If your neighbor isn’t keeping up with their property’s maintenance, your home's value—and your safety—could be affected. External obsolescence is when the value of your property is negatively ...

"Good fences make good neighbors," as Robert Frost famously put it. Trees are another matter, however. A tree overhanging your property, shading out your garden, sending roots into your septic system, ...

When a neighbor’s tree hangs over your property it can be a nuisance—and even cause damage. But tread carefully before you trim it. Sometimes it seems like living in a society would be much better if ...