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I finally got my neighbor to trim the oak tree with one photo
After two years of asking Ron to cut the branches hanging over my garage roof, I snapped a picture during the last storm and showed him the scratches on my car from a falling limb. He came over that Saturday with a chainsaw and took down the whole low side. Cost me nothing but a six pack of his usual IPA and some patience. Has anyone else had luck with visual proof over vocal complaints?
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sagew508d ago
The part about "two years of asking Ron" really gets me because I went through almost the exact same thing with my own neighbor. We had this dead branch hanging right over the fence line and I must have brought it up like five or six times over the course of a year, always real polite about it, and every time he'd say yeah yeah I'll get to it. Nothing ever happened. It wasn't until a chunk of it came down in a windstorm and nearly hit his own dog that he finally got out there with a saw. So I totally get the frustration of feeling like your words just go in one ear and out the other. Some people honestly can't picture a problem until they see it with their own eyes, which is annoying but I guess it's just how some folks are wired. Smart move getting that picture during the storm, that was probably what did it.
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