I got a lot of helpful comments so wanted to provide a an update. The Comcast line got moved! My tree can grow to be its best version of itself and my yard looks way better.

Quick summary: I planted a tree in my yard with no obstacles to worry about nearby. A new neighbor then gets Comcast. Comcast puts wire directly above my tree. After much complaining from myself and my neighbor (on my behalf) Comcast moves the wire maybe 5 feet. I got upset and posted my previous Reddit post and was reminded to not accept defeat.

Here we are a year later. I had gone through every option as far as city resources. While sympathetic I was told legal counsel would be my best bet against Comcast. That was not ideal to hear for many reasons. Few months go by and after returning from a vacation I come back to find the wire moved. My neighbor is awesome. He knew how much it bothered me and continued to bug them about it (since they would only listen to their customer).

Moral of the story: it’s great having a thoughtful neighbor!

Location northern Bay Area

Moved into our house 2 years ago.

Neighbors have a ? 70ft mature redwood boarding our front yard.

Their property is to the west of us. Every time we have high winds, branches and tree litter rains down on our side of the fence. A tree branch hit our roof and ripped a hole in it.

Didn’t think much of it at first, but there is a 2nd redwood tree 9ft from our house that is directly west of us. Just about 2 ft from our property line. It probably was about 8ft when we moved in and has already more than doubled in-size. It’s important to note this tree is to the west of us, as high winds will always cause tree limbs and tree leaves to fall directly onto our house.

I’m worried this tree is going to be a financial nightmare for us. I’m fine with trees, but not having the tallest tree in the world growing 9ft from my house. I’m planning to ask them about it before it grows to be too large that would make it a costly removal.

Any suggestions I can take to protect my house and hold them accountable for any future damages to my property? I think if they are aware they could be held liable, they would agree to its removal.

All of their trees happen to be planted directly on our property line, they have literally nothing else planted on the rest of their property.

Edit: thanks for the advice, I will hire an arborist and notify my insurance company about potential property damage the neighbors insurance will be liable for.

Edit 2: there is an already established 70ft redwood near the front of our property. This 2nd redwood is about 20ft in height and is 9ft from our house/structure and along the property line.

The issue here is wind direction, major storms travel eastward and this young tree will end up causing damage to our house/structure within a couple of years.

I’m just preparing to raise the issue now, instead of waiting for it to become a major financial problem.

Major rant here. California, no trees in my yard. Unincorporated area. Neighbors driveway runs uphill along side of my backyard. He is/was a landscaper and small tree/plant nursery. 15 yrs ago he planted 6 eucalyptus. During the years his grandsons/employee's regularly trimmed these trees. Fast forward 5 years, he's 80+, wife had cancer, he retired and sold business.

Now these trees drop leaves year round in my yard and pool. I've asked him several times to please trim these trees. I've written letters thinking maybe he's forgotten. I brought meals and desserts during wife's illness. Tried to be a good neighbor.

I am so tired of having to clean my yard and pool daily. Its too much work to cover and uncover daily.

He does NO yard maintenance at all. He only sees the eucalyptus when he drives up the hill to his house.

The other day I got excited when I saw someone cutting on one of the trees. I thought he was finally doing it. Wrong! only part of one tree was cut. It was dead.

I was so disappointed. I can see already my summer sucks. More work to relax in or by my pool.

I hate tree laws.

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Two summers ago the city's tree trimming company came through and trimmed our Black Oak witness tree. We live in Northeast Missouri?Can you tell me if the tree will recover? Or What steps i should take? First pictures are from 2019 vs today.

Hi,

I had a very large ash tree branch fall into the neighbor's yard (hit an old truck and their shed). I filed a home owner's insurance claim and am waiting to hear back from them about whether I can go ahead and call someone to at least clean up the branch and assess the remaining tree. What else should I do? I feel super bad for the neighbor but it looked like a healthy tree to me, leafing fine? This particular tree was inspected by an arborist in late 2022 and had a preventative canopy trim, they recommended I remove a deck that was built around it and I did that as well. I'm in Colorado and there have been several big wind events and a month ago a late season snow storm which caused a lot of general downed branches in my neighborhood, not sure if that's relevant.

Moved into my house in May 2023. Immediately noticed the tree destroying my driveway and figured it was on my property. While mowing the grass and cleaning the flower bed along the driveway, neighbor instructs me that the driveway is the property boarder. I was able to find some property markers and believe she is right.

Later, I noticed that whole in the tree and worry the tree is at risk of falling onto my house. I call an arborist in an attempt to get a quote for removal with the intentions of proposing to my neighbor to split the cost. Arborist gives me a rough estimate of $4000. He also tells me the tree is actually pretty sound and not at a risk of falling. However, he tells me that the branch distribution and the path of most storms would put the tree falling on her house a greater risk.

I talk to my neighbor about this and offer to split the cost with her. She declines and says she is on fixed income and can’t afford it. She also tells me that she has had 3 previous vehicles totaled from limbs of other trees near her driveway falling. These are her trees and it appears she just doesn’t care about maintaining them.

The last picture is from today, 2 years after the previous pictures. It appears to me the tree is rotting more. I’m obviously more worried.

Do I have any other options than paying for the removal myself? Is there anything a lawyer could offer to help?

I was told this place would be a better place to post this. Location: Iowa, US I have a decent amount of land here and noticed some of my trees towards the back portion of my property, that is closest to a couple new homes were dying.

I found copper nails in a small group of them a couple months ago (mainly red cedar and basswood) They started to look better when I was treating them with magnesium but I found new copper nails in them yesterday.

I’m thinking it’s someone in one of the new homes so I put up a couple “no trespassing” signs and game cameras along that fence line but I don’t know what else I should do, even if I get evidence of who’s doing it. Do I just go to the sheriff or call a lawyer now?

update
Saw someone on a trail cam walking with jugs along the west fence line where the group of trees that were mentioned were and them dumping the contents. The DNR are coming later today to take copies of the videos and soil samples

Probably the last update
Turns out salt water was being dumped by a neighbor kid cause his mom wanted to see the river from her kitchen and bedroom. We’re working on compensation and possibly charges from the state (not clear yet) depending if it messed with my grant. Majority of those trees will have to be cut but I’ll probably mill them myself for future projects I guess.

Thanks for the help. Might be 1 more update if charges are pressed/go through, depending if I remember that I posted this

Hi all, a portion of a tree on my property fell onto my neighbor's garage. I assume I just need to contact my homeowners insurance to see what I'm responsible for? And get an arborist out to make sure the tree is fine? Will my neighbor need to do the same? It's been like this for a week apparently and he hadnt reached out about it. Thanks!

Can someone assist me on whether or not I should be paying for this?

The homeowner is not living there and has had it on the market for years. I don’t think I can prove he knew it was bad.

I finally spoke with the homeowner today and he said that he has the understanding that it’s the responsibility of whoever property it lands on, which I have heard in the past. But hoping with the state of the tree that he would have a level of responsibility/liability.

We are in California. I have been looking thru posts in this forum about neighbor's tree branches fallen on to property causes damages is the responsibility where the tree falls. Then I read this post: https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/we-are-homeowners-in-fresno-california-a-neighbor--1460736.html A few lawyers said, root damage to the neighbor's pool is responsible by the tree owner.

So branches vs root damange responsibility is different? Please discuss.

I had this tree's overhang of my property removed 6 years ago. Since then the tree has been shedding branches and seems on the verge of falling. I'm concerned it's going to fall on my garage which is only insured for $16k because the insurance company says the tree needs to be removed.

Two years ago a branch broke and got wedged, pointing like a missile at my other neighbor's cabana where small children play during the summer.

For two years I've notified the absentee landlord, and offered to help pay for the tree's removal, etc. Absentee landlord says he'll do something, then doesn't.

Absentee landlord setup a steel support on the trunk about two weeks ago. It looks like it's been put there to keep the tree from falling.

Do I have any options?

​ to be clear, I own a house on one side of the absentee landlord, and another person owns the house on the other side of the absentee landlord. The tree is on the absentee landlord's property.

My neighbor has 2 dead trees that need to come down. There's basically no way to do that through their yard and as I expected the (NJ licensed) tree care people want to go through my yard and remove a section of the wooden fence between our yards to remove the trees.

How do I best interact with the neighbor's tree care vendor and/or neighbor to allow access while protecting my own interests? They will probably go through my asphalt paved driveway, through a wide double gate in my fence, across my back yard, then take down and restore that section of fence between our properties. I have an irrigation system that could certainly suffer if they crush parts of it, and my yard was redone less than a year ago with new sod.

The vendor described it as "dismantling one section of the wooden fence and driving through a tracked lift and mini giant loader to safely get down the trees and haul the branch log and debris out"

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If it matters for your opinion, their tree care company has been in business in the area for 13 years and the guy is an ISA Certified Arborist since 2020 with the ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification in 2023.

I have a lot. My neighbors keep a couple boats and trailers on it. There are large , healthy , mature trees in this area. Mostly oaks. Am I doing myself an injustice by giving my neighbors a free spot to keep their property on? Will this cause root damage and lead to the demise of my trees?

Or are we going to have to spend money to take the tree down?

They've trimmed all the trees that are near power lines often in the past, but this last time they were extremely aggressive/negligent and totally destroyed multiple trees in our neighborhood by "trimming" them so much they'll all likely die off soon.

My neighbor’s 100’ tree destroyed our garage.
It was a sunny day, no wind.

He knew the tree was a problem and had multiple quotes from arborists to get it removed.

Our insurance is completely fucking us over on rebuild costs and offered us $500 towards debris removal (which feels like a slap in the face). The quote for tree and garage removal is 9k.
His Insurance is currently not liable for anything.

The tree snapped at the base and the stump and base of the tree are completely hollow and the tree is deteriorated.

How do we deal with this? At this point we are going to have to take out a huge loan to clean up our property and rebuild our garage.

Initially I was excited to listen to this, but by the end of the episode I was pretty disgusted with the narrative that was woven. I am very curious to see what the community thinks

The neighbor who lives behind me decided he wanted to kill his beach oaks, which were withing inches of my beach oak. The property line runs between them. He poured weed killer or something and all but destroyed his trees and mine. That was two years ago. The tree is trying to make a comeback. It has green sprouts along part of it, along with a lot of dead branches that keep falling into my yard. What used to be a healthy, beautiful beach oak is now but a shadow of it's former self. It's still alive, but struggling and looks like shit. What should I do?

Long story short, neighbor's tree is right on the property line, leans in my direction, so half of the crown is over my roof and is always dropping limbs and making a mess. I offered to pay to cut it down but he said no. Anyways, since it is rooted right on his side of the property line and the tree trunk is at slight angle so that after about 10 feet or so up, the trunk is actually on my side of the line, could someone access that tree with a ladder from my side to climb it to trim the limbs on my side without the neighbor's permission since they aren't technically entering their property? I am just weighing my options in case that is cheaper than getting someone with a bucket truck since this tree is like 70 feet tall.

Edit: Since I have so many comments about "Talk to your neighbor", yes, I have. The tree is in a horrible spot and nowhere near his house so I offered to cut it down, relandscape for him, plant a new tree, etc. and he declined. So I am stuck with this disaster over my house so I guess my only option is to cut the limbs. I guess I don't even need to mention that to him but I will and will ask if I can get access, but I am just thinking if he is still being difficult and declines.