On Oct 15, 11:41*am, "Jan Taylor" wrote:
Hello everyone. My husband used to post here, before he passed several
years ago. I used to enjoy reading this forum along side of him in the
evenings.

I have a "what would you do" question.

My neighbor has large trees, which overhang our property. During this past
wind storm, several large limbs ended up on my property. I asked him if he
could remove them, so I could cut the lawn. He called me every name in the
book, and told me it's my problem.

I suppose I could hire someone to remove them, but only having a fixed
income, and Arty didn't have life insurance, sure puts a bind on things
around here. *I'd move them myself, but at 73, I'm afraid I don't have the
strength to, as it already takes me several days to cut the grass on a city
lot.

What would you do?

Thank you.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

First, anyone that would call a 73 YO widow "every name in the book"
and refuse to help needs a few large tree limbs dropped on him.
Unless of course there's some past event that we don't know about that
has caused a rift between you (or your husband?) and him.

When a neighbor's tree limbs fell on my property, I called my
Homeowners Insurance company and put in a claim. Now, in my case, they
landed on the roof and deck, not just in the yard, so the clean up was
pretty extensive. There was no damage to the house or deck, but there
was a large amount of wood hanging precariously off of my house and
not something that I wanted to tackle from the roof or a ladder.

Depending on how much of the tree is in your yard, you might want to
at least call your Ins Co and get an idea of the cost.

How about contacting a Boy Scout troop, Big Brother, or some other
community organization and see if they are looking for "community
service" projects for their members?