We've requested a property's owners to cut the trees that shed leaves into our yard but they fail to cooperate. What should we do now?
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ladyrocke
ANSWERS: 9
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take them to small claims court.
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Buy a rake. Trees do that. Pay them to remove it. You will never win in court.
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Any part of the tree that extends into your yard can be trimmed by you. If that does not do the trick, maybe hang a net like at golf courses by the roadways. This can be an expensive problem if you have a pool or other landscape that can be destroyed by the dead leaves. You can file a complaint, just to make sure you have it on record for the future.
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If the branches hang onto your property you can have them trimed and take him to small claims court for incumbered fees, but if the branches are not in your property then more than likely is going to be considered an act of god and you have no recourse
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Send them a salad. <wink> <wink>
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we had a neighbor who's tree branches were hanging over our driveway and my husband asked them to please do something about it and they didn't. Not long afterwards a huge branch fell off during a wind storm and nearly hit my husband's truck. He got mad and cut the tree branches himself and threw them on their front yard to get rid of them.
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If there are branches hanging on your property, you can trim that portion. If it's just leaves, I don't think there is much you can do, but rake them up. We don't have any trees, yet we get a ton of leaves on our yard from neighbor's trees, but that's the way the wind blows. We just clean them up, although one year our one neighbor brought his leaf blower over and got rid of them for us because he felt bad that we had so many and they were obviously not from our trees since we don't have any.
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I can't imagine anyone complaining about leaves falling in their garden from a neighbours tree, why not compost the leaves or mulch them.Or if it is such a big deal then trim the tree back yourself.
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I generally see more trees in a neighborhood as a good thing and make the neighborhood look much better. Asking people to cut down trees in a community because the leaves are a nuisance is not likely to get much support. I seriously doubt, under any circumstances, that you will be successful in suing your neighbor because their trees shed leaves. Small claims court, however, can only award money and it has no power to force anybody to do anything else.
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