Ryan Lingenfelter 
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I run a lawn care company. I have service agreements with my customers. So when I tell you what lawn care companies don’t tell homeowners about annual contracts — I want to be clear that I’m including myself in that conversation. … Read more
I have a version of this conversation regularly enough that I want to write it down properly, because I think the honest version is more useful than what people usually find when they search for help with this situation. It typically starts the same way. Someone calls — sometimes it’s the homeowner directly, sometimes it’s … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’ve been working in both Capreol and Garson long enough to notice a pattern that surprised me when I first picked up on it. Drive through Capreol in late July and the residential lawns hold their … Read more
I’ve worked on a fair number of rental properties across Greater Sudbury over the past five years — single-family rentals, duplexes, a handful of small multi-unit buildings. And across nearly all of them, I see the same pattern repeat itself with enough consistency that I want to lay it out plainly for any landlord reading … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 Every year around the third week of July I start getting calls. The lawn is going brown. The grass looks pale and stressed. A neighbour’s lawn looks fine but theirs doesn’t. What’s happening? And every year, … Read more
Three days into the job, my phone rang. It was the homeowner in Lively, and I could hear the concern in her voice before she even finished the sentence. “It looks worse than before you guys even started. Is this normal?” I told her yes — and that if I’d known she’d be standing in … Read more
“I want to be upfront with you. I don’t trust lawn care companies anymore, and I’m only calling you because my neighbour basically made me.” That’s how my first conversation with Linda started. She lives in Capreol, and a neighbour who’d had work done by Cutting Edge had given Linda my number directly, more or … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Every spring I get a specific kind of call that I’ve come to recognize immediately. The homeowner isn’t calling because they want to start something new. They’re calling because something went wrong with the company they hired last season — or … Read more
There’s a step in how I run this business that doesn’t show up on any invoice and that I’ve never charged anyone for. Two weeks after every new client’s first job — whether it’s a simple cut, a full sod installation, or an aeration and overseeding visit — I call them. Not a text. Not … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. She asked me the question while we were walking the back section of her property in Val Caron. We’d been out there for about fifteen minutes. I’d done the screwdriver test, checked the drainage in the low corner, looked at the … Read more