My parent's neighbor's have pine trees lining the side of their house that's next to my parent's driveway. My parents park their cars in the garage and my younger brother and sister (they commute to school) park their cars on the driveway.
The issue my parents have is a lot of the needles from the trees fall off into their backyard, driveway, and cars. It's not really a big deal about the needles falling into the yard, but needles falling into the cars is a problem because they get underneath the hood and get stuck inside the wipers. My brother and sister end up having to always take the needles out. Also, the needles falling into the driveway is an issue too because my dad and mom have slipped a couple of times after it has rained.
My dad wrote a letter to the neighbor explaining this problem to him. The neighbor called and said he would trim them. He did once, but never did again. The treess grew, more needles, my dad got in touch again, but the neighbor did nothing about it. My dad called again, the neighbor did nothing.
Ok, so a couple of days ago, my dad hired some guys to do some yardwork and asked them to trim the pine trees that were giving him issues. The neighbors hapepened to be in their backyard and told the guys to stop. They took pictures of the trees that got trimmed and are giving my parents some issues now.
Now, my dad probably shouldn't have hired a guy to trim the trees without consulting the neighbors, but he's has asked them multiple times to do something. The neighbors are saying the trees are on their propery and they don't have to do anything.
So, my question is, who was in the wrong? Also, what would you suggest to help with the situation.? Sorry for the long post, I'm just at a loss