Property Lines crossed by plants/trees

Not sure this is the right forum, but couldn't find one that might be better...

I've got property and the neighbor's trees hang over halfway into my property...I've sent message to please fix and I am sure we will work it out, but wanted to get a consensus from the group here:

When building, do you place your stuff so that any parts of them cross over the property line? What do you do when someone else crosses that line into your property?

Somethings are ok, but when trees start cutting into buildings, that can be an issue.

Let me know your thoughts?

My feeling is that generally people should be tolerant of tree-branches crossing lines, unless they interfere with builds (as when they come through walls). In other words, if another person's tree does not interfere with your build, tolerate it. If your tree interferes with another's build, move it or take it down.

Mostly it's a matter of being aware of what you do and exercising some courtesy.

To line trees up so that no part of it crosses a boundary at any time (even a Linden tree bending in the "wind" strikes me as both anal and aesthetically unpleasing - a world of "lanes" between boundaries and "tree clumps" in the center of parcels. But like anything, tree-freedom can be abused.

All the people in Benicia are pretty good about that.. if you *do* get something hanging into your property, you just IM the owner, and they usually move it for you.

Just make sure to be nice about it. People won't want to help if you try and tear them a new one

I move the camera all around and build close to property lines at times, but wouldnt go over at all (unless it's linden land, then just a tad bit, hehe) on to someone elses land... that just kind of rude IMO.

Well, general etiquette is to, when possible, avoid building right up to the edge of your parcel (builds, tress, whatever). Certainly not a hard and fast rule to be sure, but a good default position. Basically, as you are doing, talking about with them in a freindly way is the way to go.

In this particular case, I would say you are in the right (but they are not in the wrong from a TOS perspective to my knowledge), but then no one likes a window to look out onto a brick wall (so to speak) even if said brick wall is entirely in the neighbor's parcel. Just another potential perspective, depends on the land and how the builds are really.

If someone fairly new to SL is placing trees they may not realize how far those swaying branches extend. I got to know my neighbors in Windermere by having all kinds of conversations about my intrusive trees.

We were all buying land in a fresh new sim, and some of it was First Land, so there was a lot of variety in the builds and the personalities. The neighbor with the small cabin on a small lot liked the way my evergreens made our stretch of coastline feel woodsy. Another neighbor asked me to shift a couple of trees because the branches were sticking into his build. That's how I found out he had a secret underground bunker. : ) One guy built an intrusive tower on his 512, but evergreens are great at masking that kind of thing. Was it intended to get on peoples' nerves so they'd offer him lots of $L to buy his land? I don't know. The tower went through various incarnations until somebody bought that 512 for prim land.

My most interesting neighbor had a huge mafia house. I bought the adjacent land, intending to place trees as an evergreen buffer to screen my view of his house. I didn't like the way his builder had built that house right to the lot line, but hey -- my neighbor was here first. Initially my large swaying Linden trees were always piercing his walls, but this good-natured individual never got mad; he just IMd me. I ended up making a high curtain textured with eastern hemlock on alpha. This gives a lot of woodsy screening in a narrow space, and doesn't send any swaying branchtips across the lot line. It looked so pleasant from my side that I built my neighbor a large window in his blank wall so he could see it from inside his house. Shortly thereafter he nuked his house, asked me to build him a better one, and I built him a house with huge arches looking into that hemlock screen.

The single most helpful thing neighbors can do is to buy enough land to place an evergreen buffer between the build and the lot line. If adjacent neighbors did that, they could share the burden of allocating space for the buffer, and neither landowner would worry about tree branches extending across that lot line.

I have found that rotating trees horizontally and placing them on the very edge of your land so they point directly into your neighbors livingroom can be a nice subtle way to say "Hey, your house is a little too close for comfort, and I don't like the way it looks, maybe you could make one that doesnt suck"

Do you have a screenshot of that? I would think it would very flat and not very appealing.