fencing issue, what would U do?

[vash]

no fence pictures! that would be weird. plus i am a sucky carpenter. you guys gave good advice. i dont think i can give her the good side of the fence because fence "A" would be in the way of my wild hammer swinging. ****, if she does see i am about to abandone her, she could eff my world by calling the city inspectors.... the damn dog!

[island911]

Build it 3 feet over, on to her property. . ..barbed-wire and electrified.


just to test her full english skills, doncha know.

Who knows, maybe it will test her negotiating skills too.

[Zeke]

Build the fence one inch on your property and good side facing you. Leave her fence. Make it the same height so she can't see it sticking up. Don't paint it, stain it.

BTW, there is a design which has each panel between posts facing opposite sides in an alternating fashion. This gives each neighbor the same look.

[cantdrv55]

BTW, there is a design which has each panel between posts facing opposite sides in an alternating fashion. This gives each neighbor the same look.

Good neighbor fence.

[Schrup]

My new neighbor has turned into a royal PITA. She has tag teamed with another bleeding heart, granola eating, tree hugging flaming ass liberal neighbor of mine to complain about everything from cutting down a tree on my property to claiming that my driveway is on her (she rents) property.

Well we fixed them good, we are selling our home to a young single guy who plans to put a big addition on the house & build a big ass garage out back, convert it to an apartment & rent it out. We are moving to an upscale neighborhood that I doubt will have many renters.

So my point is, try to keep peace with your neighbors or they may sell or rent with less than desirable results.

[RickM]

Cliff,

You need to read this.... http://cnews.canoe.ca//CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/03/30/401970-ap.html

[Rot 911]

One nice thing about living where housing is cheap, when we bought our house, we bought the entire block (which was vacant, but zoned residential). Now I don't have to worry about any neighbors!

[john70t]

Leave her fence. Concrete block on your side to the letter of the law (you can paint a nice mural and hang planters and shelves off it). Mabye even a covered drive-through carpad for extra parking if allowed.

"Well I asked for your imput", or you could just say "mange mon penai, vous etes un merde-a-la-tete" (my poor french) and ignore her.

[Sarah]

I did not read all the replies but here is what we did.

When we moved in...our yard had tall wood shadow fencing on the north & south sides but regular short chain fence west facing our back neighbor. They kept pretty much to themselves but would say hi if we did. They had 2 young boys and our dogs seemed to want to jump the fence.

So...we decided to complete our yard with the tall shadow fencing about 1/2 foot inside our proprty line and left their fence right where it was. They were not home the weekend Tim completed it so there was no discussion about our project.

The next summer we noticed that they took their fence down and used it to complete other open areas of their yard. They also put up flowers leaning against the side of our fence that faces their yard. I liked it...now we have some pretty flowers that hang over the top.

I would keep your project to your yard and let her deal with her own fence. I think it will save a lot of issues/stress/headaches.

[vash]

that is a cute dog! it looks tired from jumping all those fences

[Sarah]

Thanks. He was eating ice cubes.

One winter the snow got piled really high on the south side fence. Our Sharpei Bailey thought he was a mountain goat and decided to climb to the top and look over. That was a lot of fun shoveling that load of snow down so he could not escape.

Here is another picture that shows the short fence that crosses our drive-way just for another idea.

[RickM]

Sarah,

Your fence appears to be the "Neighbor frinedly" type mentioned earlier.

BTW, I'm tempted to put an interesting caption above your doggie's pic.....I wont though.

[Superman]

Build your fence, on your property, after reviewing local codes. Let her deal with her fence. There are a variety of reasons for this suggestion, many of which are outlined here.

[Sarah]

Rick...we have been very lucky with our neighbors (on both sides & behind us). None of them have dogs and each summer we have to ask them to sign this license form for the city stating they "sign-off" on us having 3 or more dogs. It is a city code. We pay $135 and the city council has to approve it.

Anyway..you think that picture was funny of spanky...here is another one as he is chomping more ice...he looks drunk!

[304065]

Cliff:

In the law, there is a doctrine called adverse possession, and a related doctrine called prescriptive easement.

The policy behind the law is to encourage people to make use of their land. The way adverse possession works is, if I come onto your land, and I act as though it is mine, and I stay there for a statutorily prescribed period (depends on the state, sometimes 21 years) and you don't bring an action to eject me, then guess what?

I own it!

Likewise, if I live on a corner lot and the neighbor kids cut across the corner of my lawn every day to get to school, and I don't try to stop them or put them on notice that they are trespassing, and then one day the City decides to widen the intersection and take that corner of my lawn, guess what? By failing to exclude others, I may have inadvertently granted a prescriptive easement over that corner of my land, and the city can take it, gratis!

Those of you who live in or visit NYC may have seen the bronze plaques embedded in the sidewalk that say, "Property of 1251 Avenue of the Americas Corp (or whatever) Crossing is by revocable license only"- can you guess why?

Anyway, are you CERTAIN that your fence is built one foot into her property? You have what the dirt lawyers would call an "encroachment!"

One way to tell is if you have the survey, you may have gotten one when you got your mortgage.

[MBAtarga]

In Texas, I was told to place a newly installed fence "ON" the line. This prevents quibling over whose property line is on which side of the fence. That "adverse possession" that John just mentioned has a time period of 7 years in that state.