A homeowner in San Antonio, Texas, had two small live oaks growing in front of the bushes. A tree company said they came from a neighbor’s large live oak and recommended a hard trim of that tree, even though the homeowner said it had been trimmed a year and a few months earlier.
In a thread from January 2025, the homeowner asked whether a $1,600 quote was reasonable. The number covered more than the small trees out front. But when the homeowner looked at a version without the backyard work, the price did not fall nearly as far as the scope did.
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What the tree quotes covered
The company’s $1,600 quote, before taxes, covered lifting and balancing two live oaks in the backyard, removing the small live oaks in the front yard, and hard trimming the neighbor’s large live oak to the fence line…