Neighbor lady came over and gave me crap for cutting it down, she said she loved to see the change in color of the leaves in the fall.
Weird thing is I had one on the other side of the property, that also started to get rotted, got taken out about 5 years ago, they were both about the same size.
It would drop all its leaves, the other one would not drop any leaves until it was bare. Never seen that before.