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There will probably be a demand but you'll also very likely have trouble getting clients who'll pay much over the BG minimum wage (or even less), which is currently 6.5 leva/hour. Realistically, for a day's work - and supplying your own tools - you can ask around 100 leva, as that's what most village folk would jump at. If you're okay with that kind of money - or can find foreigners who'd pay more - then you're probably in business.

The North-Eastern region consists of 4 districts: Varna, Dobrich, Turgovishte and Shoumen. It has 30 towns and 689 villages with an Area Size of 19923.4km虏.

I guess it could work if you did your homework and knew where to get the word out and knew where the demand was.

Jim's estimate of a viable cost is about right, though you may be able to charge more to a non-local who will find it easier to deal with an English-speaker.聽

You probably want to check who is already offering such a service. There's a Brit based in Dobrich who posts in the Facebook groups, acting as an agent selling ex-expat properties and also offering property maintenance. No idea what he charges. Our "spare" block of land had become a jungle, a bit too much for me to stay on top of when I only have a week at a time to work renovating the house and keeping the main house garden weed-free. I was desperate enough to be willing to pay Brit prices, and he never got back to me!

Since then I found a local who would do the most important part of it for me. Our neighbour said to pay him 50 leva, but when I went to pay him he said it was too much and he'd only accept 25 leva. (Our village is blessed with some very honest people!) We agreed he'd do it again the following month to make up the 50 leva.

But many Brit property owners won't have such helpful neighbours or be able to arrange it themselves in Bulgarian, so there should be a market. I think the main challenge could be getting the service known. It's probably not actual expats living in Bg who would be the main customers but those who own a house but don't live in it. There are a couple of beautifully renovated foreign-owned houses in my village that never get visited and the gardens are overgrown. Or the people who have a house but only come over for a few weeks a year and don't want to spend all that time weed-whacking. Those are probably your target audience, who'd pay for someone to go in monthly to keep the weeds down and make sure no windows have broken or tiles slipped.

But I'm not sure how one would promote the service to that group. They might be lurking on forums like this one or the FB groups. Local agents selling houses and mainly targeting the Brit market may be willing to promote the service for a reasonable fee. The Bulgarian language FB groups might be a place to promote, too, as that's where I'd look for local services.

It's potentially a viable business, especially along the coast and in Varna region. Probably less so in the more rural areas where the less-wealthy expats (like us!) buy. But it depends on the demand for the service, the competition, and how you can promote it.

The North-Eastern region consists of 4 districts: Varna, Dobrich, Turgovishte and Shoumen. It has 30 towns and 689 villages with an Area Size of 19923.4km虏.
I guess it could work if you did your homework and knew where to get the word out and knew where the demand was. - @SimCityAT

Plus the municipalities of Razgrad, Ruse Veliko Tarnavo and Silistra

Realistically, there's always someone in all but the tiniest of villages who's happy to take care of your land. We pay a guy in our village to keep ours under control since our house there is no longer occupied and our various health issues have prevented us from doing it ourselves. We visit very occasionally, and with no notice, and the garden has always been immaculate. I don't recall what we pay him but it's not a lot..

Some folks here seem to be blessed with an abundance of charm and persuasion, and can get Bulgarians to work for them for 25 leva. It's theoretically possible, especially as the official minimum wage is still less than 4 euros (8 lv) per hour.

However, I doubt it's common or easy. Bulgaria is increasingly expensive, especially after the Euro introduction. I've seen dramatic increases in my car expenses for its annual service and recharging the AC, which I'm sure is partly labour-related. And when I go to Kaufland or Lidl for a grocery shop, I rarely get out with a bill less than 100 euros. That's 25 hours @ minimum wage and I doubt there are many folks who would feel that work-to-reward ratio is particularly motivating.

Obviously, there are some Bulgarians who still work for the minimum wage, but this is a poverty-level salary... and there's a massive difference between earning this in a steady job for 40 hrs/week and doing it for odd-jobs for a couple of hours.

Our village house has some lovely neighbours, and many are pensioners. Bulgarian pensions are, generally, pretty terrible... and most all of them would love some extra cash. However, good luck finding an elderly Bulgarian pensioner who's still robust enough to look after YOUR garden as well as their own.

I don't think it's easy to track down impoverished working-age Bulgarians or desperate pensioners who live near you and want to help out a rich foreigner for peanuts. Not impossible, but probably needs a good dose of good luck (and charm/powers of persuasion). And enterprising Bulgarians who are offering service X will have a totally different pay scale.

We have a regular cleaner in our Plovdiv apartment and she gets 40 euros for a morning (and I pay for the cleaning materials). At the village house, I found several gardeners in the service section of OLX recently. I sent a bunch of messages and most were too busy to fit me in. My garden was very overgrown as we had been staying in my Plovdiv the last years looking after my dad, so there was a huge amount of work to do. It took him and his helper 3 days to clear it all (roughly 4 hours per day), and that cost me 500 euros (gardener had van, tools, cutters and fuel). Probably for a maintenance strimmer session of the whole garden (by one person only) he'd charge 100 euros (or 25-30 euros per hour equivalent).

Prices have risen, quite a lot! 25 leva was what the guy who did some weed cutting聽 a few times for me last year asked for.

Last month I paid someone different to cut down the jungle of weeds alongside our house that had grown up since it was last cut in spring. Same job last year's guy asked 25 leva for.

The price this year was 40 EUR. I was a little surprised at that (I thought 30 EURO) as he wouldn't have been working anywhere near two hours. But he did a far better job, and if he's willing I'd gladly pay to have him come back to maintain that area regularly.

Definitely a case of "you get what you pay for".