Tampa, FL
LANDSCAPING / LAWN CARE ESTIMATING.

## Bidding landscaping work in Tampa moves fast — your estimates should too Tampa's year-round growing season means you're bidding jobs in January the same way you are in July. Residential density in neighborhoods like South Tampa, Westchase, and New Tampa keeps call volume high. HOA-governed communities — and there are hundreds of them in Hillsborough County — expect polished, itemized proposals, not handwritten quotes photographed on a phone. Estimate.Pro gets you from a site walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. That's the median time our landscapers hit. Not a marketing target — a measured result. --- ## What makes landscaping estimating different in Tampa **Irrigation is almost always in scope.** Tampa's sandy soils drain fast and summer heat pushes evapotranspiration rates high. Most residential installs or refreshes include drip or rotary head irrigation. Estimate.Pro carries material line items for PVC lateral lines, heads, controllers, and backflow preventers so you're not building that from scratch on every bid. **Sod, not seed.** Bahia and St. Augustine are the dominant turf species across the metro. Sod pricing — material and install — is a core input in Estimate.Pro's saved material cost workspace. You set your supplier cost, lock your margin, and the unit pricing carries across every job automatically. **Mulch and bed prep volume is high.** Florida-friendly landscaping ordinances in Hillsborough County push contractors toward organic mulch beds and native plantings as water-wise alternatives to turf. Estimate.Pro line-items mulch by cubic yard with your landed cost baked in. **HOA submittal packages.** Many Tampa HOAs require a written scope with plant species, quantities, and placement before approving exterior changes. The AI scope-of-work generator in Estimate.Pro produces a structured, readable scope you can attach directly to a submittal — no rewriting a bid into a different document format. **Stormwater and grading work.** Low-lying areas around Tampa Bay mean drainage and grading add-ons are common upsells. Estimate.Pro supports line items for grading, swale shaping, and French drain installs so you can include them cleanly on the same estimate rather than writing a separate contract. --- ## How the app works for Tampa landscapers 1. **Walk the property.** Use AR measurement on supported devices to capture bed dimensions, lawn area, and hardscape boundaries in the field. Camera and photo measurements are marked as estimates so your client knows what's verified versus approximated. 2. **Let AI draft the scope.** Estimate.Pro reads your walkthrough inputs and generates a line-by-line scope of work — turf removal, bed prep, plant install, mulch, irrigation, cleanup — in plain language a homeowner or HOA board can read. 3. **Price against your saved costs.** Your Bahia sod price from your supplier, your mulch cost per yard, your irrigation head cost — all stored in your workspace. The estimate prices itself. 4. **Send it.** Share a professional PDF or a client-facing link. Collect a deposit through Stripe Connect (0% platform fee on Pro+ plans). --- ## Pricing that makes sense for a one-crew operation or a 10-crew company Estimate.Pro runs on a free-forever tier with no credit card required. When you're ready for Stripe Connect invoicing and export workflows, Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month. Running a larger crew operation? The Crew plan is $399 flat per month regardless of seat count. On Free, Stripe Connect payments carry a 3% platform fee. On Pro and above, that fee is 0%. --- ## Tampa-specific codes and references landscapers work against Hillsborough County enforces a **Landscape and Irrigation Code** that sets minimum tree canopy coverage for new residential installs and buffers for right-of-way plantings. City of Tampa's **Water Restrictions Ordinance** limits irrigation days by property type — twice-weekly for most residential — which directly affects what controller programming you spec and how you explain it to clients. For jobs touching impervious surface or grading within a flood zone (AE and AH zones cover significant portions of Hillsborough County), work may trigger a **Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission** review. Know this before you bid a drainage job as a simple add-on. --- Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Landscaping is one of them, built with the line items, calculators, and scope language that match how Tampa landscapers actually work — not a generic template retrofitted to fit.