Plenty of places north of the Merritt could be a half day job, but those aren't the places worried about leaf blower noise either, I guess.

I had a lawn business years ago in the DC area, and it's really tough to make decent money without scale. Had one good cash cow: with three guys, I'd do 44 lawns every other Thursday. Slumlord owned about 3 consecutive blocks of Section 8 duplexes in a rough part of town. Small, flat, identical lawns with no landscaping or fences, and all in a row, it took about nine and a half hours of pure hustle and paid $1400. God bless that dirtbag.