The fence along my driveway, between me and my neighbor, blew down in a storm a few years ago. I had been repairing it for several years, including some extensive repairs to a section that had blown down. No assistance or thanks from the neighbor. Once, when I was out of town for work, my neighbor watched my wife lift a broken panel off of our driveway in the pouring rain and did nothing to help her. He's a real peach. Bless his heart.03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 7:09 pm A couple years back we had a storm that blew down a section of my wood fence. A few days later I see this car sitting in the alley and a lady taking pictures of my fence. Ten days later I get a notice from the City of Plano giving me 30 days to repair my fence. The car belonged to a lady in our HOA. I could not believe anyone would act so ridiculous about a fence falling down.
So, when the storm finally killed the old fence (several posts snapped at the base), I was prepared to split the cost for replacing it.... until...
My neighbor comes to my house, drunk, shirtless and belligerent. He says, angrily... "When are you gonna fix your fence?" I said... "MY fence?"... He said.. "Yea, it's your fence because the nice side faces your property." (I promise this is not bull... He actually said that.) I replied... Well... If it's MY fence, I'm just going to haul it to the street and let the trash guys haul it off. I don't need a fence along my driveway. Then, I'm going to call the City and let them know you have a swimming pool that isn't fenced."... And I walked back inside my house and closed the door.
They put up a new fence a few days later... Saved myself half the cost for the fence.
I still would have shared the cost with him... but.. he was going to have to ask me politely.