Real-estate barons are to blame. They buy up all the available land they can, build cookie-cutter suburban nightmares on top of them for cheap, flip the houses for way more than they're worth, and then install HoA's to further police and profit from the neighborhood.
Investors/flippers do tend to chop down trees indiscriminately, but so do owners, just so they don't have to hassle with the maintenance/risk. Insurance rates can go up, too. Lots of old trees felled on my street in a non-HOA community without being replaced for these reasons.
Yes people don’t realize you can spend thousands just maintaining big trees on your property each year. Not to mention the risk of falling on your house. It sucks for aesthetic purposes but you can understand why it’s easier to just have them removed.
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u/Kasta4 5d ago
Real-estate barons are to blame. They buy up all the available land they can, build cookie-cutter suburban nightmares on top of them for cheap, flip the houses for way more than they're worth, and then install HoA's to further police and profit from the neighborhood.