@Valerie King , the standard lease agreement doesn't really have much in it, other than how much they will pay and what the deposit will be.It doesn't address whether or not you allow smoking, pets, who shovels the snow, where they can and can't park, etc.All these things are not covered in the Landlord Tenant Laws of your state, which are very important to read on their own, but just a beginning.I suggest you do a search on BiggerPockets for Lease Clauses - you'll see some pretty amazing clauses here from landlords who have been doing this since before dirt was invented.Marcia Maynard has one of my all-time favorite lease clauses.

I've never developed land but I can tell you this: there are a ton of hurdles to clear before you stick a shovel in the dirt.

No need to have someone water it or shovel snow if it's a duplex. 

Hmm...I want what my buddy calls a coal shovel, which is a shovel with a heavy head, flat across the top and is only about 9 inches wide.

@Melissa Jolley if a property is fully entitled for max density and highest and best use or what we call shovel ready that is more desirable to a developer.

If you look at it like this, you are really not saving any money by the time you have to go out and buy salt, snow blower, and shovels.

Do they reside FL? Are

what part of FL are you in?

In that case, I broom off (sharp shovels on rubber roofs is just asking for trouble, I think) the first 6 feet or so if the snowfall is more than 8 inches or so.I'm not sure who would do that for you if you wanted to hire it out.  

a developer by definition does not buy shovel ready lots for SFR contruction.. that would be a builder.a developer in the SFR realm creates the subdivision and sells lots to the builders or builds it out themselves.in the commercial world a developer will buy shovel ready and develop a commercial site.that's kind of how I view it.. its semantics for sure