Wait a minute. So Tigran holds a give away but in the video makes ppl think dude won the excavator (which he did) but wasn't allowed to take it home until T was done with it but makes the audience think he left with it. 🤣
The American Dream: Look like you're rich by financing a bunch of things that you can not afford and blowing what little money you do have on expensive coffee. This was a good show, a great format btw entertaining!
10:02 Won a piece of equipment that wasn't going to be given away? Not super above board in my book, but to each their own I suppose. That being said, loved this video Mike & the Media Team, I will be watching ALL of these and hoping for more seasons as well.
@@CopperCreekCuts It was 75,000 when Tigran bought it new. After a couple years being used it was worth $54,000.00. We made a deal that worked out for both of us
@@AarontheGreat89 Thank you for the info! Did he just offer you $54,000 in cash instead? I am confused when you said you 'sold' it, which makes (to me) little sense since you would have to claim the excavator as prize income coming from Tigran and then pay income tax on the sale of it to Tigran as well (though I am not an accountant so I could be missing something).
@@AarontheGreat89 bro youre gonna kill someone pulling double trailers like that i hope you were just trolling.. DOT has a bounty on your head for this dog lmao
Dylan - I have one couch with 12 pillows on it. I can relate :) Also, I maxed out my last property working out of my garage. I was concerned about the neighbors as well. I found a home on 2.5 acres with a shop in the back and that has been great. Good luck figuring it out.
Equipment debt is cool if you’re getting the pipeline full of profitable jobs to use them, but the $100k+ truck is trying to have the nice things before you can actually do it comfortably. I mean you can still buy a nice truck that can pull without spending that much.
What you're doing is great! There's too many fools that make videos pushing shinny stupid syndrome! I've been in business 21 yrs once I survived 2007 -8 crash I knew I could handle anything. Biggest thing keep debt low! Hopefully it works out for them good luck!
That ticks me off too. Social media superstars get so many free things to push that is coming to what all they do. Push the expensive toys and say you must have it to be successful. It's creating a bad wedge in our industry. Also got a local guy who is trying to emulate Augusta and franchise. Even has a characture. Coping Mike hard. Im glad hes not a super genius like Mike.
20 yrs in biz for me next season…. It’s been a ride, lots of ups and downs. Totally agree, keep debt low allows you to be in control and flexible. Don’t fall for 0% and all the people telling you that you have to have one of these. You have to always think of what will this add to the bottom line before you purchase. Is this a want or a need?
I like using analogies. To build a strong house, you first must have a strong foundation. Foundations take time to dig, form AND CURE. Too many people dont wait for the foundation to cure before putting walls on it. Can keep going along the same building analogy. Works all the way up to the roof. The video. Felt like there was a lot of cuts and too much preview/postview. Made it a little difficult to follow while working. Lots of jumping around. Beginning cuts felt a bit long as well. Still loved the watch just giving my opinion. Excited for the next one, love this new series.
A local moving company and another guy that does basement waterproofing hires a lot of parolees and ex-cons. The parolees are more reliable because employment and drug testing are conditions of release.
Over priced trucks don't sell jobs. If you think it does, you need to go take a basic business class. As long as you're not driving a clunker, clients won't care. Tell yourself what ever you need to make it feel necessary to have a house payment on 4 wheels. .
When I buy new trucks for my business On $71,000 2022 silverado 2500hd I always put $30,000 down When we have profits Then it leaves a small payment of like $240 bi weekly Makes owing a awesome work truck alot easier
@@MikeAndes I don’t even post pictures on my social media - not a camera person buddy. I love the series though! I can’t wait to see more. It’s great that you’re sharing your experiences and knowledge to business owners that need it. This series should blow up
What a feat to beat drug and alcohol addiction! I beat it too - But with that being said the mentality of spending like this is the same as the mentality of an alcoholic or drug addict - Except they are not using. Kudos for getting this far - But self discipline is a very strong part of being drug and alcohol free and i had to apply the self discipline in every aspect of my life especially spending cause money was a trigger for me not to replace addict behavior with material things- I've been clean over 20 years and I have less than then $10k debt in my business. It's just something to think about.
Aaron has some serious things to think on. Perhaps selling the truck and getting something older. The f450 is unnecessary for why he's currently doing.
Great Series! One thing I think would help with the watchability is having less of those "coming up" B-roll montages Personally I would just start getting into a story line then one of those would come up and I'd skip through it. One this that the editors could do instead when switching between the characters in the story line that are geographically distant is use google earth to zoom out from current character location then move and zoom into next character with a partially voiced over section explaining the next character. I can make a sample and send it to you if you would like. Hope this helps!
He could have had a bad ass chipper truck with a roll off to different task if he wants to do trees plus. There is no reason that he should have to pull around a dump trailer and a chipper and then have a 140k truck just sitting there. We have to do a better job on getting what the business needs to strive and not what we like. If your business does enough in profits, you will be about to afford the flashy stuff down the line if thats what youre into. I have a considerable amount of debt but the difference is I will turn that 140k into 7 dump trucks that can do different projects at the same time. No matter how nice the truck is, it can only be in one place at a time. As much as I would like a new truck for myself, it doesn't move the needle. If you're going to go into debt, please think smart and strategize before going into major debt. Just my 2 cents.
Another thing is I have the ability to go and sign my name and get just about any piece of equipment I want/need but I don't do that. The reason I can do that is because I don't do that if that makes any sense.
Hopefully his business isn’t seasonal at all. I know in my area in the next 2-3 weeks revenue goes wayyyyyyy down. With all his payments it could kill him.
I am personally am not a fan of the 10x things that Grant Cardone and Tiegren Gertz are pushing. I read the book and it was all about spending your way to success and 9 times out of 10 that doesn’t work. It’s sad that people get sucked into that mindset.
It seems like even non business owners act like Aaron. The nice big truck and remain car broke or house broke instead of going for less, saving more and buying money making assets
I think David should100% scale down his company a tad so he can lay a stronger foundation. I would work on the sops, making a lead flow machine where I have more demand than capacity, fire the 2 losers , get my good guys, establish p4p with them and just build them up, if my team is full of winners a new hire will either quit or also become a winner.
I've got one for you... I've got 2 full time & 1 part time employees. We are busy & flowing with networking etc. A few months ago I had a customer cancel a job mid way through. & they processed their payment through a CC company. $16,000.00+ the CC company refunded the money . & is now looking at me to refund this back to the CC company. Which I currently do not have the surplus funding. Considering I spent the money on the project. We are able to keep floating thankfully & are very busy. However , this is a huge concern to be dealt with immediately. I don't have any legal leverage . Because apparently my contracts do not any binding terms for cancelations.
Obviously I am not a lawyer but a contract is there exactly to prevent this type of cancellation. You can't sign a contract and back out later because 'there wasn't anything specifying I couldn't back out'. That is the whole point of the contract. I could be missing something, though.
If this guy that bought this brand new truck were like Andrew Carmamta who takes used equipment fixes it up and uses it who now has more equipment than other people. This guy would be making a profit if he took all his new equipment that have payments sold that got all used equipment and fix them up and used them he would be in a much better position.
Mike, Could we meet up someway or chat over Zoom? I got out of the military in October and now moving into my own LawnCare and landscaping company. I feel like your Boot Camp or insights would greatly benefit me and keep me from being another number in the statistics.
🌴I went through at least 10 people I paid $150-$160 a day they all screwed up some don’t come on time some don’t show up to work there’s always a excuse about something the best way to have no stress in your life with anybody to do it by yourself I’m going to be doing landscaping by myself until I can’t no more more money in my pockets less stress because people don’t wanna work💯
I've learned that money is not a motivating factor at the end of the day! Mo money Mo problems for guys that are not ready to handle it that it's the story of my life and business
@@rayrayslawnlandscape2008 wait is that alot per hour where you guys live. Out here, minimum wage is $16/hr but everywhere is paying $17-$18 like McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants. Same with retail stores. Edit: by “is that a lot” I mean $19-$20/hr
Are you telling me Carter is going to do 27,000$ worth of jobs this month to make $2,000? He might as well stick to mowing lawns/doing small jobs by himself.
That’s absolutely crazy I’m at 28.5K this month and I’ll take home just over 17K I’m a concrete contractor up in Boston so we have 3-4 weeks left till snow season
sadly mike produces quality content with so little views and subscriptions, give this man some love. that dude following goat gang dude over spending on dumb stuff wow. no such thing as free money that 54k cost him a 120k loan LOL
so this is like a life coach you pay for someone who just sits in a desk to tell you is a bad idea. ?? why not just use common sense. i started landscaping with a used mower and a blower doing jobs that took me longer but just keep moving the way is uphill but we need.the struggle to show our recruits the way.
I have trouble making money but when I do make some money it is not that difficult to make it last. Some of these people just make terrible financial decisions. Like why not get a used truck for 11k ? the amount of money you would save and makeup for buying a used truck is better than having a "cool truck'
Wait a minute. So Tigran holds a give away but in the video makes ppl think dude won the excavator (which he did) but wasn't allowed to take it home until T was done with it but makes the audience think he left with it. 🤣
Aaron should sell the truck and pay something in full. That $1700 is killing him for sure.
Remember $1700 per month after $30k down
Dude sell that truck and buy a 60,000$ one YOU WILL STILL HAVE A VERY NICE TRUCK !
Everyone talking about the truck, but I’m dying at 😂😂 the pillow outro 😂
Brian goes for the gold
The American Dream: Look like you're rich by financing a bunch of things that you can not afford and blowing what little money you do have on expensive coffee.
This was a good show, a great format btw entertaining!
Maybe your American dream lmao
That's why I work solo no headaches im debt free im not growing my business im staying small
To be honest, being solo isn’t fewer headaches necessarily. Just different ones…
10:02 Won a piece of equipment that wasn't going to be given away? Not super above board in my book, but to each their own I suppose.
That being said, loved this video Mike & the Media Team, I will be watching ALL of these and hoping for more seasons as well.
26:32 I guess he 'sold' the $75,000 excavator he won back to Tigran for $54,000? I am so confused now.
@@CopperCreekCuts It was 75,000 when Tigran bought it new. After a couple years being used it was worth $54,000.00. We made a deal that worked out for both of us
@@AarontheGreat89 Thank you for the info! Did he just offer you $54,000 in cash instead? I am confused when you said you 'sold' it, which makes (to me) little sense since you would have to claim the excavator as prize income coming from Tigran and then pay income tax on the sale of it to Tigran as well (though I am not an accountant so I could be missing something).
@@AarontheGreat89 bro youre gonna kill someone pulling double trailers like that i hope you were just trolling.. DOT has a bounty on your head for this dog lmao
I love this show so much, please make this into a series
That Aaron guy reminds me when I was younger. I fell flat on my face drowning in debt and no cash in hand.
Dylan - I have one couch with 12 pillows on it. I can relate :)
Also, I maxed out my last property working out of my garage. I was concerned about the neighbors as well. I found a home on 2.5 acres with a shop in the back and that has been great. Good luck figuring it out.
Haha. Thanks!
We all have the same issues. Employees always think we are making millions.
Equipment debt is cool if you’re getting the pipeline full of profitable jobs to use them, but the $100k+ truck is trying to have the nice things before you can actually do it comfortably. I mean you can still buy a nice truck that can pull without spending that much.
Lol, this is just funny. I spent 3k on my last truck and drove it daily for 4 years yards and personal.
Mike congrats on 50k. Much deserved!
it should be higher
What you're doing is great! There's too many fools that make videos pushing shinny stupid syndrome! I've been in business 21 yrs once I survived 2007 -8 crash I knew I could handle anything. Biggest thing keep debt low! Hopefully it works out for them good luck!
I survived that crash too -An i knew i could make it after that- Put the grind in
That ticks me off too. Social media superstars get so many free things to push that is coming to what all they do. Push the expensive toys and say you must have it to be successful.
It's creating a bad wedge in our industry. Also got a local guy who is trying to emulate Augusta and franchise. Even has a characture. Coping Mike hard. Im glad hes not a super genius like Mike.
20 yrs in biz for me next season…. It’s been a ride, lots of ups and downs. Totally agree, keep debt low allows you to be in control and flexible. Don’t fall for 0% and all the people telling you that you have to have one of these. You have to always think of what will this add to the bottom line before you purchase. Is this a want or a need?
Carter should try a few quotes at $80 or $90 per hr.
This shows leadership without PUSHING the concept down throat.
I like using analogies. To build a strong house, you first must have a strong foundation. Foundations take time to dig, form AND CURE. Too many people dont wait for the foundation to cure before putting walls on it. Can keep going along the same building analogy. Works all the way up to the roof.
The video. Felt like there was a lot of cuts and too much preview/postview. Made it a little difficult to follow while working. Lots of jumping around. Beginning cuts felt a bit long as well. Still loved the watch just giving my opinion. Excited for the next one, love this new series.
Aaron: “I’m in so much debt”
*buys $120k f450* 😂😂
A local moving company and another guy that does basement waterproofing hires a lot of parolees and ex-cons. The parolees are more reliable because employment and drug testing are conditions of release.
What a waste of money. No truck is worth that
😂 you should test drive one
Totally agree, we have a 250 gasser that does the same stuff and it was 1/14 the cost.
Nobody pays to have there lawn cut here in Scotland not where I live. .😊
Wow seeing this is good for me . I started this year by my self. Now I have almost 58 yards I do solo. 13 yards a day 8 hour days.
I don't understand. I worked for companys and I made 20 hour . 160 a day . Now I cut yards myself and can bring in 1k a day .
This was so much fun Mike. 100k subs by years end.
Over priced trucks don't sell jobs. If you think it does, you need to go take a basic business class. As long as you're not driving a clunker, clients won't care. Tell yourself what ever you need to make it feel necessary to have a house payment on 4 wheels. .
Thanks Mike! Really one your best vlogs I've seen in a while. Really kept my attention.
Loved the video, my dad is small business owner and i saw him make good and bad decisions growing up.
Lot of guys like to buy the biggest and nicest trucks, trailers etc right off the bat not realizing the consequences down the road when money dies.
When I buy new trucks for my business
On $71,000 2022 silverado 2500hd
I always put $30,000 down
When we have profits
Then it leaves a small payment of like $240 bi weekly
Makes owing a awesome work truck alot easier
That's a good idea. I was planning on doing that this upcoming year.
Yes this is much much more of an entertaining video then the get rich quick ones.
Awesome video! I’m tempted to sign my business up for next season. I just don’t know if I’d be comfortable filming myself lol
We would love to see the submission video!! 😀
@@MikeAndes I don’t even post pictures on my social media - not a camera person buddy. I love the series though! I can’t wait to see more. It’s great that you’re sharing your experiences and knowledge to business owners that need it. This series should blow up
What a feat to beat drug and alcohol addiction! I beat it too - But with that being said the mentality of spending like this is the same as the mentality of an alcoholic or drug addict - Except they are not using. Kudos for getting this far - But self discipline is a very strong part of being drug and alcohol free and i had to apply the self discipline in every aspect of my life especially spending cause money was a trigger for me not to replace addict behavior with material things- I've been clean over 20 years and I have less than then $10k debt in my business. It's just something to think about.
Definitely thinking about it. Conquer one thing. Then there is another challenge. Let’s Go
Dude needs to sell that equipment
Aaron has some serious things to think on. Perhaps selling the truck and getting something older. The f450 is unnecessary for why he's currently doing.
Great Series! One thing I think would help with the watchability is having less of those "coming up" B-roll montages Personally I would just start getting into a story line then one of those would come up and I'd skip through it. One this that the editors could do instead when switching between the characters in the story line that are geographically distant is use google earth to zoom out from current character location then move and zoom into next character with a partially voiced over section explaining the next character. I can make a sample and send it to you if you would like. Hope this helps!
I really liked the editing and thought it was well done. I do agree with stoll here, would make it even better
He could have had a bad ass chipper truck with a roll off to different task if he wants to do trees plus. There is no reason that he should have to pull around a dump trailer and a chipper and then have a 140k truck just sitting there. We have to do a better job on getting what the business needs to strive and not what we like. If your business does enough in profits, you will be about to afford the flashy stuff down the line if thats what youre into. I have a considerable amount of debt but the difference is I will turn that 140k into 7 dump trucks that can do different projects at the same time. No matter how nice the truck is, it can only be in one place at a time. As much as I would like a new truck for myself, it doesn't move the needle. If you're going to go into debt, please think smart and strategize before going into major debt. Just my 2 cents.
Another thing is I have the ability to go and sign my name and get just about any piece of equipment I want/need but I don't do that. The reason I can do that is because I don't do that if that makes any sense.
Hopefully his business isn’t seasonal at all. I know in my area in the next 2-3 weeks revenue goes wayyyyyyy down. With all his payments it could kill him.
I am personally am not a fan of the 10x things that Grant Cardone and Tiegren Gertz are pushing. I read the book and it was all about spending your way to success and 9 times out of 10 that doesn’t work. It’s sad that people get sucked into that mindset.
It seems like even non business owners act like Aaron. The nice big truck and remain car broke or house broke instead of going for less, saving more and buying money making assets
Loved this.. keep em coming, make this into a series ❗❗❗
Next episode coming in several days ✅👍🏻
This is like a TV show awesome and entertaining !
🙏🏼🙏🏼 thank you
Brooooo,
Next level 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hey Mike love the content. U gotta start a 30-60 day series where you start chuck in a truck. Start with a rake
That’s the plan next Fall ✅
I think David should100% scale down his company a tad so he can lay a stronger foundation. I would work on the sops, making a lead flow machine where I have more demand than capacity, fire the 2 losers , get my good guys, establish p4p with them and just build them up, if my team is full of winners a new hire will either quit or also become a winner.
He just needs Jocko Willink book and or company.
Start with extreme ownership.
Then others
Greetings from Phoenix Az
Great show!!! So looking forward for new episodes to come🍿😆
Holy crap dude. Great content here. 🤙🏽😎
This was a great video, really eye opening on just how quickly a guy can dig his own hole when buying flashy equipment
Great job mike
Tree doctors inc in Gilbert Arizona 👌
Great series!
Awesome episode 🎉
So awesome man, love this show , blessings 🙏🙂
Keep this up Mike, I see the protentional in this series. Similar to shark tank, this could offer entertainment, knowledge and a little drama...
AMAZING!!!! Great video!
I've got one for you... I've got 2 full time & 1 part time employees. We are busy & flowing with networking etc. A few months ago I had a customer cancel a job mid way through. & they processed their payment through a CC company. $16,000.00+ the CC company refunded the money . & is now looking at me to refund this back to the CC company. Which I currently do not have the surplus funding. Considering I spent the money on the project. We are able to keep floating thankfully & are very busy. However , this is a huge concern to be dealt with immediately. I don't have any legal leverage . Because apparently my contracts do not any binding terms for cancelations.
Obviously I am not a lawyer but a contract is there exactly to prevent this type of cancellation. You can't sign a contract and back out later because 'there wasn't anything specifying I couldn't back out'. That is the whole point of the contract. I could be missing something, though.
Time to get a good lawyer / legal aid friend. :)
What a great series! 👍
Question- what happens if you face a drought and there’s no mowing? Do you do contracts so your still getting paid?
Awesome series
This was a hit !
Mission Mike!
Really enjoyed watching This Will this be a once a week thing or how often will you be putting it on I want to make sure I don't miss one
We are shooting for every 7-10 days for a new episode. In between episodes we will release the full zoom consulting calls ✅👍🏻
Mike I'd love just a couple of minutes to disect my solo op would be awesome but I know I can't afford that but any help would greatly be appreciated
Is that I street. Eversogreen lawncare company. Looks like there set up too.
If this guy that bought this brand new truck were like Andrew Carmamta who takes used equipment fixes it up and uses it who now has more equipment than other people.
This guy would be making a profit if he took all his new equipment that have payments sold that got all used equipment and fix them up and used them he would be in a much better position.
Mike, Could we meet up someway or chat over Zoom? I got out of the military in October and now moving into my own LawnCare and landscaping company. I feel like your Boot Camp or insights would greatly benefit me and keep me from being another number in the statistics.
I see nothing Aaron has the f450 for…. An f250 would easily pull anything I see of his.
It is incredibly frustrating watching him.
@@BrenttheGreat seems as though he isn’t open to changing this. Hopeful for him. He has gone through huge personal change, so fingers crossed!
My thoughts exactly. Does he even have a CDL 🤣🤣
@@BrenttheGreat I like your you tube name
@@AarontheGreat89 Thanks. I have been BrenttheGreat since about 1990 when I started gaming ;)
Just because you know how to mow doesn't mean you are a businessman.
Aaron is screwed, yikes
🌴I went through at least 10 people I paid $150-$160 a day they all screwed up some don’t come on time some don’t show up to work there’s always a excuse about something the best way to have no stress in your life with anybody to do it by yourself I’m going to be doing landscaping by myself until I can’t no more more money in my pockets less stress because people don’t wanna work💯
I've learned that money is not a motivating factor at the end of the day! Mo money Mo problems for guys that are not ready to handle it that it's the story of my life and business
@@rayrayslawnlandscape2008 wait is that alot per hour where you guys live. Out here, minimum wage is $16/hr but everywhere is paying $17-$18 like McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants. Same with retail stores.
Edit: by “is that a lot” I mean $19-$20/hr
@@arcellesderlantiss9490 20-25 per hour is prolly the going rate
Are you telling me Carter is going to do 27,000$ worth of jobs this month to make $2,000? He might as well stick to mowing lawns/doing small jobs by himself.
Stay tuned for next weeks episode. He is crushing it this month
That’s absolutely crazy
I’m at 28.5K this month and I’ll take home just over 17K
I’m a concrete contractor up in Boston so we have 3-4 weeks left till snow season
sadly mike produces quality content with so little views and subscriptions, give this man some love. that dude following goat gang dude over spending on dumb stuff wow.
no such thing as free money that 54k cost him a 120k loan LOL
If these guys aren’t showing up for work, why would they deserve to be rewarded with profit sharing?
Profit sharing program hinges on showing up on time and without no-shows
Why ,and profit share .Man I was born in the wrong time .
so this is like a life coach you pay for someone who just sits in a desk to tell you is a bad idea. ?? why not just use common sense.
i started landscaping with a used mower and a blower doing jobs that took me longer but just keep moving the way is uphill but we need.the struggle to show our recruits the way.
I was not paid by anyone to make this video
He was looking for appearance more than anything.
Damn Dylan working in those tight ass skinny jeans 🤣 lmao amazing
What ever happened to these guys?
That’s awful NO truck is worth over 100k my 2015 silverado does perfect and it don’t cost me $800 a month 😂
No disease bro .choice
I have trouble making money but when I do make some money it is not that difficult to make it last. Some of these people just make terrible financial decisions. Like why not get a used truck for 11k ? the amount of money you would save and makeup for buying a used truck is better than having a "cool truck'