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An appraiser pauses at the curb, head tilted toward a maple with split limbs and exposed roots. In Seattle, property valuations now factor tree health and visible maintenance into condition ratings, so what happens beneath the canopy matters as much as house paint and gutters.
Homeowners who keep records of pruning, pest treatments, and arborist visits make appraisals more straightforward and cut down on back-and-forth with agents and lenders. Start with dated photos and service slips, schedule major pruning a few weeks before inspections, and keep a simple maintenance log to show steady care. Noting tree locations relative to foundations, driveways, and power lines helps clarify safety concerns and expected upkeep. A little preparation makes the evaluation smoother at closing.
Seattle appraisers now use specific scoring points tied to tree structure, placement, and visible care. During site review, they measure canopy spread relative to nearby roofs, note clearance from power lines, and record signs of pruning quality. Exposed roots near foundations or cracked pavement often trigger risk comments. Each item links directly to a condition category that influences the final property rating.
Appraisers compare visible upkeep with the overall condition of trees on the property. Regular maintenance performed by a reputable tree service Seattle company will show consistent care that reduces visible risks like dead limbs or overextended branches. When trees appear healthy and well managed, lenders view the property as lower-risk and easier to maintain long term.
Healthy trees increase curb appeal and protect nearby structures. Strong root systems prevent cracking in sidewalks and driveways, while even canopy growth shades roofs and windows, reducing long-term wear. Visible pruning cuts and trimmed limbs show steady care, signaling to appraisers that upkeep is consistent rather than reactive. Balanced, clean crowns indicate stable condition.
Regular service from an ISA-certified arborist adds measurable value. Reports detailing structural trimming, pest treatments, and soil amendments give evaluators clear evidence of reliable care. Properties with organized documentation and technician notes appear safer for lenders and buyers across Seattle’s varied urban environments.
A clear care record gives evaluators verified information instead of guesswork. Detailed logs with dates for trimming, soil treatments, and pest work establish a reliable baseline; signed service slips and short technician notes strengthen credibility. Certified arborist reports outlining treatment plans and expected outcomes provide measurable proof of property management, anchoring each appraisal in documented evidence.
Dated before-and-after photos create a visual history of hazard repairs that support written records. Upload organized files for review before inspection to minimize follow-ups and keep the evaluation focused on safety, consistency, and steady care from season to season.
Scheduling maintenance by season helps trees recover before inspections and prevents rushed cleanup that looks like neglect. Plan major pruning six to eight weeks ahead of appraisal dates so cuts seal and foliage fills in naturally. Complete stump removals, limb hauling, and surface cleanup early to present a clear, even-grade yard with no debris or exposed roots.
Apply soil nutrients and pest treatments several weeks in advance for visible recovery and improved canopy color. Inspect cabling and bracing hardware for wear and tighten exposed fittings. Confirm all service dates with an ISA-certified arborist so records, photos, and visit timing align with appraisal schedules and show steady year-round care.
ISA-certified arborist reports lend clear credibility during appraisals and showings. Their assessments set a recognized standard of care and are more useful when the arborist knows Seattle soil, pests and permit rules. Request brief summaries detailing structural pruning, soil improvements and pest treatments so appraisers can map specific work to condition ratings.
A standing service agreement keeps dated invoices, technician notes, and annual summaries together, simplifying requests from agents or lenders. Regular contracts encourage timely follow-ups and build a consistent paper trail showing ongoing upkeep. Keep concise written outcomes and photos after major work so you can present a single packet to an evaluator or upload files before inspection.
Seattle appraisers now record canopy shape, root exposure, and pruning quality as measurable indicators of property condition. Homeowners who keep dated photos, service slips, and brief arborist summaries provide inspectors with clear proof of continuous care. Scheduling pruning, pest treatments, and soil work several weeks before valuation helps trees recover and appear stable. Organizing documentation by tree location allows faster reference during appraisal and prevents confusion about maintenance history. Healthy, well-documented trees minimize liability risks, improve condition ratings, and demonstrate visible evidence of responsible upkeep that buyers, lenders, and insurers interpret as a sign of long-term property reliability.
from Review Blog https://everymoviehasalesson.com/blog/2025/12/when-seattle-home-appraisers-start-asking-about-tree-condition-be-ready
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With the spine of a sports movie, the maniacal misadventure Marty Supreme from director Josh Safdie invites and pushes viewers to get into a tizzy, more or less, over ping pong. For film aficionados with simpler tastes than finery produced by A24, there’s a good chance they haven’t seen ping pong depicted this much on the big screen since the 2007 oddball comedy, Balls of Fury. Holy macaroni, other than securing ping pong consultant Diego Schaaf, Marty Supreme is far from that lemon, and is filled with the kinds of harsh personas and agitated tension that would squish an entire bushel of lemons without wincing.
Harsh and agitated, you ask? Yes, and here’s an example. According to the title character of Marty Supreme, we’re naming the sport wrong right off the bat. In a running gag not overtly hilarious on the level of something found in a Naked Gun movie but effective to get eye-rolling chuckle, every time the name “ping pong” is spoken to Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Mauser, he offhandedly corrects the confronted person with crude prissiness to call the sport its proper name of “table tennis.”
When he does it, Marty is perturbed and petulant because he sees the majority of people not taking his chosen passion seriously. He zips right past passive-aggressive whining to in-your-face indignation as quickly as his drop shot. The behavior brewing—which only gets more irrational and deranged as the movie goes on—creates another cinematic litmus test for Marty Supreme when it comes to embracing the prescribed tizzy.
We have to find a way to root for an asshole. Worse, depending on your own contempt or adoration for the debate of formality of table tennis versus ping pong, we have to root for an asshole playing that predominantly inconsequential sport. Pin that for later.
Loosely inspired by the flamboyant former table tennis champion Marty Reisman, Marty Supreme is set in 1952, where the self-proclaimed best American champion of table tennis is languishing in the Lower East Side of New York City, living with his old biddy mother (Fran Drescher, criminally underused in a comeback role) and laboring at a shoe store run by his uncle. After banging and—complete with a Look Who’s Talking!-style opening credits sequence—impregnating his married paramour, Rachel Mizler (2025’s very busy Odessa A’zion), in the storeroom, Marty lifts the money owed to him from the store safe and flies to London for the British Open, expecting to win and be pampered like a champion professional athlete.
LESSON #1: OVERCONFIDENCE PERSONIFIED— Mary Mauser sees himself to be uniquely positioned to become America’s first superstar of the sport, with the potential to fill stadiums, and pitches his greatness to anyone who will listen and anyone who can elevate his status. A proud Jew, he takes it a step too far, calling himself “the ultimate product of Hitler’s defeat.” At 23, Marty has branded his own table tennis ball and hopes to market the first high-visibility orange ball. In London, he verbally tears down his competition and weasels his way into the wandering eye, good graces, and illicit bedsheets of Kay Stone (Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow), a retired movie star and trophy wife to inkpen magnate Milton Rockwell (Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, planted as the domineering villain).
When Marty loses in the British Open final to the unflappable post-war Japanese champion Koto Endo (real-life deaf Olympian Koto Kawaguchi), he refuses to accept his defeat and declining circumstances. After taking entertainment money beneath his standards by working as vaudeville halftime and pre-game entertainment for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team with fellow champ Béla Kletzki (the overqualified Géza Röhrig from Son of Saul), he returns to New York City, heartset on making the trip to Japan for the world championship and a rematch with Endo.
This is where Marty Supreme and Josh Safdie flip the proverbial big switch from the old Frankenstein set and jolt this movie to a different voltage level of electricity, and it starts with being handcuffed in his mother’s apartment, wrapped in a towel from the shower. After a daring fire escape chase with little else but the shirt on his back, Marty goes on the run with a mission to scrap together the necessary money and evade the law. Taking a page from last year’s Best Picture winner, Anora, which stopped its steady passage of time for a combative “one wild night” escapade, the massive and arduous middle of Marty Supreme becomes a turbulent comedy of errors and a tawdry cavalcade of lucky breaks.
LESSON #2: THE DEPTHS ONE WOULD STOOP FOR THEIR OWN GAIN— The longer and weirder the odyssey careens in Marty Supreme, the more shocking the litany list of sins, fuckups, and indiscretions becomes. For our main character, all of it tests the Top Gun line of “Son, your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash.” Continuing into James Tolkan’s fiery chew-out monologue, there’s admittedly a thrilling point in Marty Supreme, watching it spew its narrative guts of pitfalls all over the place, where we, the viewer, fall in line like Goose to answer “Thank you, sir” to the interjection of “And you, asshole, you’re lucky to be here.” Marty Supreme indeed is an untamed plunge that has to be seen and weathered to believe (something this review refuses to spoil further).
LESSON #3: ROOTING FOR THE ASSHOLE— With each new despicable and desperate act committed by Marty, inflicting selfish collateral damage to others around him, his foolhardy pride becomes more incorrigible. His collective impatience for money, dreams, and respect is huge. Compared to most sports movie tropes presenting emerging giants among men, romantic depictions of universally embraced sports, or, at the very least, lovable losers we can relate to, Marty Supreme gives us a “hero” who is reprehensible, through and through. As aforementioned, we somehow have to root for that guy or, contrarily, any measure of well-deserved comeuppance. How you find yourself cheering—or adamantly not—in Marty Supreme is crucial to the experience and will almost certainly split the theater patrons.
Deemed the hero or his own villain, Timothée Chalamet chisels an unforgettable scoundrel of a specimen in Marty Supreme, striding that fine line between complete hate and wow-level talent. Through posture, gait, swirls of hair, beads of sweat, and devious grins on top of table tennis chops, the Wonka and Dune franchise star invents a singular personality of a narcissistic champion mired with the path of a loser so warped and wound differently than everyone else in the movie that his performance leaps off the screen. He and his tailspin are spellbinding, all ominously backed by an aggressive musical score from synthesizing Uncut Gems composer Daniel Lopatin and tone-setting, on-the-nose soundtrack pulls from the 1980s.
Those infusions, coupled with edgy camera work from cinematographer and two-time Oscar nominee Darius Khondji, attempt to enliven the striking period detail of the production and engineer a big game feel rocketing towards a finale. In doing so, Marty Supreme can be as frenetic as its lead, and those brazen balls are what people come for with a Safdie film. There’s an energy—an intoxicating and exhausting fix—to hitchhiking on this downward spiral. However, when it’s all said and done in this male-dominated affair, you’re back to scrounging for or justifying the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of Lesson #3 and the fact that this is, once again, a tizzy made for ping pong.
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from Review Blog https://everymoviehasalesson.com/blog/2025/11/movie-review-marty-supreme
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