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Dig it out and redo some basic landscaping with the help of inexpensive, unlicensed, unskilled guys you find off Craigslist (or perhaps standing around in a group outside your local home improvement supercenter that responds enthusiastically with ¡Vámonos! 

New water friendly (fugly) landscaping.

Call a landscape company .

So if I hire landscapers, the expense is 50% deductible, but if the tenant has a plumbing problem in his apartment, it's 100% deductible.

Fortunately it is relatively reasonable compared to the market and I feel I get some good benefits with it (pool, landscaping, cheaper home insurance, gated community, etc...).Good luck with your next step.

What I do is have the tenant pay for water and I pay for the landscaping.

The Board of Supervisors constantly change the landscape and the Rental Ordinance is always evolving. 

We worked out a very informal arrangement for landscaping, and snow removal.

The American small business landscape is strewn with carcasses of dead and dying small businesses that were started by people who did not plan before moving forward.