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My daughter was living in California a few years ago, and had a couple of nice large trees in her back yard. The rear neighbor was like the OPs neighbor. They used a probe to inject weed killer down into the roots from their side of the fence, and bragged about how they killed her tree. She took them to court, and collected $13,000 in damages (value of trees of that size and cost to remove), court costs and attorney fees from the neighbor. He got so angry that after paying her he sold his home and moved. She had some friends that grew up in logging business, that took them down for her for free, and they cut up the wood and shared it with her for the fireplace.
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It's unbelievable the stories you hear, yet I know that people like this are out there. Outrageous! And note that HE got mad at HER because she was aggrieved about losing her tree, and did something about it. He couldn't take responsibility for his act of sabotage. Oh well--good riddance!
There are some strange, borderline scary people out there.
BTW, how did she prove he injected weed killer into the tree?
This reminds me of something that should be on an episode of the documentary Fear Thy Neighbor on the Investigation Discovery Channel. This is a civil matter, sounds like. Contact legal aid and see what your rights are.
This reminds me of something that should be on an episode of the documentary Fear Thy Neighbor on the Investigation Discovery Channel. This is a civil matter, sounds like. Contact legal aid and see what your rights are.
Her rights are to grow trees on her own property, as long as they are maintained and not a hazard to the property of others. Why would she need Legal Aid to establish her rights?
I didn't really know where to post this but I was looking for some advice.
I have lived in my property for 5 years and at the end of our garden we have a rather tall tree, we have 6 ft fences and a tree that is around 13ft tall.
I have a neighbour who lives at the back of me who has been hassling me to cut this tree down ever since I moved in. She maybe leaves it 6 months before bugging me about it again.
The issue she has is that the tree blocks out the morning sun from her garden but she gets it in the afternoon and evenings. Around 5 months ago she wrote me a letter about the issues she has with this tree (yawn), the letter was not very pleasant and I pretty much ignored it as I am not having her sending me letters that contain swear words.
I had someone in to give me a quote as to what it would cost to cut this tree down a while ago and the quote was $900!!!!!! I was not paying that especially as the tree doesn't bother me.
Today was a very sunny day here so I sat in my garden in the morning. She came out and she starts asking me questions about this tree and making snide comments about how she wishes she could see the sun and other snide little comments over the fence...... I snapped and told her that if she wants the tree gone then she should pay for it! she outright refuses to pay to have the tree gone and thinks I should be the one too.
I am so sick of her and hearing about this damn tree, everytime I try to have a bit of quiet time in my yard she comes out and basically harasses me about it! I'm not attached to the tree if it needs to go then it needs to go but I refuse to pay for it, I didn't even plant it! it was here when I moved in!
Please could anyone help me on what to do or some advice before I just set the darn tree on fire or worse go insane!
Thank you
Tell her to plow her garden up and forget about it. If she sneers at that idea, ask her why she's insisting you get rid of your plants. Your plants are just as much yours as her plants are hers. Your plants have rights too.
Tell her to plow her garden up and forget about it..
lol! Seriously! Or she could put shade-loving plants in that area, and sun-loving plants elsewhere. It wouldn't even occur to me to tell a neighbor what to do with his landscaping, unless big branches were overhanging and potentially problematic. What's with this assumption that people can tell their neighbors what to do with their own yards? Who raises people to think that the world should accommodate them and their whims?
So, I was on my way home from the local gin-mil. Some crazy bat calls me and says she has a tree that needs removing.
I go check it out. Weren't nothing but a spindly overgrown shrub. About 13 feet.
How much? Well, it's a $50 job, but she was a nut job, so I quoted her $100.
Fine, she says.
So i take the chain saw out of my rusty old pickup, one cut at the bottom, one cut to make the two pieces fit into my pickup, and a third cut a ground level to eliminate the stump.
Ten minutes. Lady gives me $120! She's happy. I can tell she hates her neighbor.
Put the saw in the truck, and back to the gin-mil. Beers all around, I say to the bar maid. Ten dollars covered it. Ten bucks for a steak. $100 in the vacation fund....
Good work, if you can find it. Thankfully there is always a pizzed off neighbor somewhere.
It was easy in this case, for one thing the way the tree died. But the neighbor was so proud of what he had done, that he bragged about it to other neighbors he did not know that they hated him, and they were witnesses. In addition he bragged about it in front of the judge when questioned. He thought he was immune from any repercussions to him over doing something like that.
In some places, if a neighbor's tree branches are extending into your property, it is legal to cut those branches back to the property line (my mom did this once and the neighbor who owned the tree was NOT happy but there was nothing she could do about it - my mom was perfectly within her rights to cut back the branches overhanging on her property).
Apart from that, I can't fathom why anyone would think they have the right to expect their neighbors to change anything about their property. What's next? They're going to tell you to paint your house because they don't like looking at the color it is now?
There is a tree in one of our neighbor's yards which is starting to block our view of the mountains, but I would never dream of even asking, let alone expecting/demanding they prune or cut it down! The sense of entitlement some people have these days is shocking.
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I'd have it removed, it's the neighborly thing to do.
No, the neighborly thing to do is not make rude, profane, harassing, and expensive demands on property which does not belong to you. Giving into the demands of this harassment would only enable this crazy woman's sense of entitlement and encourage such inappropriate behavior. She is probably used to bullying people into getting what she wants - is that really the kind of behavior you want to endorse?
Given the profanity in the letter and the degree of her harassment, I would strongly consider going to the police and either logging an official complaint or getting a restraining order.
Danger or not, to keep peace, I'd remove it, I would obtain multiple estimates before committing to just one estimate at $900.00.
Why would anyone want to be miserable where they live? I'm not saying you have to be best friends with neighbors, keeping peace is the right thing to do. I'm sure if communication was opened, without attitude from either side, surely they could split the cost.
The neighbor's FIRST approach of the subject was to write an angry, profane letter. She clearly has no interest in compromising or approaching this without attitude.
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