Jesus fuck you got me going.....
And if you do well in the spring/winter/fall, fuck what I said about doing plowing in the winter.
If you do well profitably, fuck it all and head to Florida (or wherever) for the winter and park your ass on a beach till the spring.
Fuck I'm really beginning to hate you.
Put in 10-20 years, sell the bitch (or run it remotely, there's so much online accounting now) and live happily after.
Fuck. I *do* hate you OP.
> i really wish i could just do bush hogging of fields or finish mowing for $400 bucks a day and be done
Ok dude, I get that but no one makes money working for a living. You get the business going and throw the keys to your tractor whom you've trained and can trust.
Consider thinking bigger. Do "operations" now to get the business going but "your" job ultimately is "strategic planning"
(I gotta go, but I'll be back tomorrow when I'm back in the office of my POS mfg company)
FYI, My "brush hog" are lathes and milling machines. I have ppl doing that now. I haven't touched them in years.
I wouldnt discount the business you have. Especially if its running well. This business is just a sparkle in my eye at the moment. I def agree though about delegating tasks. Im young so all this is pretty foreign territory to me. Im somewhat concerned about the little things like branding, quickbooks, and incorporating an llc
Bumping
Branding - Don't use your name. That'll make it hard to sell. Come up with something catchy.
Quickbooks - It's cheap. It's easy. I use the high end version Quickbooks. You can easily do it yourself. Or if you want, go to a temp agency and hire someone for a few hours a week to do your bookkeeping. The beauty of Quickbooks (why I chose it) is that everyone in accounting these days are trained in it. They can do the actual setup and train you on it. I can't imagine your bookkeeping needs will be all that great. You can probably do that yourself in a couple hours a week.
Incorporating - talk around to ppl that might know a cheap lawyer or accountant. You might even be able to set it up on your own on nolo dot com. It adds a level of complexity but it protects your personal assets if you get sued by a customer with a bug up their ass. Keep your property and tractor in your name personally and rent/lease it to the LLC and make a profit on that rent/lease. Keep the LLC as asset-free as possible.
Personally, I keep my properties in my personal name and rent it to the business. This way if things go to shit, no one can attack the major assets. Of course, your LLC will need some sort of liability insurance which should be relatively cheap.
Oh, and make sure you keep a separate set of books for personal and business expenses/income. It is a classic maneuver of assholes to attack your personal assets when they see that you are using the business for personal expenses.
So yea, you need a lawyer, and accountant and an insurance person. All of this can be done on the cheap. Sit down with these people and lay it all out on the table so they understand exactly that you are not some Rockefeller or knucklehead and will advise you properly. If someone tries to sell you on something that is major bucks, that is your sign to say "thank you very much for your time, let me continue on with my thought process to make this work. I'll get back to you." and never go back to them again.
There are plenty of people that would love to work with you. There are also plenty of assholes out there wanting to do whatever it takes to make their commission. Watch your back...