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Warning - do not buy a house with a ton of mature trees in the yard!
Sigh. We need to get some grading work done in the back and in order to do it, we need to take down another tree (this after taking down 4 trees last fall). This one is a poplar and it's leaning toward the house. The arborist says its roots have twisted (girdled, maybe?) to keep it from falling. It's aimed right over our bed, so it is coming down. Then while he was looking at the poplar, he gestured toward an oak and said we'd want that one down within a year or two because it is showing x, y and z signs of stress.
Next time we buy a house with trees in the yard, we are getting an arborist to inspect the yard. We probably would have still bought our house since we love it, but I would have asked for a credit to offset the $$$$ that we have since spent on tree removal. So learn from our mistakes!
Re: Warning - do not buy a house with a ton of mature trees in the yard!
Tell me about it. We rent though, and the owners are trying to wait as long as possible to take down the huge tree in the back, and I recently let them know that the crooked tree in the front yard is leaning even more thanks to those 2 weeks of rain we had.
Needless to say, they are less than thrilled.
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I know exactly what you're going through. DH and I are in the same boat. Our house that we just bought last year is nothing but tree's in the backyard.... There's so much shade that grass doesn't even grow and the ground stays moist since the sun can't get through. We've taken down 12 tree's already and have 40 more up.
In order to turn the backyard into useable space we'd have to remove almost half of the remaining tree's. The ones we did take down already were dead already and we trimmed the limbs back that were directly over the house.
I think our arborist has our number programmed into his phone. It's sad that he's called already once this year to see if we want anything down yet.