Lawn Care & Property Preservation

Q. Describe the most common types of jobs you do for your clients.

A. 1. Clean-ups,Maintenance,Prunes/Trimmimg,Bark Dust.
2. Sod,Planting,Fencing,Retaining Walls,

Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A. Ask for refences and check them.
Ask questions about the way the work will be perform.
Ask for General Liability which protects the customer.

Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?

A. Are you license and insured?
In the state of Oregon in order to open a business account the business needs to be register.
Register business will always perform better; they are experienced, and because they have more to loose rather than just walk away on a incomplete job.

Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?

A. Just let us know if you are open to suggestions.

Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?

A. Our commitment to please our customers.
Respect for our customers.
We listen.

Q. What do you like most about your job?

A. The opportunity to build a relation that will last forever.

Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A. Q:How long have you been in business?
A:3 years under my own name, but the business was started by my dad back in late 1998.

Q. Do you have a favorite story from your work?

A. Every time i meet a customer is a interesting but something that comes up to my mind is one that just happen and here is the link to it.

http://livingbeaverton.com/post/1803448/my-curb-appeal-problem-was-solved-thanks-gabriel-horta-of-green-o-landscape

Q. What do you wish customers knew about you or your profession?

A. I'm business admistrator I went to college for two years only have a Associates in Management but wanting to go back to school soon. Also I took landscape design.

Q. How did you decide to get in your line of work?

A. I have a natural passion for the enviroment and working with plants and the landscape is another way to contribute in a good way to our enviroment.

Q. Tell us about a recent job you did that you are particularly proud of.

A. Its hard to decide but I'm posting this link is something that a broker did for us I didn't ask for it he came up with this on his own which I will always thank him for.

http://livingbeaverton.com/post/1803448/my-curb-appeal-problem-was-solved-thanks-gabriel-horta-of-green-o-landscape

Q. Do you do any sort of continuing education to stay up on the latest developments in your field?

A. I do take continuing education for the landscape area.

Q. What are the latest developments in your field? Are there any exciting things coming in the next few years or decade that will change your line of business?

A. Alot of companies are focusing in natural products for our gardens which i think is great there is alot of meeting and some conventions in our area to expose new products.

Q. Describe your most recent project, what it involved, how much it cost, and how long it took.

A. It was a clean up,prune and trimming,and sod it was about $1,200 and took us 1 full day with a crew of 3.

Q. If you have a complicated pricing system for your service, please give all the details here.

A. Every job requires a specific detail and specific time so its very hard to give an estimate over the phone.

Q. If you were advising someone who wanted to get into your profession, what would you suggest?

A. Learn our climate, and our enviroment, take customer service lessons and listen to the customer.

Q. Write your own question and answer it.

A. Q:What's more important price or quality?
A:As a customer quality, beacuse a quality job is only done once and a bad job takes 2 to 3 times longer plus the final cost is too high.