neighboring business blowing leaves into my yard

[lykaon78]

Put up a sign that says:

Don't buy a car here!!! If they treat their neighbors terribly, how do you think they'll treat you?

Or something more clever.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Eska
YOUR TREE, YOUR LEAVES. You should feel bad that they had to go thru the trouble of blowing your leaves...

Is this your opinion or a law? If it's your opinion, please stfu and go away. We have enough teeny boppers who pretend they know what they are talking about. We don't need a bald, old man to help them out.
If it's a law, please link us to it and I will apologize.
At any rate, I think the OP is looking for a definitive answer, not conjecture.

well actually i think he is party right.

since (from what i understand) they are falling on his property. then blowing through the fence onto the property of the dealership.

Why does he not just get out and bag them? seems disreptful and i can not fault the dealership on it.

i seem seeing something in the paper where something like this was going on. the guy who was getting leaves blown in from the naighbor's tree would sue every year for clean up cost and win.

Have you ever known me to set someone up without knowing the answer?

 

[huberm]

The leaves aren't blowing from my yard, the fence stops it. They have simply fallen off the trees into the dealership's property.

I only have two trees that are close enough and mature enough for the leaves to fall off the tree and float into his property. The rest are hundreds of trees surrounding other parts of his property.

What irks me to is if he really wanted to just blow them out of his property, he could blow them to the other side, where a field is, and no one would care.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: huberm
The leaves aren't blowing from my yard, the fence stops it. They have simply fallen off the trees into the dealership's property.

I only have two trees that are close enough and mature enough for the leaves to fall off the tree and float into his property. The rest are hundreds of trees surrounding other parts of his property.

What irks me to is if he really wanted to just blow them out of his property, he could blow them to the other side, where a field is, and no one would care.

no the leaves do not stop it. as you said you have a sloted fence. if it stoped the leaves he couldnt blow them back in the yard.

if you do not like it build a fence that is solid.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: sixone

Originally posted by: Flyback
I second the birdfeeder idea.

Get lots of them. Use a special feed that makes them drop crazy turds. Fill them up regularly. Have a dozen of them around the property line near their lot.

You might take a couple hits on your own car, but if you can distance it right you might come away with not too much. Anyways, its worth it just to see how much bird sh!t they have to clean

Mulberries make some awful nasty bird-splat.

lmao! That's the first thing I thought. Ask one more time if he'll allow you to build a wooden privacy fence. If he says no, then, assuming you need a permit in your municipality to put up such a fence (you don't in many/most municipalities), the only solution is a hedgerow. I suggest mulberries.

edit: and in the meantime, I'd visibly erect multiple bird feeders all over the place. Bird watching is a wonderful hobby! Get a few bird identification books and enjoy.

edit edit: for the person whining about suggestions for the OP to call the police about the matter; the OP attempted to settle this himself. The owner refused. One of the reasons for the police and court system is to deal with such disputes. If you think it's petty of him, then prove it by allowing me to bag all the leaves on my property and dump them on yours.

 

[d3n]

Originally posted by: Golgatha
Chainsaw a tree directly into his car lot!

There is some truth to that. If your trees fall on his lot your not responsible for getting them cleaned up. Its the dealers tough luck and his insurance footing the bill. I don't see why it would be different with leaves.

 

[MisterJackson]

Edit SH!T, someone already beat me to the birdfeeder idea I just saw. Oh well, great (evil) minds think alike!

Call him back and tell him you've thought his proposal over and decided to keep your trees because they're good for the environment.

Say, "In fact, I just thought of another thing I can do to help out the environment. I'm going to install as many bird feeders as humanly possible in my trees to make sure all local birds have a proper food sorce for the winter."

Then, I'd actually do it. Once his cars start getting covered in bird sh1t from the flock of you new fine feathered friends I'm sure he'll take a different stance.

Work smart, not hard on this one man.

 

[d33pt]

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: GuideBot
They're your trees, they're your leaves. It's your problem.

ok i dont get this arguement. at what point do the leaves dont become your leaves? the next house over, or the next one, or even the next one?

I ll tell ya, i got two silve maples and the leaves are big enough to fall pretty much in my yard. however my yard is filled with leaves from all the other trees in the neighborhood. so if i find a leaf from a honey locus tree in my yard and i know that jim up the street is the only one with a honey locus tree do i march up there pound on his door and demand that he grab a rake and clean my yard? what if one of my silver maple leaves winds up in some guys yard 3 blocks over? is it my problem?

so tell me where is the line drawn??

Yeah, 1st: the leaves can be from any tree, perhaps only some are your, 2nd its quite likely the leaves belong to whomever's property they fall on. Check with local authorities etc.

I say they may be his, if they fell on his property because a neighbors tree fell on my property during the big hurricanes a couple of years ago. One of them fell on my fence causing damage. I found out that it was MY problem, not his. The tree "belongs" to whomever property it falls on. My insurance company said I had to pay, not him. Get this, when I asked what the h3ll I was supposed to about it - they told I'd get to keep the tree because it fell on my yard, not his????

If his tree falling on my yard was now my tree and my problem, perhaps the same thing with the leaves.

Fern

This is absolutely true. If your neighbor has a fruit tree and half of it is on your side, you can pick all the fruit you want on your side. If you decide you didn't like half of the tree on your side, you have the right to trim your side however you wish. The trimmings belong to you and you have to pay for the trimming yourself.

 

[RayH]

Why stop at bird feeders? What you really want are some Canadian geese. And a nice female Ginkgo tree...

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: d33pt
...
If you decide you didn't like half of the tree on your side, you have the right to trim your side however you wish. ...

The only caveat is you can't damage or kill the tree with your trimming.

 

[sswingle]

Just put a couple boards to block the bottom of the fence.

 

[mfbf]

Like the post above, get a tarp and some cable ties and block off your fence, then no more leaves in your yard unless they get more creative. Plus how is somebody supposed to control what the wind does?