The north end of the complex in which we lease has a thin strip of land behind the building with 7 or 8 trees that have to be removed.  They provide cover for bad people to do bad things and we don’t like bad people doing bad things near us even if we can’t see it.  This has led us to get a few quotes to have them removed.

The first quote was a “wow that’s high” $2300.  The second quote was an over the phone “about a grand but I don’t haul away”, nor apparently does he actually follow up and try to get work as we haven’t heard from him in over a week.  The third quote was $9500.  I may not be a math major, oh wait I am a math major, but that’s over $1300 per tree.  And they are not particularly big trees.  And how can two licensed contracters differ by a factor of 4?

 Of course the $9500 bidder has been more persistant about following up.  I guess an extra 7 grand a week gives you time for that kind of stuff.