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Doug Miller[_4_]

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:46:32 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

I see you already have many nice and helpful answers. Mine is a
little different.
Your neighbor is a jerk. Keep in mind, everything overhanging your
yard is allowed to be cut. I'd get someone with a chain saw to lop
every branch on your side of the properly line so he has a hideous
looking tree. Maybe it will fall onto his house.

Good luck with your problem.

Thats what I was thinking. That neighbor sounds like a real asshole.
By law, since it's his branches, HE must clean them up.

Wrong.

Do you imagine that the neighbor is required to rake his leaves out of her yard, too?

Same as if he
dumped his garbage in your yard.

Wrong.

Branches dropping off a tree is an act of God. Dumping garbage in someone else's yard is
a deliberate act of littering.

I'd call the police and file a
complaint. They may refer you to a building inspector, or just threaten
the neighbor themselves.

No, they won't. They'll tell the homeowner it's her responsibility to clean up her own yard.

He could get a fine for refusing to clean up
his mess.

No, he wouldn't. It's not his mess.

In the future, please constrain yourself to offering advice on subjects you actually know
something about.

If there are any.