Originally posted by @Shawn Root:@Jesse T.That's great info. 

The roots of this tree creep into their property, as the tree is literally at the very edge of our property.  

@James Peoples, I'm rooting for you here too!!

It's going to involve an excavator & I am quite scared about the bill.I bought a great rental property except that is has roots in the plumbing/sewer lines.Thoughts on "clean outs" (which allow Roto Rooter good access to chop out the roots)?

Get to the root source of the moisture problem and remedy it.Then do the following.1.

The many hours working in construction rooted a great interest in design, ended up going to college, graduated with a master ’s degree in Architecture in 2009, and have been working for a Boston architectural firm since then.I first witness the power of real estate through my father.

This will cause them to get top heavy and they’ll either fall over because the root ball can’t handle the added weight, or they’ll just snap under the extra pressure.All this I envisioned happening to the roofs and power lines around these vacant houses as I lay cuddled up in my warm bed.Since we had no tenants, all we could do to protect these properties was get faucet covers on the spigots, make sure the heat was on and pray that a pine tree didn’t snap and cause the power to go out.

I believe this is from the tree’s roots lifting up part of the foundation.

The "Goo" then hardens and keeps the slab at height (for a while), because it's tree roots and soil conditions that make the cement move.Sometimes they drill hole to inject it, sometimes they come at it from the side.It's FAST..you can look it up on the web (see YouTube).For the Mockups I use GIMP....it's like Photoshop with less features, but enough to get the job done.There is a learning curve to it.

Fundamentally, it is a simple four step process: 1) Identify the problem. 2) Determine the root cause of the problem.