As I was out in my yard this afternoon I thought about a cash job that I used to do back when I was in junior high school: pulling weeds in landscape beds. Now, this side job is NOT right for you lazy folks. Nobody said all cash jobs were clean and neat and air-conditioned.

But for those of you willing to get out in the heat and sweat a little, this one can earn you a ton of money.

Pulling Weeds for Cash

I think the most important this to nail down with this one is “how much to charge.” Afterall, this job is not one that homeowners really look forward to doing. In fact, if you look around your neighborhood, you’ll find that almost NOBODY pulls weeds in their flower beds. On top of that, it is hard to find a landscape guy (like a mowing and trimming company) who will pull those weeds either. There just isn’t any profit in it for them. You know what we call that? …Opportunity!

What you should do is charge $20 per hour to pull weeds but you should bid the job ahead of time in full. In other words, after looking over the entire landscape, if you think the job will take 3 hour, then you tell the homeowner you will pull all the weeds in the beds for $60 flat cash.

In that same vein, you need to be able to price the job right so you don’t get screwed over! The only advice I can give you here is that grass is much harder to pull than weeds, so if they beds are overrun with grass from the lawn and is creeping in, you should DOUBLE your time!

Another consideration is the edging used in the beds. Some beds are just cut out of the turf and there is no edging to stop the grass from spreading into the beds. If the customer wants the beds sharply defined like new, you are going to need a spade or landscaper’s shovel as well.

As always, you will find customers by knocking on doors and leaving fliers. The best neighborhoods to get customers for this odd job are in upper class or wealthy areas. Wealthy people are the laziest when it comes to outdoor labor!…trust me!

This job also makes a great add-on to some of the other cash jobs we’ve talked about here, such as lawn mowing for cash, cleaning gutters for cash and washing windows for cash.

If you do it right, you can get some repeat business out of this side job and charge a little less the next time.

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