PHOTO - the fence!

[slickdawg]

Here's the moved fence.

The white line is the surveyed (and painted by slickwife on the grass)
property line. We're on the right, new neighbors on the left.

there's a small red line where the fence was.

That brick wall was put in when that house was built, as it's on the top
of the hill we live on.

In the top left corner, you'll see where their fence is, and the "dead space"

I have always cut the grass 5 feet into their yard every year - NO MORE, and
they best not mess up mine cutting that strip between the brick wall and the property line.



http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/9467/fencemedium8nq.jpg

[sanantoniosooner]

It's about time you moved it and keep that music down or I'll kick your a5s

[StoopTroup]

Slick...You need to get some horse manure...big clumps...and heave it over there every time there is a drunkytown thread.

Just a thOUght. ;)

[BajaOklahoma]

I would have given you more sympathy before if I had seen that picture.

You win. Your neighbor is more of a jerk than my neighbor.
Not that you really wanted to win this contest.

[Flagstaffsooner]

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000621P6K.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Looks like a wall to me.

[SoonerInFla]

Put up a big tree or something to block their satelite.

[BudSooner]

Put up a big tree or something to block their satelite.


Pfffft, and I'll be the one they call to setup a work order to get it relocated.

[slickdawg]

It's about time you moved it and keep that music down or I'll kick your a5s


Bring your sh** to me. :texan:

[slickdawg]

I would have given you more sympathy before if I had seen that picture.

You win. Your neighbor is more of a jerk than my neighbor.
Not that you really wanted to win this contest.

Yeah, that's not a contest I wanted to win.

But at least now y'all understand how trivial this was, in the big picture.

[slickdawg]

Put up a big tree or something to block their satelite.


Excellent, Smithers!!!!

[Newbomb Turk]

So let me get this straight.

They have a fence - you have a fence - with dead space in between (their property). And they get their pants in a wad because your fence is one foot into their dead space?

[slickdawg]

So let me get this straight.

They have a fence - you have a fence - with dead space in between (their property). And they get their pants in a wad because your fence is one foot into their dead space?


BINGO!!!!

[Newbomb Turk]

You know - I could KIND OF see their point if you shared a fence and it was too far on their property. But your picture really shows what pricks they are being.

[SoonerInKCMO]

BINGO!!!!

So, really, all you've done by moving your fence is to give them more grass to mow in an area they probably don't use. :confused:

[Newbomb Turk]

So, really, all you've done by moving your fence is to give them more grass to mow in an area they probably don't use. :confused:

:mack: "let me answer that for slickdawg" ......... BINGO!

[slickdawg]

So, really, all you've done by moving your fence is to give them more grass to mow in an area they probably don't use. :confused:

Exactly. Historically, I've always cut about 5 feet into their yard, since
this was dead space, and that would make the onld neighbors life a
little easier. I cut the "obstacle course" around the brick wall (both sides)


Now, we did see one of them this evening on our way out to eat,
he's graying, a little chubby, and has one of those "middle age crisis
pony tales", that is all of 3" long. He was walking small two dogs on harnesses.

I hope that they are wanting to move their fence over on to the property line
now. They'll have to ask me to connect to my fence, which is now fully
on my property. They will be denied.

[proud gonzo]

so wait a minute.... there's a brick wall on their property... then two feet or so between the wall and your property line? and that's where your fence was?


and why the heck is there a brick wall there? :confused:

[bigdsooner]

:mack: "let me answer that for slickdawg" ......... BINGO!

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Newbomb Turk again.

[PhxSooner]

Did they have the thing surveyed or something? How did they know where the property line was? Nice neighbors.:rolleyes:

[12]

I'm trying desperately to understand the purpose of this "fence." Honestly, other than a mower/edger obstacle, why was this thing constructed? It looks like something to trip over.

[sanantoniosooner]

It MIGHT have been to discourage a neighbor form pulling a vehicle/boat/trailer of somekind to the back and crossing "our" lawn to do it.

[12]

So... an expensive "SCREW YOU" structure.

I sure like bad neighbors, I tell you whut.

[12]

You know, I think the first thing that happens when you die is you realize how silly every thing you were worried about was.

Then, you realize how dead you are and you can't do anything to correct the things you screwed up.

Then, a magic bowl of spicy black beans, sharp cheddar and grilled tuna is served.

[yermom]

You know, I think the first thing that happens when you die is you realize how silly every thing you were worried about was.

Then, you realize how dead you are and you can't do anything to correct the things you screwed up.

Then, a magic bowl of spicy black beans, sharp cheddar and grilled tuna is served.

is that good or bad? :confused:

i have to say, if i was moving in there, if i was buying that house/land i'd say keep that, it's yours now. buy me a beer or something.

why on earth would you buy a house next to someone and start the whole relationship that can last for YEARS with *******ry?

[Okla-homey]

why on earth would you buy a house next to someone and start the whole relationship that can last for YEARS with *******ry?

I've been thinking about this too. The only thing I can come up with is maybe (just speculation mind you) the new neighbors decided they wanted Slick "off their land" to avoid title problems for them which could have arisen mainly two ways. 1) when you allow someone to openly occupy your property (even an 8" strip of land) for a period of years, usually at least ten -- which varies from state to state --and you do nothing to stop it, eventually, the occupying guy gains legal ownership of it. (aka "adverse possession")
2) short of the outright ownership that results in #1, sometimes the law recognizes the creation of an easement under very similar circumstances. (aka "prescriptive easement")

In either situation, that sort of thing can "cloud" your title and complicate things when you eventually sell or will your land to someone else.

Either that, or they're just @sshol3s.;)

[LoyalFan]

Slick,

Depending on how long you had some of their property under fence, mightn't you have been able to claim ownership under the law of Adverse Possession?
In any event, if prevailing winds are "in cahoots" at the right season, why not plant some sort of tree that drops lots of leaves that'll wind up in their yard.
If they have allergies, you can select a tree that makes a lot of pollen too!

LF

[slickdawg]

Did they have the thing surveyed or something? How did they know where the property line was? Nice neighbors.:rolleyes:

It was surveryed when it sold, normal practice in Mississippi.

The surveyer noted the encroachment on his report.


When we built the fence, I asked the old neighbors, with the fence builder
there, if it would be ok to encroach about a foot or so, so that we could
have a gate on that side. She agreed, and said "no problem, it's ok with us,
we can even use this part of the yard"

The old neighbors HAD to move, and fast, her husband is bipolar, and had to
be checked into a facility, and she and her 5 year old daughter moving back
in with her Mom in North Mississippi.

So the buyers (the new neighbors) treat her like total crap. They loved the
house, it was just perfect, BUT "we don't want to get off on the wrong foot
with the new neighbors (being us), so YOU tell them their fence is encroaching and they need to move it. If it is not moved, it's a
dealbreaker"

The old neighbor came over, almost in tears, explaining what had transpired.
She offered to pay to have the fence moved, but she knew what we did,
to get a contractor after Hurricane Katrina could take 6 months or more.
We told her what great neighbors they have been, and slickwife
wrote letters to her and both real-estate agents confirming that we
would move the fence as soon as a contractor could be found to do
something "so relatively insignificant in the wake of the worst natural disaster
in American history"

When they went to close on the house last week, the azzhole new neighbor,
just before signing the papers for the house, proclaims that "you (my old
neighbor, the seller) need to give me $1,000 just in cane they dont move
that fence so I can have it moved, or the deal is off"

The real estate agents showed them the letter we had written and
told them that "you agreed to the terms and conditions in this letter"

So they closed.

No workers have even bothered to show up, so I took it upon myself to move
the fence.

And that is where we are today.

[slickdawg]

Slick,

Depending on how long you had some of their property under fence, mightn't you have been able to claim ownership under the law of Adverse Possession?
In any event, if prevailing winds are "in cahoots" at the right season, why not plant some sort of tree that drops lots of leaves that'll wind up in their yard.
If they have allergies, you can select a tree that makes a lot of pollen too!

LF
Slickwife is thinking about planting bamboo along the fence, it'll take over
their yard in no time. :D

[slickdawg]

I've been thinking about this too. The only thing I can come up with is maybe (just speculation mind you) the new neighbors decided they wanted Slick "off their land" to avoid title problems for them which could have arisen mainly two ways. 1) when you allow someone to openly occupy your property (even an 8" strip of land) for a period of years, usually at least ten -- which varies from state to state --and you do nothing to stop it, eventually, the occupying guy gains legal ownership of it. (aka "adverse possession")
2) short of the outright ownership that results in #1, sometimes the law recognizes the creation of an easement under very similar circumstances. (aka "prescriptive easement")

In either situation, that sort of thing can "cloud" your title and complicate things when you eventually sell or will your land to someone else.

Either that, or they're just @sshol3s.;)

Homey, while it was/is a HUGE pain i the AZZ to move it, I could understand
and respect that aspect with no problem. Them treating a woman
who has just checked her husband into a facility like this and taking
advantage of her is inexcusable. That's my entire beef. I do think it
is kinda azzholeish for such a trivial amount, but if they had acted like
human beings, I'd have offered to BUY that small amount of land in
cash to make it "legit".

[Okla-homey]

Homey, while it was/is a HUGE pain i the AZZ to move it, I could understand
and respect that aspect with no problem. Them treating a woman
who has just checked her husband into a facility like this and taking
advantage of her is inexcusable. That's my entire beef. I do think it
is kinda azzholeish for such a trivial amount, but if they had acted like
human beings, I'd have offered to BUY that small amount of land in
cash to make it "legit".

Yep, their selling you the strip would have been the civil and neighborly thing to do.