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Sometimes we talk about an act of God.

So, say your car is parked outside, a tree falls on it from your yard, tree falls on it — on your roof, which is your car.

Often times insurance will cover that.

However, what if say a tree looks like it's about to come down? The next storm could topple the whole thing.
What if the trajectory of that tree is aimed at the neighbors house?
What can you do? Here are legal steps to take to protect yourself.

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I'm Chris Berger and I'm sharing my 40+ years of experience as an NY & FL realtor, in home renovation & property management. Yankees fan. Concert goer. Dog lover. Granddad.

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Transcript
00:06well good afternoon everybody my name is Chris Berger and it's time for a burger point you know
00:12sometimes we talk about an act of God so say your car is parked outside tree falls on it from
00:20your
00:20yard tree falls on it on your roof which is your car well generally that's considered an act of God
00:28and insurance will cover it however one of my pet peeves when you go and you look at houses and
00:35recently I was out with a client and we were looking at a property and I was walking near
00:41the property line and I could clearly see that this tree was rotted and it was gonna fall and when
00:50it does fall it will fall into the property that the purchase that my client is purchasing so what
00:58do you do how do you circumvent that well you can talk to the neighbor you can send them a
01:05nice email
01:06but just by doing that you are putting them on notice and that in a court of law that will
01:14stand
01:15in your favor should the tree fall onto your property who's going to clean it up now again
01:21most of the time when a tree falls down on your property the the current owner will clean it up
01:28but where does the responsibility truly lie it's putting that notice out absolves you the the homeowner
01:37current homeowner of the cleanup let me show you an example of exactly what I'm talking about
01:42you can't see the property line it's clearly behind these the brush and that tree is on the
01:52neighbor's property so when you look at the storm recently and it came down who has to clean it up
02:00well
02:01again because that tree is hanging over on this property the property owner right here is responsible
02:09for the cleanup however in advance if they discussed it with the neighbor and said listen you have to
02:16take that tree down because it's going to come down then that responsibility would be the neighbor
02:23on the other side of the line and that's the deal you know I always enjoy wearing my jay and
02:30the
02:30americans hat uh they put out great music uh during the 60s early 70s and two of the original members
02:38still perform with the band and uh they're just still excellent to hear and everyone always enjoys it
02:45uh tonight I was supposed to see Art Barfunkel uh he had to cancel his concert due to a lung
02:53infection
02:54and uh hope to see him rescheduled I'll keep you posted have a great day
02:59you
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SeekingNexusMedia
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You know, sometimes we talk about an act of God. So, say your car is parked outside, a tree falls on it from your yard, tree falls on it — on your roof, which is your car. Now, who is responsible for the damage? I discuss this very important topic.

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