For a rental, you want to include mortgage, insurance, property taxes, utilities, sewer, water, garbage, HOA fees, gardening, etc.

No difference than if your driveway was in the easement, or garden, or the corner of your shed.

Now, I'm talking about things like a rose garden, or maybe even up to a ceiling fan.

.  ;-)  I am presently charging $3100, including pool service & landscaping/gardening.  

He has however since planted a garden, parked, cars, trailers, and has a small utility shed on my property I bought.

Also, even if he does vacate peaceably, the time that you're going to have a vacant unit with no cash flow will eat up the gardening fees for a year very quickly.

As a landlord you will have to pay for water and probably for a gardener.

There are a lot of other variables such as building a energy efficient home (with solar),  home gardens, access to the internet, and cycling just to name a few.

if you own, the best way is to do stuff around your house, but take bite size projects, dont start with a kitchen.I have a lot of work and we work on weekends at times, all around livonia, westland, garden city. 

Our listing makes it clear that we live upstairs and that the washer / dryer & garden patio are shared resources.