Tenants are responsible for lawn care do YOU provide the Mower?

[Jeff G.]

So this question came about from another active topic.  It is off subject so I thought I would post it separately.

If you mandate in your leases that your tenants take care of all lawn care and snow removal do you as the landlord provide the lawn mower?

I have one property that the tenants had their own mower and another that I recently purchased that I left my old mower at and said they could use.  It has me uneasy however that I am opening myself up for liability....

Thoughts?

[Nancy Curran]

Whenever I "give" anything, (which means a previous tenant left it), be it microwave, shovels, etc, I write it clearly in the lease that I'm not responsible if it breaks.