Halereach Business Loans talks the purchase through on a call, and funding partners review the business and set any terms.
Landscaping companies buy mowers, compact loaders, trailers and hand-held power tools, and they pay crews before clients pay invoices. This page sets those costs beside 2023 County Business Patterns and 2024 Nonemployer Statistics counts for landscaping services (NAICS 561730) in Mecklenburg County, NC. Land, buildings and the yard a company works from are outside this site.
At a glance
- Landscaping services, Mecklenburg County, NC
392 employer establishments (CBP 2023)
- Paid employees at those businesses
5,586 (CBP 2023)
- Fewer than five employees
238 establishments, 60.7% (CBP 2023)
- Landscaping services with no paid employees, Mecklenburg County, NC
1,640 (Nonemployer Statistics 2024, NAICS 56173)
Landscape Equipment Financing: What Huntersville, NC Landscapers Should Know
Equipment financing ties the payment to a machine. The partner pays the dealer, the landscaper pays the partner over a set term, and the machine secures the deal until the last payment. That fits a landscaper's gear because nearly every piece has a serial number: mowers, compact track loaders, stump grinders, aerators, trailers, and the trimmers and blowers that ride on them. Attachments bought with a skid steer, such as a grading bucket, pallet forks or an auger, can go on the same quote.
Three points can come up in a partner's review: the price on the quote, the age of the machine if it is used, and how the length of the term fits the hours the machine is expected to run.
County Business Patterns counted 392 landscaping services establishments with paid staff in Mecklenburg County, NC for 2023 (NAICS 561730), and 5,586 people worked for them in the pay period that included March 12.
Landscaping Equipment Loan for a Crew and Mower Purchase: Notes for Huntersville, NC Landscapers
Adding a crew means two purchases at once. The equipment side is an enclosed trailer, a mower or two and the hand-held tools a crew carries; the people side is pay for the new crew members from their first day.
Invented figures: a two-person crew costs $3,180 per biweekly payroll, and a new commercial account pays its invoices 30 days after the work. Within that wait the business meets 2 paydays, or 3 depending on the calendar, so $6,360 to $9,540 of crew pay goes out before the first payment comes in. That part is a working capital question.
The mowers and the trailer go into an equipment request on their own schedule. Keeping the two apart keeps wages off a multi-year term.
Financing for Zero Turn Lawn Mowers: What Huntersville, NC Landscapers Should Know
A commercial zero-turn mower comes with its cutting width, engine and hour-meter reading on the quote, and those details carry more weight when the mower is bought used. The hour reading shows how much running time a used machine has had, and a partner can set the term with that in mind.
Illustration only, invented figures: a $13,900 zero-turn mower over 48 months at a 10.25% annual rate costs $354.21 a month, or $17,002.08 in total, $3,102.08 more than the quote.
Dealers sometimes run their own financing offers on mowers. Any offer, from a dealer or a partner, is worth reading for the total paid over the term and not only the monthly figure.
Business Loans for Landscaping Business: What Huntersville, NC Landscapers Should Know
Not every cost is a machine. A landscaping business also pays for fuel, insurance, plant material and mulch for a job, and for repairs while a mower is down. Running costs like those suit a line of credit, drawn when needed and paid back as invoices clear.
A term loan fits a one-time cost of another kind, such as buying out a partner's share of the company or buying another landscaping business together with its equipment and accounts. The land or building a company works from is real estate and stays outside this site.
Owner-only landscapers fall into a separate Census count. Nonemployer Statistics uses the broader landscaping services code 56173 and reported 1,640 such businesses without paid employees in Mecklenburg County, NC for 2024, with receipts totaling $74.7 million.
Business Loans for Landscaping Companies and the Mecklenburg County, NC Landscaping Services Count
Small companies make up 60.7% of the employer count: 238 of the 392 establishments had fewer than five employees in 2023 (CBP). Annual payroll came to $249.2 million across all 392, a figure for the whole code and not for any one company.
In the office ZIP, ZIP Code Business Patterns shows 35 landscaping services establishments with paid staff for 2023.
Contractors, cleaning crews and machine shops share the trades group on the industries page. The construction page covers excavators and job-site trailers for contractors, and the Huntersville, NC page covers the office ZIP as a whole.
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