For property managers
What a commercial lawn contract actually covers
What belongs in a commercial lawn-care contract in Fayetteville and Cumberland County — frequency, extras, and what is not included.
A commercial lawn contract is a frequency, a standard, and a list of extras that will be billed when they appear. It is not a handshake to “keep it looking nice.”
Write the number of visits. Write what a visit includes: mow, edge, blow-off. Write the height. Write what happens after a week of rain. Write who calls when a tenant complains.
In Cumberland County the season is long. A national “weekly in summer” clause will either overcut a drought or undercut a wet May. The contract should allow a seasonal curve, not a slogan.
Extras that are not turf — beds, trees, leaf, storm — should either live in the same document as optional lines or be explicitly out of scope. Ambiguity is how portfolios lose vendors mid-year.
If you manage more than one site, one spec across the book is worth more than a slightly cheaper one-off at a single address.
Email hello@grounds.services if the property is in Cumberland County and you want the work in writing.
Whatever the ground needs, ask.
Email the team. We will tell you if the work fits the season and the book of properties we already keep.