Tree roots in plumbing

[Jeremy Cepress]

I have a investment property it's an 11unit  property. I have roots going threw some of my plumbing but the trees are the neighbors trees. The trees are not on my property but destroying my pipes. What do I do?

[Aaron Lewis]

Two thoughts on this:

1. As others have said, I'm not an attorney either, but I *believe* once things cross onto your property, you're able to do what is necessary at that point. I don't see how your neighbor can or should be liable in any way. Like, how is that their "fault" that the tree grew up a certain way? You probably just want to proceed as though it were a tree on your own property i.e. deal with the problem yourself. 

2. How to fix: you can either repeatedly apply band-aid fixes (snake the line with a blade that will chop through roots as long as they're not already too thick, and make it a recurring maintenance kind of thing), OR you can replace your sewer line. I had the same issue on a rental property of mine. The first couple times I just did the band-aid. Then eventually I sucked it up and got the sewer line replaced. It was a pain, but then once and done for another 60+ years.