Outdoor Maintenance on a Single Family Home

[Bob Reynolds]

Hi folks. We are renting out a SFH for the first time and I was wondering what are the customary maintenance requirements normally imposed on the tenants. I'm thinking of things like mowing the lawn, weeding the gardens, trimming the hedges and the like. What do you do?

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Originally posted by @Richard C.:

Originally posted by @Amy L.:

If tenant  is responsible for lawncare and the Azaleas die, can i deduct the replacement costs from the deposit? 

 Not unless you can prove they killed them. Plants die sometimes. You might "know" they died because they were neglected, but proving it is another thing entirely.

 There would have to be a coroner's inquest...  :)