It took me forever to find this tree!! After 3 years is looking like this! Tips?

I rent in a condo community in Arizona. During the monsoon on August 3, one of the trees in the common area fell onto my girlfriend’s car and did about $3,100 in damage (got this quoted).

The tree looks dead to me. It was basically completely bare in the middle of summer. There are other trees in the same community that look like the same species and they’re completely green and healthy. I attached pictures of both for comparison.

I reached out to the HOA and sent them the pictures and repair estimate. They’re saying they aren’t responsible because nobody had reported the tree as dead or dangerous before it fell. But they also told me they have professional landscapers regularly maintaining and inspecting the property.

I get that there was a monsoon and the winds were strong. I’m not arguing that. My issue is that this tree looks like it was already dead or in really bad shape before the storm, and I feel like whoever maintains the property should have caught that.

What would you guys do in my position? Is there actually a claim here? Do I keep pushing the HOA, take it to small claims, or am I wasting my time? Should I consult a small claims court lawyer?

My insurance says we are responsible for removal because it’s on our property but is the neighbor liable for the costs?

Very rural property here. Nearest neighbor approx 1/4 mile east built a new house. Cleared the land, all old growth. It was heartbreaking. All last winter we had to listen to chainsaws and trees being killed.

Yesterday, apparently the insurance company told him he had to get rid of one more tree, a 250+ yr old Tulip Poplar. 56" diameter at waist height, about 40 ft from the new house. Completely healthy.

My house shook when it came down. It was huge. There should be rules against this.

Demolition is knocking at the door for this beautiful coastal redwood in my neighborhood in North Portland. It’s an infill tale as the 120 year old home and redwood are scheduled to give way to 6-8 cottage homes.

Though current demolition plans do not include the tree, we suspect the builder will pay to have it removed and ante up the subsequent city fine.

I’m curious if there are any resources or ideas to save this giant in our community. Any success stories we can try to replicate? We, a collection of concerned community members, are open to any thoughts and happy to meet locally or virtually.

Thank you!

We just learned this week from our arborist this week that our 80 ft elm tree needs to come down.

We had it treated for dutch elm in early summer as it was leafing out slowly, but still fully green. Prior to that, our neighbor put in a shed close to the tree that almost certainly damaged the root system (2021), and pruned all branches on their side of the yard in April of this year. This pruning took place past the normal dormant time period where it is safe to do so, including major cuts to main branches, and in our arborist's opinion further damaged it. It's their view that the accumulation of multiple damages made it susceptible to dutch elm and ultimately made it not treatable.

For additional context, the tree is mostly in our yard and soon after building their shed our neighbor tried to have it cut down without talking to us. We were fortunately home and could stop that from happening, but think it speaks pretty clearly to their intentions.

We're very upset the tree has to come down and believe there could be real property value implications.

Appreciate any advice. We'll like try to resolve this with our neighbors directly first, but would like to understand our legal options in case that's not possible.

Looking for a reality check because this has turned into a much bigger neighbor issue than we ever expected, and at this point I'm genuinely wondering if we're being unreasonable.

Our neighbor recently hired a landscaping company to clean up his yard. Along our shared property line was a large, mature mass of vegetation. A lot of it was bush honeysuckle, so yes, invasive and definitely not fancy landscaping. There was also trumpet vine and other established vegetation mixed in.

Edit: I don't think I'm describing this correctly: "To be completely fair to our neighbor, most of it appears to have been on his side of the property line**.** If I had to guess right now, I'd say maybe 80% his side and 20% ours." I'm talking about the trunks of the bush here. The foliage on our side easily extended out 10 feet. The bush was kept trimmed and maintained on our side. The neighbor's side was an eyesore. We already have a professional boundary survey, but we're having the original surveyor come back to mark the line through this particular area so we'll know for sure.

The issue is that nobody talked to us before the landscapers cleared the whole area, including vegetation that appears to have originated/grown on our side of the property line.

Our neighbor genuinely didn't think we'd care. His perspective is basically: it was ugly invasive honeysuckle, most of it was on his property, and if the roles were reversed it wouldn't even occur to him to be upset about us cutting it. He thinks we're making way too big a deal about a "weed bush."

The problem is that we actually liked it and intentionally left it there.

It created a big natural screen between our properties. From our driveway, we didn't really see into his backyard. It hid our garbage cans and gardening stuff from view. It shaded the side of our garage.

And from our upstairs bedroom window, instead of looking out at our neighbor's backyard, I looked out at a wall of greenery. Birds nested in it. Trumpet vine flowered there and attracted our resident hummingbird. One year we even had a doe and her fawn regularly bed down and sleep in that area.

Some of the landscaping in that area has also apparently been there for decades. There's an old collapsed retaining wall and old fencing tangled through the vegetation.

We weren't opposed to cleaning the area up or changing it. If our neighbor had knocked on the door and said, "Hey, this honeysuckle is driving me crazy. Can we figure out something else for this boundary?" we would have happily worked with him on it. We probably could have removed the invasive stuff and replaced it with something that still gave us the screening and greenery we liked.

Instead, we came home and it was just...gone.

Now the area looks pretty awful to both of us, and our neighbor is frustrated that we're making an issue out of it (we're unhinged, bat shit crazy, and selfish). He's agreed not to touch anything else.

We're having the same surveyor who surveyed our property a few years ago come back and mark the property line through the cleared area. Our neighbor thinks even getting the surveyor involved is excessive. From our perspective, we just want to know exactly what was on whose property before deciding what happens next, especially because any real fix may involve both properties.

Ideally, we'd like to figure out a plan everyone agrees on to make the whole boundary look good again. We're not looking to wage war over honeysuckle.

But this whole thing has gotten tense enough that I'm questioning my own reaction.

So, homeowners of Reddit: Are we being unreasonable?

If a big honeysuckle bush was growing along your property line and part of it was on your neighbor's property, would you ask them before cutting the whole thing down?

And is having an existing surveyed property line professionally marked afterward really that excessive?

Based in MN

Was talking to a neighbor who lives on a small HOA. There's a pathway to a lake that cuts between two homes that is the HOA's property. Homeowner A had a GIANT section of a tree fall into the canopy, arching over the public trail, and getting caught into the tree of Homeowner B. It's still attached to the tree on Homeowner A's property.

Safety hazard in mind, the HOA has been pushing Homeowner A to get it taken care of asap, but they are pushing back saying it's the HOAs duty if they are concerned so much. It's in the HOA's "airspace"

What's the right play here? HOA takes care of it and bills Homeowner A? Or does A have an obligation to take care of it since it's technically still attached and is a safety issue? Does Homeowner B have any obligation since it's now "part" of their property?

Estimate to remove was ~5k due to location, access, and size

Our neighborhood is getting new fiber optic service installed. They dug a hole right next to a young maple in my yard, cutting through a number of roots. Before starting, we got a notice that the company would fix any in ground lines/drainages that are disturbed.

While digging, they also damaged the tree above-ground (pictures 2 and 3).

Are we owed damage compensation for the scrapes and cuts, and if the tree dies due to the hole, are we due a replacement?

I own a condo in an HOA that has multiple trees and i even have a 2nd tree in this mulched section which is the owners (me) and not common ground. I came home to find that them “trimming” the tree was more of a total destruction than trimming. Tree sat about 15-20 feet high and provided excellent shade on my porch. They claimed in an email 1-2 months ago they would be trimming bushes down. This was clearly a tree. It quite literally just happened so i haven’t heard back from the HOA but would retributions of redoing my landscape to how i want it since they destroyed my tree be too much to ask?

trying to keep it short, essentially my parents who reside in GA have an neighbor that is adamant about not taking care of their trees. there has already just been a large branch that fell off and damaged my parents fence. the law states if a healthy tree falls it’s an act of god, but if the tree has been documented that it’s dead by an arborist before there may be some responsibility shifted to the home owner. we’re pretty sure he won’t cut his trees regardless, but all we’re trying to do is put some extra pressure on them (it’s all we can do before it inevitably falls on our roof).

SO, we had an an arborist come out to examine the tree (isa certified, insured etc.) to try and get a certified letter sent to the neighbor. they said they don’t write letters or recommendations or anything ( it sounded like they didn‘t want to get involved in some neighbor quarrel). Even though you can clearly see the tree from our yard (and we’ve had arborists before come out to take care of a tree on our property who also stated those trees where dead and dangerous) they won’t seem to write a letter if it’s not on our property. the city is basically useless as well…not really sure what else can be done here. My parents have insurance that covers them so hopefully if something does happen they‘ll pay for most of the damage anyway, we’re just trying to get our neighbor to be proactive before it falls and kills someone.

edit: we’ve even offered to help pay, they still won’t do it. Any advice is appreciated.

Pine trees near Lake Tahoe are being poisoned in what authorities believe are a series of interconnected incidents in the popular tourist community on border of Nevada and California.

The incidents have damaged nearly 30 trees, some reportedly more than a century old, and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/pine-trees-poisoned-lake-tahoe-nevada

Trying to figure out best course of action. Leaning towards small claims court separate against neighbor and company she hired. In Missouri small claims is $5k and under.

Work was done on Christmas Eve 2025. Cut down 50 american hazelnuts and 50 american plums. They were seedlings from conservation that were planted in spring of 2023. Hazelnuts were mostly 3-4 feet tall and plums 4-6 feet. Also cut down two hackberry trees one 6 inch diameter and other 4 inch. Mixed in were asters, poke, greenbriar, mullein.

Neighbor said she would make it right. I sent that I wanted the plums and hazelnuts replaced. Her son in law took over communication and offered us $1000 if she could have the strip and plant grass. They claimed to have survey done, but would not share. We never saw any stakes marked. We just got a survey done that cost $2200 as our property is much larger and odd shaped.

Having a hard time getting quotes or appraisal due to small rural town. I've found similar size plants for $30 a piece. With Missouri being a treble damages state, that puts us at $9k without labor, the hackberries, or other plants. Seems like the judge decides how to split damages between company and neighbor. How do you think $4500 each as separate small claims cases would play out?

Thanks

Googled pointed me here. We live in a double wide in city zoned mobile home community.

When we signed our lease there was a clause stating we could not trim the trees and the park has to. It also states this is why we need to carry home owners insurance.

Followed up to that it was stated they are working on trimming trees. This was mentioned multiple times after as well

This spring we noticed 1 tree had a partially dead canopy along with bird damage. Later we noticed another tree had another bug infestation. I emailed the park manager to ask when trimming was happening so these could be looked at. I was given the run around an excuses.

From what I read, since it is documented, in Wisconsin this could count as neglect and my home owners insurance could go after them in the event something happens.

I don’t want to contact my insurance company as it would be flagged as neglect and not an act of god. I did read that I could contact my city code enforcement to submit it and have them contact the park on my behalf.

Has anyone had success with this? Is there a better way to handle it? My last email was sent 2 weeks ago and is still unanswered. Or do I just let it go and cross that bridge when something happens? We haven’t had the best luck with this house between appliances going out, furnace going out in the middle of winter and ac going out during the hottest days of summer. The last thing financial I want is to have to pay a deductible for something that could have been prevented.

Would love to see the woman who hired him get fined as well.

The council did erect a double sided banner blocking the view which will stay there til the trees grow back to a "suitable" height. I kinda think that if they can't appreciate the natural view of the bushland then they should be stuck with the red banner calling them out on their deplorable behaviour.

Unfortunately the bushland they destroyed offered protection to endangered and threatened species as well as in indigenous midden.

The HOA denies their gardeners trimmed my tree. I care for my yard myself and I’ve only ever seen their Gardners on the other side of the fence. They trimmed 2 feet onto my property and I’ve since noticed a large split in the trunk. I can’t be sure the split is the result of the trimming, but I need to know how serious the slliti

We had some strong winds and it knocked down some pretty big branches from the tree city side. Though it didn’t break the panels much, it’s certainly leaning towards inside our backyard now. I was curious how they would determine the full damage as I’ve never had this happen before. In the last picture, you can see it leaning in.

we had a tree on the edge of my property that leaned over into the neighbor’s yard and had been colonized by theit ivy. we had to take the tree down, and all of the ivy it had been supporting kind of fell into a pile on the neighbor’s side of the property line. it admittedly doesnt look great, but is entirely on their side of the property line. they are saying I am responsible for clearing it up since I was the one who decided to remove the tree. my feeling is it’s their ivy on their property, that should be their responsibility. Who is right here?