Imagine purchasing a nice, new home, only to have a large, old oak tree fall on your roof a few weeks later-or learning that a poplar tree is plagued with dangerous root rot and will cost $6,000 to be removed.'Wouldn't it be better to know the condition of large trees on a property before the purchase-and-sales agreement is executed?" asks Tchukki Andersen, staff arborist with the Tree Care Industry Association, Londonderry, N.H. "When homebuyers contemplate owning a house for many years, the quality and safety of the trees is usually overlooked in the negotiations."
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