How much money is my SF landlord paying to have the backyard cleared?

Post date: 2019-06-17 07:33:45

I rent an apartment in a small apartment building with a big, overgrown backyard. Every year or so, the landlord hires guys to come clear out the overgrowth. He always seems annoyed and put out whenever he finally gets around to doing this. I get the impression it costs him more than he wants to pay.

The backyard could be really nice if it were landscaped and if someone regularly maintained it. I want to convince him to pay for initial landscaping and then maybe pay me to keep it up each month. How much do we think it is costing him to clear out the backyard each time? How much do you think it would cost to pay someone to do a basic landscaping job? Nothing extravagent. Just something easy to maintain and better than a yard full of weeds. This is in San Francisco in the Mission, so the backyard is normal San Francisco size and the landscaping costs would be Bay Area prices.

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