you mean to tell me that if you want to help an elderly neighbor it will cost the snow shoveler money to help others out. Where is this happening. I live in a snowbelt area og Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. I have beeen helping my elderly neighbors for years at no cost. One neighbor is just sick with the cost of her medications, she wants to contribute to the cost of snow removal, but instead she has to pay her for her medications. I just say that is okay. But it is getting expensive to do the snow removal too. The equipment does not come cheap - a zero turn with a snowblower attachment is not a cheap machine. A salt spreader is not cheap either. I may just stop helping others soon as it is costing money too.
It was the act of going door to door to “advertise” their services that required a permit, cost $450. If they would have just shoveled her sidewalk without knocking on her door... no one would have been wiser.