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Darkness Descends

Why is there no legislation regarding how high home owners can allow their trees to grow? Winter is nearly here, and the little sun people could be getting is obscured by massive weed trees...aka Maples. I live in fear of neighbors trees coming crashing through my home during storms. C'mon...cut them short enough to allow people light into their lives! Surely insurance companies should enforce this...no trees within striking distance of a home. Makes sense! If neighbors have no insurance, what happens if one of their trees demolishes my home? Who pays?

I had a problem like that. A neighbor's tree was laying on my house and they wouldn't do anything about it. I would have had to pay $900 for a company to remove it, cuz my insurance had a $1000 deductible. Total garbage. The neighbor should have had to pay for it! I ended up climbing up on a ladder and sawing off every bit of it I could by hand, so that when it fell eventually, the weight would be toward the trunk and it would fall onto their house! Boo Yah!

I've already paid out $600 to have their trees trimmed. Didn't even get a thank you!

Is this seriously a complaint?! wow. Each of us should be responsible for the trees in our own yard, but to ask that they keep them short so that you can have sunshine is ludicrous.