Maintenance isn't so bad, and it doesn't require every hour of every weekend. But I've got a small apartment with a small patch of grass. It takes me 10 minutes

Maintenance isn't so bad, and it doesn't require every hour of every weekend. But I've got a small apartment with a small patch of grass. It takes me 10 minutes to cut the grass and 20 to trim the hedges, once a month. Like any hobby, you get out what you put into it. I spent 2 weekends gutting and renovating the kitchen, put ethernet and coax in every room, and wired my garden for electricity and music. My last rental had 3 fireplaces, none of them worked because the owner, rather than paying someone to clean and maintain them decided to plug them up. Ethernet? forget about it. Cable in every room, not an option. The kitchen was nice and new, but designed to someone else's specification, not mine.