Why is professional lawn care so expensive now?

“I do everything myself. I cannot afford lawn care professionals.”source ↗

“Lawn service prices in my area have gone up a lot this year, so I started to rethink what I need help with.”source ↗

“Paying for lawn care has frankly become a luxury and the guys doing it for $35 tend to do a terrible job.”source ↗

“Hired a local lawn company to aerate my lawn since I couldn’t do it myself. We texted about it so everything is in writing. I specifically said I just wanted aeration so that I could overseed and fertilize myself. Get handed the bill when he’s done and it shows charges for fert+seed.”source ↗

“so my question is, knowing he seeded with “fescue” (that’s all he said it was when I asked him what the seed was, not sure if that’s common or what since this is new to me) should I still plan on doing my own overseeding and top dressing tomorrow? Is there something I should do to try to clear the seed he laid down?”source ↗

“I’m not super pressed over it, I’m sure it’ll be fine and i can save the my seed for next season, but would still like to ‘optimize’ my lawn as much as possible now so that it’s healthier and fuller in the spring.”source ↗

“Need some advice if I should ditch TruGreen, I know most in the forum would tell me I should. My lawn has essentially been 80% weeds, and has gotten worse every year.”source ↗

“Initially I was going to have TruGreen aerate and overseed but they decided not to show up on the day i scheduled... They decided to randomly show up today (a week after I scheduled ) and I told them to go. Whole thing has left a bitter taste in my mouth.”source ↗

“what is going on with my lawn? I hired a company last spring to fix my lawn, then hired a different one this spring….”source ↗

“this looks like no grass or dead grass even though I’ve kept to their suggested watering schedules.”source ↗

“Both front and back lawns were covered with this weed + weeds of other varieties.”source ↗

“We finally reached out to the company explaining that these weeds have not gone away, and if anything have exponentially grown since hiring them.”source ↗

“I guess I wasn't sure if "too much" grass seed would be a net negative overall because of too much competition or something?”source ↗

“I’ve wasted thousands before deciding to learn to do things myself. I’ve gone through 3 different subscription services like this over the years and one local smaller company, none of them killed any weeds, they’re in and out as fast as they can and might as well be spraying water”source ↗

“I hired TG specifically for crabgrass, but also obviously to make my lawn healthier overall. That summer was the worst my lawn had ever looked, and had crabgrass all over.”source ↗

“1k to overseed is crazy steep.”source ↗

“They are fleecing you on the price.”source ↗

“1k for that is very expensive, you could do it yourself in an afternoon”source ↗

“That seems crazy expensive to me for only 1500 square feet.”source ↗

“I had another quote for 3500 which seemed insane.”source ↗

“I got a quote recently from landscaping company to install 9 sprinklers and irrigation system around the yard and to do the top soil and grass only for $75,000 now I started to rethink if I actually should do it or not.”source ↗

“I wanted to ask for opinions here should I get second opinions from different companies or is this the real pricing for such job.”source ↗

“Please help me out as I'm a first time home owner and lost.”source ↗