August in Belmont is heat shimmer off Route 140 and grass that simply will not quit. Other People's Property Maintenance LLC keeps pace with it — mowing, string trimming, edging along the drives, and carting the clippings off rather than leaving them to yellow in the sun. Beds get weeded and mulched, hedges shaped, and the brushy margins pushed back where the woods keep trying to move in. The heavy clearing happens twice, once as the frost lets go and once when the last leaves are down. Looking after ground that isn't your own is the entire job, and it deserves the care you'd give your own dooryard.