Rotten dead tree damage vehicle

By Kyle Rajasthan

O.K.  Here is the situation.  I rent at an apartment complex.  This complex has a history of rotten to the core giant pine trees falling on vehicles.  My vehicle.  Twice.  This year.  The first crushing took place in February, specifically on the 25.  Yes there was a wind storm.  This tree, which was over one hundred feet high and three feet around crushed my contractors cap and severely damaged the bed of my truck.  Now, this happened less than a month after yet another one hundred foot pine next to my truck came down.  I had told the property manager these trees are dead and they are going to fall.  Nothing was done.  Since I only have liability on my truck, and the property manager had joked, “I hope you have insurance”, I ate it and built myself a nice flatbed.  Now, two Sundays ago, during yet another storm, yup Sandy, another tree hit my truck, in another location!  I had parked next to my building instead on under the pines in what is laugingly called the “overflow parking lot”.  It’s a cleaning by the side of the road under you guessed it, giant rotten pine trees.  Now; the tree that hit my truck this time, was one that again, was well over one hundred feet tall and again three feet in diameter.  It was also withing striking range of our building.  It was also very obviously dead.  The property management company had been warned about this tree for years.  Tenents had sent in picture and letters asking that the tree be removed.  Nothing was done.  I have talked to the property manager about that tree and the others on at least several occasions.  Yet nothing was done.  During Sandy, the tree damage.  It hit my truck on the drivers side, doing damage to windows, doors, hood and lights and it even hit the building, causing damage to first floor windows.  The next morning they were out there making it as thought it never happened.  They didn’t fix anything mind you, but they did cut the tree up.  Now; I know that if a live tree falls during a storm and cuases damage, it’s not anyones fault.  However, if something like  a giant dead four or five ton, one hundred plus foot pine tree comes down, I think this is a case of gross neglegence, don’t you think?  The propety management company knew these trees were dead.  They knew these trees posed a danger to person and property, and yet they did nothing to remove them.  Oh, sorry, yes they did.  A few years ago they “hired” a loging company to come in and clear the dead wood out.  They cleared the wood out all right, all the live stuff.  They took the good wood out, and left all the rotten trees for us to enjoy.  Nice huh?  So, what I am looking for here are opinions.  I am already looking for a lawyer, but I want to know if more can be done.  What do you think?

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