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Key Takeaways Heathco and Roush got their first landscaping job from a Nextdoor listing.
By the time they graduated high school, they had laid the foundation for a real business.
Roadkill Lawncare and Landscaping is projected to see $700,000 in annual revenue this year.
In 2018, Anthony Heathco and Colton Roush were 15-year-old high school students in Grand Junction, Colorado, who wanted to start a side hustle for some extra cash. “Like every high-schooler, you want a new pair of tennis shoes or clothes that look cool and can impress your friends, but [have] no way to make the money for it,” Heathco recalls.
Image Credit: Roadkill Lawncare & Landscaping. Anthony Heathco, left, and Colton Roush, right.
At the time, Heathco and Roush were too young to apply for jobs — and “too old to have a lemonade stand on the corner.” So Roush’s mother advertised the boys’ availability to do yard work on the neighborhood social media platform Nextdoor. That’s when a man named Ron Cotton reached out; he needed a lot of help.
“ We were able to go over there pretty much every day after school and on the weekends,” Heathco says. “He was an older gentleman, so just really everything he couldn’t do labor-wise, he wanted us to do. Pulling weeds, fixing irrigation. We built a flagstone patio for him, ripped out some bushes, planted some new ones, that kind of thing.”
Image Credit: Roadkill Lawncare & Landscaping
Their high school side hustle made $5,000 to $10,000 a year
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