Expert Landscaping Tips for Every Season

Your boards are about to approve next year’s landscape budget without a signed contract in hand. That is not a budget. That is a guess. Here is what most vendors count on: CAMs letting each HOA go to bid separately, one property at a time, with no coordinated timing and

Your boards are asking questions you cannot answer because the vendor never told you anything. That is the actual risk in a self-managed landscape contract. Not the price. The silence. Here is what changes it: require the vendor to deliver service logs to you as the account manager of record,

SOURCE NOTE: Source is a single case study. Numbers are adequate for this persona. Proceeding with full spec. HEADER Eyebrow: A FIELD GUIDE FOR GENERAL CONTRACTORS. Title: Landscape Closes on Time or the Whole Handoff Feels Wrong. Dek: Every number below comes from custom home builds in Boca Raton. This

Ownership noticed the walking paths before you did. That’s the one call you can’t recover from. Alex inherited a property where no one had ever counted the trees. No inventory. No condition notes. Just a vendor walking the perimeter and reporting on the turf while dead palms leaned toward bedroom

Ownership walks the property before you do. And one dead palm near a walking path isn’t a landscaping problem, it’s a liability. Alex H. at Meridian at Lantana inherited a canopy with no inventory, no condition reports, and no plan. The previous vendor walked the perimeter and reported on turf.

Ownership sees the canopy before you do. A dead palm leaning toward a walking path does not appear on a weekly turf report. It appears on an incident report, or worse, it appears when ownership walks the property and you are the one explaining why no one caught it. At