Don Wiss wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, DerbyDad03 wrote:

Do you and your neighbor not get along?

I have only said hello over the fence before they moved in. Do realize I
live is a rowhouse neighborhood. He is on another block. The blocks being
parallel we would never meet on the street.

Not that this really matters, but I grew up in a row house in Queens. I
lived in the second "house" on the block which meant that where my back
yard ended was the side wall of the first house on the side street. We knew
the people in that house because their kids were same age as us.

When the brick wall of their house needed repointing, they hired a company
that repointed the mortar, then painted the entire wall white and then went
back and painted all of the mortar joints black. When they were done it
looked like white bricks with black mortar.

Why, you might ask. They did it because the white wall brightened up *our*
yard by reflecting the sun much better than the dark brick wall. That's
what neighbors did for each other when I was growing up.

If this link to Google Street View works, you should see a white wall on
the side of a row house in the center of the page. That's the painted wall
and the house with the "A" in front and the black roof was where I grew up.


www.tinyurl.com/queensrowhouse

BTW That big school building and sports complex right across from my old
house was an open field where we played ball and frisbee. I'm so glad I'm
out of there.

His Japanese wife is really
into privacy. She won't go out into the backyard (except to replace the
absorbent sheet at the bottom of the doggy chalet). She has installed
blackout shades on every window.

It seems wierd that you pointed
pointed out the property line and they still encroached upon your
property, apparently without any further discussion. How did the property
line discussion go when you brought it up?

I brought it up with the workmen. They did not disagree. But the reason
they were first trying to put is 2 3/4" over is to get all of the wood on
my side of the telephone pole. The reason they didn't put it fully on their
property, is they wanted to get all of the heading piece on my side of the
pole.

Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).