On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:15:41 -0400, PRose
wrote:

Over 400 years ago, Nostradamus predicted that on Thu, 15 Jun 2006
07:55:35 -0400, in message ,
mm would say:

BTW, doesn't this mean that even if the shed is painted, their in need
of repair house will still be in your field of view? Even though
your yard is immaculate, you may not be able to make your view
immaculate, and that's part of life. But that doens't mean you can't
ask them if you can paint their shed. They may say, Oh, we'll paint
it, and then paint it, or not. Or they might tell you that you can,
expecially if you can point to work you've done on your own house that
looks good.

I was going to suggest that OP refinish the rest of the fence, that way
she can say that she wants to paint the neighbor's shed so that it
"matches in with the rest of the fence" rather than is in dire need of
paint itself.

Except the fence does not belong to the OP either. I don't know why a
couple people suggested it did. I don't know what the law is if the
fence is exactly on the property line, but even if it is on the
property line and even if the law favored the OP, the neighbor will be
upset if the OP paints it.

In addition, it's almost impossible to paint one side of any fence,
except maybe a stockade fence where it is too high to see the top.
Either the original color will show through to the OP in places, or
the OP will have to paint part that shows to the neighbor. For one
thing, people on both sides of a fence see different parts of it
depending on whether they are standing or sitting, or loooking out the
window of the split level the neighbors live in. There is NO way to
paint one side of the fence.

Most fence builders put the fence an inch or two inside the property
line. In my case, my fence is probably a half inch inside. I'm going
by the notion that the property line is where the gutters of my
townhouse end and the gutter of my neighbor begins. But because my
downspout was in the way, the fence company put the first post between
his downspout and mine (there was just enough room) and the first
section of fence comes back to just inside my property line. AFAIK
the owner of my neighbor's house at the time didn't object and afaik
it's too late for them to assert dominion over the fence now. At any
rate, I'd be very angry if the current neighbor decided to paint even
his side of that section of my fence. Even if the law were on his
side, it's a declaration of war, when what he shoudl do is discuss it
with me. How much more so when the fence is probably within the
neighbor's property.
HTH
PRose