My neighbor demands that I remove the cable

[Greenman]

Don't know where you live, but around here utility lines aren't allowed to cross over a neighbors structure. Have him call whoever he thinks it belongs to and have them remove it. It's not your line, and around here you would have no right to touch it.

 

[boomerang]

Tell him to start calling now. Based on my experiences with Verizon, by the 1st he'll be pissed off enough on the phone with them that they may actually start listening instead of holding the phone away from their ears and rolling their eyes as he talks.

10 days later a truck will roll.

 

[compuwiz1]

When it comes to a home there are two rules I have always understood.

Inside wire maintenance is your problem.

Outside wire maintenance is the utility, cable or telephone company's problem.

Call the utility co and let them deal with it.

 

[ed21x]

yeah, even if you want to remove it out of consideration, the utility pole and everything on it does not belong to you, and you can face a pretty harsh penalty cutting it down. It is not your responsibility to move something that doesn't belong to you on behalf of your neighbor. It is HIS responsibility and his liability if something goes wrong, so have him call.

 

[josh0099]

Originally posted by: sactoking
Easement or not, it's not your problem. Even if there is no easement, the utility that owns the pole has violated his rights, not you. If he's having tree work done, his landscaper should contact the city to determine who owns the pole and take care of it. It's really not that different than 'calling before you dig', it's just up not down.

This is mostly correct not your problem at all....Though even without a easement there is a situation called prescriptive rights where if you haven't complained or the past owners never complained, after a certain amount of time they essential gave the easement.

Originally posted by: Greenman
Don't know where you live, but around here utility lines aren't allowed to cross over a neighbors structure. Have him call whoever he thinks it belongs to and have them remove it. It's not your line, and around here you would have no right to touch it.

Eh, that all depends on the the clearances....And then there is always the people that build something right under the line without contacting the utility

 

[DrPizza]

It'd be really really funny to find out that the carport was added on without a building permit. 😛

edit: also note - I no longer have a land line; we've gone cellular. However, I'm not foolish enough to have the telephone company come out and remove the actual phone line from the pole to the house. Wild guess: if for some unforeseen reason I need that phone line 2 or 3 years from now, I'll bet Verizon would just love charging me to have it reinstalled.

 

[Pepsei]

got a fast response from verizon...which i didn't expect, (reason i posted here too)

The phone line is responsibility of the utility that put it in, and it and the pole it is on are almost guaranteed to be part of an easement on the deed that specifically allows utilities services access to your property and/or anyone elses. Telephone, cable, gas, water, and electricity are public utilities that are generally franchised by the city, the deed for the property probably contains an easement provision to permit line,pipe and other necessary utility access. In short, usually any utility line has a legal right to exist almost anywhere the utility wants to place it. Whether you are actually using it or not is not relevant. The external wiring is the property of the utility company, they generally have a legal right to have it on your property or anyone elses.

Nothing you can or should do about it. Telco companys have right to that wiring to be there. You can put a request to have it removed/etc but that is about it. If it bothers him that much, have him call us and we'll tell him the same thing.

i'm going to print it out and hand it to him.

thanks atot.

 

[shoRunner]

tell him to suck ass...your neighbor and my neighbor must go to the same club or something, because my neighbor sucks too (dumb old cat lady)

 

[Newbian]

Just stop talking to the idiot.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

From your OP, it sounds like he will have to pay for the labor to get the line temporarily removed and reinstalled.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
It'd be really really funny to find out that the carport was added on without a building permit. 😛

edit: also note - I no longer have a land line; we've gone cellular. However, I'm not foolish enough to have the telephone company come out and remove the actual phone line from the pole to the house. Wild guess: if for some unforeseen reason I need that phone line 2 or 3 years from now, I'll bet Verizon would just love charging me to have it reinstalled.

you find a data card?