Tree Service for HOAs in Frankfort, KY

HOA tree work has a problem no homeowner has: the decision is made by a board, spent from a shared budget, and second-guessed by every resident who liked that tree. Frankfort Tree Pros writes HOA proposals so a board can approve them without a special meeting.

What HOAs actually call us about

• Entrance features and monument plantings that have outgrown their beds
• Common-area trees over playgrounds, mailboxes, and parking
• Detention and retention basin edges closing in with volunteer growth
• Street trees in the right-of-way — where responsibility is often unclear
• Storm cleanup across multiple properties in one event
• Ash decline across a whole community planted in one era

The document a board can actually vote on

A quote that says “tree work — $X” gives a board nothing to approve. What works is an inventory: every significant common-area tree, its condition, its risk priority, and a cost against each line, split into do-now, do-this-year, and monitor.

That lets a board fund the urgent items this cycle and schedule the rest, and it gives the treasurer something defensible when a resident asks why money was spent.

Ash is the HOA budget problem

Communities built in the eighties and nineties planted ash heavily, and emerald ash borer is taking all of them on roughly the same schedule. An association that ignores it faces removing dozens of dead trees at once — dead ash, which is more expensive and more dangerous to take down than live ash.

Staging removals across several budget years, starting with the ones over structures and walkways, is dramatically cheaper. See emerald ash borer.

Notice, access, and the residents

We provide advance notice text an association can send to residents, work the schedule around trash and school-bus timing, and keep drives passable. Residents complain about surprises far more than they complain about tree work.

Certificates of insurance naming the association and the management company are provided before anyone starts.

Common questions

City of Frankfort, KY publishes local government services and contact information for the area.

Will you present to our board?

Yes. We can walk a board or committee through the inventory and priorities, in person or by sending a document written to be read without us there.

Who is responsible for street trees in the right-of-way?

It depends on the plat and the local ordinance, and it genuinely varies between subdivisions. Worth confirming with the city or county before the association pays for work it does not own.

Can costs be split across budget years?

Yes, and for a large ash liability that is usually the sensible approach. The inventory is built to make that staging straightforward.

Do you carry insurance naming the association?

Yes — a current certificate naming the association and the management company is provided before work begins.

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Last updated August 2026