want to negotiate trade and market barriers with everyone relative to that target (which is still way higher than our average 3.3% but closer to tariff levels of some other countries, so I get the desire to level that playing field to some extent). Also, I can live with trade deficits if we can also have record high markets, record low unemployment and reasonable inflation, which is where we were on 1/20/25.
Are you familiar with Down to Earth
My wife is extremely generous.
I pay what they want without giving them a hard time. We also give the crew drinks and lunch whenever they come.
My wife is extremely generous.
I’ve lurked in this thread forever and it’s been mostly great reading. Very interesting to see certain folks all of a sudden coming over here to tell us all how economics & investing works.
Don’t have much money?
Thought you and your siblings were all so wealthy except for your maga brother
Thats a very simplistic view regarding inflation. There are SO MANY other factors in play that will go into it.
You should wait on gas to come down so you can squeeze them more. But don't forget to ask them how much thier labor and insurance went up this past year thanks to non tariffs inflation.
Tax cuts are in everyone’s best interest to pay less taxes u less your some gov slug slave beholden to living on the dole. Those people will just have to deal with it.
Doge saving a couple billion lol. You have no idea what you are talking about.
It’s so fake every lib is going ballistic burning cars lol
Get real news sources. You’re being misled.
I've been out helping my daughter move into her first home she bought today. So I'm just catching up myself. I'm not getting you tonight. You're complaining about tariff based inflation then being upset that small businesses got this 20% to help even the field vs. big corps that had their tax rates decreased? You're opposed to helping both the small guy/gal and also things that will reduce their costs/raise their profits and be anti-inflationary?
Usually my landscaper bills me each month based on the work done. March, November and December are usually more expensive for spring and fall cleanup/leaves.
This year he gave me a total price for the full season upfront. Spring clean up, weekly cuts from April to November and fall clean up in early December. He divided the total cost by 10 months and is charging me the same price each month for 10 months.
This year he gave me a total price for the full season upfront. Spring clean up, weekly cuts from April to November and fall clean up in early December. He divided the total cost by 10 months and is charging me the same price each month for 10 months.
IF we have 75 countries willing to drop/reduce tariffs and barriers to trade, and have countries and companies agreeing to move industry and investment into the US...then how can that be "No benefit?"
Did it have to happen this way? I don't think so but I also know NOTHING has been done for what 40 years + and you expect a slow roll here would get it done? I wouldn't trust that either.
The position that the "US Blinked" I don't buy. Do you think Israel was losing the fight in Gaza when they chose to cease fire? You think we retreated and gave up the high ground? Not me. It was the right thing to do. You can win and not be stupid in the process. (and yeah I am on record here as saying I thought some of this was stupid).
Some do this...it may work out that we have a dry stretch and he skips a few cuts but you still have to pay for it. However it helps you out by not getting hit by huge bills right before X Mas
Yes I think I've heard of them. Your wife is a rare gem. I can't count on one hand the number of customers per year that even offer a water..sign me up for lunch
That's a shame. I do most of my own stuff but when I have any crew here for a few days they always have a cooler of water from us...and if they are here longer depending on the project I make them a BBQ lunch or something mid-project. it goes a LOOOONG way. Heck I went thru a good bottle of tequila with the guys who did my walkway. (I'm also always looking to tailgate with someone off season!).