I would not want someone cutting two feet into my lawn. They need to use a push mower around the tree as to not cut your neighbors lawn.

Extreme OCD here regarding my lawn and landscaping.

NO ! You are inconsiderate towards your neighbor , your neighbor should put pieces of re bar to keep your lawn service off of their property!

If I was your neighbor, I would have your mowing service to stay off my property

Be a considerate neighbor
 

Always take in consideration how your neighbor feels about your lawn company coming onto their property. Also, it is best practice to have open communication with them. Property lines are just that between homes. It is their property and not yours. Your lawn company, if they use the large heavy equipment, could be making deep tire ruts in their lawn on days that the ground is wet due to rain or overwatering, damaging the grass. And when that continues the landscaping company and ultimately you (if you do nothing about it) are damaging their property. Just have open conversation with your neighbor, be willing to listen with an open mind and proceed accordingly as a considerate neighbor.

This isn’t an easement issue. Your landscaper is encroaching on your neighbor’s property, and you have no rights to do so.

easement
 

An easement is granted for a specific purpose and is spelled out in detail on plat of the property you are concerned with. They are granted for things like utility access, drainage pipe access, common wall access etc. An easement to cross a property line to mow grass would not be assigned to the plat by the developer. That is something you would need to be granted by the owner and have recorded on his plat.

Just because they may have a utilities or drainage easement that does not give anyone else the right to enter or use that property except for the exact purpose claimed in the easement. Same as easement at curb. Just because we all an easement for possible sidewalks or utilities next to the street it does not transfer to someone walking a dog and allow them to use it as they please (but I personally do not care if you let your dog walk on my lawn....)

Talk with your neighbor vs. asking here.

Solution might be to have his lawn service (or him) cut the grass on your lot around the tree so it is exactly the same height as his lawn (but on your property). They may not care and let you continue to cut it. In either case, you have no right to enter his property and cut his grass due to any easement that is on your original plat.

After reading these responses, I am so happy that the next-door neighbors on both sides of me use the same lawn service as I do. I never could have imagined there would be an issue with a lawn service going a couple feet onto a neighbor's property to cut around a tree. Boy, was I wrong. Silly me.

,your land is your land and your neighbor has his. I do not think that is acceptable . Ask you neighbor !

One other alternative, use the same landscaping company (if the works for you), the one i had was not working for me, so I changed to the same company the neighbor is using, works great for all involved.

Should be OK as long as your neighbor does not object(actualy your lawn guy is cutting his grass) Per your post, neighbor should be happy

2 feet away from a tree is probably mostly roots.

Another good reason why I feel that neighborhoods should hire 1 company to do the entire neighborhood. No longer have lawn companies in the road 6 days a week(and sometimes on Sunday) uniform cutting height, lower costs etc

I would be fine with the developer or The Villages doing it, but not "neighborhoods".

Agreed, I have never had to think about it very much with our homes, now our in the past.
However, there are very valid points about issues of ruts, weeds and height.
We take pride in how our yard looks, and we work hard to maintain it esthetically for OUR enjoyment.
Our neighbors all cut their own lawns and don't encroach which is appreciated.