It’s a solid concrete building but windows are busted out and trees are grown up all around it and squatters have been in and out.

It is pretty close to being our dream house...the things that make it unique: inside the city of Atlanta but has a Buckhead estate feel - circle driveway, gates, 1.3 acres, mature trees and estates surrounding.

Would I have grounds to open a law suit against them for destruction of property, endangering tenants, and causing a lawsuit liability for us if they don't fix the situation?

Country Companies paid like a champ and didn't give me any grief or raise my rates.This week I had a tree blow down and go through a roof.

Lending Tree?

I’m looking at like 4K (low bid) to cut down a tree in the backyard that just needs to go, but coordinating anything with the city seems to take forever.

The biggest of repairs for a tree removal at $2k. 

Residential code enforcement officials love good, honest renovators who don't endanger the community.

In any case you need an attorney to help you come up with a decision-tree type plan.

You are going to hear a lot of pissed off people crying about the holidays as if you should be responsible for subsidizing the purchase of crap they don't need to be put under a tree so they can have one giant day of waste.