Woman & Her Neighbour Cheer in Triumph After She Removes the Fence, Overcoming Worthless Neighbours
On Reddit, a user posted a story about a problem with an intrusive neighbor who violates boundaries incessantly.
When the neighbor is imposing, the user takes recourse in a small manner that gives him/her satisfaction which involves using his fence to indicate how important it is not to stain relationships with neighbours.
Use it or lose it
For years now, a fence she never needed was still being talked about because of her previous landlord.
My former house had previously been rented and the tenant had set up a small chain link fence for their dog. Just like that, the corners were on the very corner of the house. This is just a quick fix. I did not have any dog therefore whether there was a fence or not did not matter to me.
The time when I moved here my neighbor come over & asked since she ran a daycare from her home, she would love to put up a fence to save money could they connect with mine to cut the fencing cost.
Long before I had purchased it, a previous home of mine that I lived in was rented out to someone who had put up a little dog chain link fence just like that. It was a quick fix right at the corner of the house. For me, it didn’t matter whether there was or wasn’t a fence because I don’t have dogs.
My neighbor came and asked me if she’d put up a fence, just so she wouldn’t need to set up a whole yard.
I might be young, but I’m not dumb. They would fence in part of my property if they did this and eventually own the land between our houses under their maintenance for some years. Now we are not talking about much here – maybe fifteen feet separated these dwellings – but they would own everything right up to my house.
They would even have my air conditioning appliance on their ‘property’. So, I discuss her all, & said no, she cannot now or ever tie into the fence.
I mentioned to her about my realtor who was almost throwing a fit- it seems that this person tried asking her the same thing and she told her just what I did.
Now if this was just a one-time trying her luck thing it wouldn’t be a big deal, but she kept asking off and on for a few years, and I kept saying no. Even the spouse came over to ask, maybe to threaten a lone lady? Still said no.
And even though I did some research on where our property lines were as shown by an actual property line map.
One day I saw plenty of chain link fencing in their backyard…but not nearly enough to enclose all the sides they needed to do. They were going to try and tie in any way despite me repeatedly telling them no.
So there night I took down rolled up the fence and dug up every single post that had been put into the earth for setting up that type of fence.
Neighbour had to come out and watch the kids she was supposed to be watching now that my fence wasn’t there anymore so the children had more ways they could use to run away. To make matters worse, it took them a while before they were able to order more chain link fences and posts.
When I sold the house, I gave the new owner (a single man) a care package with the official property line map and a note telling him he should keep an eye on his neighbors. My realtor (yes, same one—I liked her so much I worked with her again) knew THE WHOLE story behind this and broke it all down for him.
Therefore, since the neighbors did not have another whole side of a fence to work with, they waited until when the rest of it came in which cost time also money.