5 Alarm Lawn Service

07/26/2023

The 5 Alarm Crew just finished their last lawn as a business. We want to say a special thank you to all of our wonderful customers, family and friends that helped us build a very successful family business over the past few years that started with 4 customers the first week that grew to 80 in less than two years. We wish you all the very best and will be forever grateful for allowing us to work together as a family. Teaching our adult children hard work ethic and pride in the job you do. Goodbye to everyone from the 5 Alarm Crew. Randy, Mikayla, Selah and Brody.

07/01/2023

We have made the announcement today to all of our wonderful customers, so we want to make it public that we will be closing our family business 5 Alarm Lawn Service, LLC July 28th. We will not be taking on any new clients and we have found replacement contractors for our current customers. We want to thank everyone for supporting our business that we started from mowing just 4 lawns a week our first month and grew it into a business with over 80 customers last year.

Our adult children that work in the company want to move into the corporate world and begin other careers that could better benefit them in their lives. There's things that we can't offer them in a small family business like a much better salary to live on. A chance for promotional advances within a larger company and better benefits such as tuition reimbursement for college, cheaper health insurance, etc. We want to personally thank them for working so hard to build our business, if it weren't for their hard work and dedication it wouldn't have been possible.

Also, we found out last week that we are about to become grandparents so I wanna slow down a little to enjoy our family. Not to mention I have come to realize that it's extremely stressful to run a company in the modern world. In some ways it's more stressful than when I was a firefighter. Again we want to thank everyone over the past couple of years for being such valued customers and those that supported us building our business. Respectfully, from the whole 5 Alarm Crew - Randy, Paula, Mikayla, Selah and Brody.

12/31/2022

5 Alarm Lawn Service wants to wish everyone a safe, happy and prosperous New Year's!!

12/24/2022

Merry Christmas to all of ours and everyone else's friends and families from the 5 Alarm Lawn Service crew. We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday season. A big thank you to all of our awesome customers for a wonderful year.

12/22/2022

Spent the last 3 days getting our customers properties looking sharp for their incoming family members this holiday weekend before the rain moves in tonight. Nothing like laying down Christmas stripes on the shortest day of the year.

11/24/2022

5 Alarm Lawn Service are thankful for and would like to wish all of our customers, family and friends a safe, happy and blessed Thanksgiving. If you're traveling take your time, drive carefully and may you have a safe trip. 🦃 🍽️ 🍂 🥘 🍁

11/23/2022

The 5 Alarm Crew have been working hard getting customers properties prepared for thanksgiving visits this week. We can't wait for the thanksgiving giving break ourselves!!

11/15/2022

Still striping them up even with freezing temperatures starting.

11/02/2022

Our crew treated a total of just under 1,000,000 square feet of lawn area "core plugging, seeding, lime and fertilizer" for our customers this fall. Wow what an awesome hard working crew we have. Now leaf season is upon us, 🍁 🍂 🤦‍♂️ they're still working hard and all of us are ready for winter break that's for sure.

11/02/2022

Fall lawn treatments are starting to really look good since we finally got some rain.

10/19/2022

As we come to a close of fall treatments we want to thank all of our wonderful customers for their patience through the hurricane and rain that got us a little behind.

Also for your understanding of the cost of supplies this year. I know some weren't happy and we lost a couple of customers because we just couldn't absorb the costs and keep the same pricing we've had for the last two years. I just want to say that we weren't happy either. But at the same time we also realize it's beyond our control if we want to remain in business, so the economy didn't give us a lot of choice.

In closing here's an update of the future outlook of next year that's not promising either.

China has supplied about a third of the world’s phosphate, and it has essentially banned exports through 2022. That puts the burden of supply on other countries, including the United States.” Not to mention Russia and Ukraine play a big part of fertilizer exports for the worlds supply.

Unfortunately, the U.S. is not in a great position for mine and production expansion due to serious environmental concerns. This means that phosphate prices, which are already high, will continue to increase at least through 2022.

Thank you so much again for your understanding and patience as we all go through these tough times. Hopefully this too shall pass.

NDSU Extension specialist shares tips for improving profitability during times of high fertilizer prices.

07/25/2022

The 5ALS crew finished up a mulch job just in time this afternoon before the storms began to move in. Mega Attachments this is an awesome piece of equipment. Wow what a time and back saver, we absolutely love it!!!