OT: New Neighbor, Old Trees

[UCTitleTown]

I had a tree in my yard fall on my neighbor's property and it was my responsibility to remove it. In hindsight given the time and effort it took, I should've paid to have it removed, but decided to buy a chainsaw and do it myself. I saved a lot of money, but it was a major job between cutting it into chunks and moving it to my yard to split. The good thing is I got at least 5 or 6 years of firewood from it.

When I was young, a crazy neighbor cut a tree down that was on our property. We called the cops who basically said, "Well the tree's gone, not much we can do about it." It obviously created bad blood after that. This was before suing was popular.

 

[Palatine]

 

[gtcam]

If any part of the trunk is in your property you have a say so. If not it’s their decision. Perhaps the business card was in some way an invitation to touch base with them but proper etiquette would dictate leaving a note on the card for you to call them ASAP. I would plant some fast growing trees on that same side making sure trunk migration won’t encroach their property. Want to piss them off- plant some weeping willows but they tend to travel. Good luck

 

[Lefty2one]

Their trees they don’t need anyone input or permission! If the branches fell and did damage to a neighbors property they would be responsible! My question is what did you want the owner of the tree to do?

That's not true.

Source: Had three of my neighbor's 60' pine trees fall and hit my house/deck this year. It's our house, our damage, and our insurance had to take care of it. It doesn't matter whose trees they are.

 

[Lefty2one]

I had a tree in my yard fall on my neighbor's property and it was my responsibility to remove it.

Curious as to who told you that. I had the opposite happen last summer and it was my responsibility to remove it. The neighbor kindly offered to help, and did help, but he didn't have to even though it was his tree.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Curious as to who told you that. I had the opposite happen last summer and it was my responsibility to remove it. The neighbor kindly offered to help, and did help, but he didn't have to even though it was his tree.

This is the answer in CT. Landers keepers.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Curious as to who told you that. I had the opposite happen last summer and it was my responsibility to remove it. The neighbor kindly offered to help, and did help, but he didn't have to even though it was his tree.

He told me. The tree trunk was on my property. Doesn't that make it mine?

 

[XLCenterFan]

@Hey Adrien! I have worked in the tree care industry in CT for about 15 years now. What your neighbors did was not neighborly, but it was within their rights.

 

[XLCenterFan]

I had a tree in my yard fall on my neighbor's property and it was my responsibility to remove it. In hindsight given the time and effort it took, I should've paid to have it removed, but decided to buy a chainsaw and do it myself. I saved a lot of money, but it was a major job between cutting it into chunks and moving it to my yard to split. The good thing is I got at least 5 or 6 years of firewood from it.

When I was young, a crazy neighbor cut a tree down that was on our property. We called the cops who basically said, "Well the tree's gone, not much we can do about it." It obviously created bad blood after that. This was before suing was popular.

If you're in CT this is wrong. The only way you would have to pay for that is if you had someone come out and inspect it, and had them deem it hazardous, and you then did not have it removed. When a healthy tree falls, or a tree falls that no one knew was unhealthy, it is considered an "act of God." Wherever it lands is who pays to clean it up. Most insurance will cover something like this as well.

 

[XLCenterFan]

That's not true.

Source: Had three of my neighbor's 60' pine trees fall and hit my house/deck this year. It's our house, our damage, and our insurance had to take care of it. It doesn't matter whose trees they are.

This is correct. A tornado could bring your tree 5 yards down...it's their responsibility as well.

 

[UConnJim]

There was a big tree in our backyard that was right next to our yard. It was constantly shedding large branches that would have killed someone if they hit them. I suggested to my neighbor that he should consider taking it down but he declined. So, I had a tree company trim the dead branches over our yard. Well, 3 years later, the tree fell on his house and caused major damage!

 

[RichZ]

Neighbor's tree fell on my roof about 18 months ago. My insurance paid for the damages to my house, which amounted to about 20K all told. But they inspected the tree, and claimed that the neighbor should have known it was going to split, by the fact that water had 'obviously' been seeping into the crotch where the dual trunks separated. The stains from the seepage were obvious -- after it broke. Can't say they would have been, prior to that. But my insurance company's lawyers and his insurance companies lawyers threatened each other with suits, and eventually came to some kind of shared cost agreement between them.

And the town picked up part of it, because part of the trunk was within 15 feet of the road and the town's responsibility.

 

[CTBballfan243]

were the trunks on their property or on the property line? if the trunks were on their property line then by definition they were also on your property line and, iirc, may have constituted a "border fence." they had no right to cut them down without your permission. i'd sue the bleep out of them!

If they didn’t want anyone to cut the tees down they should have purchased the lot. Otherwise to bad so sad.