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Tree Saga
And that's why you always have a paper trail and communicate through text ?? luckily I have all of that #treelaw #civilcourt #trees #neighborsfromhell #fence
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Bad neighbors are a special kind of chaos that no amount of homeownership research prepares you for. You can vet the school district, inspect the roof, read every HOA bylaw twice, and still end up living next to people who look at your carefully tended trees, bushes, and garden and think: yeah, that looks like our problem to solve. A person documents exactly this kind of situation across two videos, and it escalates in a way that feels almost choreographed in its audacity.
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It starts with a fence. Specifically, the absence of one, because the neighbors tore it down along with roughly 20 trees, bushes, and vines that were sitting comfortably on the other side of the property line. Not near the line. On the wrong side of it. They came a full foot onto someone else’s land and just started cutting. A 33-year-old tree, counted by its rings, gone. Stumps left behind like little monuments to bad decisions.
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First, the neighbors promise a new fence for two years and do nothing. Then they rip everything out while the homeowner is away. Then they float the idea of pumping chemicals into the stumps, refuse to name the chemical, and spend an hour arguing that they are, in fact, doing a favor. That last part is the real tell. Insisting you are being generous while actively poisoning someone’s soil is a rhetorical move that belongs in a philosophy dissertation on bad faith.
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Then comes the fence. Calling it a friendly fence, as the neighbors apparently did, requires a level of commitment to irony that most people simply do not have. It is seven feet tall, built with horizontal slats facing only the homeowner’s yard while the neighbors get clean vertical ones. Every board was cut shorter than necessary, which means extra labor was invested purely to make it uglier. That is not negligence. That is craft. Malicious, petty, impressive in its own terrible way.
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Naturally, the homeowner wanted nothing dramatic. New trees, basic repayment, move on. Instead, the neighbors looked that offer in the face and said to call the lawyers. So that is exactly what happened.
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Luckily for us (and unfortunately for skooter gorl), the saga continues, and we get to watch the entire thing in her playlist “Tree Saga” and cheer for (and also help!) and for justice!
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