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Team Management and Equipment Acquisition

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at 21 he's landing $100,000 landscaping job after landscaping job

What happens here

Joseph started his business solo and has now grown to manage 6-7 employees. He highlights the benefit of working with skilled subcontractors who can handle tasks independently, reducing the need for constant supervision. He mentions his heavy equipment, including a Kubota SSV75 skid steer and Ford F-350 and F-450 trucks with Boss plows, which he has started purchasing after gaining clarity on his needs.

Goal: Describe growth in team size and strategic equipment purchases.

Tools and materials

  • Boss Plows Boss — Clearing snow
  • Ford F-350 Truck Ford — Hauling and snow plowing
  • Ford F-450 Truck Ford — Heavy-duty hauling and snow plowing
  • Kubota SSV75 Skid Steer Kubota — Heavy lifting and earthmoving tasks

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All right, bro. So, you started off solo like everybody. How many guys you got working for you now? Six last year. It's going to be seven this year. So, you got subcontractors working for you? Yeah, as much as two throughout the winter and then over the summer it bumps up to three to four per job depending on how large of a job it is. So, my subcontractor base, they're all very good subs so they know how to do everything themselves. I usually don't have to baby sit them. I give them a set of tasks to get done and they get it done on time almost every time. Prior to this, the variety and the amount of equipment we used, it was all just renting. Now it's to the point that we could start buying now that we know exactly what we're going to be using and how much we're going to be using it. Okay, so what skid loader did you buy? Kubota SSV 75. Yeah, I got two. I got an F350 and F450 Ford 67s. And then where do you park all your equipment? And we're going to get I'm going to ask him very deep detailed questions in this interview cuz I want I want the meat and potatoes, man. I don't want no general BS, I want the meat and potatoes. Yeah, I got like a little shop that I keep all my stuff parked at, all my equipment in there and all that. How much you pay a month for the shop? 600 bucks right now. Okay, and then the shop has an office attached to it? Correct. Okay. hope to be buying that. Right now I'm just renting it, and I hope to be buying it in the near future. Is your business an LLC or S corp or what is LLC. Mhm. You got insurance and all that? Yeah. Yep. And then so the money from these jobs you put it right in your your business account and then you pay all your labor, you got everything thing nice and organized. I saw his Excel spreadsheet so far of how he tracks everything and that's one of many things you're tracking, but it was like very organized. I was very impressed. But how are you tracking all the money? Are you using a CRM? How are you tracking your business? What are you doing? Quickbooks. And then that's automatically with my bank feeds sent right to there. That automatically categorizes and sorts everything for me. And then are you going on Quickbooks late at night and and doing your paperwork? Yeah, from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., maybe even later I'm working. Out in the field where we work four 10s usually, so that's from 6:00 to you know, whenever it gets dark usually. And then anything beyond that I'm in the office. So this $100,000 job that…

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