Dealing with Live Christmas trees

Christmas is over and your residents need to dispose of their live Christmas trees. My association has 166 residents and about 1/3 of them use live trees each year, which in years past created a huge problem.  

We would find trees in hallways, behind buildings, in the woods and just as bad in the trash dumpsters. Renting a dumpster for old trees is very costly so we looked for an alternative. Our property manager suggested a solution which was to use our landscaper to dispose of the trees. Most larger landscapers have to deal with recycling trees and other landscaping foliage.  

Our current landscaper actually offers a service where they come and pick up all of the trees for a small fee per tree and haul them back to their facility where they use a chipper to recycle them.

When all you have to do is move your vehicle…

After 16 years of condominium living it still amazes me how many people have to be push started just to get them to move their vehicles after a winter storm. 

We are not asking them to do any work other than clear off the car and move it so the plows can come through.  Doesn’t sound like an unreasonable request? 

How many single family home owners would like to only have that one little responsibility after a snow storm?

What is even better is when they do finally move their vehicle at their convenience they leave the space full of snow and take one of the spaces which was cleared because their neighbor was responsible – that really sends the sparks flying…

I would love to hear feedback on this issue