First Post elsewhere: I bought into a new home in 2015. My workman tells me that the realtor did me a number, with a 2,500 sq. ft. hillside now growing with grasses and weeds. It is becoming a fire hazard as well as unsightly. I figured at the time, it would provide me the op for some light yard work. I never owned a home before. My health failed, and it's now beyond me. Last year, I hired a workman to string trim the grasses, as they were just getting too high. That worked, but with the heavier rain and sun this season, the weeds and all are growing back with a vengeance. I'm 64, with medical conditions, so haven't the energy anymore to deal with it all.
I'm looking at any way that I can find to control the fire hazard and the weeds. I got estimates of $10,000 to 35,000 for landscaping. I'd like it that it's nice to comply with any HOA agreements, and also drought tolerant. I had my small front yard done now for about $900, to place decorative rock and weed fabric, instead of the old, dry, and weed filled lawn. I looked at weed control by smothering, including using carpet. I tried with a tarp, but that didn't work. I don't think laying down weed fabric would also work, with as high as the growth has gotten.
Any suggestions for better and cheaper ways to get what I'm seeking is highly welcome. I don't want to use herbicide, or chemicals. I've looked at concrete as well as hiring workman to dig out the weeds and all, then to put in terracing and decorative rock, with shrubs and trees. I'm on Social Security, so haven't got a lot of money. Please help!
Second Post Elsewhere:
Thanks everybody for the replies! I messaged about goats but they didn't reply. My workman would trim or shear the hillside for about $200. I'm looking at doing this bit by bit. We started on clearing the side yards when some landscaping company warned about unlicensed contractors. By the NV Contractors' Board attorney, a workman is only a workman for jobs paying less than $1,000. That scared me, so I'm looking for other labor to clear out the weeds and grasses that we began work on clearing. I upped my budget to $10,000. I want to be fully legal. So it costs me five time more, but I guess for union labor or what. I put out ads and sent messages. I'm probably going to get a home equity loan. I even asked my realtor to see about trying to sell the property, and see if there's a cheaper home that I can move into with no yard work like mine presently.
I'm stressed out and having a mental condition at the same time as all of this. Hard to think, but some ideas here. The landscaping companies are pretty busy and some aren't taking new accounts. On pavers company I think said that they'd do it all from scratch for $6 a sq. ft. but I have to talk to them again. I have to call or wait to talk to a lot of companies and people tomorrow. It can be cheaper or more. I found a better rate for a home equity loan at US Bank, and I will finish with my mortgage payments in 2020. I can pay off the home equity or landscape company loan by then, with the extra money that I'll have, I hope.
I have to see a bunch of doctors, and hopefully they'll help. This might get done, depending if I can find reliable labor at $20/hour. That the pavers company would do all of it from scratch, that sounded great. I'll likely be dead in a few years, so it goes. Anybody about Reno, NV, wants to direct a pro to me, feel welcome to send them.
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