There are 2 large trees in the back yard that are leaning over the house and I am working to have a tree service company remove them as soon as possible.

The only thing I know I would be weary of is that we have tons of Joshua trees around here and they are protected so you can't cut them down.

Usually it was the city owned oak tree I was not legally allowed to trim. 

Anyone here had any success buying a note from Green Tree?

Check out Lending Tree and Angel Oak for HML's. 

It was like picking money out of a tree.

It never ceases to amaze me how many newbies are willing to risk a few thousand hard earned cash because they can't see the forest for the trees.

Many days, people who lived in the neighborhood would stop by and ask how I made the grass so green or where I was finding all the trees, bushes, and flowers.

These parcels are usually tidelands or where old surveys state; corner at the old maple tree, follow the creek, etc., and/or measured by links and chains then are corrected with GPS surveys.

@Bill Rogers unless you can show that you have access to sufficient cash, then you are barking up the wrong tree.