Martin's Mowing

Martin's Mowing is a family owned, husband and wife business. I have been mowing lawns since I was a young man, but didn't start mowing for a living until about seven years ago when I started working for a Hendersonville, Tn lawn service.

I had been laid off from my customer service job back when the economy took a nose dive, and found work with a lawn service. I was immediately excited to go to work everyday because of how much I love being outside. Then, I started experiencing the customer service side of lawn mowing, and was forever hooked. I didn't expect that to be my overall favorite part, but that is what happened. Some of our customers were home bound for medical reasons, and they would look forward to seeing us mow their lawns once a week. I started looking forward to seeing them, too, and wanted to find other ways of helping. So I would move heavy objects for them, or feed their pets and play with them, too. When I realized I could be doing this with my own lawn service company, I decided to work toward it.

It took me about two years to have enough money to start buying good quality, commercial lawn equipment. Right after I bought my trailer and lawn mower, my former employer decided to downsize his service, and was kind enough to get some of his customers to agree to become my customers. I wasn't fully ready to call myself a company, but was capable of providing great service to them, so that's what I tried to do.

So far, they have all stuck with me. I think they know that I really care about them as people and want to help as best as I can. One of my customers is single mother with five children. She doesn't really have time to keep up with her yard, but her kids need the space to play. So, I make sure to keep it cut often enough that they can play without worry of bugs or unseen objects, but I don't try to get her to cut it so often that it breaks her budget. I also try to help her move her garbage cans off the road and keep the kids' toys safely together in the yard. I don't just love helping kids either; pets are special to me too. I have several customers that need me to watch out for their dogs and not let them out of the fence, so I make sure they are safe while I mow and that I remember to lock the gates back properly.

I like to give my customers personalized attention. I think that over time they start to just rely on me, and that's what I want. It makes me feel good to know that I'm helping them. While I do care about the health of the lawns, I care more about the happiness of the people. I balance their lawncare needs on the needs of the grass and the needs of their budgets.

Other services insist on mowing at a certain frequency, and if it's the customers' mowing day, they mow whether or not the grass is really tall enough or not. I don't do that. In fact, that is another way I personalize service. I will either text, call, or email the day before the customer would regularly have service, and ask if they want their lawn cut. If they say yes, then I let them know when I will be at their house. If not, then I will call again the next time their service day rolls around to ask again. I would never show up unexpected, and I would never ever cut a lawn that didn't need to be cut.

Now that I have a fully equipped lawn service, and about a dozen regular customers, I decided it was time to select a name and start growing. That's when I brought my wife into the company. She has a rich background in marketing and advertising, so I recruited her in July 2015. Since then, we officially became Martin's Mowing, and have so far earned a handful more customers that have all called me back for repeated services, and I could not be more grateful.

We mow in the Inglewood, Madison, East Nashville, Lakewood, Donelson, Tennessee areas and all areas in between. We also provide shrub pruning, herbicide application, fertilizer, and overseeding. We hope you will give us a try and let us personalize service for you too.