You buy a place in the city and install a chain link fence. Your neighbor decides to built a wood fence next to it. Can the chain link fence be removed and the wood fence be maintained by the neighbor?
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You buy a place in the city and install a chain link fence. Your neighbor decides to built a wood fence next to it. Can the chain link fence be removed and the wood fence be maintained by the neighbor?
It is your fence as you were the one that bought and installed it so I would think you could uninstall it also. I would talk to my neighbor and see how or what he thinks about it as he is the one you need to get along with. Now I am not no Philadelphia lawyer:rolleyes: but if both parties are satisfied it don't matter.:twocents
Jimmy, everywhere I have lived if you put up a fence without a written agreement with the neighbor it is the responsibility of installer to maintain said fence. Usually that fence will be installed inside his property line. Also it is ok in most cases for neighbors to tie into that fence to finish out a fence around their property.
You can remove it if......it is 6 inches inside ( of your side ) of property line. But you cannot connect anything to his fence without his permission if his fence is on his side of property line. If a fence is exactly on the property line then you both own it regardless of who paid for it and permission will be required to do anything with it and permission better be in writeing. Been there and done this.
Check your city ordinances. Some municipalities will not allow a fence to be built right on the property line.
Just another reason city living ain't for me!
what difference does it make just spray round up in between the wooden fence and the chain link cause you must have wanted chain link or you would have built a wooden one to begin with
You got to be careful out there too lot of court cases involving property lines and farm fences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swampseed
Take it down. Unless you live in a subdivision that requires you to install a fence, you don't have to have it anyhow.
The neighbor built the fence and unless there's city or subdivision regulations that require it to be fixed if it's tears up, neither is responsible for it though.
If the wind knocks it down, unless he wants to, he can leave it down if there's no regulations
BTW, IF you live in a City, Get ahold to the Code enforcement officer, he can help you for the specifics