There's a tree on the border with the next day neighbors that had an offending low branch that every time I mowed I have to lift branches over my head to get the lawn tractor under. Otherwise it was get wacked in the face.
Since it's so close to the property line I talked to the neighbor last fall about taking out the branch. There are times he mows under the tree, other times I do. At the time I reminded him that the property line is actually at the corner of his driveway and the tree is actually mine.
Because of the shape of my property, I have six corners. Four of them are marked. All of the rear ones. Over the years people pulled up the road side ones. My mistake for not getting a new survey when I bought the place, but since nothing changed, I use the old one.
When I cut the branch yesterday he came out of the house demanding that what I did was wrong. I didn't get into it with him as we are good neighbors, helping each other out and our kids play together, but it irked me that he thought he actually had a say in it, other than just a courtesy heads up being that close to the property line. The tree is mine. A few feet on my side of the line as projected by standing landmarks on the survey (his garage is less than a foot off the property line and the tree is about five feet my side of the garage).
I was told when I moved in, the original surveyor would come out and replace the stakes for free. He never returned several phones call made to him.
Really don't want a border war, here, but I guess it's time to get a survey done and make sure the borders are clearly marked.
