I am fairly new to the forum but not new to the biz. I always loved taking care of yards when I was a kid did it for neighbors my parents and helped my grandpa. in 1993 my husband at the time started a biz because the place we were renting needed taken care of the guy we rented from said he wouldn't take it off the rent but we could submit invoice for it, so thats how we started, eventually this man had other jobs for us, we knocked on doors and told everyone, well I divorced over 5 years ago and kept the biz we do not just maintain lawns we do repo cleanups, painting, snow removal odd jobs. In Oregon