Funny you should post about trees and the cost of things.
We ended up with a dead gum tree as a result of a particularly cold week, and I ended up asking a tree service that was doing some work across the street what they would charge to cut it down, and they quoted 900 USD. It's not a huge tree, and for a professional maybe 90 minutes of work.
As much as anything, the price has little to do with the work, and a lot to do with living in "an upscale neighborhood." Which is purely a side effect of real estate prices, not of gentrification. Meaning that I am being offered a $250 job for $900 purely because our property value is now $1M instead of the $200K when we bought the place in 2011.
Next time our son comes out, we'll likely take it down together. Cost: a BBQ dinner and a few beers.
The tree is definitely not worth powering down and paying for.
Powering down — even at a disadvantageous price — to pay property taxes to be able to keep the house? That was different...
All a matter of priorities.
ridiculous, isn't it? If they were more reasonable, they would likely get more work. I think that it might have been one of the issues for us too - where they assume that people living in a house (most live in apartments or row houses here), we must be rich enough to cover it.
That is a deal. I am not game with these ones, as they are tall, close to the house, and if it falls the wrong way, will hit ours or the neighbors place. Better to have someone with insurance.
Yes.