Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

If you are finding those rodents in that ivy, you can try and contact the City to have them come out and inspect. Indicate, that you are wanting them to indicate to the neighbor that they must maintain and keep the ivy on their side of the fence. The City may or may not cooperate. Absent that, you will have to cut the ivy that is coming over to your side of the fence, and then you will have to continually cut the ivy that comes over as it grows.

BARRY BESSER

www.besserlaw.com

Besser is quite wrong. The city will not tell the neighbor to keep the ivy on their side of the fence, because the neighbor has no legal obligation to do so. You have the right to cut the ivy back to the property line, but it is on you to do it, not the neighbor. Where the city MAY help is if you can prove it is harboring rodents on the neighbor's side of the fence, the city MAY order them to thin it out enough that the rodents leave. That will solve the rodent problem, but not the problem of the ivy growing over to your side. That will always be your problem to deal with.