A homeowner in San Antonio, Texas, wanted a backyard tree more than 40 feet tall cut down and hauled away. It stood beside a neighbor’s fence, and branches had already fallen into the neighbor’s yard. The homeowner wanted a professional to handle the removal because of the risk of damage.
The first price was up to $2,700. Then the same company offered $2,200 if it left one to two feet of stump above ground. Under that lower-priced option, a substantial piece of the tree would remain in place.
By the time the homeowner posted in a thread from July 2025, two other companies had each offered $1,900. The question was no longer just whether $2,700 was high. It was what each price would actually leave behind…