Well, the house is the property of the Salvation Army, so it's basically bought and paid for to house the current general of the organization or some arrangement like that. The previous occupant, the previous general or what have you, had the fence built to let his dogs out and get fresh air in the yard.

Thing is, he built the back end of the fence a bit closer to his house than where the property line lies, so his dead tree sits on our side of the fence. Granted, we have a portion of his property on our side giving us a bigger back yard, but the dead tree is his to remove.

When mom still lived here she suggested we split the expense of having it removed, but Dad wouldn't have it. It's on the neighbor's property, thus it's his responsibility to take down.

The tree in question was about 50 feet tall, but like I said previously, the top broke off last night so it's more like 40 feet tall now.