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neighbor's tree damage the fence and boundary concrete

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teresa899

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? CA.
We live in Fremont, CA. My backyard neighbors have a huge pine tree close to the fence between our backyard and their backyard. They wrote notes to us two years ago about trimming the tree after we complained (We still keep the note). But month after month, there was no action. The tree roots damaged the fence once and they fixed it. Now the roots further damage the fence, reach our wood platform and the concrete boundaries surrounding the lawn and damaged both. For the past few weeks, we called them once per week but only heard uncertain answers: "We will deal with it in a few days". So far we see no really action from them. Can we have the roots trimmed and the damages to the wood platform/concrete fixed and then ask them pay for the expenses? Or shall we approach the issue by first sending a letter to them?
Thanks.
 


I AM ALWAYS LIABLE

Senior Member
teresa899 said:
What is the name of your state? CA.
We live in Fremont, CA. My backyard neighbors have a huge pine tree close to the fence between our backyard and their backyard. They wrote notes to us two years ago about trimming the tree after we complained (We still keep the note). But month after month, there was no action. The tree roots damaged the fence once and they fixed it. Now the roots further damage the fence, reach our wood platform and the concrete boundaries surrounding the lawn and damaged both. For the past few weeks, we called them once per week but only heard uncertain answers: "We will deal with it in a few days". So far we see no really action from them. Can we have the roots trimmed and the damages to the wood platform/concrete fixed and then ask them pay for the expenses? Or shall we approach the issue by first sending a letter to them?
Thanks.


My response:

We just did one of these today, very similar to yours. I'm not doing it again. Read this thread - https://forum.freeadvice.com/showthread.php?t=239426
And then, after you read that thread, click on the search function and put in "tree" to find more.

IAAL
 

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