"Donna" wrote in message
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"FOM" wrote in message
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I had a fence installed last year. It is three sides that enclose
my
backyard. Yesterday, my next door neighbor installed a fence and
used
my existing fence to complete enclosing his backyard. He did not
ask me
if he could do this, he just had the installers attach his fence
to
ours. Now, we are paying for one third of this guy's fence. Is
this
legal? What should I do?

Nothing.

I'm beyond curious why this bothers you, but whatever. I suppose
you want
to do one of the following:

a) tell the neighbor to put up a duplicate fence, which is going to
make you
look like an absolute ass, and is also going to mean that no one can
mow
between the two fences, and your yard will look like crap where the
grass
and weeds are growing uncontrolled, or, if the second parallel fence
is put
up with mowing room between, hello, your yard will look like Rahway
Prison.
That's an attractive solution.

or b) ask the neigbor to pay you for half of the fence segment,
which is
going to make you look like an absolute ass, and will be an enormous
pain in
the ass from then on, because everything that has anything to do
with that
segment of fence will now have to be negotiated with the neighbor.
Not a
good idea.

Lighten up, guy. Share the fence happily, particularly when you
consider
that every other solution is worse than the problem

has anyone ever thought that the new neighbor should have come over
and offered the guy something for saving him some money? fences can
be expensive. that's what i would have done.