Lawncare and tenants

[Joshua Kohl]

Under contract on a duplex and it seems that the current owner does lawncare. Any ideas on how to push this onto tenant? No garage so no place to store lawn equipment. Increase rent and pay law service out of increased rent? Negotiate that seller purchase lawn equipment to leave with the property and a shed to house it? Since it is a duplex, would it be fair to make one tenant responsible for the entire yard or would you just split up the yards? Any other ideas would be appreciated.

[Nathan Gesner]

My preferred option would be to increase the rent slightly and then hire someone to handle it.