I’ve actually been worried about this. Mr. Laureth and I bought a house last fall. It’s totally gutted inside so we’ve been working on it for some time, and we’re nowhere near living in it. We live in a condo now, so we don’t own a lawnmower. Meanwhile, the grass at the new place got so long, that when we asked our new neighbor if we could pay him to mow it for us until we got settled in, he told us it got far too long and we’d need a brush cutter. We don’t have a brush cutter either, so it grows and grows.
Luckily this place is zoned agricultural, and the neighbors on both sides have yards filled with utter crap, so I doubt much would be done. But if anyone complains, I’ll offer them a couple $20s to go ahead and mow these steppes.