On Mon, 08 May 2006 22:50:10 GMT, Weebie wrote:


My house has trees on the property line on both sides. Both
sides tell me they are my trees, because more of the trunk
is on my side than theirs. One guy the way we met was that
he knocked on my door, said a large limb had fallen on his
property and I had to pay him for cutting and hauling it away.

I paid him to avoid a neighbor battle. (He only wanted $50,
and he did work a whole afternoon sawing it.)

Next limb that fell on his property, I bought myself a chain
saw and cut it up myself.

Later another tree had a smallish limb overhanging his
property 20 feet up, dead. He moved his boat to park it
right under the dead limb. I figure he was hoping it would
fall so he could claim I owed him a new boat. I took a
picture. Yes there's a dead limb in the photo, but also
obvious he has lots of space to park the boat not under that
limb. (He's dead now, boat is gone.)

I'm no expert at property law, but there has to be some
responsibility for him avoid obvious damage when doing so is
not unduly restrictive.

My neighbor is such a dick he had his entire live oak which is at
lease 500 years old according to an arborist. The canopy of this tree
is 100 feet, a third of which hangs on my property.

When he had them cleaned up professionally he made them stop on the
line where the property ended, so I have a huge tree hanging there
with all that dead stuff . Some people.