Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles (Post 1835049)

well if he has dead trees on his property, I would call someone, so you don't have to deal with this again. But here it is also the responsibility of the person whose yard it falls in to clean it up.

I live in a house that is at least 125 yrs old - it was the original house on a huge farm that about 95 yrs ago was slowly sold off, so its all neighborhoods. But in my backyard is one of the oldest, biggest trees around probably closer to 200 yrs old. Anyhow, a few years ago, this guy buys the house next door to me & one day calls me on the phone - I'd never met him, which meant he had to have gone to the county assessor's website, found my name & looked me in the phone book.

He calls over telling me, your tree is hanging partially over my house & I want you to cut it down because there are limbs hanging over my bedroom and I don't want them to fall off & crash into my room & kill me :rolleyes: -- I told him I would do no such thing. He was so ignorant - he couldn''t see the hundreds of dollars he was going to save on air conditioning due to the tree shading his stucco house. I can go for weeks without ever turning my air on because of this tree & the stucco. He had no regard for the environment & the life of this tree or my personal property.

I told him, I would do no such thing, the tree is very much alive. I questioned him why he would have ever bought the house if he was so afraid of my tree. He was a jerk on so many other levels in the short time he owned the house. I was glad when he moved, although that house has been owned by a succession of royally idiotic people - now the people there have backed into my wooden fence & the only thing holding it up is the frozen ground & the little bit of twine I've strung around the fence & the posts. Would love to have them pay for the damage and repair - but I won't be holding my breath :mad:

So I know how bad neighbors can be.

Originally Posted by bchgirl (Post 1835947)

Here while the neighbor couldn't cut down your entire tree....anything hanging over the property line is fair game for him to cut back.

Originally Posted by meganium (Post 1836490)

well Yeah my electric was on when i woke up this morning..My husband has left for the day. My babies staring barking and I looked out and neighbor was down there looking.....He was probably thinking Geesh mike has a lot of work to do...Wonder when he's gonna get it done?....

O well for now it can lay there and maybe in the middle of the night some big gust of wind will come blow it back in his yard.lol

Originally Posted by Bizzymammabee (Post 1834835)

your neighbor sounds like a jackass.

Originally Posted by Grayson's mom (Post 1837657)

If the trees are dead then that's a whole nother story and if you took him to court you would win. You would have to have proof the trees are dead but according to tree law you would win. If in fact the trees are dead