Yard maintenance

[Thomas Elijah III]

Concerning Single Family Home rental: Should I pay for maintenance or should tenant be responsible?

[Karyn T.]

I would say it depends on you, the house, the neighborhood, and your future plans in all of the above.  We are renting what was our primary residence.  We live(d) in a nice, gentrified, historic district where most homes have professional lawn service, and very well landscaped yards.  We know all of our neighbors & we hope to move back into the home sometime in the future...so we pay for yard care.  

If your rental is "just" an investment and you have no emotional attachment (like we do), I guess it would depend on the yard, and how much a full clean-up would be assuming the tenant did NO yardwork during their lease (worse care scenario).  Which would cost you more?  Weekly/biweekly/monthly yard work vs full-on yard restoration?