There is a saying here in the NW that, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Perhaps this is a saying in your area as well. Where I came from, back East, there were no such saying that I can remember. There were plenty of stone walls and barbed wire fences but they were more to control livestock----than to control neighbors. At a recent inspection of a bank owned property there appeared to be what may have been a neighbor taking things into own hands “in the middle of the night” so to speak. Sometimes it is actually hard to determine who actually owns the fences between homes and often maintenance and construction is shared between neighbors. Regardless of how this fence got to be the way it is, it is pretty clear that “someone” wanted it shorter. Three sections of the fence had been completely removed and then the next section cut down to about half of its original height. The rest of the fence has been cut off to that height---but only half way through. The other side has been “marked” for cutting but remained the original height. I have to wonder if I went back to the site today whether the “remodeling” project has been completed. Charles Buell
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Hi Charles~ It looks like there was some real disagreements over the fencing! What a mess that is! My husband would totally agree with you that good fences make for great neighbors, LOL!
Now that's interesting. We've seen some wild stuff on our REOs - like the time we had to hire a crime scene clean-up company to come in.
Well, if nothing else, it gives you another funny story to add to the RE repetoire.
Vickie, my thought exactly----and with the neigbors gone what a great opportunity to deal with the issue:)
Syreeta, REOs are for sure "different"
Michael and Karen, everything indeed can become blog fodder:)
You DO know where that "saying" cam from, don't you? It's from a Robert Frost poem.
MAN---those brain cells must be long gone:) Cool----I had to look it up.
I have one neighbor I adore and the one on the other side... well they don't build fences tall enough.
I wonder if they did ever finish cutting this fence down.
Oh and county ordence here require a fence be "clearly" on your property. If putting within 6 inches of the line you must have a survey first.
Tammy, here there is this interesting "convention" that says that whoever builds the fence is supposed to put the "good-looking-side" toward your neighbor's property. Sometimes that results in a double sided fence like the one I pictured where it is the same on both sides.
Just add the barbed wire for homeland security...
What a great day to be alive!
Paul
Paul, I had one a while back where the top of the fence had two rows of carpet tack strip----is that just as good?
I have heard that saying back here in the East from my Father-in-Law. Here grew up on the opposite side of CT from where you were raised. I guess that saying didn't cross the fence to to East.
Strange one. Maybe someone wanted to see what Wilson looked like?
Was the back door a Dutch door? That would follow since you apparently have a Dutch fence.
I seem to get along with my neighbors much better now tht we have added a nice tall privacy fence. Weird.
James, I think if I had lived in the city back East I might have been more likely to have heard the saying
Ana, Wilson?
Jay, perhaps they were waiting for the neighbor to "go Dutch"?
Ian, it does supposedly work that way:)