Wilma in Oct. 2005 for the most part destroyed my neighbor's fence that is on our property line (it' s his fence - he has the slats on his side and I have the posts on my side). There are sections of the fence that are just standing there, not anchored at all in the ground, and sections that were nearly blown down from the 100+ MPH winds for 8 hours when Wilma roared through. My neighbor lifted the unanchored fence twice and I lifted it twice - out of my yard, and leaned it up against the rest of the fence, where it's been since the hurricane.
We also lost the screen enclosure to our pool. By law, we have to have our pool enclosed for safety reasons. We had the damaged screen removed and have had this Home Depot "orange construction" mesh fence around the length of our pool for nearly a year - and I'm tired of it. I had a fence co. come and give me an estimate last week on what it would take to get me up to "code." I can afford it. Problem, my neighbor doesn't want to spend the money to get his fence fixed.
Solution: I have my fence guy re-draw the survey so my pool is enclosed. My neighbor's falling down fence is not up to code (posts must be no more than 4' apart) and wouldn't pass inspection. He's being intentionally obtuse, and soliciting me to pony up $1200 to help him repair HIS fence - and that would be just to pass inspection.
Alls I wants is 10-20 acres of bottom land that I can farm without Realtors Driving Lexuses living twenty feet away. In the meantime, I gotta deal with these ***-Clowns. Here's a pic of his fence which was blown to hell nearly a year ago. It's leaning horribly over on my side:
I generally don't consider myself a prick and I don't like Homeowner's Associations. We don't have one, but if we did, this sh*t would have been taken care of long before now.