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title: Owner destroys tree in HOA common area
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# Owner destroys tree in HOA common area

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## What do you think? Question:

What recourse doe an association have against an owner who destroyed a tree in the common area? Nobody saw it happen but his townhouse is the adjacent to the tree location. The unit is a corner unit and the tree was planted by the developer at the edge of a storm water management facility. There is no other unit close to the location of the tree.  Maryland

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