.• Properties with lush vegetation require more maintenance than properties with little or no vegetation.When you look at the maintenance elements in a residential property you can generally divide the elements into two groups: systems and the structure.• Systems include HVAC, water heater, plumbing and wiring.

We have paid the city of Mobile for city performed vegetation abatement as well as our own landscapers over three plus years. 

When I owned properties in Houston, Atlanta and other places, I was always replacing roofs, siding, aging plumbing, faulty electrical systems and dealing with vegetation and termites.

His comps consist of comparing a vegetable to a fruit.

If you remove these foods you will have a diet of mostly vegetables, fruit, and meat.   

Look at all Cal-Fire yards & their a perfect picture of vegetation management, the rest of the forest not so much.

I know someone who thinks it's great the meat producers will stay open because he finds fruits and vegetables "gross".  

I see things all over the place that need doing - cleaning up parks, providing child care, sitting with the elderly, etc - and there is surely a value to society that every person can provide short of being in a vegetative state.

Regarding inflation... actually only vegetable and salad still has no inflation.while the Korean BBQ joint that I usually visited, raise the price from $22 to $39 just like that.

Also, Puget Sound weather means vegetation grows like crazy relative to dryer climates like SD, for example.