Commercial

Associations and managed properties

The marketplace is built for single properties booked one job at a time. A twelve unit association with a snow trigger and a mowing schedule is a different thing: it wants one contract, one invoice, agreed response times and somebody answerable when it snows at two in the morning.

That work is held directly by NMS Limited rather than bid out, so it is not something you can set up in the app. Tell us about the property and we will come back to you.

Projects and restoration

Regrading a churned verge, replacing a failed strip of turf, clearing a bed that has gone to seed. Work like this is quoted in stages rather than as one number, because what is under the surface changes what it takes. Use the same form below and say what the property looks like now.

What a contract usually covers

  • A seasonal price rather than a per visit one, so budgeting is possible
  • An agreed snow trigger depth and a response window from the end of the event
  • Named contacts on both sides, and one invoice rather than many
  • Certificate of insurance naming the association or manager as needed
  • Documented visits, so a board has something to point at

We take contracted work wherever we have operators who can cover it properly. If a property is somewhere we cannot yet staff, we will say so plainly rather than take it on and stretch.

Already plowing commercially? Come and work with us

If you run trucks and already hold commercial accounts, the paragraph above is the opportunity: contracted association and managed property work is held by NMS Limited, and we need operators who can actually service it. That is different from the residential marketplace, where anyone with a mower can quote a single lawn.

What commercial work asks that residential does not

  • Current commercial general liability insurance, verified. On residential jobs coverage is optional and simply disclosed on the quote. For contracted commercial work it is a hard requirement, and we check it is in date before you are eligible.
  • A certificate naming the association or manager where the contract calls for one.
  • Turning out on the trigger, not when convenient. A snow contract specifies a depth and a response window from the end of the event. Two in the morning is the job.
  • Capacity for the whole property, including walks and entrances, not just the lot.

The rest is the same as any operator: verified identity, a bank account that can receive deposits, and any license your state requires for what you offer. You keep your own equipment, your own business and your own other clients.

Apply the same way everyone does and tell us in the application what you already run and where. Say plainly that you are a commercial contractor, because it changes which work we can put in front of you.

Apply to operate

Insurance status is shown to the customer on every quote, residential or commercial. Carrying it is a way to win work, not just a box we make you tick.

Tell us about the property

Nothing here commits you to anything. We will read it and reply, usually the same day.

Prefer to talk? (888) 339-7669, or email info@nomowsnow.com. The form is usually faster, because it reaches the same inbox with the property details already attached.

Snow and ice

The trigger depth is the single biggest driver of what a season costs. A one inch trigger can mean three times the visits of a three inch one in the same winter.

Many municipalities make the property responsible for the public sidewalk within a set number of hours. Worth confirming who carries that.

Tick everything on the property. These are the things that get missed, and they are where the claims come from: a set of steps nobody was asked to clear is a fall, not an oversight.

Walk-up buildings with wooden rear porches are the slowest work on any site and the easiest to underprice. Every landing and every flight is cleared by hand, and it has to be done on each floor before the one below is useful.

A gangway is often too narrow for a machine, so it is a shovel the whole length. Say so now rather than on the first storm.

Where the alley meets your pavement is usually where the plow leaves a ridge, and it is the thing residents hit first.

Stairs are cleared by hand and take longer per square foot than anything else on a site, so the count changes the price more than the acreage does.

Rock salt stops working near 15°F and is hard on new concrete and on paws. Worth deciding rather than defaulting.

Freezing rain and refreeze cause more slip claims than snowfall does, and they arrive on days with nothing to plow.

Seasonal moves the risk of a hard winter to us and makes your budget predictable. Per event is cheaper in a mild year and open ended in a bad one.

Lawn and grounds
Who is on site

If different from you. At four in the morning during a storm, this is the person a crew calls about a blocked lane or a locked gate.

Goes to info@nomowsnow.com. We do not add commercial contacts to any mailing list.