Meet the 24-year-old law school dropout who started Long Islands only silent, self-driving lawn-mowing biz

Customers have no objections.A 24-year-old Georgetown Law dropout is all the buzz on Long Island as he commands the only local fleet of silent, self-driving lawnmowers that are revolutionizing the industry with their motion sensor capabilities.“We market them as a Roomba for your lawn,” Kevin Boodram, who started Huntington-based Serenity Lawncare at age 21, told The Post.“When we first told customers about them two years ago, I remember it like yesterday, they were extremely interested and hardly anyone was skeptical.”The futuristic device made by Husqvarna, which Boodram and his team leave at people’s homes and check in on weekly, also allows customers to cut their lawn at pre-set times.“It’s so quiet that some people will set it to cut their grass overnight because neighbors can’t even hear it,” he said.Admittedly, Boodram “had no interest in getting into the lawn care industry,” but was compelled when the noise from other landscapers working in his Floral Park neighborhood made it hard for him to do his law school studying.“Law school was the plan, but I got fed up with the gas lawn mowers making noise in my neighborhood while taking classes remotely.

I literally couldn’t concentrate because of it.”That was enough for Boodram to begin his grassroots business.And in just a few years, it has grown into 60 all-electric mowers — quieter than birds chirping and about the size of a car tire with no handlebars — that service about 80 customers on the North Shore of Suffolk County, all the way to Western Nassau.Serenity installs guidewires to curbs to keep it from going onto a driveway or street and implants a battery port on the lawn as well.Guidewires also lead the mower back to charge automatically when its battery is getting low.“It’s also extremely safe around children and animals,” Boodram added after sticking his hand below the $700 unit to show how it will automatically stop for obstacles.Boodram does have some traditiona...

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Publisher: New York Post

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