Getting Tree Work Done at a Lake House You Don't Live in Full Time

A lot of properties around Camdenton, Osage Beach, Lake Ozark, Sunrise Beach, Laurie, and Gravois Mills belong to people who aren't there full time. Weekends, summers, a handful of visits a year, the rest of the time the place sits while the owner is elsewhere. Trees don't wait for your next visit to become a problem, and putting off tree work until you happen to be at the lake usually just means the problem gets bigger. Here's how the process actually works when you're arranging it from a distance.

One customer's actual experience

One of our reviewers, Steven D, described it directly: "I don't live at the lake full time. I was able to arrange an estimate and get some pretty extensive work done without being here. The crew did the job with care. They didn't break, damage, or steal anything and they cleaned up their mess well. They even removed some very ugly dead vines from one of the nearby trees (maybe they did that so they could climb it, but I'm thrilled anyway). It was worth the money spent do work with true professinals." That's a fair description of how it goes: an estimate arranged remotely, the actual work carried out while you're not there to watch it happen, and the property left the way you'd want it if you had been.

How the estimate works when you're not on site

We offer free on-site estimates, typically scheduled within a week. That doesn't require you to be present at the property. You can describe what you're seeing, we can arrange to come look at the trees ourselves, and once we've put a plan together you can approve it, ask questions, and set a schedule remotely, the same as Steven D did. We show up on the scheduled date, weather permitting, whether the owner is standing in the driveway or three states away.

What a good crew does when you're not there to watch

• Careful rigging over decks, docks, and structures, since a lot of the lake's tree work happens right up against the water and around things that are expensive to damage.
• Protective mats laid down to move heavy equipment across lawns without tearing them up, on the steep grades and soft ground common near the shoreline.
• Full cleanup of debris and branches when the job is done, not just the cutting.
• Respect for the property overall, exactly the point Steven D made about nothing being broken, damaged, or taken.

Why this matters more at the lake

Second-home ownership is common enough around here that we've built the way we work around it. That's part of why our staff are trained to Tree Care Industry Association standards and why we're fully insured with general liability and workman's compensation coverage, so that work done at a property while the owner isn't present is still work you can trust was done right and left the place in good shape. We're a family owned and operated business that has been serving the Camden County and Morgan County area since 1999, so this isn't a new arrangement for us, it's a large share of the work we do every year.

Repeat customers, from a distance

A number of our reviews come from people who've used us more than once, which matters if you're deciding whether to trust a crew with a property you're not there to supervise. Angie DeMoss wrote: "We've used them twice in the past 5 years and had an amazing experience both times." Melissa Jefferson, on her second time hiring us, said she was "always impressed with the friendliness, courtesy and prompt reply and service they provide here around the lake." That kind of repeat business is a reasonable thing to weigh when the work is happening while you're somewhere else entirely.

Getting in touch

You can reach us by phone or email to start the conversation, describe the property and what you're seeing, and we'll take it from there, including scheduling the on-site look ourselves if that's easier than trying to coordinate a walkthrough around your own travel dates. It's a straightforward way to keep a lake property's trees in good shape without needing to plan your whole visit schedule around a work crew.

If you own a property at the lake that you're not at full time and there's tree work that's been sitting on your list, whether it's a dead tree that needs to come down, overgrown limbs near the roof, or a stump that's been there since last season, reach out. We'll arrange the estimate, put a plan together, and get the work done on the schedule you set, whether or not you're standing there when it happens.