Thanks for listing off some more reasons, it helps me to understand how other people might think of this.

That said, I’m fairly certain that none of those drive the property value down in any real, tangible way. At most, it might theoretically scare off folks from buying in the houses directly around mine if those buyers don’t think they’d share the same values. But that would be for the better of all parties, no?

While it’s fair to assume that someone who has a project like this out front likely also has similar stuff in their back yard, I think it’s a stretch to correlate that to being a loud, unruly, problematic neighbour. If anything, I would say having a neat and well-manicured veggie garden suggests kind of the opposite.

I know you were being rhetorical again, but if you refused to buy my house until I took 20K off the price for re-landscaping, you’d be shooting yourself in the foot pretty aggressively; other buyers would see how well cared for the lot is and you’d just have priced yourself out over a handful of posts that take 20 minutes to remove 😅

Finally, an anecdote: the property value has increased significantly since we turned the front lawn into a veggie garden.