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Expand Skills and Diversify Services

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He went from making $15K a year in lawn care to almost 1 million in construction in 12 months

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The entrepreneur strategically expanded his skill set and business offerings. This included obtaining a degree in Landscape Architecture from West Virginia University and becoming a Union Carpenter. These qualifications provided professionalism and credibility, enabling the business to move beyond simple lawn care to full interior/exterior demolition work, comprehensive landscape design, and full landscape installations. During the off-season for landscaping, he would engage in carpentry work, ensuring a year-round income stream and continuous skill application.

Goal: Broaden business capabilities and offerings through formal education and trade skills.

Tools and materials

  • College Degree West Virginia University — Providing professionalism and expertise in landscape design and other construction-related fields
  • Union Membership — Accessing carpentry work and industry connections during off-peak seasons for landscaping

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what are you doing now so you started out mowing lawns what exactly are you doing now okay so right now I'm talking into doing demolition work for interior/exterior we're doing for landscape design we're doing landscape installs I still do all the maintenance okay now I'm doing commercial real estate okay when I say that I was able to flip two houses this year okay we're talking interior exterior full gun in every part of that job was done by my guys so you're building a commercial building right yes we having it absolutely taking a one hundred year old building okay we're going in demolition every single unit room by room by room everything down to nothing that's the phones then we're taking the bones and then we're restructuring new bones we're taking just leaving a shell and we're going in and we're rebuilding it okay how did you learn how to do all this stuff okay well so I basically started when I was very at a very young age about eight years old I basically started with hold of contracting and he was just around that realm okay instruction okay I started going towards it more and more with my future it's like start mowing lawn shutter mowing lawns for just you know people in the neighborhood okay I then ended up wanted to pursue that and step further I went to law school at Western University for landscape architecture I got my degree in landscape architecture after I graduated college I think and you know that's the wintertime now when the landscape you got to see that's what I was in full-time you know you can't rely on mother nature whether you're gonna teach your family or not throughout the year so landscaping a seasonal you know when let's get outta season I've been doing all construct from the property work in New York City okay so I then started

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