Commercial Grounds & Property Services

The grounds vendor that shows up — and proves it.

Prime Common Grounds handles grounds maintenance, cleanouts, and turnover make-ready for HOAs, apartment communities, and commercial properties across St. Johns County. Every visit is dated, documented, and photographed, so you never have to drive out to check.

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Photo-documented visitsA dated service report after every scheduled visit
One point of contactYou call the owner, not a dispatch queue
Vendor-packet readyW-9 and Certificate of Insurance before day one
Why we started

You've already fired a landscaper this year.

Read the resident reviews for almost any managed community in St. Johns County and the same complaints repeat — not about price, but about reliability.

"The crew skipped two weeks and nobody could tell us why."
"Common areas look nothing like they did when we signed."
"I have to walk the property myself to know if they came."

Grounds work isn't hard. Showing up on the same day, every week, and being able to prove it — that's the part vendors fail at. That's the part we built this company around.

What we do

Three services, priced separately, quoted in writing.

Take one or take all three. Recurring grounds contracts and on-call cleanout work are billed independently — you're never bundled into scope you didn't ask for.

Grounds Maintenance

Recurring contract service for common areas, frontage, and amenity spaces — on a fixed schedule you can hand to your board.

  • Mow, edge, line-trim, and blow down hardscape
  • Shrub and hedge trimming on a rotation
  • Bed weeding, mulch install, and refresh
  • Fertilization and weed-control programs
  • Amenity areas: pool decks, dog runs, mail kiosks, walking paths
  • Storm and seasonal cleanup

Cleanouts & Hauling

Load-and-haul for the jobs that pile up between tenants, after a lien, or before a listing goes live.

  • Apartment and condo turnover cleanouts
  • Storage-unit lien cleanouts
  • Estate and pre-listing cleanouts
  • Construction and renovation debris
  • Bulk trash, furniture, and appliance removal
  • Overgrowth clearing and brush haul-off

Turnover & Make-Ready

The fast-turn work that decides whether a unit is rentable this week or next month.

  • Post-removal deep clean
  • Patio, balcony, and breezeway detail
  • Pressure washing on request
  • Exterior touch-up before photos and showings
  • Same-week scheduling for occupied-to-vacant turns
Who we work with

Built for the people who answer to a board.

Our work is scoped, scheduled, and documented for property professionals — not homeowners. If you have to justify a vendor invoice to somebody else, we're built for you.

HOA & CAM Firms

Full common-area contracts with the visit documentation your board meeting needs.

Apartment Communities

Grounds contracts plus on-call turnover cleanouts from a single vendor.

Self-Managed HOAs

Direct to the on-site manager — no procurement layer, no runaround.

Rental & Vacation PMs

Scattered-site small-lot mowing and fast turnover cleanouts.

Senior Living Communities

Campus grounds, walking paths, and steady resident move-out cleanouts.

Self-Storage Facilities

Lien-unit cleanouts, plus grounds and fence-line upkeep.

Realtors & Brokerages

Pre-listing cleanouts and curb-appeal cuts before the photographer arrives.

Commercial & Retail

Strip centers, medical offices, and office parks — frontage, islands, and beds.

The difference

We document the work, so you don't have to inspect it.

Most grounds vendors give you an invoice and expect you to take their word for it. We send a dated service report with photos after every scheduled visit — the same standard used for equipment maintenance in industrial plants, applied to property grounds.

  • A fixed service dayYour property is on a set day of the week. If weather moves it, you hear from us before you notice.
  • Photo-verified visit reportsDated before-and-after photos of the areas that matter, emailed after the visit. Forward it straight to your board.
  • A written scope, not a handshakeEvery line of work is spelled out in the proposal. No surprise add-ons, no quiet reductions in service.
  • You call the ownerOne number, one person, same-day response. No dispatch queue, no rotating crew leads.
  • Vendor paperwork ready to goW-9, Certificate of Insurance, and Florida LLC documentation delivered before the first service date.
  • Priced by the property, not by the guessWe walk the site and measure it before we quote it. That's why the number holds.
Sample visit report

Common Area — Weekly Service

Example format · Emailed to the property contact after each visit

  • Turf mowed & edgedComplete
  • Hardscape blown downComplete
  • Entry beds weededComplete
  • Pool deck perimeterComplete
  • Dog run & path edgesComplete
  • Photos attached6
  • Flagged for follow-upIrrigation head, zone 4

Illustrative example of our reporting format. Issues we spot but don't cover — irrigation, lighting, fence damage — get flagged to you in writing rather than ignored.

How it starts

From first call to first service date.

No pressure, no long sales cycle. Most properties go from walkthrough to a signed scope in about a week.

Walk the property

We meet you on site, measure the turf and bed areas, and note the amenity spaces that eat labor hours.

Written proposal

A line-by-line scope with a monthly number for recurring work and separate pricing for anything one-time.

Vendor packet

W-9, Certificate of Insurance, and LLC documentation to your CAM or corporate office for approval.

Scheduled service

You get a fixed service day and a documented report after every visit — starting with the very first one.

Getting bids for the next contract year?

We'll walk the property and put a number in writing — no charge, no obligation.

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Where we work

St. Johns County and the surrounding First Coast.

We keep our routes tight on purpose. A short drive between properties is what makes a fixed service day possible — and it's why we'd rather serve one county well than three counties badly.

  • St. Augustine
  • St. Augustine Beach
  • Anastasia Island
  • Vilano Beach
  • World Golf Village
  • Silverleaf
  • St. Johns (32259)
  • Julington Creek
  • Nocatee
  • Ponte Vedra Beach
  • Palm Valley
  • Elkton & Hastings
Outside the list?

Ask anyway.

Larger contracts and multi-property portfolios travel further.

If you manage several properties across the First Coast, or you have a single large campus just outside our core area, send it over. Route economics change when the work is concentrated — a portfolio in south Duval or north Flagler may still pencil out.

Request a bid

Tell us about the property.

Fill this out and we'll follow up to schedule a walkthrough — usually the same business day. Prefer to talk first? Call or email directly.

Phone

(904) 377-6494

Calls and texts answered by the owner.

Business

Prime Common Grounds, LLC
A Florida limited liability company
St. Augustine, FL
Serving St. Johns County & the First Coast

For CAMs & procurement

Need our vendor packet — W-9, Certificate of Insurance, and LLC documentation — before you can add us to a bid list? Ask and we'll send it over the same day.

This opens your email program with the details filled in — nothing is sent until you hit send there. You can also email mcgowan@primecommongrounds.com directly.