The clearest warning signs are sometimes the ones a property owner has lived alongside for years.
See the risk sooner.
Beyond a healthy appearance
A coastal tree risk assessment is a property visit where we check for the things that actually bring a tree down in a storm, not just whether it looks healthy.
When privacy grows into a problem
We had a customer selling her house whose realtor called us, not her, because a thorny olive (Russian olive, how people identify it around here) had grown right into her roof. Roots working into the shingles. She'd kept it because she wanted privacy, so nobody had ever touched it, and by then you couldn't see the house from the street. We cut it back to protect the roof before it did real damage. The homeowner loved that tree on her roof. Meanwhile it was headed toward a few thousand dollars in roof repair if it sat one more season.
The details that matter
That's what this is, really, most of what we're looking for isn't obvious to the person living there every day. Lean, roots that are compressed or pushed up, dead limbs, how close something actually sits to the house, the septic, the power lines.
Smaller problems are easier to handle
The sooner we catch it, the smaller the job usually is. We've walked onto properties where something that would've taken an hour to handle a few years back had turned into a much bigger, pricier conversation, just because nobody had eyes on it sooner.
Get ahead of the next storm.
Tell us about your property and what you have noticed. We will help you find the right next step.