Sometimes asking tenant to rake leaves is too much

[Matthew Paul]

I have 2 properties side by side , sitting on a acre and a half . Large mature oaks around house and woods all around . These properties , its too much to have the tenant rake leaves .  

It use to take me and a guy 3 days to do 1 clean up . I had to do it twice .  Now 4 years ago I got estimates from landscapers to do the clean up and they wanted $3500 each time to clean and haul out .  ( way too much )  I knew there had to be an easier way .  I saw a tractor with a blower at a golf course and that was the ticket . I bought a tractor and found a blower on Marketplace . Have about $35K in the equipment . But it saves me time and money . Each of these piles was 3 hours work . Bonus is I use it at all of my properties . Plus I use it on jobsites .

These were 2 different days , a bit over a week apart .

Sometimes you have to spend money to save money . These were done by 1 man in 3 hours each time . Leaves were then piled in the woods to rot . 

[Mike Reynolds]

In Texas you dont have to rake much if you use a zero turn and a mulching blade. Go over it twice and it's done. Even our local state college does it that way and by spring it is fertilizer for the lawn. But you have to do it about three times a year and dont let it get too thick.