Houses with mature trees - desirable or not?

[Anonymous]

We are looking at SFH in the Vienna/Oakton area and a lot of houses have well grown tall mature trees around the house or community. From a climate change perspective and & future perspective how desirable it is to have a house with lot of mature trees (think >70ft) around? Is that a plus or minus? Of course assuming everything else in the house checks out first - this is purely a qn around whether tall trees around houses hurt its future sale or its desirable?

[Anonymous]

Extremely desirable

[Anonymous]

Is this a joke? Of course mature trees is better.

[Anonymous]

If DCUM is any indication, your neighbors may think that you are responsible for any repairs should the trees fall - despite the fact that isn't the law.

[Anonymous]

It's been really wonderful for us. Our lot is often 10+ cooler in the summer than the street and other areas.

[Anonymous]

Very desirable.

[Anonymous]

We spend several thousand ever year to trim our trees but, other than that, they are pretty maintenance-free.

[Anonymous]

Uhhh….so desirable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We spend several thousand ever year to trim our trees but, other than that, they are pretty maintenance-free.

Is that sarcasm ?

[Anonymous]

Not desirable if on your lot, desirable if between your lots and neighbors. You'll need to consider cutting them down if they are on your lot even more so if close to the house

When we built our new hours we cut all the trees down and have much less maintenance inc gutters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not desirable if on your lot, desirable if between your lots and neighbors. You'll need to consider cutting them down if they are on your lot even more so if close to the house

When we built our new hours we cut all the trees down and have much less maintenance inc gutters

Trashy

[Anonymous]

It can be both OP. Desirable for all the obvious reasons, but undesirable when it comes to maintenance. My mom has a 80ft-90ft tall tree in her yard that has died. Cutting it down will run her $3K, and that's without the stump grinder coming in. It's also very dangerous if you don't know your tree is sick/dying and a limb falls onto someone or a pet. Or if it falls into someone's yard and harms them or their house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not desirable if on your lot, desirable if between your lots and neighbors. You'll need to consider cutting them down if they are on your lot even more so if close to the house

When we built our new hours we cut all the trees down and have much less maintenance inc gutters

I’m pretty sure this qualifies as a war crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not desirable if on your lot, desirable if between your lots and neighbors. You'll need to consider cutting them down if they are on your lot even more so if close to the house

When we built our new hours we cut all the trees down and have much less maintenance inc gutters

I’m pretty sure this qualifies as a war crime.

+1 my idiot neighbors chopped down their oak trees because they thought they saw termites in the middle of winter. They tried to sue me and cut down the giant oak on my property. And now our other neighbor is suing them for causing flooding into their yard.

TLDR version: Talk to a real arborist before chopping down any mature trees on your property. And talk to your neighbors before trying to sue them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's been really wonderful for us. Our lot is often 10+ cooler in the summer than the street and other areas.

This. There is some maintenance involved - we have an arborist come out once every few years, and have a little trimming done between visits. But SO worth it for the cooler backyard in the middle of summer.