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who is responsible for vines on property line?
My neighbor keeps expecting me to remove vines from his house. Most of them are rooted on his side of the property line. I'm pretty sure they are his legal responsibility to remove, but I don't know how to prove it. We are in Pennsylvania. Does anyone have any insight on this?
Neither of us want the vines there. He's trying to push responsibility for them onto me. I pretty much killed all the vines on my side last year but one or two survived. Most of them are on his side.
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- LndlrdlisaLv 68 years agoFavorite Answer
Personally, I would kill the vines. What's the worst thing that could happen? He takes you to court and they make you buy a new vine plus $53 dollars for court costs.
- DonaldLv 78 years ago
You're wrong.
He's responsible for what's on his side of the property line. If the vines cross over--if they come onto your side--then you're responsible if you want to cut them. And you have the right to cut them.
There's a complicating factor, which more often comes into play with trees. While you have the absolute right to cut back growth on your side of the property line, you can't do so in a manner that would kill the plant on the other side. So sometimes you see a tree right on the property line. The base and roots are on one side, but many of the branches are on the other. The neighbor has the right to trim back the branches--but not so much that it would kill the entire tree.
Hope that helps.
Source(s): I'm a Realtor licensed in Virginia.
