get the lawyers involved!!!!!!!

remind her about the deal. but if her job is in the summer……dont take care of the lawn.

Some people are just jerks, always have been always will be.
Best off trying to sort it out with the landlord.

Just IGNORE them.

TRADE HER you take care of the lawn make her shovel the shit in the winter

mow ur side and forget about hers

Switch with her then. You take care of the lawn in the summer and she takes care of the driveway during the winter.

Or, talk to your landlord and have him hire someone to do both for a little extra in both you and your neighbors monthly rent.

When I lived in Boston, my neighbor bought a sheep- that way no mowing required.

You could fight and creat a bad relationship with a close neighbor, but this can never be a good thing. If you don’t have an agreement in writing – Mow the Lawn, Make a New Agreement, and Learn from your experience.

Get you landlord to write up some agreement. Its in his best interest to keep the place looking nice since he owns it.

you might have to do it yourself.

I think that you should remind her what the “deal” was. I understand that you dont want to start war but you need to talk to her. Tell her that you did it in the Winter and now it’s her turn. If she can’t do it (whatever) let her boyfriend do it. He lives there too. =) Then if that doesnt work, tell the landlord what your deal was and go from there.

Take her out there and show her how to use the mower. Or better yet, talk to her boyfriend and have him teach her. My god, people are so lazy aren’t they?

If I were you I would just go ahead and mow your side of the lawn… I have lived that nightmare before( at war w/ neighbor) and trust me its NOT nice!!!
Just do your side and screw her..lol.. Then I would let the landlord know of the agreement you had… OR you can always show her dumb-ass how to work a lawn mower…
Good Luck~

A deal is a deal, tell her to either cut the fricken grass or pay someone to do it, if she doesn’t uphold her promise then cut it yourself at a time that will most assuredly annoy her, and remove the exhaust pipe to increase the noise of the motor.

Just hire a kid to mow the lawn. Be thankful that the two of you were not great friends before she moved in that way you can not be sad when you are no longer friends at all. Room mates and such things can be awful. Not everyone’s mom taought them how to share. especially when it comes to responsibilities.

do they, or you- have a lawn mower?
if so offer to teach her how to use it.
then she won’t have an excuse.
I don’t know how big your lawn is but you could tell her you’ll do it, cause it’s great exercise and you like getting an awesome tan
& it’ll cost her $30!! maybe you can talk to your land lord about it or just make up a story to her that he’s taking $50 off your rent every month for doing it
lol
good luck

This is something that should have been under agreement in writing, or with the landlord. I would schedule a meeting with the landlord and the other tenant, to figure out what can be done about it.

Normally landlords should state who’s responsible for what, or else the landlord is responsible for it. Sounds like you’re split is upper & lower level, and I find it odd that you each don’t have separate parts of the lawn. Check your lease/agreement papers – if there’s nothing about who does what to the lawn in there, then the landlord is responsible for doing it. Otherwise, you should get a break in rent for charging them your duties of lawnwork.

I personally, would not mow the lawn. And seems like she’s not a good person to trust. It’s not being combative, it’s standing up for yourself. If you let her walk all over you now…she’ll continue to do it.

I wouldn’t get the lawyers involved for the simple reason of cost effectiveness. If you settle without court you could be looking at $1,500, at least, and if it blows up and goes to court you could be looking at $5,000. (And that’s if she decides not to respond by asking for you to pay for HER legal fees.) Do the math. It’s cheaper to pay the kid down the street to both mow in the summer and shovel in the winter. I’m sure you have better things to do with your time and back and the kid down the street will appreciate the money.

I would have an agreement with your neighbor and the landlord. This way you could be eliminated from the confrontation with old lazy-bones.

Remind her of the deal and if she’d do better with snow removal — then switch. If that doesn’t work then the landlord needs to get involved (even if it means hiring someone to do the lawn and add it to her rent).

She agreed to it; not knowing how to handle a lawnmower is no excuse. She should not have agreed to it if she couldn’t uphold her end. She can hire someone if she is unwilling to do it herself. Teenagers go around with lawnmowers during the summer for a reasonable price. If you have already been taking care of the driveway, then she is on the hook. Maybe the landlord could step in and get her to pony up, but if it’s not an issue to him he won’t.

How big is the lawn? Is it a comparable chore to the driveway? I know our lawn is a nightmare compared to our driveway. We don’t get snow very often, though, and never very deep, so it just depends on where you live. But perhaps she feels that the lawn is a much bigger chore, and that could be why she is dragging her heels.

You seem like a good person, so just cut the grass. What goes around comes around, so she’ll get hers!! The landlord should take some off the rent for your services!!

You can’t make her do anything. Let it go for the sake of peace and just remember that next time you can’t trust the b**ch.

Call the landlord…
if yard maintenance is part of the deal she has to keep up her end of it.
Also ask your landlord to keep your name out of it.
he/she should get you both out on the porch…
yell at both of you so she doesn’t think you had anything to do with the meeting.
ask him/her landlord to just pop by and chew you both out..remind both of you about the agreement.why have an enemy?
then you can discuss it with her and if it doesn’t work do it again till it does…

Is a split house like a duplex? Then tend to your own side. Cut your grass and shovel your side of the drive. You can still be friendly but I would never count on anyone to do my stuff. People will let you down as you have found out. Some people just don’t know how to accept responsibility. Its a sad state I know.

make an anonymous complaint to the town. The landlord will get a warning and then HE’LL deal with it – he should be anyway not you.
OR do what I do:
I’m in a three family house in a beautiful area. All maintenance is provided by the owner of the property – because it is THEIR responsibility. But they only do what’s necessary. They mow and plow and occasionally trim hedges but that’s it and frankly it’s enough.

HOWEVER, I want the place where I live to look nice so I put in gardens. I trim the hedges when they need it. I shovel the walk if the plows are late. I live there. I don’t want to walk in and out an have to wear blinders because it’s unsightly! Don’t get me wrong – I would really like it if the other occupants felt some sense of pride about their surroundings, I’d be much happier – but it’s more relaxing for me to actually do the work then stress about it not being done properly.

Try discussing this with your landlord. Get him to make an agreement in writing. Just how hard is it to mow a lawn? She can’t handle a lawnmower? Ten-year-olds can handle lawnmowers. Always be nice to your neighbor. Talk to your landlord. Hope this helps.

shovel your part and mow your part if the other tenants dont like it so what they are the ones who back out of the deal..and it will be done the way u want it to be done