On 10/21/2012 4:25 AM, Don Wiss wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:09:31 -0700, SMS wrote:

On 10/20/2012 8:03 PM, Don Wiss wrote:

Plus the side lines don't line up. His back line abuts two neighbors. So he
would have four neighbors to convince to share.

If the old fence needed replacing would it have been hard to convince
the neighbors?

The old fence was chain link. Two of the four have wood fences on their
property blocking the chain link. I had a stockade fence leaning on it.

I have four "fence neighbors" and they did not need convincing when we
had to replace the fences. None objected to sharing the cost.

But is he going to get all four to agree to his design? So that he can
achieve his desired consistency? Plus his fence is a rather expensive cedar
one. See: http://donwiss.com/pictures/misc/535-2nd-Side-Fence.jpg

Yeah, I see what you mean. All the fences here are redwood, which isn't
cheap, but there's usually no disagreement over the design.

My sister-in-law had a neighbor that wanted to replace their shared
fence and she offered to pay half, and he said to forget it, he'd put
the fence in himself. He proceeded to put in the world's most expensive
fence, then came back and asked her for half the cost. She would only
pay half of what a normal fence would cost. Besides being expensive, he
left too much of a gap at the bottom so small dogs could get underneath.