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Originally Posted by flatbutt
How do you go about sharing a fence? On whose property is it set?
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The fence goes on one property or the other.
No (reputable) fence company puts a fence up without a survey and locating the survey stakes.
If cost is to be shared - that is when the decision is also made whose property the fence goes on. All in agreement AHEAD of time.
It's called communicating and COLLABORATION. The polar opposite is COMPETING.
Usually the decision to put up a fence is done by the property owner who wants the fence in the first place, and theirs is the property the fence is installed on.
I put one up on my property by myself and later on the neighbor to my south thanked me and offered the pay half, which I declined. I told him next fence is on him!
BTW....local code here, is if one side of the fence is better looking - it goes on the OUTSIDE facing OUT, that is. Mine is that way and as Hads930 wrote: "As an aside I don’t mind the unfinished side as you can put a beer, water, tools, etc., on the framing when working in the yard."