There's a foreclosed house a few doors down from me, the grass gets a foot high before the bank pays a guy to cut it. About once a month a guy shows up in a small car with a push mower to cut it. He's being paid by the bank to cut the lawn. If I cut it, I'm sure that guy would be out of a job. He's got to be desperate for cash to cut almost an acre and a half with an old 3hp push mower. When he's done it looks like a hay field ready to be bailed. Its on a main highway so its also littered with bottles and debris all the time, so the whole time he's mowing you hear glass shattering and McD's cups getting shredded.
The house is full of rats, foreclosed on by eviction with all belongings and food left inside 8 years ago. They've had exterminators there but it remains infested. Call after call does nothing, one neighbor even paid a guy to spray and place rat poison but it didn't last. The owner was an animal hoarder and the place is piled to the ceiling inside with trash. You can watch rats fight in the windows all day long. We're all just hoping it don't burn down or something and send all the vermin looking for new homes.
I don't think I care to put any of my mowers through what it takes to cut that mess either. Even before it was empty the lawn there was never kept after, some old guy owned it and he wouldn't let anyone cut it or even get near the place. He lived there for 50+ years and no one ever got along with him. They fought with everyone, constantly called the police on others for every thing and filed complaint and lawsuits on almost every neighbor on the block over the years for all sorts of BS complaints. When they raided the place and removed him by force along with all the animals, on TV as well, most of the neighbors were relieved to see him go.
If it were a good neighbor, I'd have no problem cutting the lawn there and do so time to time for other neighbors. Of course there was another neighbor, who couldn't cut his own grass due to health issues, where we would take turn cutting his lawn. If I had the tractor out to do mine, I'd buzz his lawn at the same time. He then would complain about how I cut his grass, he would complain if you didn't go back and weed whack, or complain if you didn't cut it in a different direction each time. I gave up after he got mad when I told him my tractor won't fit through is gate and the back yard would have to wait till his other neighbor got there with a smaller rear engine mower. After that I quit mowing it. So did everyone else I guess since he now pays a lawn service who he screams at every week while they work. His water main broke one summer and he blamed it on my riding mower, he blamed another neighbor for cracking his sidewalk by driving over it with his RER Snapper, and blamed another for putting dents in his car in his locked garage. (He claimed that the mower had to have kicked up stones which hit his car inside the closed, locked garage door on the opposite side along the wall). I also see he's been through at least a dozen lawn services this year.
