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My neighbor’s previous owner planted shrubs alone the property line. They were planted about one to two feet inside of their property so I am sure that these are their trees. After years of ignorance, those shrubs were growing fast and turned into big trees. I estimated that they are about 25 to 30 feet tall right now. Most of them are intruding into my property for more twelve feet – my house is on the “sunshine side” so they are growing toward my property. I have lived here for seven years and have been trimming back for years but got tired of all the endless works. The trees grow about one foot per year! I asked them to trim them back in the summer but they ignored. I asked them again and they finally trimmed some back but not to the property line – they did not cut anything above 6 feet so the trees are still over hanging my property. In fact, most of the trees at over three-four feet height are into my property because the “growing toward the light habit“. They leaved the debris in my yard after they’ve done the trimming. I sent the certified letter to them requesting them to remove them in five days and cut the branches back to the property line. The certified letter apparently irritated them. They did clean up but later came to argue that they don’t want to cut any more branches. I certainly can tell that it is my right to cut the branches back to the property line but I think that’s their responsibility. Time and labor is money! That’s their trees and they should take care of them. They can’t let their neighbor to do it or pay for it. It a stretch of one hundred feet property line and total thirty-five trees. That’s a lot of work. I refuse to do and insist that it is their responsibility. My question is “Do they have the obligation to cut the tree back to their property line after I requested them?”.
My neighbor’s previous owner planted shrubs alone the property line. They were planted about one to two feet inside of their property so I am sure that these are their trees. After years of ignorance, those shrubs were growing fast and turned into big trees. I estimated that they are about 25 to 30 feet tall right now. Most of them are intruding into my property for more twelve feet – my house is on the “sunshine side” so they are growing toward my property. I have lived here for seven years and have been trimming back for years but got tired of all the endless works. The trees grow about one foot per year! I asked them to trim them back in the summer but they ignored. I asked them again and they finally trimmed some back but not to the property line – they did not cut anything above 6 feet so the trees are still over hanging my property. In fact, most of the trees at over three-four feet height are into my property because the “growing toward the light habit“. They leaved the debris in my yard after they’ve done the trimming. I sent the certified letter to them requesting them to remove them in five days and cut the branches back to the property line. The certified letter apparently irritated them. They did clean up but later came to argue that they don’t want to cut any more branches. I certainly can tell that it is my right to cut the branches back to the property line but I think that’s their responsibility. Time and labor is money! That’s their trees and they should take care of them. They can’t let their neighbor to do it or pay for it. It a stretch of one hundred feet property line and total thirty-five trees. That’s a lot of work. I refuse to do and insist that it is their responsibility. My question is “Do they have the obligation to cut the tree back to their property line after I requested them?”.
