How many trees do you have? Some trees are nice, but there comes a point where a property simply has too many trees. This is true in terms of leaves and landscaping. It's also reflected in the value of your property. Trees make value go up for a while, but when there are too many trees, value starts to decline.

For example, I used to give tomato plants to kids I know. One family had an expensive house out in the suburbs, but they had only one corner, about 3' by 3', that got enough sun to grow a tomato plant. In a few years, that was gone too.

Those people were prisoners of their trees.