When featured in Walker Talk, Volume 18, Joe and Tracy Martoccia, owners of Top Job Landscaping in Scottsdale, Arizona, had four full-time employees, none of which were family members. More than 15 years later, it’s Joe, Tracy, son Johnathen and daughter Santina who do the work. The company doesn’t mow 300-plus yards like it did back then, Joe explained. His business model is fewer customers, but better customers.

It’s been more than four years since Cutzgras appeared in Walker Talk, Volume 41. The family-owned business has a nice niche in Port Charlotte, Florida, and Pat, Mark and Dennis Jontos have no desire to shake it up. To the contrary, it’s steady as they go.

Howard Jensen has a long relationship with Walker Mowers. He purchased his first one in 1990 and was a dealer for more than 25 years. “Walker Manufacturing is virtually the same company now that it was when I purchased my mower,” he related. “Even the younger generation there holds the same values that have successfully driven it for years.”

In 1998, Breeze Landscaping in Calgary, a city in Alberta, Canada, maintained 65 commercial properties. The family-run company had been in business since 1984, with Laura and Rex Breeze and son Fred doing most of the work. Nearly 20 years later, the makeup hasn’t changed dramatically.

David Bartlett doesn’t look 17, not at all. In fact, residents of the 65 weekly properties he maintains think he’s north of 21. That works to his advantage, but appearance isn’t the only thing that misdirects customers. Bartlett’s equipment, personality and dedication all point to an individual who is much older and wiser than his age.

Maine contractor Booth Hemingway built a great company over the past 37 years—so great that a group of investors just bought it.