Our HOA requires weekly (during growing season) lawn mowings. So on top of the $450/mo, we also have to fork over $30-50/wk to some maintenance company. They take around 10 minutes to do the entire lawn, mow, edge, weed, and pickup. I cannot complain about the speed, or the cost actually.
My neighbor has a family member come and do their lawn (I offered my guys to them for free, and they turned it down). So every Wednesday or Thursday, for nearly 4 hours, there are various 2-stroke engines going on. It is a HUGE noise, and my home office faces their house so for most of the day I'm having to ask people to repeat themselves because I cannot hear them over the sound of the neighbor's lawn equipment.
My (older, empty-nester) neighbors on both sides are like this. Landscaping is their hobby and they enjoy spending several hours, multiple times per week with an assortment of power equipment. My one neighbor has 3 lawnmowers: 1 ride-on, and 2 push mowers. He and his wife use the push mowers _at the same time_, and then they follow up with another pass by the ride-on.
My neighbor has a family member come and do their lawn (I offered my guys to them for free, and they turned it down). So every Wednesday or Thursday, for nearly 4 hours, there are various 2-stroke engines going on. It is a HUGE noise, and my home office faces their house so for most of the day I'm having to ask people to repeat themselves because I cannot hear them over the sound of the neighbor's lawn equipment.