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I just bought a home and insurance company said I need to rectify trees leaning on my property or they'd cancel me. I asked the town to cut their trees (it's on a lot the town owns) in February.
It's late May and I've followed up 3 times, the young lady has a major attitude and says that's normal for it to take this long.
I expected better from this town. Is this how they treat people?
Also, on the same town-owned lot next to me, they have overgrown grass and bushes everywhere that is directly next to my property. It looks awful. They can't send a landscaper to spend 30 mins cutting down the grass? This is in front of a major high school.
How do I escalate this beyond the disgruntled young lady who answers the phone?
I just bought a home and insurance company said I need to rectify trees leaning on my property or they'd cancel me. I asked the town to cut their trees (it's on a lot the town owns) in February.
It's late May and I've followed up 3 times, the young lady has a major attitude and says that's normal for it to take this long.
I expected better from this town. Is this how they treat people?
Also, on the same town-owned lot next to me, they have overgrown grass and bushes everywhere that is directly next to my property. It looks awful. They can't send a landscaper to spend 30 mins cutting down the grass? This is in front of a major high school.
How do I escalate this beyond the disgruntled young lady who answers the phone?
If it's leaning past the property line, you can hire someone to cut the portion endangering your property. If you prefer to wait for the town to pay for the work, I'd say give them about 3-5 years.
If it's leaning past the property line, you can hire someone to cut the portion endangering your property. If you prefer to wait for the town to pay for the work, I'd say give them about 3-5 years.
I would just go down to Town Hall....I grew up in Huntington, once you're there in front of them they pretty much have to do something. My dad always went there if he had business with them. Never the phone. Otherwise, just trim them yourself and act dumb if anyone ever asks. The only glitch might be getting a tree service to do it if they know the Town owns the tree so play dumb there too.
Dont hold your breath. I bought a house in Nov 2014 in Farmingdale (TOB). My homeowners insurance co said they would cancel me if I did not have one of the sidewalk squares fixed because it is raised and someone could trip on it. It also has to be done by a licensed contractor and not a patch job by me. So, I asked around and someone said that the Town of Oyster Bay does these for $100 a square. Great idea, huh? So, I called and they came look. They left a note in my mailbox saying that since I requested them to come, they had to do a property to property inspection and they feel that I need to replace 13 of my squares. Seriously, they are fine with tiny hairline fractures that my homeowners don;t even care about. I had to get a letter from the town to send to my ins co so they didn't cancel me. It has been 2.5 years and still nothing from them.
Dont hold your breath. I bought a house in Nov 2014 in Farmingdale (TOB). My homeowners insurance co said they would cancel me if I did not have one of the sidewalk squares fixed because it is raised and someone could trip on it. It also has to be done by a licensed contractor and not a patch job by me. So, I asked around and someone said that the Town of Oyster Bay does these for $100 a square. Great idea, huh? So, I called and they came look. They left a note in my mailbox saying that since I requested them to come, they had to do a property to property inspection and they feel that I need to replace 13 of my squares. Seriously, they are fine with tiny hairline fractures that my homeowners don;t even care about. I had to get a letter from the town to send to my ins co so they didn't cancel me. It has been 2.5 years and still nothing from them.
Well the TOB has bigger problems to worry about, like staying out of jail....
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