Report them immediately - they can't do that on your property and it says a lot about what a creep said neighbor really is that he would do such a thing. Make him take it all out and fix it at his expense.

Contact the Villages offices they are helpful and will advise you. My opinion, you will be better off doing it now. Thus, assuming there is ill will it will be with the neighbor that is leaving rather than with the new neighbor.

I sounds like a good thing. You are getting rid of a neighbor that you will be better of without.

That area is connected to his sprinkler system.

Even so, he doesn't have the right to connect YOUR water to HIS tree!

Possible he didnt realize that was happening

Excellent advice, sure hope you follow it. Had similar in our family with relatives in S.S. area of villages. You do NOT want to let this "slide", take care of it now while you have an opportunity. Also correct that you need NO permission to change sprinkler part so neighbor is not able to run his/her water through your meter, but DO check, could have an easement to have the tree, but water needs to be changed (yesterday !) not legal to tap into neighbor's water.

Another option, perhaps, is to bring it up with the seller's realty agent, and ask them to communicate with the property owner your concern.

If the property owner's response is either a) none at all or b) refusal to do anything about it then...

present him with a deed option to take legal possession of that strip of property, including the tree and sprinkler, so that as of that moment, it will be YOUR property and not his.

This type of situation actually happened to us in our last house in Connecticut. A low-income senior housing apartment complex went up behind our house, and the road leading off the main street to that complex cut between my property and the next door neighbor's property.

Everything was hunky dory for years before we moved in. And then, one day, we got a notice from HUD Housing demanding a quit-claim on the 100-foot long, 1.5-foot wide strip of land that was part of their sidewalk. Turns out their surveyor screwed up by a degree or two.

We ended up selling HUD that strip of land for around $4000, and that in turn obligated them to maintain the sidewalk and the frontage of our driveway in perpetuity. We no longer owned it, but we had the right-of-way on it.

It was a good deal.

I can tell you this could be a big problem for closing trying to sell his house. Our fence was 3 inches over the line in the neighbors property. We took down the fence to sell the house!

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VILLAGETINKER: thank you, called Community Standards and they sent an inspector out, who reviewed the situation, informed me I was correct as far as the wrongful planting (there is a 3' rule from property line). They will call owner and let them know plant must be removed or moved and that they should have filed an application for planting and landscape around tree.
Thanks,
Westy

Get that side of your yard surveyed, so its the True Lot Line. Also, get a record of YOUR sprinkler system on that side. this way, you BOTH will have the correct information and no one is guessing. Also, unless they changed the rules, a few years back, I was told, when landscaping, you had to be 2' in back of Your Lot Line, ... Legally, he needed to get approval from The Villages, for THE PLANTING OF THAT TREE AND CHANGING THE SPRINKLER SYSTEM...he may not of done that. Either way, you both will have the correct information, and it won't be here say. It sounds like miss information from the beginning.

My bet is since it has been 3 months it is resolved.............