starting a new business need opinion

I am thanking of starting a business mowing around ponds and other obstacles with a boom rotery mower. Need some opinions on if I would be successful. Thank you

There are too many things that we don't know, so I don't think anyone can really give you a good answer. How do you define successful for starters? If you're just looking to stay busy and bring in a little spending money but the income's not critical to maintaining your lifestyle, then by all means go for it, but if you're trying to support a family off the income from this alone, that's an entirely different ballgame and you need to do a ton of homework to figure out how much money you can really make. My guess is that most people either do this sort of thing themselves with a combination of their own mower and a string trimmer, or they pay a landscaper to do a lot of other things besides just the mowing, so if you want to get into the business you'll have to offer other services too.

I would start by looking around to see if there are people who offer that service now. If not, either there's a big need out there that nobody's addressing (highly unlikely since this doesn't sound like a hard thing to do), or there's really not a big need, which would mean that you wouldn't likely make much money doing it. Next step (assuming there are some people who do offer the service) is to look at whether there are any of them that do that as their only business (as opposed to it being one of many landscaping services). If there are people who do that as their only business, then things are looking more promising, but if the only people who do it have that as one of many services, you may want to consider offering other services as well if you really want to make a go of it.

There is a Water garden forum; see what they think.

You may wish to consider checking out businesses and golf clubs to see how they feel about their services. This is the kind of job where having lots of contacts is vital. Heck, it's important for any job. Frequently, I've heard that services like these will also do snow removal during the winter months to balance out the budget for seasonal thinking.

Our neighbors started a landscaping and mowing service in our neighborhood, and they support two families on the work they get done. Now granted, at least one family member has a different job, and the owners are retirement age, but they seem to be doing very nicely for themselves. I'm not saying there won't be challenges. After all 1 out of 4 businesses fail within the first four years.

Don't know if this helps or not but I recently noticed an advertisement in our Sunday paper for a small business that does gardening for people. They are called "An Extra Hand For the Garden" or some such thing and advertise exactly that. They are obviously doing well enough to take out a color ad in the Sunday paper, so you may be surprised by the number of people who do like to do most of their yard work but would be more than willing to pay someone for that one extra type of task. Good luck on your research.