Free resources
The toolbox for landscaping
business owners.
Four paths, every one free: start your business, fund it, master your taxes, and track your finances — guides, tools, and videos in plain English for people who run crews.
Start Your Business
The questions every new and aspiring owner has — answered in order: structure, bank accounts, deductions, first filings.
Guide
Starting a Business: The First Five Steps
What you actually have to do, in order — and what’s always free.
Read & use it →Guide
Entity Structures, Explained
Sole prop, LLC, partnership, S-Corp: what protects you and how each is taxed.
Read & use it →Guide + video
LLC vs. Sole Proprietor
What the LLC really changes (and doesn’t), and the three steps to form one.
Read & use it →Guide
The Business Bank Account
Keep business and personal money separate — the first setup step that decides everything after.
Read & use it →Guide
Set Up a Tax-Ready Business
What’s deductible from day one, and the 20-minute weekly habit that captures it all.
Read & use it →Checklist
What to Track When You Work for Yourself
The six things to save all year, for solo service pros.
Read & use it →Guide + video
Your First Business Tax Return
Which form you actually file, when it’s due, and the records that make it painless.
Read & use it →Tool
S-Corp Savings Calculator
Will an S-Corp save you money? An honest estimate in under a minute.
Try the calculator →Guide
1099 vs. Employee
Before your first helper: where the contractor line actually is.
Read & use it →Fund Your Business
Grants, credit, and capital — how to build buying power in the business’s own name and fund the next step.
Free by email
Landscaping Business Credit Guide
The complete vendor-by-vendor credit build, delivered to your inbox.
Get the free guide →Database + video
Small-Business Grant Database
Real, open grant opportunities with links and deadlines — money you don’t pay back.
Read & use it →Interactive guide
Business Credit Basics
Your company’s own financial identity — the flip-through primer.
Read & use it →Guide + video
The Landscaper’s Guide to Business Financing
Eight financing types honestly compared: what each is, what lenders want, which fits.
Read & use it →Guide + video
Lease, Finance, or Cash?
The $30,000 equipment decision — how each path hits cash flow and taxes.
Read & use it →Guide + video
The 3-Tier Business Credit System
From first net-30 account to six figures of business credit, in order.
Read & use it →Guide + video
Build Business Credit From Scratch
The six-step start — EIN, DUNS, vendors, and the habits that protect the build.
Read & use it →Checklist
What Lenders Ask For
Build the funding-ready folder before you need it — and dodge the quiet disqualifiers.
Read & use it →Video
Funding know-how on YouTube
Grants, credit, and capital — explained in plain English on our channel.
Watch on YouTube →Business Taxes
Keep more of what you earn, stay ready for the IRS, and never get surprised in April.
Checklist
Top 10 Year-End Tax Moves
Every move on this list expires December 31.
Read & use it →Masterclass
The Landscaper’s Tax Playbook
The 35-minute, whole-strategy sit-down. Start here if you only pick one.
Read & use it →Guide + video
Hiring Your Kids
Deductible for you, tax-free for them — the four rules that make it stick.
Read & use it →Guide + video
The Home Office Deduction
Who qualifies (yes, renters), what space counts, and which method pays more.
Read & use it →Guide + video
The S-Corp Accountable Plan
Thousands back from your company, completely tax-free — done right.
Read & use it →Worksheet
Buy the Truck or Wait?
The Section 179 worksheet for the year-end equipment question.
Read & use it →Worksheet
Quarterly Tax Worksheet
Know your number, set it aside, send it on time.
Read & use it →Guide + video
1099 Filing Fundamentals
Who gets one, the W-9 policy that saves you, and the per-form penalties.
Read & use it →Guide + video
5 IRS Audit Triggers
How landscaping returns get flagged — and how yours stays clean.
Read & use it →Guide + video
Is Your Trade-Show Trip Deductible?
Equip Expo and beyond: the two questions that decide every travel deduction.
Read & use it →Guide
Is Your Health Insurance a Write-Off?
Who qualifies, how it’s claimed, and the mistakes that cost thousands.
Read & use it →Guide
Solo 401(k) vs. SEP IRA
The 60-second decision between the two best owner retirement plans.
Read & use it →Checklist
What to Gather Before You File
Print it, put it by the mail pile, check things off as they arrive.
Read & use it →Checklist
Back-Taxes Catch-Up
Behind on filing? Exactly what to gather to get right with the IRS.
Read & use it →Guide
Rental Deductions & Records
What you can deduct, what to keep, and the repair-vs-improvement trap.
Read & use it →Track Your Finances
Clean books, priced-right jobs, reports you actually use, and a plan for the year ahead.
Tool
Job Pricing Calculator
Price jobs with margin, not markup — your costs in, the right price out.
Open the calculator →Guide + video
The Margin Problem in Your Pricing
Busy but broke? Markup vs. margin is probably why.
Read & use it →Guide + video
The Bookkeeping System
Separation, real categories, and the 30-minute weekly rhythm.
Read & use it →Checklist
Audit-Proof Bookkeeping
Books where every number traces to a record you can find in minutes.
Read & use it →Guide + video
Use Your Reports to Decide
Three reports, four decisions — the hire, the machine, the missing money, the price.
Read & use it →Guide + video
Deposit Every Dollar
The habit behind funding approvals, calm audits, and a sellable business.
Read & use it →Guide + video
Build Your Steady Income System
Maintenance tiers, seasonal packages, add-ons: predictable months.
Read & use it →Workbook
Year Wrap-Up & Plan
One hour, eight honest questions, a one-page plan for next year.
Read & use it →Video
Money habits on social
Quick bookkeeping and cash-flow tips from The Landscaper’s Accountant.
Follow on TikTok →Free guide
Build credit in your business name
The Landscaping Business Credit Guide walks you through it step by step — net-30 vendors first, then store and fleet accounts, then cards and credit lines — so the business stops leaning on your personal credit. Leave your name and email and we’ll send it to you.
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Ready-made toolkits in our shop
The free resources teach the what and why. Our paid toolkits hand you the how — pre-built workbooks and systems.
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