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Most HOA Boards Pick the Wrong Landscaper.

They don’t know it for eighteen months.

That is about how long it takes.

The cheap quote wins the contract. A few months later the common areas look tired. Residents start emailing the board. The savings everyone celebrated at the budget meeting evaporate into emergency repairs, premature replacements, and a vendor who stops returning calls.

It happens to good boards. Boards that did their homework. Boards that thought they asked the right questions.

The problem is not effort. It is that nobody tells you what questions actually matter. So we wrote them down.

Free PDF · Includes RFP Template The Ultimate Guide to Selecting a Landscaper for Your HOA whitepaper

The Real Cost of the Wrong Hire

The hidden cost table that shows how the cheap landscaper quietly drains eight to fifty thousand dollars a year from your community.

A One-Page RFP and Scorecard

Send the same RFP to every bidder. Score every proposal on the same twelve criteria. Compare apples to apples for the first time.

Reserves Protected, Trust Restored

The contract clauses, communication standards, and accountability framework that keep your community in front of every issue.

Why This Guide Exists

You are not the first board this happened to.

We have sat across the table from hundreds of HOA boards.

Most of the time, we are not the first landscaper they have hired. We are the second. Or the third. Each one came in cheaper than the last. Each one created a bigger mess than the one before.

By the time a board calls us, the conversation is rarely about lawns. It is about lost trust, blown reserves, and a community that has stopped believing the next quote will be any different.

It does not have to go this way. The first hire can be the right hire.

That is the whole reason we wrote this. The exact questions we wish every board had asked the company before us. The contract clauses that would have prevented the cleanup. The way to read a proposal so you know what you are actually buying.

Read it before your next vendor decision. Even if that decision is not us.

Inside The Guide

The frameworks your board can use this week.

Real tools. Real templates. Real numbers. Nothing filler.

01

The hidden cost table that turns vague complaints into real dollars.

Twelve cost categories. A range of eight to fifty thousand dollars a year. Most of these costs are not where the board is looking.

02

The five-year cost comparison that ends the lowest-bid debate.

Two identical communities. Two different landscapers. A seventy thousand dollar gap. Side by side numbers, year by year.

03

The 3-strike system for holding a landscaper accountable.

The structured framework that gets a vendor to improve, or makes the case to terminate without lawyers.

04

The twelve-question checklist that tells you if you have a problem.

Yes-or-no questions. Tally your answers. Find out whether to coach, warn, or replace your current landscaper.

05

The one-page RFP template that fits in a board packet.

Send the same scope to every bidder. Get back proposals that can actually be compared. No more vendors writing their own rules.

06

The weighted scorecard that ranks proposals out of one hundred.

Twelve criteria. Defensible math. A result the board can stand behind when the next unit owner asks why you picked who you picked.

07

The seven red flags that disqualify a landscaper before you sign.

Including the one that boards usually mistake for a benefit: a vendor who promises no annual price increases.

08

Six landscaping myths that quietly cost communities a fortune.

What boards keep believing about price, frequency, and DIY. And what is actually true.

Eight frameworks. One PDF. Free.

Read it before your next vendor decision. Even if that decision is not us.

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Who It Is For

Built for the people who actually sign the contract.

HOA Board Members

Volunteer directors and treasurers stewarding the community’s largest recurring expense.

Property Managers

Managers running multiple communities who need a defensible, repeatable vendor process.

Community Association Managers

Licensed CAMs who need a board friendly resource to lead a transparent selection process.

Why Trust Us On This

We have been the company that got it right.

Half the work we do for new HOA clients is undoing the last contract. We got tired of cleaning up. So we wrote the guide we wish every board had on day one.

— The Green Image Team

Green Image is the landscape and tree service partner for HOAs and managed communities across Broward and Palm Beach counties.

We have walked properties where the wrong vendor cost the community six figures over three years. We have rebuilt grounds that should never have needed rebuilding. We know what the warning signs look like, because we have been called in to fix them.

This guide is the framework we use ourselves. Read it. Use it. Hire whoever is the right answer.

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