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Originally Posted by ken0042
For your situation, could you not use an aerator, then go behind with seed and water the heck out of it?
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I don't know, the grass is pretty dead all over the entire yard. I also have a couple of dogs and I'm guessing the first winter I was here where we didn't have much snow and them wreaking havoc in the yard didn't do it any favors. My concern is that I wouldn't see much for results for like 6-8 weeks, and I'd like to have the place sold by than.
It's not a huge back yard and only needs like 1000 squar feet of grass so to resod is going to cost me $300 for the sod and delivery. All in all to take out the grass, rent a sod cutter, rent a pickup truck, buy new sod and have new top soil delivered and do a few other things to enhance it is going to cost me $900 and some seriously hard labour on my own account. A painter quoted me $1100 to paint 500 square feet of ceiling that I did myself for $50. Really it's less than $1000 to really enhance the aesthetic appeal of the yard, and I think it will go a long way towards giving the house a much better impression. I don't want to be asking 450k plus on a place where the yard looks like crap and it looks like it will require $3000 worth of landscaping to fix it up. In that price range I imagine people aren't looking for a house that gives off a fixer upper vibe, which my back yard currently does.