On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 15:25:02 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Friday, August 9, 2013 5:17:02 PM UTC-4, jeff_wisnia wrote:
leza wang wrote:

Hi

I just would love to hear your opinion about this. There is a fence between our house and neighbor. None of us build the fence. We bought the houses and the fence was/is there. The neighbor are now doing waterproof the basement. So they are digging the area close to fence. They asked me if I will allow them to move the dirt to my place (just easier than moving to the front of their house). I said no (I do not want to get all the mess, they are hiring unprofessional workers and this has been going for 4 weeks. These workers do not have even the right tools to do the job). Anyway, yesterday we were away when we came back we saw the fence boards are removed except the frame and the dirt moved to our backyard! (see pictures below please).



I expressed my disapproval strongly to the workers because the owner/neighbor was not there. The workers said you are neighbor and you should help etc and they promise to removed it today and said they put blue tar underneath so my backyard will be clean after. I was angry with them because they did not take my permission but then I said OK fine because I want to keep good term between us. Today they said they can not remove the dirt and need another day. They asked kindly so I said that is ok but I want it to be removed tomorrow.



I have the back of the fence (if you can see from the picture). It seems the person who lived before my current neighbor built the fence but not sure. Who really own the fence now? can each of us do anything with the fence without telling the other if they can do this or that?



Thanks a lot.



http://tinypic.com/r/25t7wy8/5 (my house is to the Left)

http://tinypic.com/r/25g9bol/5 (my house is to the Right)

http://tinypic.com/r/2432smq/5 (my house is to the Right)





From the looks of your photos it doesn't appear that strip on your side

of the fence was very well landscaped before the work began, so it'll

probably be no worse when the dug up soil is removed.



Do whatever you can to stay on good terms with your neighbor if that's

at all possible.



How can you stay on good terms with a neighbor when the neighbor
asked if they could pile dirt on your property as part of their
renovation project, you clearly told them no, and they did it
anyway? THAT created bad terms. And I'm not of the opinion that
you should just roll over and let neighbors like this get away
with it. If I didn't put them in their place, ever time I saw
them I'd be thinking how they stuck it to me and I let them get
away with it. Me, I'd call the cops and have them inform the
neighbors of the trespass laws.




You need to get a gun and go shoot them.