Question:
Could you please please please post an article about home owners responsibilites "when they own large trees that damage the value of homes and property in their neighborhood , especially when neighbors who do own trees with debri (like coconut/ mango etc ) that are --never pruned and taken care of prior to any storms. I believe if every tree owner would knew they were liable ..they would not have this insane idea that whatever falls outside their property is not their problem.
My Neighbors cost me financial hardship for years after hurricane wilma..and still we are recovering from having our southern half of our home damaged from not 1 but 2 fallen 80 ft mango trees from my neighbors yard.
I offered for years to keep the tree , I would crown thin it so air could move around the and through the tree, at my own expense ...but no... i could never use my southern half of property until their mango stopped fruiting( rats , fallen rotten fruit , flies leaf litter).
If my neighbors knew they would be liable for this they may have pruned their trees, taken more care of preparing trees on their property. why have a 80 foot tree anyway unless you own a park... crown thinning is heathy and promotes better fruit. if you pruned down the size of a tree it gives you manageble supply of fruit, unless you are publiz why have a 80 ft tree. I can understand the shade part, so prune it , having trees these days is going to be like having children, you take care of it --it takes care of you. ..but if it doesn shade your house and you ahve a huge tree ..then down size... why be a bad neighbor , so you can be the fruit kings on the block ?... you need to learn to maybe prevent trees from falling and loosing them.
--even after the tree fell , they replanted a new tree in the same exact spot. my neighbors are old and very use to things being a certain way.
my expenses added up: generator gas (weeks after everyone had fpl --i did not)
their tree ripped out my power pole, my fuse box, my power was generator until i payed an ecltrician to install new fuse box, new power pole, fpl came and hooked lines to pole, then and only then--did i have power... weeks after everyone else.
continued expenses : new fence, , new fuse box, no power pole, demolition of south side of my home, reconstructing rebuilding south side of my house...and property.
not to mention removal of neighbors trees on my house, new grass in swale from tree debri that killed grass.
not to mention a contractor that walked out on us... someone from the neighborhood ..in the middle of work... ------
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incase no one knows this yet.. any thing that falls on your property is not your neighbors problem. according to tree owners in this neighborhood. so even if you only own palm trees, you are responsible for cleaning up your neighbors messes if their tree falls on your property if they are the kind of neighbors that need others to clean up after them... until tree owners are advised they are responsible ...
------------and all of this could have been avoidable if neighbors were properly Educated... and possiblly Cited by code enforcement if allowing trees to grow with proper maintence in a hurricane country.
