When a tenant moved, I decided to keep the garage and lowered the rent to $725 and included free lawn mowing for the tenant.

Lawn or fire sprinklers ?

Still couldn't actually.Incidentally, my partner owned a lawn company that he started when he was 14- he just sold it this past spring to focus 100% on Real Estate.

I remember mowing our lawn one week during Christmas break and calling our parents in Idaho and Utah and they were shoveling feet of snow.

Not everyone maintains the lawn/landscape, fencing, etc like they should.

Under his heading of 'maintenance' (the $300 annually) he's included repairs, snow removal, cleaning, and lawn service.

The best time to get the "savings" is while the area is artificially depressed with LOTS of short sales.

We mow the lawns once a month in summer.

I liked this candidate and she suggested during the time she was there that she could mow the lawn (which is currently included due to no storage for lawn mower).

The pump runs about 8 hours a day....no one was at the house for a few days, the PVC pipe broke at a joint just past the pump on the pressure/return side, the suction was set to just the main drain on the bottom, so the pump actually drained the pool to about 1' deep, and discharged all the water into the lawn.