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Tips for Hiring a Landscaping Professional for Your Community

Keeping your community looking its best is a must. Here are tips on hiring a a landscaping professional.
Camille Moore | Mar 27, 2024 | 3 min read
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Landscaping is one of the most important aspects of a community’s appearance. Substandard landscaping practices and inattentiveness to a neighborhood’s lawns and gardens can create common grounds that lack curb appeal and look unkempt. For most communities, the key to great-looking common grounds is hiring a great landscaping professional.

If your community needs a landscaping professional, be sure to consider the points below before you hire one.

1. Understand the Needs of Your Plants

Any landscaping company can cut the grass in your community. However, not every landscaper is prepared to handle plants that require special placement, special fertilization measures, unique pruning procedures, etc.

Consequently, you should hire a company specializing in maintaining the types of plants your community contains or plans on planting. Focus on finding a landscaping company that emphasizes horticulture in addition to simple grounds maintenance.

2. Plan for Special Landscaping Projects

Landscaping needs may encompass more than just the plants. Over time, there may be special projects your community needs to perform, such as implementing new retaining walls, rerouting irrigation systems, creating new drainage paths, etc.

The expertise with which these projects are completed can impact the appearance of your community as much as the types of plants it features. Be sure to choose a company that has experience with major landscaping projects.

3. Request Work Samples

Just because a landscaping company specializes in the work you need performed does not guarantee it will do the best job. That is why inspecting samples of the company’s work before signing a contract is important.

A company that takes pride in its work should be more than willing to provide you with recent samples of its projects. If you inspect the work and find it to be of high quality, you can feel confident that the company will do the same type of work for you.

4. Understand the Terms of the Contract

Last but not least, it will be helpful to ensure the business contract includes all of the known landscaping tasks and prospective landscaping projects your company needs the company to cover.

Signing an annual contract typically saves more money than hiring a company on a job-by-job basis. However, the savings will not matter much if the company is not contracted to handle all of your needs. If possible, have an HOA management provider review the contract before you sign it.

5. Start Looking Now

Spring is here, and summer is just around the corner. If landscaping is one of your community’s HOA management needs, now is the time to start looking for a landscaping professional to handle all your neighborhood’s lawn and garden needs. If you need assistance with the selection process, an experienced HOA management company like RealManage can help. 

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