Other landscapers silence can be costing you money.
We have been a licensed, bonded and insured landscaping contractor since early 2008. We try and be respectful of how much noise our equipment makes and dust we stir up so we bother tenants and their employees and customers less. We also take the environmental impact of using gas powered equipment.
For many properties; there are ways to reduce the noise and environmental impact we make and reduce or eliminate reoccurring and increasing costs associated with landscape maintenance.
Tony Robbins said "If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten."
With inflation and increases in the price of labor, insurance and daily living costs something has to give. Is it reduced services to keep prices low; is it increasing how much is charged, maybe charging for extras? In many cases simple changes can be made to properties landscaping to update it and reduce recurring costs at the same time as reducing noise services make and reduce negative environmental impact.
We also look forward to hearing from you.
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LAS Vegas landscaping costs and controls
Weeds and licensing
Proper licensing is important to many property owners, managers and their insurance companies. There used to be a limited exemption in Nevada that allowed landscaper contractors with a C10 license to spray certain herbicides using backpack sprayers, but that exemption went away in 2017. The license that is generally needed in the C6 license from the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA).
Since there are a number of laws pertaining to this topic, I have a page on our website that lists them as well as a link to a flyer from the NDA and a list of who is licensed.
Water usage / Irrigation leaks
Many landscape maintenance contracts include a month irrigation checks. If a system is checked today and a leak starts tomorrow; the month of wasted water and possible fines can be very costly and does not need to continue. We have used devices at customers properties that when not normal water use is detected it sends notifications to me and other people about a potential leak in nearly real time and in turn a technician could be dispatched. Many leaks happen “after” irrigation valves in black poly or emitter heads. Since we knew what zone / station / valves were supposed to be on at that time it allows us to narrow down the area we had to look for a leak which saved time and money.
Hedge trimming inconvience and pricey
The anticipated mature size of bushes is rarely taken into consideration when bushes are chosen or where they are planted. This usually starts the expensive cycle of hedge trimming. DO YOU SEE ANY ISSUES IN THESE PHOTOS?
1.What happens when cars are parked in the parking spots or tenants and customers are going in and out of doors or the vehicles or doors?
2.What happens when the wind picks up before trimmings are picked up?
3.In 2024, Las Vegas had a record breaking 112 days with temperatures reaching or exceeding 100 degrees. There are laws governing “quiet times”. Balancing employee health and productivity, noise and inconvenience.
Common verbiage in many landscaping bids and contracts include: neat and trim, and at the managers discretion. These and similar phrases leave a lot to be desired.
Contact On Time Landscaping to discuss solutions.
Hedge trimming inconvience and pricey
The anticipated mature size of bushes is rarely taken into consideration when bushes are chosen or where they are planted. This usually starts the expensive cycle of hedge trimming. DO YOU SEE ANY ISSUES IN THESE PHOTOS?
1.What happens when cars are parked in the parking spots or tenants and customers are going in and out of doors or the vehicles or doors?
2.What happens when the wind picks up before trimmings are picked up?
3.In 2024, Las Vegas had a record breaking 112 days with temperatures reaching or exceeding 100 degrees. There are laws governing “quiet times”. Balancing employee health and productivity, noise and inconvenience.
Common verbiage in many landscaping bids and contracts include: neat and trim, and at the managers discretion. These and similar phrases leave a lot to be desired.
Contact On Time Landscaping to discuss solutions.
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GENERIC CONTRACTS ARE NOT GOOD.
HOW MUCH GROWTH IS ACCEPTABLE BETWEEN HEDGE TRIMMINGS?
If your properties have plants that get hedge trimmed take a look at the section of your maintenance contract regarding hedge trimming.
- Does it say something like “neat and trim appearance” or "natural look"? The issue is that phrases like that have different meanings to everyone. One person may think 6 trimmings a year while another 52. In order to come to a fixed monthly price, the landscaper budgets for how many times per year they trim your bushes. If they have to do more they have to come up with the money to pay for that. Where is that money coming from? Whos' definition is used
- Consider telling them that your definition of phrases like that means weekly hedge trimming. We are interested to hear how they handle this. Very few landscapers and properties allow plants to have a natural look. Hedge trimming is typically nothing like a natural look.
- Our maintenance contracts specify the number of trimmings per year and when possible, we work with customers to reduce the cost to hedge trim by doing certain things or eliminate the plants that get hedge trimmed and install lower cost ones to maintain. Typically with plants that do not get hedge trimmed there is less gas powered equipment used which means maintenance visits are quieter and pollute less.
- If properties current landscapers have not brought items up like this; their silence has and will cost properties a significant amount of money; year after year in landscape maintenance costs.
Tree trimming
Limited tree trimming is "included" in many maintenance contracts. Many times up to a certian height. Many do not know why a height is chosen. We know why in many cases. It is related to what their insurance company says. Many times maintenance contracts just includes removing the lowest branches and is often times not enough to have healthy trees with good canopy structure. Healthy (and especially larger) trees provide many benefits to properties including financial so healthy trees are important. Have you noticed that a lot of times trees or branches come down when it is windy. This could possibly be minimized with proper a tree trimming program that includes the upper branches.
- Just to see what tree trimming really costs; have you ever asked a tree company just to bid on tree trimming? Many times it is more expensive than many months of landscape maintenance costs so how are the maintenance companies doing proper trimming? Some customers might say that they do not care as long as it gets done. But what is the true cost of it being done? Something else either has to give or higher prices charged somewhere else to get this partial work included.
- If lower branches are large, lets say 12 inches or greater diameter. Will they really be cut at no additional cost? Will costs be hidden in other line items? We have seen that many times removing tree trimming from maintenance contracts and having a separate tree trimming contract / program works out better for the trees and the properties that own them and the cost difference is not much considering the benefits.
- Like with hedge trimming if properties current landscapers have not brought items up like this; their silence has and will cost properties a significant amount of money at the risk of the trees health.
Grass- Non-functional turf ban
Governor Sisolak signed into law a bill that requires the removal of approximately 5,000 acres of grass by the end of 2026 in Southern Nevada. The SNWA $3 per square foot rebate and the City of Henderson's $1.50 rebates have annual pay out maximums so some properties may choose to do their conversions over years to try and get the most amount of money from them. (August 2021)
We are a SNWA Water Smart Contractor, have a 100% pass rate for conversion projects from the SNWA and we have completed some conversions for as little as $3 per square foot.
INCREASED RENT
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...landscaping with a good aesthetic value added approximately 7% to the average rental rate of a building (source).
12% PREMIUM
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...consumers would be willing to pay, on average, a 12% premium for goods purchased in retail establishments that are accompanied by quality landscaping (source).
PAY 8.8% MORE
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Respondents preferred landscaped roadsides and report positive retail behavior such as willingness-to-pay 8.8% more for goods and services in well-landscaped malls (source).
Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric
Some of his quotes can be interesting to HOAs regarding their landscaping.
- An organization’s ability to lean, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
- “Change before you have to.”
STEVE JOBS CO FOUNDER AND CEO OF APPLE COMPUTERS
You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
Napoleon Hill
“Don't wait, the time will never be just right.”