There wasn't a patio here when we purchased our house 2 years ago. And no walk from the back door down to the garage.
Nothing but a worn path through the grass, which has mostly turned into DIRT. Ugh!
Last year we had a stamped concrete patio installed, but that still did not solve the problem of a walk and stairs down to the garage.
A couple months ago my son called from a construction job site where he was working so I could salvage the large 6 x 6 x 10 pressure treated beams from a playground being torn up.