many a roofer trees guys
Like you, we have no regulation. We have a tree service here, that advertises with massive phone book ads. He list topping as one of his major services. He started as a roofer, worked as a foreman for a company that my brother used on his houses. We believe he was a illegal that married one of the Boss's nieces or sumtin, getting the green card or whatever. He then qualified for a govt minority biz owner grant, was told it was 400g's, but dont know if it is true. We were building his bosses house. He and his boss seen that me and my cousin were at the job to meet my bro for lunch. They came out and started asking bout the tree biz (never dreaming that it would end up like this) we let him know whats up. Next month there is a new tree service fully funded by the Roofing biz owner. They do horrible work and they will top your tree with a smile, then comeback and re-roof your house after the jack it up. They have tons of equip and a nice new shop, all funded thru the roofing and the grant.
My bro knew this chick that was friends with the other roofing/tree service owners wife. We had a storm, she had some stuff go down, insurance job. They came in, cut the stuff off the house, with in the hour they were done. Collected a check for over 3g's and bailed, leaving the stuff on the ground, blocking her access to the doors and driveway. She didn't want to pay them, but felt threatened, they promised they would come back, never did. She had a Marine son just back from Iragastain, with some major PTSD going on. I felt bad so we went over and cleaned it up. I never do this, but because of the jarhead, I felt obligated. I think you are right, roofers often cut branches away, some how this leads them to the tree service. In this area, this is really bad, the tree hackers here are bad enough, but the roofing industry here is much MUCH worse! Hackers who cant hack.............roof!
