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Alternative: Barter for Your First Mower

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If you don't have access to a free mower from family, you can implement a barter system. Approach a neighbor or someone in your community who has an old, unused lawn mower. Offer to mow their lawn for free for an entire season (or two, depending on the mower's value and condition) in exchange for keeping the mower permanently. This strategy provides them with free lawn care and provides you with essential equipment at no monetary cost. Once you own the mower, you can use it to service paying clients and start generating income.

Goal: Acquire a lawn mower with zero upfront cost through a service exchange.

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you're able to fix it up that's how you got necessary here's another way if you don't have a lawn mower in the family that you can fix up and grab from somebody you go to a neighbor's house and you tell the neighbor I will make a deal with you if you give me your mower I will mow your lawn for free for the entire summer maybe you got to make it two summers right yeah and the neighbors are gonna probably at first go what the heck is this kid doing and basically what you tell them is I want to be able to keep them more when I'm done after one or two seasons but then you use that same mower and you go out and mow other people's lawns with that mower to start your business then we know now it's not working yeah we're pretty good it costs you nothing to get the mower yeah it gives whoever you're more the longed-for they get out of doing all the labor for one or two seasons yeah and now you're in business oh yeah it's as simple as that doesn't

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