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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went through this with a neighbor recently. She approached us after a storm and was concerned about two trees that were on our property. The trees were fine in the storm but she was just "scared."

Long story short, she called and harassed several arborists in town to come out and look at the trees. Since the trees were on our property, she couldn't technically have anyone come out and get on the property to examine the trees. She sent us harassing emails and we had to speak to several of these arborists in town. All said the trees were not in danger of falling and recommended not to remove. Several arborists also told us that she was calling them non-stop about this issue!  She wouldn't drop it though. We worked with the top arborist in our city who gave us a written report stating the trees were not in danger. Well, she found someone (she paid them) to come and give her a report, in writing, saying the trees were "a danger to life and property." We then took another step and had our arborist perform a tree biopsy (we paid $300) which we were told was the only scientific way to show if a tree was damaged. Well, it failed by the slightest of margin but this report takes a lot of things into account. The arborist explained it as the tree was really not damaged and def was not in danger of falling but, since this test showed her what she wanted to ultimately see, we were probably screwed. The arborist also said the other tree could be examined in spring to see if it came back and would be safe until then.

She also obtained numerous quotes from business who could take down the trees. I came out of my house one day with my twins to go to the ped office and a crane operator was out there examining my driveway!

My husband is an attorney so familiar with the laws and did not want to take the trees down just because she was scared.[b] Of course we wanted everyone to be safe and remain neighborly but she really went too far.[/b] We had told her from the start that if the report comes back that the trees are dead we will of course take them down. But not if they are healthy and because she was scared. [b]A neighbor can't just dictate what you do on your property because they don't like it.[/b] She accused of not having the money to take them down. Not true but also don't want to spend thousands to take down healthy trees that we actually enjoy.

BTW-[b]This is the same neighbor who harassed us [/b]about painting our retaining wall that faced her property because she didn't like it. And yes in the end we did take down the two trees, her husband came over to apologize for her behavior and offered us half of the cost.

Call an arborist-not a tree removal business. A tree removal business makes money by removing trees. I'm sure most are legit but [b]their business is to remove trees. [/b]An arborist is only interested in the health of the trees.

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You can pay/influence people to say what you want.  Everyone knows this.  If you are smart, you won't be influenced, if the matter doesn't concern you.  OP, don't engage the crazy.  Of course, you "risk" (not really the crazy neighbor escalating, which they will, but that will surely be their problem, not yours. [/quote]

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