re: Trees and neighbors

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Get an arborist to give them a clean bill of health. Then give her a copy.

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Wrong. The neighbor is the one concerned. Tell the neighbor to pay for the arborist to inspect and if your tree is unhealthy, you will deal with it.

I had some borer beetles infesting oak trees around us. My neighbor to one side lost a 150+ year-old post oak. Mine were starting to show a little stress. I was worried. Mine are all 100-140+ years old. Hired an arborist to treat them. He wrote a report on all trees, and my other neighbor had one leaning towards my house. I was worried about that tree and told my neighbor. He thought it was fine and didn't want to do anything about it. This was a neighbor that was a real a-hole and we did not get along. I had the arborist look at it. He said it wouldn't last another year alive and that rot was set in at the roots already. He put it in a report and I gave a copy to my other neighbor and told him that if that tree fell and damaged my home that I would hold him responsible and sue for negligence since he knew the tree is certain to die and root structure rotting out.

He had a service come take it down within a month.