I have neighbours at a right angle to me who are tenants. A large tree at the back of their house was overhanging my drive and the pavement and making both unusable until they finally cut it back. Ivy was growing up my wall from their garden and starting to cover one of my bedroom windows. It's finally been cut back and is now still on my wall but dead, so not getting worse. When I spoke to them about these matters they were frustrated with their LL as she never checks on them and they have 3 broken fence panels that border my drive - they couldn't be fixed until the tree was sorted as it blocked access to them.
Now the ll is still refusing to fix their fence as she insists I have shared responsibility. I have looked at the land registry documents and it doesn't mention who is responsible for each boundary. I understand in this case it is normal to share but in previous years that fence has been fixed by the ll of that property, though the house has been sold since so it was a different person. The tree never got out of hand in those days either. She has emailed me one of those sheets you get when you but a house with tick boxes filled in by hand saying it's a shared boundary, but that's not a legally binding thing is it? Surely it's only the deeds that show it definitely?
She has quoted me £90 to fix the fence, so my share would be £45 but I really don't have this at the moment. It's been an expensive summer and I'm saving as much as I can having dipped into savings. I don't want a fence there - it's just my drive and doesn't need privacy from my side, though tenants obviously want it as it's their back garden but it's not completely exposed anyway. There's no legal requirement to have a fence anyway and I don't want to pay for something I don't want.
Also, when they cut the tree back I was having my bathroom done and had a skip on the drive. It was too big for the bathroom stuff and I planned to fill the rest with shit I've needed to get rid of for years but when the tenants asked I allowed them to put the tree waste there as I felt bad for them. I feel like that was my contribution to the whole thing, not that I have to make one. I keep all trees on my property under control and don't really want to pay for others as well.
Shouldn't she just pay the £90 to keep her lovely tenants happy? I feel like I feel more guilty about them than she does. I also feel like she could get the dead ivy off my house too rather than trying to push this. It's wrong priorities imo. This has gone on for months now.