The cost of replacement was to be $5,000 all up. The homeowners agreed to the cost, but they were away for the actual installation and returned home to find that the original “Good Neighbor” alternating design had been replaced with a fence that, instead, ran the entire length with the framing on the homeowner’s side.
Now, it’s possible that something just got overlooked and neither the neighbor nor the builder thought twice about it, and it’s not like the homeowner had explicitly stated that they wanted the same fence design to be kept in place. So it’s very likely that, without explicit instruction, the builder just whizzed through the build in what was easiest for them to mindlessly complete, and the neighbor was none-the-wiser.
But the homeowners think that the neighbor had a clear goal here: Get a fence built that would help them sell their house, and get these homeowners, who were on the other side of the boundary, to pay for half of it. The problem is the fence was clearly built with the intention of making their property look good by hiding all of the ugly framing of the fence on the other side.
This homeowner shared their story with this online community where homeowners can share their boundary disputes with their neighbors, among other issues, and ask them for their advice. They want to know whether or not they can get out of footing their half of the bill on the grounds of their problem with how the fence was built. See their account of events below, along with some of the responses they received.
Agreed to go 50/50 with neighbor to replace fence between our homes
LOCATION: Las Vegas, NV
Three months ago, we agreed to go in 50/50 with our nextdoor neighbor for a new fence on the property line between our houses to replace an old fence that was falling down.
The fence we’ve had between us for several years is a 6-ft wooden picket fence, finished in the Good Neighbor style with pickets alternating sides of the fence on every other section of framing.
Many of the posts were nearly rotted through. The fence has been falling down (into their yard!) for many years. We’ve asked them many times to go in halves with us to replace it. I hired a fence company three years ago to replace the other two sides of our fence that we share with the other two neighbors without any issues. I had Good Neighbor fences built, and we all chipped in as agreed- not one problem. But, these neighbors kept insisting that the fence was fine and that it didn’t bother them. They kept refusing to share the cost with us so I never replaced that section.
Author: Kayitsi.com
