Tree/Neighbor question of the week

Big storms rolled through yesterday afternoon and a 60-70 foot tree on my neighbor's property fell almost directly between on our houses. Couple of large limbs did some damage to his house, but ours appears to have escaped without damage. Some debris and one large limb laying across my deck and obviously the trunk/limbs on both our yards.

He's also out of town this week. I let him know what had happened and sent a couple pictures. My question is do I need to wait to start removing the limbs off my deck/fence for him to have his insurance come out and document, and then get a crew of his/his insurance's choosing to remove the tree (plus hopefully all the limbs, etc. on my property)?

Posted: 08/07/2020 at 11:03AM

Tree/Neighbor question of the week -- s.mill hokie 08/07/2020 11:03AM

Depends on the state -- Vienna_Hokie 08/07/2020 5:48PM

Is his house still weatherproof? If not, you should be neighborly and -- Hokie360 08/07/2020 12:50PM

Yep, he had a friend with a key stop by to make sure no water was coming in -- s.mill hokie 08/07/2020 12:53PM

Take your old furniture, TV, appliances into yard and put under the tree -- Hokie360 08/07/2020 12:43PM

You probably won't get any insurance money. It is possible that his will -- reestuart 08/07/2020 12:04PM

His insurance likely isn't paying your damage -- bigbadbird 08/07/2020 11:49AM

You must live on the other side of my neighbor -- TomTurkey 08/07/2020 12:11PM

We moved - but before we did - I put up ONE 8 foot panel -- bigbadbird 08/07/2020 12:15PM

I had one fall the other way once also -- bigbadbird 08/07/2020 11:56AM

Thanks. -- s.mill hokie 08/07/2020 11:54AM

It’s a forensics crime scene. Don’t touch anything and leave prints -- PhotoHokieNC 08/07/2020 11:39AM

😂😂 ** -- capitals1 08/07/2020 11:47AM

Take plenty of pictures & send them to your insurance company... -- EDGEMAN 08/07/2020 11:20AM

He didn’t have any damage. Are you a personal injury lawyer? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/07/2020 11:40AM

Pre-med ** -- EDGEMAN 08/07/2020 12:01PM

Now that you mention it, I did move a couple limbs last night and -- s.mill hokie 08/07/2020 11:46AM

No need to wait. Take pictures and start cutting up your side. ** -- Stork 08/07/2020 11:16AM

If tree was alive and storm knocked it over, you are each responsible -- Stork 08/07/2020 11:18AM

If alive? I thought that meant he DOES cover debris removal. Are you sure? -- 48zip 08/07/2020 12:46PM

No. Not no coverage. Liability if you have a dead tree and knew it. No -- RhinoVT 08/07/2020 1:22PM

This ** -- Stork 08/07/2020 1:26PM

Thanks; seems like it would be most efficient to just have one contractor -- s.mill hokie 08/07/2020 11:32AM

Ask him for his ins provider's phone #, call and ask them. ** -- AZHokie59 08/07/2020 11:11AM

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