Residental Snow Removal / Lawn Mowing

[I-Hate-Hulse]

As we head into Mother / Father's Day season here I was trying to dream up a good gift for them. As they are approaching retirement age, I thought a good gift for them would be snow removal / lawn mowing for them as I'd rather not see my father hefting a shovel or pushing a mower at his age. It's not practical (nor desired on my behalf) to jet up there and do this daily or weekly. They don't know any neighborhood kids well enough to ask them to do this.

Anybody know of a good cheap service to do this? The house is in Hawkwood in the NW. What should I expect for pricing? $500? $800?

(convincing my "thrifty" father to accept this will be another battle..... )

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

I live around the area, so I will check around to see if there is anyone local that does this sort of thing. If you go with some of the "professionals" you will be looking at paying double that amount (1000-1500) for a year worth of their services - I know with my grandmother in Vancouver it is roughly 50 dollars an hour for them to cut her lawn.... so if that is done roughly once a week or once ever week and a half.... so 1000 would be a conservative estimate just for the summer, and that isn't including the snow removal service.

I will check to see what most people do.