Los Angeles, CA
LANDSCAPING / LAWN CARE ESTIMATING.

## Bid Landscaping Work in Los Angeles Without Losing Hours to a Spreadsheet Los Angeles is one of the most active landscaping markets in the country. Year-round install work, drought-retrofit mandates, HOA maintenance contracts, and high-end residential design projects run simultaneously across the basin. That volume is good for business. It also means you are pricing jobs constantly, and slow estimates cost you contracts. Estimate.Pro is built to take you from a site walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. That is the median time for active users across all 25 supported trades. --- ### What Makes Landscaping Estimating Different in Los Angeles **MWELO compliance changes your material spec.** California's Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance applies to new and rehabilitated projects over 500 sq ft in most LA jurisdictions. Your bids need to reflect compliant plant palettes, ET-based irrigation controllers, and soil amendment requirements. When you build your material cost workspace in Estimate.Pro, you can save drought-tolerant plant pricing and drip-system hardware separately from your standard turf installs so you are not repricing from scratch on every MWELO job. **Tiered water rates affect maintenance pricing.** LA DWP operates tiered pricing, and commercial and residential clients alike ask landscapers to keep water budgets in check. If you maintain irrigated turf or ornamental beds, your maintenance bids need to account for irrigation audit time and controller programming. Estimate.Pro lets you build line items for those services and save them to reusable templates. **Hardscape volume is high here.** Concrete pavers, decomposed granite, permeable paving, and outdoor kitchen slabs are standard scope on LA residential projects. Hardscape quantities pull from the same AR measurement workflow as your planting areas. On supported devices, the ONNX-assisted live AR tool measures surface areas in the field. On any device, photo measurements give you a calibrated estimate marked clearly as an estimate so clients know the basis. **Fire-resistant planting is now a bid category.** Properties in Wildland-Urban Interface zones — significant acreage across the Santa Monica Mountains, Verdugo Hills, and the Angeles National Forest edge — require defensible space plantings that comply with CAL FIRE guidelines. You can tag line items by zone type and build a separate fire-hardening template without rebuilding the estimate from scratch each time. --- ### Calculators and Tools That Matter for LA Landscapers - **Area takeoff from photo or AR.** Walk a backyard, capture measurements, and pull square footage into your scope without a tape measure or a return trip. - **Material cost workspace.** Save your current pricing from SiteOne, Ewing, or your local nursery. Prices in Southern California shift seasonally; update once, and all templates that reference that material reprice automatically. - **Scope-of-work generation.** The AI scope builder turns your walkthrough notes into a structured, line-item scope. You review and adjust. The client gets a professional document, not a handwritten quote on a business card. - **Stripe Connect invoicing.** On Pro+ and Elite tiers, you collect deposits and progress payments through Stripe Connect with a 0% platform fee. On the Free tier the fee is 3%. Either way, you are not chasing checks. - **Multi-crew job packaging.** The Crew plan at $399/month flat covers your whole operation. If you run a maintenance crew and a separate install crew, both work from the same account and the same price book. --- ### Pricing That Fits Where You Are in the Business | Plan | Cost | Platform Fee | |------|------|--------------| | Free | $0, no credit card | 3% on payments | | Pro | $39/seat/month | 0% | | Elite | $79/seat/month | 0% | | Crew | $399/month flat | 0% | The Free tier is a real working tool, not a demo. You can send bids and collect payments before you spend a dollar. --- ### Getting Started Create your free account, walk your next job, and send the bid. If it takes you longer than 8 minutes to produce a scope-level estimate, you will see exactly where the time went and what to adjust. Most landscapers on the platform have their first template built within the first job. Los Angeles work does not slow down. Your estimating process should not slow you down either.