Your yard requirements may very well start inside the easements reducing the buildable area as compared to a lot of the same size without those easements.

Exterior maintenance and yard work are usually handled by someone else.

The main issues are: 1. gross revenue has been less than half the projections the PM initially provided and what is on AirDNA, and 2. gross revenue has dropped 30% from last year to this year despite me investing over $125K in improvements (new pool, new fire pit, new landscaping, new dog yard). 

Investment Info: Multi-family residential buy & hold investment located a 20-mile drive or 25-minute ferry ride from downtown Boston in the beach town of Hull, Massachusetts, also known as Nantasket Beach.Purchase price: $550,000 in 2016Cash invested: $137,500 from 1031 exchange (75% mortgage)A 14-unit property on a corner lot, and it includes an adjacent lot as well (10,000 sq ft total lot size, double the town median lot size), giving an exceptionally large patio, yard, parking areas front and back, and a storage shed.

However, I have almost no trade skill knowledge so I'm looking at demo, cleanup, yard work, etc. type of jobs. 

It also fits your budget & also I know some of some above 1,300 sqft, good boned, central air, yard space/drive way space having on & off market single & multifamilies in that price range. 

It’s worth about $2.5m and I still have to finish the yard and would like to eventually build an ADU.  

If the tenant doesn't cure the issue w/in the timeframe then the PM should cure the issue I.e send someone over to clean the yard, and tow the vehicle if necessary.

I have found if you do it yourself, you can Facebook, craigslist, Zillow and yard signs. 

There is a large back yard.