Look at trees when buying
From today's Newsday:
When real estate investor James Skinner and his business partner Ken Klein toured the Bellmore home they purchased as an investment a year ago, they scrutinized the condition of the basics: the windows, the roof, the bedrooms and bathrooms.
The one element theEast Meadow-based men overlooked may cost them a few thousand dollars to fix.
"After all these years of investing, we missed it," says Skinner, referring to the vertical split in the trunk of the oak tree on the left corner of the property's front yard. Skinner and Klein came across the split, most visible 10 feet up the trunk, about a month ago. If not taken down, Skinner says, the tree could fall. He says it will cost $4,000 to remove it professionally.
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