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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get somebody licensed to do the work for you.[/quote]

OP doesn't want to pay a professional rate. [/quote]

Yes. And to be clear I’m not trying to scam local teens or anything. But I can’t pay $1700 for some ivy removal. The home ownership comment I’d weirdly aggressive. I get that there is a cost. There’s also something called a budget. I am lucky enough to own a home but I don’t just have unlimited amounts of money to spend on everything. [/quote]

Where do you live?  The DMV?[/quote]

Wealthy suburb in Midwest. I don’t mean that as a brag… just specifying for pricing purposes. [/quote]
I have seen many high school kids look for yard work, babysitting, dog walking on our local nextdoor app.   You may have similar thing in your area.   Offer the job to two kids who are friends and pay them $20 per hour for two hours on a weekend day.  Provide the kids with cold drinks.    If they are happy and you are happy, bring them back for more work.  If you can,provide tools for them to use.  [/quote]

I like this idea, thanks. Maybe I will ask my teen sitter if she knows any kids who would want to do it. $80 and drinks and pizza feels a lot better to me than the $1700, even though I know at $1700 the job (probably?) gets done well  [/quote]

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