Neighbor is highly unstable and violent, so would prefer to not provoke her unless necessary.

The tree that is in front of my neighbors house makes it difficult for anyone that parks in front of it to open their car door. As a result, people will park way to far in front of it causing the next person that parks in front of my house to block my driveway. We have called 311 before and they either never show up and once they said the tree was perfectly fine where it was. There has been multiple times where I have came home from work and couldnt get in to my driveway or couldnt turn out of it to go to work. What do i do?

We are selling a family members house and found out the buyer had a tree and a bush removed from the backyard two weeks before closing. The house is currently vacant and they did not get permission from us to remove.

What are our options? This can’t be legal.

UPDATE: a lot of people were asking why we care. This family member had passed away and the rose bush was planted by them. We also spent countless family events in the yard so it was more personal if anything.

We pulled out due to breach of contract. It didn’t sit well with us that the buyers did this and didn’t think our relative would want these type of people in their house.

Thank you for all the responses. I think I just needed the reassurance in what has already been a difficult situation.

UPDATE 2: we understand that the tree and bush could have been removed after the buyers owned the house in two weeks. That would have been fine because they have the right to do whatever they want to the house after they own it.

If the buyers had reached out to us and asked to have this done before closing, we probably would have agreed. Instead, they trespassed and went on the property (that we still legally own) without our permission, and vandalized our property by digging up a tree and bush. It is illegal and therefore, we do not want people that have no respect for the property and laws to live there.

I have a very large live oak in Florida. Like in the top 20 largest live oaks in Florida. Some of the branches are hanging low over a canal past my property line.

It doesn't bother me, but some neighbors are complaining about getting their boats by.

Should I tell them to call the local water management district to get them to do it? I don't mind if it is trimmed over the canal, but I don't have a boat or funds to do so.

Open Fields Doctrine

On our family farm in Chambersburg PA a small trail developed over many many years from an adjoining wooded area on to our wooded section. Then what was a little trail became a larger and wider small road that allowed 4 wheeler access. My Father in Law didn't outright stop this and even after an intrusive neighbor died it continued with the help of a "Deputy Game Warden." My son and I started to fill in the gap with old woven wire fencing and major piles of brush, but it would be removed. And we suspect the local deputy was opening it for a lady to get her horse through and perhaps for some illegal hunting activity. We continued to pile brush on the area, but the trail blazing trespasser would build side trails that I would interweave old wire, fencing and brush through. I'd come back in a couple of weeks or a month and that would be reopened. One day the deputy who did NOT own the adjoining land installed a No Trespassing sign facing toward our farm. This was a big insult as the trespassers always came onto our farm and not the other way around. I took the offending sign and tossed it deeper into the adjoining property and that resulted in a visit to my farm house by the deputy telling me that he could get me for littering. I told him to get off the farm and stay off! I would not be intimidated. Then I called his supervisors and the issue seemed to cool off after that. Eventually when we had full control over the family farm we had a high voltage livestock fence installed and that solved the issue of trespassers for good. I never felt over those years that we had total privacy when virtually anyone could enter the property and that we could be monitored by the Game Commission. By the way... the way the deputy knew I had tossed the sign is that he had installed a camera to watch the little road he had been maintaining into our farm. I'm very pleased that there is still a little justice in this world and that these trespassing deputies are being dismissed! Where we now live deep in Appalachia the terrain is so tough and the people are not so inclined to work too hard at trespassing. Combined with many neighbors with large acreage and the fact that WV at least where we live is much less inclined to bother landowners with such intrusion it makes for a greater sense of privacy. We live is a very low population county and don't have nosy neighbors like we did on the farm in PA. If a neighbor was against hunting they could just report you and the game commission could enter your land even without known violations. I hope WV will follow PA and end the Open Fields Doctrine.

trunk is on my property, tree is old and healthy maybe a hickory. limb itself is the size of a large tree. Am I responsible for this thing someday if it becomes diseased? It was planted long before I moved here. It overhangs the middle of their yard, but it is possible it could take down a shed Someday if it broke. limb is full of greenery right up to the top so is healthy.

We are building a fence, and have neighbors from hell on almost every side.

This particular section is 12-15 Norway spruce trees that have never been trimmed and are probably 40-50’ tall at this point. The trees are very close to the property line, but the trunks are 100% on my side. However the lower limbs extend well into the neighbors property.

Can I just trim them on my side and remove the branch without stepping foot on their property and be done with it? Is it really that simple?

We had a recent survey done so I can verify with 100% certainty where the property line is.

Hi,

I’m new here. I have a question. The tree on my neighbor’s side looks dead and could possibly fall in my backyard.

I’m not 100% sure if it’s within their property line or not, but it’s on their side (there’s a vacant land behind our fences). The tree next to it already fell down on their fence and they had to take care of that one.

In this case, should I reach out to them and offer to split the cost of cutting the tree? In that case if anything happens, I’d at least have written proof with insurance I was being proactive.

Thanks!

Parents lived in this house for 30 years + in the north east and neighbours bought from a nice old couple who we grew up around. They took out an orchard at the back of the garden and a well kept garden to plant a lawn on it. I can’t argue taste. It’s up to them but I’m just painting the picture. They then decided raise planning for an extension so they could have a big conservatory at the back, except at the time my parents discovered it would run a floor height at exactly the top of the boundary wall. Naturally they objected and the council agreed. They took this personally and proceeded to build something within the regs but then also determined to put down a “hedge” for “privacy”. As you can see, the hedge is not a hedge but a forest they placed against the dividing wall. At one stage there was a blockage in the waste pipes underneath the property and this was found to be due to one of the “hedges” having developed roots that had cut right through the clay pipes.
The hedges now tower over and into my parents garden. At least 30 ft high in some places. What chance do they have to regain some sunshine? Or are they doomed ?

I had a big healthy tree come down in a storm. It broke my fence and crashed into my neighbor’s yard, hitting one of his trees and dislodging some of that tree’s branches. Those branches and a big chunk of my tree are now dangling just above his HVAC unit and his deck, but luckily didn’t hit any of them.

I need to clear my side so that I can repair my fence, but if I cut my side then the rest of the tree, already on his side, will continue crashing down and likely ruin his HVAC and deck. He’s told me he can’t afford the removal right now. The house is an Airbnb so he doesn’t live there and is totally unbothered by it.

If I cut my side to clear it and the other end of the tree ruins his HVAC, I’m not responsible am I? It’s been a month since the tree fell. I’ve had arborists and tree removal companies come and tell me they would typically remove his side of the tree first so that his HVAC stays intact. But I need my fence repaired so that my dogs can’t get out of the yard.

I’ve only lived here for two months and don’t want to start bad blood with the neighbor but I don’t know what to do!

We have a Karen next door that can’t mind her own business.
We moved in this house two years ago new construction that was a nightmare that ended up in us suing the builder. We won btw. Anyway enough of that and onto my Karen.

Karen was nice enough at first. Then it came time to plant some trees or build a fence. We decided to plant trees. We planted 75 trees 8 inch’s inside the property line she tried to tell us prior to planting the trees that we were wrong about the property line but I got the county involved the original survey markers where still there.

About a month after planting trees Karen hired a man to do some tree trimming and weed eating around her property. He started trimming around our trees this caused some damage to a few trees.

I confronted her and him about this, she said she told him to not get near the trees. I don’t believe she did.

Fast forward to yesterday while we were at work she had the same idiot weedeat again this time he damaged 48 of our trees. When my wife confronted her she was like I will spray them with pruning spray. ( this will not save a girdled tree) and tell him not to do it again. She also tried to talk to me about it as soon as I got home. I was not as nice about it and told Karen that she owned us for 48 damaged trees that will not make through our Virginia winter.

She also accused me of yelling at her ect when I didn’t not. She also told me I should shoot myself yesterday.

I want to call the police and have a report made. Then if she doesn’t pay for the damages we should see her in small claims court. What says Reddit?

Edit: I am being told to add the fact that we discussed this with her and her wife prior to planting the trees they agreed to the location of the trees and welcomed them as they wanted the privacy also. I agreed that I would maintain the area around the trees