On 10/15/2012 12:23 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:


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.


Hi,
Sorry about your husband. I hope your neighbor is not that bad other
ways. About a month ago exactly same thing happened to my neighbor from
my tree limbs falling over into their yard hitting their hot tub.

I called my insurance Co. and they sent a crew to clean up the mess and
I had the injured tree cut down. Likewise IMO, your neighbor or their
insurance should take care of the mess. After all it's their tree.

Luckily their hot tub did not suffer any damage, if they did it would've
been my responsibility too. As far as I am concerned, it is common sense
affair.

Generally, what is above your property is yours, so branches overhanging
your property would not be the neighbor's responsibility. Calling
insurance co is good idea. Also most sizeable communities have senior
services organizations and semi-govt. which might help out. There was a
"one stop" information line in Florida, by calling 211, that had info
about dozens of social services. If nothing else, try the Red Cross, at
least as an info resource. The present and former cities where I reside
have yearly "good neighbor" days, where folks volunteer for all sorts of
residential help, from painting to landscaping....another place to check
would be a local scout troop.