Plain talk up front, because a tree leaning over your house is stressful enough without wondering who you are actually dealing with. This page explains exactly what Lexington Tree Pros is, what it is not, and how the money works.
Lexington Tree Pros is a referral service for homeowners, landowners, and farm managers in the Lexington area who need tree help. We publish plain English information about tree problems in the Bluegrass, take your call or your form, and pass your request to a local tree service contractor who serves your part of town. The contractor schedules the evaluation, assesses your trees, and, if work is needed, quotes and performs it under a contract directly with you.
We exist because finding the right tree company cold is its own project, usually started the day a storm or a dead ash forces the issue. A homeowner looking at a cracked limb over a bedroom usually wants one thing: a qualified local contractor to come look at the tree. Arranging that introduction is the whole of our job.
Kentucky has no state license for tree service. There is no state tree license to hold, to check, or to print on this page, and any site that shows you a Kentucky state tree license number is showing you something that does not exist. That makes your own checks on insurance and competence more important here than in a licensed trade, which is why our standards below focus on what can actually be verified.
Before a contractor receives referrals through this site, they must:
We do not print any license number for a contractor partner on this site. If a contractor tells you they hold a license or certification, ask them for the document directly and check it with the issuing body.
The referral costs you nothing. Contractor partners pay us a flat fee for operating this marketing and referral service. That fee is the same whether your job is large, small, or never happens at all, and it is never a percentage of your contract and never a charge added to your bill. We do not sell your information to data brokers or to lists of unrelated companies; your details go to a contractor partner for the purpose of answering your request, as our privacy policy spells out.
Because our fee does not depend on your job, nothing about this service rewards steering you toward a bigger job. If the contractor's honest answer is that your tree needs pruning and monitoring rather than removal, that answer costs us nothing.
Tree behavior is local. A borer killed ash in Chevy Chase, a Bradford pear splitting in Garden Springs, and a paddock oak declining outside Versailles are three different problems that happen to share a name. The guides on this site are written from the conditions of this area on purpose, so that when you talk to the contractor who evaluates your trees, you can ask sharper questions and hear whether the answers match the ground you live on.