Thank you so much, Linda! I should add that the chair seat covers are not original.

I'd take the money and run. No current buyer really cares what you paid for it 10 years ago. To help you part with it and put things in perspective, if your current set originally cost $1200 and you've had it for 10 years then your per year cost was only $120 or about 33 cents per day. Anything you can get out of it is just a discount on your new purchase. But I know where you're coming from. I have a 30+ year old dining set that I'm struggling to part with. But my issue is finding something else that is the size I need in a style that fits and a quality I like. Guess I should just list it and once it's gone I'll be forced to be less picky.

sorry no. BUT-another houzzer told me about putting a photo into google and it will come up with matches for your photo. I did this with a piece of art work. Amazing tool. It might help you identify your set

find some leaves on the ground.. and take a pic of those with a scale.. if you can ... reminds me a bit of redbud or poplar with those heart shaped leaves ... but they are too small in these pix to tell for sure ... whether or not something might fall down.. really depends on whether it will fall on anything ... of value or importance .. this tree looks like it pretty far from anything important.. so why would there be any imperative to have it removed.. btw.. i dont recommend chopping it.. unless you just want some backbreaking aerobic exercise .. lol ... and i presume the car isnt parked there all the time .... in theory.. any tree might fall down.. but we dont really go bare earth to avoid such.. its all about the odds ... and starting with an ID was spot on .... anyway... in tree time.. counted in decades.. ya.. it might fall down.. i dont see any reason why it need be done inside a few weeks or months ... ken ps: perhaps your realtor ought to stick to selling houses.. i dont see any indication from the lawn.. that the tree is aggressive with stealing water .. if it were.. grass wouldnt grow there.. and i note.. there are plants growing under it.. right at the trunk... that doesnt happen with water hog trees .... and btw.. if you decide to have it removed.. thats a bargaining point for a low offer.. if the market will bare such ... on reread.. i see you already bought the house.. congrats .. pps: whats a neighborhood gardener.. and why does he or she have a hate on for this tree ... probably his car parked under it... lol ... or he wants you to hire him to remove it????