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Originally Posted by fintstone
.......Maybe there is a problem with conflicting surveys (a mistake of some sort) that needs sorting out...as that visually appears to be part of his lot by the way it is landscaped.
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My neighbor in NY had planted a line of evergreens just inside his side of the property line. Sometime later he put up a fence but he had planted the trees too close to the line so had to put the fence further into his property giving the impression that the trees were part of our property.
This all happened 20 years before we bought the house.
The trees were huge, easily 40+ footers. the lower branches extended a good 10-15 ft onto out property and they started a couple of feet off the ground. Made a part of our yard unusable.
I was talking to him over the fence one day and my wife comes out and mentions we were considering cutting the trees which he interpreted as cutting them down. I cringed because I knew they were his trees. He stammered "you can't do that they are on my property".
I quickly responded we love the trees, one of the things we liked about the house so they were going no where. We just want to remove the lower branches up to 8-9 ft from the ground so we can use that part of the yard.
His response was, "let me know if you need help".
He was a good guy, great neighbor. Helped that he was a car guy. Big into Jeeps so we were always helping each other wrench on projects and sharing tools.
When we sold the house I made sure any potential buyer was well aware of the property line before we did the deal.