Kansas influencer SB Mowing raises over $750K for elderly homeowner who faced fine from city for overgrown lawn

A Kansas influencer raised over $793,000 to save a disabled elderly woman who faced a hefty fine from her town for failing to trim her overgrown yard.Spencer, a content creator known for his landscaping business SB Mowing, said he met homeowner Beth last summer when a town official familiar with his social media videos contacted him and asked if he could help fix her lawn.He was warned that Beth, who uses a cane to move around her property, needed to trim the yard or pay $240 for the town, which was not revealed in the video, to cut it for her.‘I’ve spent a month trying to get someone to come mow,” Beth said in a video uploaded on Jan.10.

“They won’t answer their phones.”Beth revealed that the town officials had implemented a date for when she was required to have the yard cut before she faced the financial loss.Spencer described the lawn that surrounded Beth’s small white house as unkept and was “getting crazy.”“I can get that taken care of for ya,” Spencer assured her, offering his landscaping service at no cost.“I can’t believe it that’s great,” Beth replied.Spencer transformed her lawn by clearing grass from the driveway cracks, trimming the bushes, removing trees and mowing very tall grass.“I cried on and off just listening to your machine,” Beth told Spencer after the big reveal.Spencer added that he was happy to help Beth as she became emotional over the gesture.“Your work makes me twinkle so I really appreciate you.

I can’t tell you how much.No one’s been happy to help me,” she added.On top of the lawn issues, Spencer then noticed the home needed improvements to accommodate Beth, who was “in desperate need of help.”Spencer launched a GoFundMe when he noticed how Beth’s old stairs posed an issue for her to walk on and that the driveway cracks could cause her to fall.

The small business owner raised over a half million dollars within a day to help her “gain accessibility and comfort” on other parts of her ...