Landscaping - What would you do?

[Whitney Breedlove]

I would like to turn my primary residence as a rental property in the next couple of years but it has pretty extravagant landscaping. I do not want to pay to maintain the landscaping as it is thousands of dollars a year (plus the hassle of having to manage paying the yard guy), but I also don't want our tenants to let it get completely overgrown and be an eyesore for our neighbors (and then I'd have to pay anyway to have it cleaned up when they move.) I've thought about ripping everything out and just doing bare minimal landscaping but this would probably cost in the ballpark of $10k due to the labor, and then when I go to sell it one day, it wouldn't have the same curb appeal. Seems like there's no way to win here! What do yall do with your rental properties when it comes to landscaping?