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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Avoid buying a house with big trees on the lot.  Huge hassle and expense keeping them trimmed, dealing not just with leaves in the fall but branches and debris falling year round.[/quote]

You learn something new with every buy and this is what we learned with our last home. I can't believe we didn't notice that our home was south of all the old growth trees. They were all leaning over our home. Poor root systems and rotted trees that looked healthy meant that every wind we had deadfall- from small and annoying to huge branches that would kill someone. The trees were in a no mans land that national parks/DC would not claim but apparently we couldn't trim them. So much junk would drop in our pool from the tulip poplars and our pool cover was torn several times by falling branches, furniture was broken, slate was cracked from large branches falling. The finale was a tree falling in the derecho and our SUV being totaled.

I still love trees though- I'm just more careful and notice them before I buy.[/quote]

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