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The key question is whether people like you will support changing HOA requirements, ordinances, etc to allow your neighbors to be good stewards of their land.

The key question is whether people like you will support changing HOA requirements, ordinances, etc to allow your neighbors to be good stewards of their land. It's a tragedy that so much residential land is effectively forced to be used exclusively for non-native grasses, often requiring herbicides, pesticides, and outsided water consumption to keep propped up. If people want to damage their land so be it, but they have a habit of forcing others to do the same.

i_haz_rabies 5y ago
To "keep property values high." In today's market, at least, I seriously doubt the quality of a neighbour's lawn will have any significant impact on property values.
- Jtsummers 5y ago
  Or even the home's lawn. Next door neighbor's home is being sold (they're renters) and the lawn is in awful shape (not just weeds but large dead sections). It's still being sold over asking and way over what the owner paid 10 years ago. The price is in line with better maintained homes on the street that have been sold. The yard doesn't seem to matter at all.
  - sumtechguy 5y ago
    A yard takes 1-2 years to fixup into shape. Less if you go with the quick and easy 'rye' way, but that is only good for 1 year. If you can afford it hire someone who does it for a living and it will be amazing. But if you want DIY just buy plants that fit the area. Aeration and proper grooming will be the top items on the list. I would go house shopping with friends and family. I would walk into houses that were basically amazing. But they would hate the backyard had not been mowed this week and nope out. When buying a house keep an eye on structural, shape, layout, and location. Everything else is mostly decorative. For example I had to kind of move recently fairly quickly. So the apt I ended up in is very 70s. There is no fixing that structural. The owners have tried with paint and colors. But it still has a very closed in 70s build to it. No amount of paint will fix the walls that are in the way.

i_haz_rabies 5y ago

To "keep property values high." In today's market, at least, I seriously doubt the quality of a neighbour's lawn will have any significant impact on property values.

Jtsummers 5y ago
Or even the home's lawn. Next door neighbor's home is being sold (they're renters) and the lawn is in awful shape (not just weeds but large dead sections). It's still being sold over asking and way over what the owner paid 10 years ago. The price is in line with better maintained homes on the street that have been sold. The yard doesn't seem to matter at all.
- sumtechguy 5y ago
  A yard takes 1-2 years to fixup into shape. Less if you go with the quick and easy 'rye' way, but that is only good for 1 year. If you can afford it hire someone who does it for a living and it will be amazing. But if you want DIY just buy plants that fit the area. Aeration and proper grooming will be the top items on the list. I would go house shopping with friends and family. I would walk into houses that were basically amazing. But they would hate the backyard had not been mowed this week and nope out. When buying a house keep an eye on structural, shape, layout, and location. Everything else is mostly decorative. For example I had to kind of move recently fairly quickly. So the apt I ended up in is very 70s. There is no fixing that structural. The owners have tried with paint and colors. But it still has a very closed in 70s build to it. No amount of paint will fix the walls that are in the way.