If you had a new fence put in did you ask your neighbors to chip in?

Did you ever ask your neighbors if they wanted to chip in??

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my neighbor keeps asking us but we are tapped out for cash. I told them next year, it save us some cash but i thought that was weird sharing expense of a fence. Then who's fence is it? But since fencing is so expensive I don't care.

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Absolutely not. I feel if you want the fence, you pay for it. I think it's rude to ask your neighbors to chip in! We paid for our own fence. We did not hook into our neighbors either. What happens if/when they move and the new homeowners are a$$holes? Not something I want to deal with.

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We recently replaced ours.
I didn't ask the neighbors.
But 1 offered to split the cost on his side. The other never offered.

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We offered several times when our neighbors did the dividing fence and they graciously declined stating that we made so many improvements to the home since we moved in that they would pay for it all. We have wonderful neighbors!

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Re: If you had a new fence put in did you ask your neighbors to chip in?

No. We did not ask. One is a rental behind us. The other is an elderly woman. We are in a corner lot. And a BIG lot.

Nobody offered either.

But we did not do our fence hoping one of them would chip in. We needed the fence for my dogs.

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I have neighbors on both sides and only one offered to pay for their half, however they never did pay us for it!

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Our neighbors didn't ask us but insinuated that they would appreciate it. Due to other purchases and the fact that we were in our home less than a year, we could only afford a few hundred dollars. It didn't amount to half of the cost, but if it was me, I would have appreciated it. I'm not so sure that they did. They were less friendly after the fence was up.

It's a long story with lots of details but suffice to say, I thought it was a nice gesture on our part. I wouldn't outright ask anyone. But I probably wouldn't have refused it from our other neighbor who took down their fence after ours was up, so they are now enjoying it too.

All I know is, I like our fenced yard and so do our dogs.

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DH and I plan to have a fence put in at the end of the summer/early fall (after we finish our patio work), and we will not ask our neighbor if they want to chip in (we only have neighbors on one side). They have no plans to fence in their yard, so I wouldn't even think of asking them!

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I didint ask and Im not sure I really get why you would even ask. IMO it would just open a can of worms in the future if there are repairs and what happens when someone new moves in and they are told the fence is theirs......Just too many issues can pop up. I wanted a fence so we paid or the fence.

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We didn't ask anyone to help when we put in our PVC fence last year. I honestly would have been surprised (and put off) if one of my neighbors had been doing it & came over to ask me for $ so I didn't even consider asking them.

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I feel like the fence benefits both people so it should be a shared expense. My fence is falling down and our neighbors on one side refuse to pay for half which I think is ridiculous. They get to reap the benefits from my investment, why, the fence was there well before we moved into the house and now it's OUR fence? Well we are doing the patio next month and that broken fence will stay up till it's can't be hung anymore b/c I refuse to pay alone. JMO

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I would laugh in their face if they asked me to help pay for a fence they want.

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We did not ask our neighbor to chip in for our fence.

The fence that was up was our neighbors. It was an old wooden fence, and falling down. He has a pool, so he's obligated to have a fence.

But we did not ask him to chip in. We were putting it up regardless if he contributed.

Our neighbors are also older and retired, and I equated it to a neighbor asking my parents to chip in for their new fence. My parents are on a fixed-income, and major home improvements aren't their priorty right now. I wouldn't want to make someone else feel obligated or uncomfortable about it.

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I wouldn't ask. In my opinion, it should be your own property and responsibilty, not shared.

Even if my neighbor had a fence already I would put my own up alongside theirs. I wouldnt want to worry about accidentally damaging their property (with DH throwing baseballs in the yard and family visiting with kids and dogs etc)

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we were going to put up a PVC fence 2 yrs ago, we wound up using the $$ for other home projects, so it's still on our list.

when we were discussing putting it up, I let our neighbors know (since the only fence right now is their chain link fence), and since they have a dog that goes out all the time, I had to let them know so they could keep him in the day the fence came down.....they told me to let them know the cost and I said we wouldn't take any $$ from them (they are sweet old people- both of them are deaf actually, so I was communicating with their daughter about all this). I guess it would just be good karma for us to not accept anything from them. the fact that I finally have neighbors I actually like is enough "payment" for me!

eta: just wanted to add, our neighbor on the other side put up PVC a few years ago too, we offered him $$ and he wouldn't hear of it....so I guess in a sense we're paying it forward to the neighbors on the other side when we do that side w/ PVC.

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I should of made this post alittle clear I wasn't ask everyone to chip in and buy my fence. I have one neighbor on our side that has a chain link fence and not sure if it is there or ours so I wanted to take that down and replace it. I know when my parents got a new fence they went half with the neighbor on that side to benefit both houses.

But I think now I will just keep my mouth shut and put up the fence. I would like to ask them who fence the chain link is

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my mom split one side of our fence with our neighbors. they had done it together about 10 years ago also and the fence was rotting. the people behind both of them had already put in their own, so my mom and neighbor only had to pay for 1 side anyway, so they split it. i thought it was a nice thing/the right thing to do.

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