Spinoff to "Fence with Neighbors"

It's great if your neighbors are willing to go in half on the fences on each side, but what if someone sells their house and the new owners don't want the fence/don't like it and they want to take it down. If it's right on the property line or in one property more then the other, what would happen? Would the fence have to come down and be put back up? These are the things I'm worried about if we ask our neighbors to split the fence cost. If the fence is on our property line all the way around, then I wouldn't care because if the neighbors sell then a new homeowner could just put up their own fence on their property line. I hope that made sense. I just wouldn't want there to be problems in the future if you put it in the middle of the property lines. What are your thoughts? Does the town have rules on something like this? TIA!

Message edited 5/7/2008 2:19:09 PM.

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Jen, why dont you just put it on your property line then. Your not talking feet , its give or take a few inces. We did that & the neighbors went half with us

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That's a great Q, I'd love to know the answer too. We didn't ask our neighbors to kick in for our fence so it's all ours and on our property but I am curious what the law would be concerning that.

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Jen, why dont you just put it on your property line then. Your not talking feet , its give or take a few inches. We did that & the neighbors went half with us

Thanks Toni! We will see what our neighbors think when the time comes I guess.

either way , it wouldnt make sense to put it on their property, if your the one that wants the fence, then id think it makes sense to put it on yours, either way both houses benefit, ya know

Yeah you are right. Well as long as the neighbors are game then and want to pay half and are ok with it on our property then that is good for us. We will just have to get a survey done so we know where our property line is for sure.

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The neighbors right behind us technically had their fence on our property which we discovered through the title search. It just barely hit our property though, so we were okay with letting them keep it where it is. However, we could have asked them to take it down. We did get them to sign a document that indicated they did not claim the property, and they acknowledged that the fence may need to come down if we ever wanted that property.

Hard to say if it is running right on the property line, but it's so tricky to get that exactly right. I'm thinking if the fence is at all on another property and one person sold, the new owners could remove it if they wished.

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The neighbors right behind us technically had their fence on our property which we discovered through the title search. It just barely hit our property though, so we were okay with letting them keep it where it is. However, we could have asked them to take it down. We did get them to sign a document that indicated they did not claim the property, and they acknowledged that the fence may need to come down if we ever wanted that property.

Hard to say if it is running right on the property line, but it's so tricky to get that exactly right. I'm thinking if the fence is at all on another property and one person sold, the new owners could remove it if they wished.

I thought this could happen. OK, it's settled then, if our neighbors what to help pay for the fence on either side, then great, but it's going on our property line and not in the middle or on theirs. Thanks!