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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Explain the situation ti the houses on either side of new neighbor and ask them if you can leave your cans there.  Then tell new neighbor that you explained to everyone on the street that he wasn’t open to sharing space so now other neighbors have stepped up.  [/quote]

OMG there's something really wrong with you.

SMH.[/quote]

no, it's a good solution.  normally rowhouse neighbors are considerate of the weird property configurations that makes sharing space a necessity sometime. It's neighborly. If the new people don't want to be neighborly, they can't complain that word gets around. [/quote]

Actually, normally neighbors make sure they can do whatever they need to do on their own property without claiming ownership or entitlement over someone else’s property.

There’s nothing stopping OP from modifying his fence to accommodate his need to have somewhere to put his trash cans. If he doesn’t want to do that, he can pay the neighbor to rent the land, hand over the cans to the waste collectors directly as required, or simply move.

As they say, poor planning on your side doesn’t constitute an emergency on mine.[/quote]

Actually people normally use alley space exactly in the way OP describes. It may not be as simple as modifying a fence - and changing the fence may impact the neighbor's use of the *shared* fence ... I feel like you must not have ever lived in a rowhouse. [/quote]

Also, OP may have a prescriptive easement anyway. [/quote]

Then s/he’s going to have to go to court to prove it. Which is less costly- adjusting a fence by one segment to have room for trash cans, or dragging yourself to court. [/quote]

OK then, my neighbor can go to court to get me to trim my tree that overhangs and clogs their gutter.

See how it works?[/quote]

Wrong, he can cut any part of your tree back to his property line, thats the law. He doesnt even need to ask. [/quote]

Wrong, our property is configured so that the tree can only be accessed on my lot. They would have to have the tree trimmers repel off their roof to trim it from their property. Versus - just being a normal neighbor, and I would be perfectly happy to trim it annually. [/quote]

If any part of your tree canopy--doesn't mean the trunk--overhangs your neighbor's property, your neighbor has the right to trim that part.[/quote]

Obviously I know that. The point is - if my neighbor is cooperative, then I will trim the tree myself. If not, he can pay $100s to an arborist who is willing to trim the tree from his roof and somehow not drop the limb in my yard. [/quote]

If your property is on the other side of the alley, trimming the tree isnt going to be that big of a deal. [/quote]

Look, this just shows you don't understand how crazy the lots can be in DC. Only way for them to trim the tree is from my lot or their roof. [/quote]

DP.  If he’s on the other side of the alley from you, this makes no sense at all because there is necessarily at least an alley’s width of space between where the limb starts in your yard and ends at his gutter in which to work.[/quote]

to clarify: I am not OP.  I'm a rowhouse owner with a similarly nasty new neighbor.  Our lots are adjacent.  [/quote]

So they’re house extends further behind yours and the gutters in question are along the side of their house along the property line?  All they have to do is climb onto the roof to access the gutters.  Do it one time, put on a gutter guard, problem solved.[/quote]

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