Your Tree Falls on a Neighbor's Shed

[Moe DeLoughan]

Always the best course to pursue. But some people will let you talk to them about it, but will not anything about it. Especially if it costs them money, but sometimes even if it doesn't.

I've got a lifelong neighbor like that. I had to kill one of her trees before she'd remove it (on our property line, had caused damage to my property twice, which she'd ignored), and I had to rent a bucket truck to hack away at another one that's in her back yard, but grew to overhang my garage, driveway, and house. She's got a line of invasive shrubs and junk trees on the property line, too, and she refuses to get rid of them for 'sentimental reasons'. So last weekend I borrowed my nephew's brush hog while she was up at the cabin. She and her daughter came home on Monday to dirt where the shrubs and junk trees used to be.

[Taxed and Spent]

I have to wonder what her side of this story is. I bet she has a pet name for you.

[trader_4]

That should go a long way to leading to peace and tranquility in the neighborhood. She's probably on her way to her lawyer or out to get some dog poison.

[Paintedcow]

A friend of mine experienced the opposite. There was a flood, and her (large) shed was moved into a neighbors yard, where it ended up standing on it's edge against the neighbors tree. After the flood water resided, I was one of several people asked to lower it from the tree, and move it back to the correct yard, with a tractor. I knew my tractor was not big enough for the job, but someone with a bulldozer did the job. The shed did survive, but it's contents (including a riding mower, snowblower, chainsaws, etc) were all ruined. The neighbors tree was not severely damaged, but both yards needed some repair. Neither person had flood insurance, but the guy with the dozer did the job for very little money, and helped other people in the area too.