The lease agreement says: "Tenants are responsible for proper yard maintenance and upkeep including but not limited to mowing, watering, cleaning gutters, raking, and shoveling of sidewalks".Are there any Colorado Springs or state of Colorado laws that would prevent an owner of a home from requiring the tenant purchases their own equipment?  

Have you researched how long it takes and how much it costs to turn a piece of raw-land into a shovel-ready project?  

When my tenants did it, they never edge, so the grass on the end grows sideway, sometimes to a foot long.All the neighbors on the block, and in the area generally have well manicured lawns, properly edged, and I was the only one with an unkempt lawn, even after tenant mowing.Some other benefits having a landscaper for an SFR if the vacancy occurs in winter, like two winters ago when it was vacant, my wife and I were both sick, they come and shovel the snow.

A lot of the work they give you is basic grunt work (loading/unloading, moving stuff around, shoveling, etc).

Are you permit and shovel Ready? 

Heck, for most of the winter my tenants didn't shovel the driveway and so nobody even parked there so it was as if there was no driveway (not a Miami problem, of course). 

@Jack TaylorWhere in Fl are you considering?

Basic stuff such as cutting grass, shoveling snow, painting. 

Purchase price: $1,700,000 Cash invested: $750,000 Sale price: $2,675,000 Original plan was to remove existing home and build 6,500 sf single family home on 20k sf territorial view lot.Instead, we sold as shovel-ready project, fully entitled, to another developer for significant return. https://www.redfin.com/CA/La-Jolla/6389-Castejon-Dr-92037/home/4922498 What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Hello,I live in Winter Garden and invest locally and across Fl. Are