Just started researching to buy a first house. Leaning towards SFH with backyard since we have kids. Trying to get a sense for what should we budget for backyard maintenance on a monthly basis?

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For context, the houses we are looking at have roughly 5000 sqft backyard/lawn area. For the near future, plan to keep any backyard/lawn space in low maintenance mode... so just open space with maybe lawn for kids to play around. Longer term, might look at backyard vegetable gardening a bit coz I have always been interested. But that’s years down the line - while kids are young/travel job, just need some low maintenance option.

Have always lived in condos in the US, so have no idea what it takes to maintain that space and want to make sure we at least have a rough idea for budget planning.

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