Neighbours tree fell into your yard? Relevent to the recent windstorm that blew half of vancouvers trees over. What if part of your neighbours tree fell over into you hard? Now that its within your own property line, who's responsible for the costs of the cleanup? |
Send mother nature the bill |
talk to your neighbour and see what both of you can come up with, if you and your neighbour are both unwilling or not capable of cleaning up, hire someone and split the bill. if your neighbour is being a dick and will not take the common responsibility, or if the part of the tree that fell on your property can be manage between you and a freind with a saw just do it yourself, sometimes being proactive in a situation like that will cost you less stress dealing with a bad neighbour. but if there are damages to your property thats a different story. |
call the city you live in and see if they'll deal with it. |
Seems in most cases you would be responsible for cleaning it up and the associated costs, any damage would have to go through your home insurance policy, not your neighbors. This is unless the neighbor knew the tree was a hazard and was negligent in maintaining it. Here is an article in The Star in Toronto from last year that covered this Quote:
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Only speaking about Vancouver as I don't know other City bylaws although I imagine it's the same. COV has no jurisdiction to intervene b/c it's private property so it's a civil issue. |
I would have thought this would be a city issue due to it being a natural cause. My neighbors tree got struck my lightning(inside property line) a few months back. It was deemed dangerous so the city came and removed the tree. This was in Burnaby though.... |
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If there was no damage to your house. Grab a 6 pack a chainsaw an axe and go to town on it. Make your neighbor help. |
Camp fire ban was lifted.. S'mores tonight! |
this one of those cases like some of these other threads where OP posts and is concerned and ready to take legal action without even talking to said neighbor? |
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