Trust me, I'm a Professional. (Yes, honestly; I worked at the Los Angeles Country Arboretum for more than twenty years.)
And yet, I have about the same problems you do, albeit with trees you'd consider more exotic. The Paulownia in the back yard is getting entangled with the Power Lines, the Olive is getting much too big & cluttered with suckers, the Bougainvilla is lopsided because of the trimming by the neighbor (who likes its flowers but doesn't understand that they form only at the tips of long branches -- it's the Nature of the Beast), the Camphor tree in front has seriously large branches that threaten to crash through the roof, and roots that have lifted the blacktop driveway as much as three feet in places (this being Southern California, garages serve the functions attics and basements do in some parts of the country), several California fan palms are getting almost too big for me to remove, a black fig (barely edible) is about ready to invade the sewer-line, and the Angels' Trumpet, though barely tall enough to be called trees, has spread across most of the yard. Almost all of these are volunteer trees (or, as I sometimes say, weed trees).
And having it all cleaned up (I'm too old, decrepit, or lazy to do much of the work) will reveal that the house is in serious need of repainting & window-replacement. I'm thinking in terms of "It'll cost almost as much as the original purchase price of the house (c. 36,000, in 1955)". Similar (though better-maintained) places in the neighborhood are being offered at $265,000, so it might be worth the cost, but....
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And yet, I have about the same problems you do, albeit with trees you'd consider more exotic. The Paulownia in the back yard is getting entangled with the Power Lines, the Olive is getting much too big & cluttered with suckers, the Bougainvilla is lopsided because of the trimming by the neighbor (who likes its flowers but doesn't understand that they form only at the tips of long branches -- it's the Nature of the Beast), the Camphor tree in front has seriously large branches that threaten to crash through the roof, and roots that have lifted the blacktop driveway as much as three feet in places (this being Southern California, garages serve the functions attics and basements do in some parts of the country), several California fan palms are getting almost too big for me to remove, a black fig (barely edible) is about ready to invade the sewer-line, and the Angels' Trumpet, though barely tall enough to be called trees, has spread across most of the yard. Almost all of these are volunteer trees (or, as I sometimes say, weed trees).
And having it all cleaned up (I'm too old, decrepit, or lazy to do much of the work) will reveal that the house is in serious need of repainting & window-replacement. I'm thinking in terms of "It'll cost almost as much as the original purchase price of the house (c. 36,000, in 1955)". Similar (though better-maintained) places in the neighborhood are being offered at $265,000, so it might be worth the cost, but....