
Originally Posted by
teeth_of_the_hydra
Sorry about the idiotic simplicity of this thread, but I just need a few replies. I rent a house with a smallish lawn. The yard is very large, but most of it is landscaped. However, the lawn part needs to be mowed. I've lived here a year and never mowed it, as it was mowed before we moved in and hasn't grown much until the past month, when it got HUGE. It's in our lease that we need to tend the lawn, so I guess I need to get on it. Here's the thing:
-I have never before been the custodian of a lawn, so I have no idea how to use a lawnmower. Accordingly, I do not own a lawnmower.
-I will gladly pay someone to mow it for us, but is this something people do? Like, hire a person with his/her own lawnmower (because I don't have one) to come over and deal with the lawn, not do anything else?
-If this is an accepted practice, how much should I expect to pay? I am really naive about prices of certain things, so I'm afraid of being swindled. For all I know, $200 could be the going rate for lawnmowing (and if it is, I will thriftily get down on my hands and knees with a pair of scissors).
I don't think it should take a person with a mechanical lawnmower* more than 20 minutes, if that. And I live in Florida, if that makes a difference (like, do I owe hazard pay for fire ants & stuff?).
Um, don't ask me about square feet. The very concept of square feet eludes me.
*Like, the push kind that runs on gasoline. Okay I'm going away now because I have demonstrated my ignorance and I feel like a dork.
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