In her 7 On Your Side report, Sierra lays out the scenario a lot of homeowners never think about until it’s too late: a tree crashes onto your property—but it isn’t your tree. It’s rooted on someone else’s land, which sounds like it should make it someone else’s responsibility.
But the Castro Valley homeowner at the center of Sierra’s story learned the hard way that “not your tree” doesn’t automatically mean “not your bill.”
The homeowner, Angela Bereola, told Sierra she was “jolted out of bed” by a huge crash during a storm last year. In that moment, she said, she thought the tree was going to come through the house…