In the Spring, Baker Street will contact all owners to inquire if they would like Baker Street to manage lawn care where the service is included per the lease agreement.
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Leases typically designate if lawn care service is included for tenants. As a general rule of thumb, owners will provide lawn care for all multi-unit buildings and campus properties. Single-family houses are up to the owner’s discretion, but tenants are generally responsible for lawn care.

Many tenants are responsible for lawn care at their properties. The exception would be any building with multiple units, any units that are a part of an association (such as a condor or apartment building), or where your lease explicitly designates that the owner provides lawn care. If you are unsure, please refer to the lease agreement.

Every Spring, Baker Street will inform tenants where lawn care is provided with details on the service. Typically, lawn care season begins in May and ends mid-late October. The routine lawn care service is taken care of on a biweekly schedule. Due to the unknown nature of the weather and how often the lawn may require mowing, Baker Street is unable to alert tenants when lawn care service occurs.

We ask tenants to let us know if our landscaper missed an area of the lawn or if excessive weeds have grown in any areas of the property.
For properties not including lawn care, tenants are responsible for lawn mowing. Some owners provide lawnmowers while others do not; each property is different. We generally advise owners to include a lawn mower on the property for tenant use.

If tenants do not take care of the lawn as required in the lease agreement, Baker Street may send their preferred vendor to service the lawn and charge the cost back to tenants. The City or township may ticket a property if the grass is too long and unmanaged; if the property is ticketed and a tenant is responsible for lawn care, then Baker Street may pass along the fee to the tenant.

For properties where lawn care is provided to tenants per the lease agreement, owners may either contract Baker Street's preferred landscaping vendor or utilize their preferred vendor for lawn care.

If owners prefer to use Baker Street's preferred landscaping vendor, our team will contact owners each season with a bid for biweekly service. The biweekly service includes mowing, weed whacking, blowing off walkways, patios, and driveways, and edging all concrete surfaces of walkways and driveways every month.

If an owner chooses to use their vendor, they can either coordinate with their vendor the service fully or have Baker Street handle the billing portion.

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Twice a year, during both Spring and Fall, Baker Street conducts comprehensive yard clean-ups for properties where lawn care is included, or for campus properties. We take pride in maintaining the exteriors and landscaping of our properties. We work with a licensed vendor who provides us with preferred pricing and priority scheduling. Prior to the clean up, we will reach out to owners to share the seasonal pricing. The seasonal pricing may vary per season and per property but averages $600 - $800 total.

Owners may also handle the clean up themselves and coordinate with their own vendor. Any properties that require additional services such as seeding, application of topsoil to repair grass patches, large branch removal, shrub or tree trimming, mulching, or pressure washing will be billed separately up to $500. We would seek approval for anything beyond this threshold.

This service encompasses the following tasks:

• Cleaning up all of the yard space of leaves and debris
• Cleaning any garden beds (removing dead leaves, dead plants, trash, etc.)
• Sweeping off porches and entrances of properties
• Hauling and disposing of yard waste and trash

Properties, where gutter cleaning is needed, are billed separately. We clean the gutters every six months (in the Spring and Fall); the pricing is as follows:

• One-story gutters -- $150
• Two-story -- $250
• Multi-story -- $350