One of the more interesting things about owning a piece of land with nothing on it is taking care of the lawn. It’s all lawn, you see, but there’s no garage there for storing a lawn mower or anything else. We’ve rotated through a number of services (and family members) over the years, but it is amazing how much work it takes to maintain a simple patch of grass in the city.  If we had it to do again, we’d consider going for stones before building.