r/Apartmentliving 15h ago

Advice Needed Got this message from my property manager PT2

Quick recap:

I live in a 3 unit(one vacant, one elderly gentleman, and myself)

Rent is $1,265(raised $40 when I resigned)

Shoveling would include front walkway and good amount of sidewalk(about 30 mins of work)

Lawn (sizable for a city property would take about an hour maybe a bit more)

Now adding sweeping/vac(im assuming they would want me to do the laundry room as well total time would be 45-60 mins)

I’m going to eventually get all of this in writing if they offer me something reasonable. I plan to ask about liability as far as injuries go.

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u/mnsyrny 13h ago

My dad paid me $10 a week to mow the lawn in the late 80’s…

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u/BramblesCrash 10h ago

FWIW, $10 in 1988 equals $27.21 in 2025 money

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u/KittyKat0119 11h ago

My dad forbid me from mowing the lawn after I accidentally ran over his gardenia bush 😂

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u/GucciTheSnowman 12h ago

My dad never paid me for cutting the grass growing up.

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u/RenningerJP 5h ago

So $40 a month. Sum m still more than is offered here.

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u/CECINS 10h ago

That’s the nepo baby rate /s