New Orleans, LA
LANDSCAPING / LAWN CARE ESTIMATING.

## Bidding Landscaping Work in New Orleans Is Not Like Bidding It Anywhere Else New Orleans sits at or below sea level across most of its footprint. That single fact shapes every landscaping scope you write. Drainage is never an afterthought — it is the job. Soil profiles shift from heavy clay in Lakeview to the sandy loam closer to the lakefront. Planting specs that work in Metairie may fail in the Lower Ninth. If your estimates treat every yard the same way, you are leaving money on the table or eating cost overruns. Estimate.Pro is built for the 25 trades — landscaping included — with a field-first workflow that accounts for this kind of regional complexity. ## What the 8-Minute Bid Actually Looks Like Here You walk a property on Prytania Street. You open Estimate.Pro, do a site walkthrough using AR measurement on your phone (ONNX-assisted on supported devices; camera/photo measurements are flagged as estimates), and answer the scope prompts the app surfaces: drainage correction, bed prep, sod type, irrigation zone count, hardscape linear footage. The AI scope-of-work engine turns your answers into a line-item draft in minutes. You adjust quantities, pull from your saved material cost workspace, and send a professional bid — all before you leave the driveway. The median time from walkthrough start to sendable bid is 8 minutes. ## Scopes That Come Up Constantly in New Orleans **Drainage and grading.** The city's low elevation and intense summer rainfall — New Orleans averages roughly 62 inches of precipitation per year, one of the highest totals in the continental U.S. — means clients call you after every major storm. Catch basin installation, French drain trenching, swale grading: these scopes need accurate linear footage and excavation depth calculations. Estimate.Pro prompts you through each variable so nothing falls out of the bid. **Sod and turf.** St. Augustine and Zoysia dominate residential installs here because they tolerate heat, humidity, and partial shade from the city's mature tree canopy. Your material cost workspace stores your current per-pallet pricing from local suppliers so you are not re-entering numbers every job. **Tree work adjacent to hardscape.** Live oak roots in the Garden District buckle sidewalks and driveways. When a landscaping scope touches hardscape repair, Estimate.Pro supports both trades under the same estimate — you can line-item concrete work alongside planting without switching apps. **Irrigation.** The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans regulates water service connections, and irrigation taps require coordination with S&WB for meter sizing on larger commercial properties. Your bid needs to account for permit timelines. The app's scope prompts flag permit-adjacent line items so you remember to price them. **Post-storm cleanup.** Hurricane season runs June through November. Debris removal, stump grinding, and replanting scopes spike after named storms. Volume bidding tools in Estimate.Pro let you duplicate and adjust a base scope across multiple addresses quickly. ## Licensing and Permits in New Orleans Louisiana requires a Horticulture license through the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry for businesses applying pesticides commercially. Landscaping contractors doing hardscape, irrigation, or grading work that involves plumbing or structural elements may also need a Louisiana State Contractor's License — the threshold is $75,000 for work requiring a license, but parish-level requirements can be stricter. The City of New Orleans requires a Home Improvement Contractor registration for residential work. Estimate.Pro does not file permits for you, but the scope-of-work output gives you the line-item detail your permit applications need. ## Pricing Tiers — Pick What Fits Your Operation Estimate.Pro runs on a free-forever tier with no credit card required. When your volume grows: - **Pro** — $39 per seat per month. Full estimating workflow, saved cost workspaces, AR measurement. - **Elite** — $79 per seat per month. Adds Stripe Connect invoicing and invoice exports. Platform fee on payments drops to 0% (Free tier runs 3% via Stripe Connect). - **Crew** — $399 per month flat. Covers your whole crew, no per-seat math. If you are running three estimators during peak season — March through June in New Orleans, when spring cleanups and irrigation startups stack up — the Crew tier costs less than three Pro seats. ## Start Without Committing Anything Create a free account, run a real estimate on your next New Orleans job, and see the draft before you decide whether Pro is worth it. No credit card, no trial clock.