For operators: Merrill Gardens appears to have a community in Woodstock, GA I haven't worked with them but you could reach out.

It has a college-like feel to it with restaurants and a nightlife- I would check out Peddler's Daughter, Martha's Exchange, or even The Garden on a Saturday night.

Probably not the first choice for most, but they are based in OH, so at least understand the local landscape.

Current owner of the lot is offering to pay for moving the tank but not the landscaping (it would make a mess to move the tank).

                     $220 Vacancy/minor repairs/maintenance                    $220 a month for water/sewer/trash/landscape/snow (actual should be way less)                     $1000 debt serviceNET loss of $160 a month      The cash flow is terrible of course, but that is mainly from the outsized taxes which was from what I can tell from tax records an extra school levy, total taxes for 2016 were  $2341 on same valuation.

Hi, I'm looking for a gardener to take care of the yard for a rental property.

We can also understand a div stock will not need a roof or have any ongoing turnover costs, vacancies, evictions, vandalism, code violations, insurance claims, sewer lines, landscaping blah, blah blah.Fortunately we can compare 5 years div stocks to 5 years random sfr returns and your friends blog conclusions are not debatable.

@Aaron PetersonI moved your thread to the landlords forum.Snow removal ... it will be here before you know it ... .I've already put our RFQ as we were not happy with our service in one city last winter.In our experience, when it comes to landscaping/lawncare and snow removal, anytime you cannot define where one tenant's domain ends and another begins, the obligation falls to the landlord.If you have a side-by-side duplex or a row of townhouses where each tenant has their own drive and patch of green, you can hand-off snow removal and lawn care to the tenant ... though you are just as often better served to take care of it yourself and bake it into the rent.Anytime you have stacked units or a block (such as a small purposely built quadruplex), the parking and green space are common areas (just like stairwells in the interior) and fall to the landlord.

You can get a handyman to give you a estimate for the inside repairs and a landscaper to give you estimate for the yard.  

This was also during the crash so the landscape was very different.