My tennants aren’t maintaining the lawn!

[Grant Hasting]

Looking for some landscape advice! My wife and I are in our first year of remotely managing our duplex. The previous owner of the duplex provided a mower for the rental and the tennants took care of the lawn. I looked into having the lawn professionally kept up, but that was going to be about $400 a month (Seattle area is expensive). Also got some quotes for landscaping to create less mowing and make our hillside lot easier to maintain, but those were $10k quotes!

We inherited one tennant and filled the other unit with a tenant and put in their leases that the lawn was the tennants responsibility as well as advertised the unit with this information. We drove by today and the grass was about 8 inches tall! How would you all handle this? Should I get a lawn mower for the tenants to use?

[Nicole Heasley Beitenman]

Send notice that they are in violation of the lease. Let them know what will happen if they don't remedy according to the terms of the lease.