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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am pretty sure I talked to that PC myself a few weeks back. Like I told her then, the solution is a nuisance action. And she certainly has the right to continue to remove any trespassing growth in the meantime.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:08 AM Laurel Brown <<a href="mailto:laurel.brown8385@gmail.com">laurel.brown8385@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Individual had backyard professionally landscaped. She notified the property owner adjoining her, as there was/is a large blackberry bush that grows towards Individual's
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Individual has maintained cutting the bush back on her side of the fence. She sent pictures of the invasive plant to property owner and property management company.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Blackberry bush has since flowered and seeded. Now individual has blackberry bushes growing in several places in her newly laid sod.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Any and all suggestions, ideas, potential remedies willl be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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