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Originally Posted by Stuey83
Nobody wants to pay for such repairs, but such is life. My parents paid for a tree stump to be removed from the curb and for it to be filled with cement. A year or so later the city broke the concrete and planted a tree without first notifying us. Another three years later or so my parents got a letter saying that the concrete had to be corrected because it was jutting upwards a bit and was a safety hazard.
I just mentioned this just so you see that similar nonsense happens all over the place.
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It's called being a home owner - it's happened to me more times than I care to remember. But...as a home owner part of the 'deal' is that I maintain city land (in my city, the sidewalk in front of my home, the small plot of grass between the sidewalk and the street as well as the curb). If the city says repair it - I do. Fact of life. Just last month I had to pay 50% of a sidewalk repair that I had nothing to do with...but my property rights say I have to make the repair using a city authorized contractor and that I have to pay 50% of the cost.