Jerk move to put up a privacy hedge between you and neighbor? (1 Viewer)

[El Floppo]

I can't believe more people in here haven't proposed asking the neighbor to split the cost of a fence. Maybe he'd like it too...

Property fence preferences/customs can be very different based on the location/community, but I just replaced fences on both sides of my property and had my neighbors on each split the cost without any issues.

I should have noted - -there is a fence there. Nice enough looking white picket vinyl thing, about 4 feet tall maybe? I prefer a green barrier to a fence in any event.

A 6' privacy fence is a completely different animal altogether from short picket fence and would give you the closure that you want.

But if you are definitely going hedges, then I wouldn't even bother asking for his input... a simple, friendly heads-up is more than sufficient.

Yeah- I'd definitely give him the heads up. But considering this guy will be looking at the other side of whatever Otis puts there- and so is equally impacted- I'd fully expect the neighbor to want to have a say in what it is. If O ignores that, well... that should be fun- especially considering this is the long-term house for the O family, IIRC.

Correct. A long term, forever house, which is why I'm particularly sensitive to not being the new guy who comes in and effs everything up and pisses everyone off.

This seems fair.

And yes, greenery for privacy is about a zillion times better than a fence imo.

To you.

Maybe not to the neighbor.

 

[Bri]

You don't have to have any gardening skills (just throw a bulb in the ground and walk away) to plant a line of elephant ears. Mow em in the fall, come back every year. This doesn't look so good though

Fence looks nicer.

Hedges involve that annoying trimmer and being level(I can't cut a straight line well and went from 4 feet to 3 one year) and have an annoying built in magnet for bugs. When you drive by a house that has a green hedge with one brown part-bugs and they're all dying soon enough.

A few people by me have a fence I like that's pretty cool. It's a series of diagonally sideways wood. Standing in front of it, you can't see jack. Stand off to the side at an angle and you can see right into the neighbors yard fine.

I can't find it on the web.

This is some fancy artist guy making a maze but.. http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/11/Trylletromler-by-FABRIC_dezeen_19.jpg it does look like that when on an angle. See this one, straight ahead you can't see a thing http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/11/Trylletromler-by-FABRIC_dezeen_10.jpg

To reiterate- it's a typical ordinary wooden piece at a 45 degree angle in the dirt. A few inches down, another and another and another.

 

[Gene Sackman]

I remember this episode of King of Queens. You'll be sorry when you shut your neighbor out with your hedge, and then he puts in a bad ### pool. Your friends Deacon, Spence, and your cousin Danny will dis your bbq and take a swim instead. Then your wife and kids start going over there, and you are left in a lonely shade of your hedge of shame..

 

[cstu]

The jerk store called and your privacy hedge is ready to be installed.

 

[OC Zed]

I can't believe more people in here haven't proposed asking the neighbor to split the cost of a fence. Maybe he'd like it too...

Property fence preferences/customs can be very different based on the location/community, but I just replaced fences on both sides of my property and had my neighbors on each split the cost without any issues.

I should have noted - -there is a fence there. Nice enough looking white picket vinyl thing, about 4 feet tall maybe? I prefer a green barrier to a fence in any event.

A 6' privacy fence is a completely different animal altogether from short picket fence and would give you the closure that you want.

But if you are definitely going hedges, then I wouldn't even bother asking for his input... a simple, friendly heads-up is more than sufficient.

Yeah- I'd definitely give him the heads up. But considering this guy will be looking at the other side of whatever Otis puts there- and so is equally impacted- I'd fully expect the neighbor to want to have a say in what it is. If O ignores that, well... that should be fun- especially considering this is the long-term house for the O family, IIRC.

But doesn't the neighbor have the same right to put up his own hedges if he doesn't like Otis's taste? That's why I say don't even get involved in asking for input unlss the neighbor wants to foot part of the bill.

 

[glock]

I can't believe more people in here haven't proposed asking the neighbor to split the cost of a fence. Maybe he'd like it too...

Property fence preferences/customs can be very different based on the location/community, but I just replaced fences on both sides of my property and had my neighbors on each split the cost without any issues.

On whose property does this shared fence reside? May not be an issue now, but come time to sell it will,

 

[El Floppo]

I can't believe more people in here haven't proposed asking the neighbor to split the cost of a fence. Maybe he'd like it too...

Property fence preferences/customs can be very different based on the location/community, but I just replaced fences on both sides of my property and had my neighbors on each split the cost without any issues.

I should have noted - -there is a fence there. Nice enough looking white picket vinyl thing, about 4 feet tall maybe? I prefer a green barrier to a fence in any event.

A 6' privacy fence is a completely different animal altogether from short picket fence and would give you the closure that you want.

But if you are definitely going hedges, then I wouldn't even bother asking for his input... a simple, friendly heads-up is more than sufficient.

Yeah- I'd definitely give him the heads up. But considering this guy will be looking at the other side of whatever Otis puts there- and so is equally impacted- I'd fully expect the neighbor to want to have a say in what it is. If O ignores that, well... that should be fun- especially considering this is the long-term house for the O family, IIRC.

But doesn't the neighbor have the same right to put up his own hedges if he doesn't like Otis's taste? That's why I say don't even get involved in asking for input unlss the neighbor wants to foot part of the bill.

Of course- I'm not talking about laws or rights. O can put up whatever the hell he wants if he doesn't give a #### about the neighbors

Every move made at a shared property line is going to affect the other side of that line. It's not about rights- it's about common courtesy and long-term contentedness. It's a community- or could be.