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[quote=Anonymous]Always check on your survey where your property line actually is. Sometimes the fence line doesn't follow the property line!

This isn't something to be angry about, BTW. Maybe the person who planted the tree did not think it through vis-a-vis the fence, or planted it before there was a fence, which then makes the person who put up the fence the one who did not think through the future growth of the tree.

Once a tree is well adjusted and growing, and provides desirable shade, then obviously people are not going to want to cut it down! There is nothing your neighbor could have done apart from that extreme measure. Trees that are moved usually die, unless you're an expert or you move it when it's still a sapling. It costs the earth to move a mature tree.

The solution is to accommodate future growth. Walk about some neighborhoods and you'll see lots of properties that have done this: taken down the fencing that's being crushed, and building a bump-out on your side. Leave the rest of the fence: this indicated that your property line has not moved, and that your little bump-out is merely for the tree.

Unless you have other reasons to get rid of the tree? If you do, you'll have to be in agreement with the neighbor, and if they don't want to pay half, maybe they'll agree if you pay the entirety. A large tree can cost upward of 5K to cut down, or more if you want stump grinding.

Cost is the main reason people don't do anything about trees, OP.

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