I've had similar issues with trees and neighbors and I've dealt with it a couple of different ways.1) If the tree looks like it could be a liability issue down the road then I will go ahead and trim it and/or have it cut down.2) If the what the neighbor is asking is totally ridiculous then I will offer to split the cost with them.

I grew up hearing location, location, location, but that is ridiculous.

The California real estate market is just ridiculous right now, so I want to go out of town or state and consider opportunities.

I'm currently operating an AIRBNB/short-term furnished rental in Avondale/32205 I Do Not Want To Sell, my son and I put a lot of pride in the property, and it has so much appreciation potential -- but due to unforeseen circumstances, my credit score has dropped and now my refi options are dreadful - (30yr 7% int, 2½ pts, ridiculous closing fees,10k early payoff penalty). 

Yes Canadian prices are ridiculous in most parts of Canada.

Now I don't know if something systematically changed to have them drop lower but that would be ridiculous today. 

When those things are done correctly, it works beautifully, and you can certainly become wealthy investing in RE, like most other things in life.Unfortunately because of the Feds monetary policies over the last few years, they have essentially promoted a re-hash of 02-07, and there is no shortage of people on BP who promote the SAME ridiculously high leverage program as Gurus, and then turn around and bash those Gurus systems for being irresponsible. 

3) The idea that you are going to pay someone $10-$12 per hour to do all your maintenance is ridiculous.

You have to give credit to anyone that chooses to try and run this country and take the scrutiny and open up their lives to the ridicule and insult.

It's a little long and ridiculous to me, but it works.The comment at the end about state approval is not accurate.The Realtor Association in a state works with their lawyers to get a contract organized that the Realtors can use successfully.