The person who resides in that house should be sued for not chopping down that tree. Every homeowner is responsible to check their property at least once or twice a year for dead trees and then have them properly cut down.

It’s a big problem all over Lakewood today. People build new homes or make additions of which they think that those big beautiful old trees will survive, but always the roots get crushed and usually the trees bottoms are over covered with top soil thus rotting it as well as cutting off it’s oxygen supply, or many old trees simply get diseased and die on their own.
But when it comes to professionally getting them cut down most homeowners become so stingy and cheap, those dead trees will sit there for years. When I walk to Shul which is only a few blocks I see 10’s of big totally dead trees all over of which they will remain for years and don’t get taken care of. It’s a big sin, someone will eventually get hurt.