A large pine, roughly 100 feet tall, fell from a neighbor’s yard onto a home in Houston, Texas, leaving the house unlivable. In a thread from July 2024, the homeowner wrote that they had moved a spouse, a 4-year-old, and a 3-week-old to Austin while they tried to get the tree off the roof.
The first quote they could get was $25,000. The contractor said the job required a 100-foot crane. “I was able to get one quote today, which was $25,000.” The homeowner had filed a homeowners insurance claim and been told reasonable costs would be covered up to a limit, but couldn’t reach the insurer to confirm what that limit was.
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The quotes
The first quote was $25,000, tied to the claim that a 100-foot crane was needed to lift the tree off the house. No line-item breakdown came with it, and the post doesn’t say whether haul-off, tarping, or stump grinding were included…