Home ownership

I'll tell you this about home ownership - it is no treat trying to sell your house these days. Listed at what seemed like fair market based on realtor's recommendation and had 3 showings in four weeks. Dropped the price 5% - will see how it goes from here.

Fair value is what someone will pay. I sure wouldn't want to sell my house right now. Too many things going against a quick sale at a price I'd want.

100% agree - it's why we dropped price instead of stubbornly insisting "this is a fair price". That said, sometimes life circumstances require you to sell (or buy) when it's not the ideal time.

When I was buying about 2 years ago, it was hard to get an offer accepted, even at the asking price.

Also market. A house in my neighborhood (generic suburbia, nothing special) just went for over asking price. Must've been market pressure, I guess.

My neighbors have owned the house next door for less than a year. Prior to that the same people lived there since the '60s and my grandparents had this house since '67. Well, turns out I have a bigger lot than I thought, haha. The new neighbors decided to put up a fence, I guess on the property line, that is several feet towards their house than my fence. Apparantly the little hill that I thought was theirs, and mowed accordingly haha, is mine. For some reason it's really annoying me. Am I wrong to think that maybe they should have at least talked to me about it? Not like asking permission, but maybe talking through that stupid little strip he's leaving between the fences. I'll get over it I'm sure, but I have bad thoughts going through my head right now, haha.

So your neighbors put up a 'new' fence that looks like it's been there since the 60s?

No

It sucks, but just put a lawn ornament back there.

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OK maybe misinterpreted your post. So you have the 60s fence and your neighbor is putting up the new fence. Gotcha.

Neighbor should have put up an 8ft high fence to account for the hill. But what do I know.

A fence has nothing to do with the property line.

My neighbors do not give a **** so I just take care of things in a way that makes sense to me. But the property line is set in a document from when they laid out the neighborhood, I got that from the county. So many feet from this street, so many feet from that street. Never been surveyed, some day I will probably get new neighbors who do care.

I wouldn't build a fence ON the hill and I wouldn't want to butt up against marks so that's the logical place given what I see. No idea why his fence is so smol.

The grade also kinda rules out using the area as a cornhole pitch.

Out here, there's a marker (looks kinda like a nail with a washer under the head) set into the sidewalk which is supposed to mark the property line. Not sure how it's legally defined, I assume the fence was put on or very near the line before I got here.

Does seems strange to leave that little area between the fences. If I didn't want to run the main part of the fence on the hill, I'd at least run it back til it's even with the start of mark's fence, then put a little couple-foot extension at a 90 degree angle to meet up with mark's cormer.

But, I don't know fence building, just repair. Seems like now it's going to be a maintenance headache.

Archery range, ldo.

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Exactly.

I guess you could take a spade and take the grass up, then put down some rock or some such that's low maintenance.

Or just leave it. If they ever ask when you're going to mow, point out that your responsibility stops at the property line. Assuming, of course, your fence is correctly positioned on the line.

I guess another solution would be gasoline and a match once their fence is in place. Leave a note telling them to try again.

I have a bunch of rock that I hate under the big tree in front that I plan to remove and replace with a shade tolerant groundcover, so I've been thinking that's where the rock is going. I'm really liking the match idea though!

Good fences make good neighbors, unless they are incorrectly placed.

Actually it's the most scary part,especially if you have done it before

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No,it's changed over the years,especially in the 70s,Nixon froze prices,and 2x4s that were 2 5/8 dimensional, were milled at 2 1/2 and considered a new product and not susceptible to the freeze

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Sold my parents house two years ago and actually a "buy your house" company bought the house at what we figured market value.

I think it was,because they will not talk to use to this day.

But they sold to investors and made money,just not as much as they thought

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It could be worse. Your fence could have run the entire depth of your property. It'll be a bit of a PITA, but you have options of things to do about it--including nothing at all.

It could have been worse: Two of my neighbors (on one side and behind me) built a horse fence when they built their houses. On the side, the guy set it well (maybe 20-40' at various spots) inside his property line. But where the fence crosses my property to go behind me, it is on the property line. I know that now, but if I knew it 35 years ago I forgot it. Both properties have changed hands, and the newer guy behind me was a bit of an old rascal. He put markers about 10' on my side of the fence that I now know is the property line and told me he had found the underground survey markers and placed pvc there to mark their spots. I thought "Weird, but ok."

Then when we got our dogs my wife used to let one of our dogs do his business inside the DMZ (between the fence and his markers). I bitched endlessly at her about it (because I believed it was his propergy) with little effect. The old rascal died a couple of years ago and I recently discovered the fence is on the actual property line. Well, it's a bit late now for me to apologize to my late wife about bitching at her, but on the bright side I don't have to listen to some sort of I-told-you-so's from her. LOL!

The downside is I also discovered the actual property line along the side of the house is closer to my house than I believed for the past 30+ years. I do regret that I have been cutting a small, but long, width of my other neighbor's property instead of his hired help doing a bigger chunk.

You might be able to argue it's yours due to (damn,i can't remember) because of the length of time.

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