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Because they love to push things on others they would never do themselves, but it's perfect because such a situation is impossible to fact check.
So you believe it's desirable to some people to be viewed as a doormat?
No. I believe (and these are his words, not mine, I believe) he's saying that online you're taking the "love thy neighbor" routine, but if a neighbor did something to your property, you'd act differently.
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it
He's entitled to that opinion, but it's also possible people just have different approaches to life. It doesn't have to be schtick or whatever hypocritical nonsense you're describing.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
I've actually had 2 "tree issues" in the past year. One at my main residence. There's a huge willow tree in the corner of my yard. After a big storm, part of the tree was damaged, fell on my neighbors side and did a little bit of damage to his fence. I didn't notice it had happened because it was winter-ish and not really outside. I did notice when he was doing the clean up and fixing his fence and tried my darnedest to have him let me "make it right". Guy absolutely refused any offer of money or other stuff. Claimed it was fairly cosmetic and not a big deal.
That's great, it's one of those great things about the internet. Showing your work isn't really required. You can ascribe all sorts of holier than thou assertions, and who is anyone to challenge you on what a great guy you are.
And that directly answered your question about why he's entitled to damages and also addressed the "punishment" (which let's face it you threw out there in a derogatory manner). I'm not saying people should be "sue happy" but there is a legitimate reason underlying tort law.
I totally think there is a time and place for restitution, and maybe this is one of them. I can't judge that for gian. Evidence points to the neighbor being an idiot, at the very least. Is that enough to seek damages? Probably not for me but I'm not actually in the situation here so maybe I would whistle a different tune if I were the aggrieved party. Who knows.
In this situation, I'd say that gian liked that tree a lot and it was something that he valued on his property. That tree might not hold the same value to you. But try to imagine it being something that you did value. I can't tell you what that would be, but something that you liked, something that was part of the reason you bought your house and something that bothered you that was now gone forever. Would you still just let it go? Serious question.
gianmarco has made it clear that tree was important to him and I'd say the evidence points to the neighbor being unscrupulous not just an idiot.
This is a great example. Dogs aren't worth much monetarily. But you can't "replace" an actual dog. So does getting a check for $3K or $5K or $20K bring the dog back? Of course not. But you better believe I'd go after every penny I could from someone that did that.
Did the surveyor stake out the property line both front and back corners so you know exactly the line at this point? Thinking for future foliage this guy will try and remove.
Yes, there are stakes all up and down the line. The rest of the foliage he wants to remove is mostly on our side as well. I told him we don't want anything cut on our side of the stakes.
Did you post a photo yet showing how the whole thing looks from say your house? Would be interesting to see the whole 'picture', so to speak
also, small item but don't we need two dots to draw a line? With the one dot, his portion can be anything from 10-50%, no?
Nope. One of the parties is behaving reasonably. The other is being a bit irrational. I determined which was which.
Unless you think I'm trying to be misleading here, I took the picture with the property line running parallel to the bottom of the picture (i.e. straight across).
Here are your 2 points
Then it appears you were standing on his property when you took the photo. GET OFF OF HIS LAWN!
photos help
He might be a slimeball, but what from that post makes him one?
I'm putting everything together from the beginning until now - but yes even stating it as 75%-25% is misleading. Even if that was the case does - does that mean he could have sliced off 25% of the tree?
The bolded above were at my request. Otherwise, that tree was getting hauled off 2 days ago. I had to request him to leave the stump and tree until those happened.
Like I said above, it appears the neighbor is saying the right things but tried to take advantage of the situation. He was caught and I'd let him know he was caught.
