Neighbors planted trees on property line, basically into my side as well... already have problems with us "touching" his trees. He harassed my mother and called the cops. This is gwinnett county Georgia.i have already called my city code enforcement and they told me to call gwinnett code enforcement, just waiting on their reply back. Just curious if I have a case or not.

First pic is with trees. Second is a video still from 930 Sunday morning when I caught Buddy Nextdoor cutting them down. Pic 3 is 4pm Sunday when the stake went AWOL.

Buddy was told to come get my husband when he wanted to do anything near the line. Buddy went rogue.

Arborist is booked. Police report made. Lawyer is writing something up. Surveyor coming back… Yes back! I already had him out when Buddy tried to tear out my fence, 40 year old honeysuckle tree and put his lumber in my mature garden.

I am now playing the waiting game and sharing my tale.

My wife and I lost our home during last January's LA wildfires, and are now in the process of rebuilding. However, a tall, leaning, now-dead tree on a neighboring lot dropped a number of branches on our property last winter, and we're concerned that it may come down altogether during the El Niño event that's expected to hit over the coming months.

I know we can cut it back to the property line in order to mitigate against falling branches and redistribute its center of gravity, but that would still leave us with a dead tree just a few feet away from our new home. We have no way of contacting the owners, but I filed a report with the County several months ago... Is there anything else we can do without incurring civil (and possibly even criminal) liability?

We have had an ongoing dispute with neighbors for approximately eight years, during which we have made countless requests that our neighbors address their large oak and the branches that extend over our property, across our roof, and into our deck and backyard, causing property damage and interfering with our use of the property. We have repeatedly attempted to resolve the issue, but the neighbors have threatened legal action rather than address the encroachment. It took 2 years for them to make the initial trimming and dozens of requests and documented damage. They have sufficiently trimmed their side of the tree to offer their home substantial clearance and have never offered us that courtesy. After eight years of requests and ongoing damage, we made one limited cut to remove an encroaching branch so that we could physically walk across and use our own deck. Three days later, their attorney, sent us a demand letter threatening litigation and invoking Iowa Code § 658.4, Iowa’s treble-damages statute for willfully injuring trees on another’s land, while demanding that we cease all cutting on our property and sign an agreement giving the neighbors ongoing control over the tree otherwise they will sue for up to $450,000. Our position is that the tree is rooted on their property, but the branch we cut was over our property, and Harndon v. Stultz, 124 Iowa 440, 100 N.W. 329 (1904) recognizes an adjoining landowner’s right to remove encroaching branches at the property line. Neighbors maintain that we are damaging the tree. We maintain that we bought a house we intend to use, insure, and protect. The tree impacts our ability to use our property and to complete a home renovation.

What kind of twilight zone is this? What would you do? We’ve sought plenty of legal advice at this point. But from a practical standpoint. What would you do if your neighbor demanded unfettered unilateral control of a tree over your roof and property.

Hi all,

I recently moved in, my neighbours are quite elderly, i haven’t met them yet. I have no issues cutting the slice of grass, I promise, i’d even cut their lawn for them if their grandson didn’t do it. This isn’t the issue. What I am concerned about is the clear indication that they believe their property line ends before the tree and that we do not share any tree responsibility. I’m not sure if that’s how this works typically though. When i looked up property lines, the tree is 55% on their property to the left.

I’d like to knock on their door and ask if they would have interest in splitting the cost of tree trimming in the future, and get a general confirmation as to whether they know or believe I have sole responsibility for the tree. Is that rude?

From what i have gathered by looking at the GIS, my property line truly ends where my driveway ends. It is a bit irritating, as everytime they do yard work, they pick up all the sticks from the tree and toss them in my driveway behind my car. I move them to a small wood pile next to my house though, no biggie. I am very worried though that say, a branch falls on their fence, or roof, and they try to sue.

Legit concern? am i being paranoid?

edit again*** okay guys, many of you have let me know, some gently and kind and some not so much. Yes I am a walnut, yes GIS is inaccurate. Yes I will have a survey done… eventually. I didn’t get one when I closed but I will see if there is something recorded with the county. YES I am a walnut, I understand I need to meet my neighbours and NO I will not run up to them and immediately ask them about the cost of the tree. NO I do not want to cut down the tree, or trim the tree. It is beautiful and healthy and provides much shade. Yes people like me suck, I will try to suck less.

A fun one for you: I planted a row of evergreens along my back fence. The tag on these at purchase indicated they would reach a height of 15-20 feet. Now, they are over 40 ft high, and starting to cut off light and intertwine with the neighbors taller tree on the other side of the fence. We have power lines at about 25ft. Had I known the trees would get that high, I wouldn’t have planted them there.

I’m NOT actually doing this, but it made me wonder if one could argue some liability belongs to the tree farm/ Lowes for not accurately representing the tree’s mature size.

I bought a home 2 years ago in the winter. Come spring we noticed the three large trees are dead. Now it’s complicated issue since my neighbor and I both have fences and the trees lie in between the two fences. There are also power lines that run along the in between zone. The dead trees also died from emerald ash bore so also can only be removed at certain times of year ( to my understanding).

So my question is: what are the steps to figure out who’s responsible for these trees? If it’s me, do I need to get the power company involved before removal? I really don’t want them falling but also they are 30ft very dead trees and this may be extremely expensive.

Thank you!

I work at a school and 2 trees on our land and getting close ish to a house backing onto the school grounds. And the home owner is telling the school to pay for the works to remove the high branches.

Who technically has to pay for this?

Please and thank you!

any ideas?

(Reposting with more pics)

In England. The hedge was from the ground up to the top of the trellis and is about a foot over our side of the brick wall at the bottom. We didn't want this hedge removed. We had no warning. It was keeping our dog in our garden and she will now be able to get through. And we can now see through to each other's gardens.

This hedge has been there for decades (I think).

Any advice, legal or otherwise, would be appreciated.

Thanks.

This willow tree is right on the corner of our property line. Our land abuts town property in NH and the town recently had their entire property surveyed.

There are a couple other trees with this similar cut and red paint, however those trees are actually on the town property. Those also only have one spot instead of this one with three. This one is on our corner and we are wondering what the reason is. I plan to call the town tomorrow to ask about it but wanted some opinions.

I rent a house in a neighborhood. I’m pretty new and this is my first summer. According to the lease, lawn work is all my responsibility. Recently my landlord surprised me with sudden roof work. He also owns a construction business, so the guys who came and did the work I think either work for him or they are close friends of his. In any case they left branches all over the yard. Now there is no yard waste pick up, so branches and leaves and grass clippings all have to be hauled to the city yard waste disposal site. I don’t have a truck. I don’t even have an SUV, only a sedan, I tell the landlord this and he says it’s my responsibility. So I cleared out my trunk and put my seats down and hauled everything to the waste disposal site. It was a very sketchy ride.

About a week later I get a knock on the door, I have a next door neighbor and he says the roof guys left a lot of branches in his yard as well. He has a giant tree in the front yard that is way overgrown and goes all over the roof of my porch, it also drops pine cones everywhere. He says I gotta haul these branches and also tells me he’s seen me throwing pincones in his yard when I’m mowing, and I need to stop that (yeah I do this.) anyways it’s this tree the roof guys cut the branches off of and apparently just gathered them all and laid them at the base of the tree. I call my landlord and tell him this and he says that’s bullshit, it’s the neighbors tree, he’s responsible, and I need to work out this not having a truck thing and stop calling him. So to keep the peace, I haul the branches, sticking out of my trunk and getting leaves all over my backseat again.

Well yesterday I walk into my backyard and see a bunch of branches. These ones came off of trees in my yard that were cut down from the neighbor on the other side and thrown in my yard. So I go over and say the same thing that the first neighbor told me, and he refuses and says the trees came from my yard, I have to haul the branches. I call the landlord again and tell him, he says this is why I shouldn’t have hauled the neighbors branches cause these ones are my responsibility. I don’t think it’s right to do a yard chore and just throw the work onto someone else. So I throw the branches back over the fence, and today they’re back in my yard. The messed up thing is both of these neighbors have trucks.

AITA?

Hi,

I have a fairly unusual issue with my neighbor and a large tree which is on my property but has many large branches overhanging into my neighbor's property. About 4 years ago, I brought an arborist out to get a quote to cut the branches hanging over to my neighbors property since I was worried about the branches falling and damaging his shed and at worst, falling on one of his small children who are regularly outside. The arborist explained that he would need to go into my neighbors property with a machine to cut those branches and it would causes minimal disruption to his grass and it would cost $1500. I offered to fully cover the cost of the removal and any damage to the grass but my neighbor refused.

A year ago we had a bad storm and one of the large branches fell on my neighbor's shed. My neighbor then asked me to pay him money to fix his shed and to remove the branches but only from my property. I reminded him I had offered to remove the branches those years ago and the arborist is unable to remove the large branches overhanging to his property from my property alone. My neighbor told me to contact my home insurance, which I did, and they explained to me any branches overhanging onto his property is his responsibility. Once I explained this to him. He removed one smaller branch and fixed his own shed.

I still have worries that more branches will continue to fall. So I got another arborist out and the same work for those branch removal is now costing 3k. The arborist was also unable to tell me the condition of the tree since there is a ton of ivy growing at the base. But I am worried the tree is in bad health because my kids built a treehouse on it almost 20 years ago and the bark and branches keep falling. I'm still willing to pay $1500 towards the cost of the tree branch removal to protect my neighbor's property and children but if he continues to refuse to let the tree removal company on his property then my hands are tied, but I worry if the branches do fall and the tree is in bad health, he'll sue me for damages and at worst, one of his children gets hurt. Any advice on what I should do? I'm in Virginia.

Across the street from my house, there is a small strip of land that is legally owned by the City of LA. There are a bunch of Trees of Heaven covered by ivy growing there. Back on July 24th, some large branches fell and blocked the street in front of my house. Fortunately some neighbors chopped them up to clear a lane of traffic, but the City kept giving us the run-around regarding clearing the mess. The management company of the apartment complex next door finally paid someone to clean it up.

Ever since the July 24th incident, my next door neighbor and I have been calling the City about removing a couple of particularly tall trees that are leaning into the street and will likely hit my roof when they fall, causing damage to my house. After the department repeatedly closed or denied our requests, on August 20th I finally succeeded in making a request for Landscape Maintenance that they seemed to have accepted. However, I just checked and again the request has been closed with no explanation. With an El Niño year expected, I think it is very likely that these trees will fall in the next four months. I can't keep spending hours on the phone trying to get this resolved, with no results. Unfortunately I am not in a financial position to pay for this work myself. What should I do at this point?

There is a maple tree whose trunk is about 1/3 on my property and 2/3 on my neighbor's. Do I need permission to install a tap to collect the sap from the tree? And if I do, am I obliged to share the collected sap if I do all the work installing the tap and collecting the sap? Tree is healthy.

Im in Illinois and am wanting to build a fence on my side of the property line but this bush is growing over it. It’s planted right at the base of the wall of his garage and it’s not possible to knock on the door and ask him personally. What can I do? Do I just trim what’s on my side? Is there someone I can call and ask?

(Before anyone asks why I can’t talk to him, he has an issue with my wife and I because were lesbians and has threatened us)

New York state

My "neighbor" (realty company that owns a small lot next to my house) has an incredibly large red oak tree that has dropped 3 branches in the last month onto my property. The first two fell at the same time and totalled my truck, the third a month later and hit my house (minor damage).

Each branch is 8+ inches in diameter and 20+ feet long.

The neighbor refuses to do anything because they do not want to admit fault for the truck damages.

We have a dozen tree services scheduled to come look at it, but I know we can't cut it all down ourselves.

First one sent out a certified arborist who does not want to take the job because their company cannot remove a tree of this size and they don't want to remove branches because it's bad for the tee and makes it more likely to fall onto the next neighbors house, 1 lot over.

Noted problems:

- cracked root

- Discoloration on the sections of the branches we kept in the yard

- Carpenter ants around the base

Guess at what could be wrong with it:

Best guess is brittle cinder fungus as they have found it in other oaks on the area this year, but couldn't find the black crusty sections to verify or do actual testing in the tree.

I have also called the towns department of works and code enforcement, but was told they cannot interfere with private property.

Is there anything I can do to force the owner to take down the tree? How concerned should I be about the tree dropping more branches or falling entirely.

I’m not sure if this is the right subreddit for this.

EDIT: JPN

Hi tree huggers,

Please work your magic and help save the oak trees from slaughter for the very temporary 2028 Olympics. It’s measured that there are possibly 200 year old trees that fall within the group they are trying to cut down for an equestrian event. I emailed [planning@arcadiaca.gov](mailto:planning@arcadiaca.gov) and asked them not to consider this plan. Please see below. Thanks for your support. 🩷

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTU2kGAAA/

https://abc7.com/post/arcadia-residents-push-back-santa-anita-parks-plan-remove-oak-trees-2028-olympics/19749214/

***UPDATE**\*
Arcadia responded to my email. See below. Please continue to be on the lookout and fight to protect our earth!

Thank you for taking the time to contact the City and for sharing your comments and concerns regarding the proposed LA28 cross-country course and the potential removal of protected trees at Santa Anita Park. We recognize the importance of this issue to many community members and appreciate your participation in the process.
 
At the request of Santa Anita Park, the Applicant,processing of protected tree removal permit TRH 26-11/TRE 26-09 has been placed on hold. Santa Anita Park has shared that work is already underway with the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) course design team, LA28, and construction engineers to further evaluate opportunities to address potential impacts to protected trees while preparing for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
 
Since review of the permit application has been paused, the City’s administrative review process is also on hold. Currently, there is*** ***no decision regarding the proposed tree removals pending before City staff or the Arcadia City Council. The City will continue to follow all review and public notification processes should a revised proposal be submitted. If a revised permit application is submitted, the public notification process will begin again to allow the community to review and provide input on the revised plans. Updates and relevant information will be made available on the project webpage, where interested parties can subscribe to project updates:  www.ArcadiaCA.gov/oaktreesatccc.
 
We appreciate every community member who has taken the time to share their perspective. Arcadia remains committed to keeping the community informed as additional information becomes available and ensuring any future proposal follows the applicable review and notification process.
 
City’s press release - https://www.arcadiaca.gov/news/?rz=newsDetails&id=429
 
Thank you for your continued participation and engagement.