New homeowner builds shed next to property line without informing neighbor, neighbor submits repeated anonymous complaints to the building inspector to get it torn down despite being built to code: 'Next day I got a stop build order'

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  A homeowner maintains neighborly bonds with a backyard party, a sharp contrast to legal property disputes.

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• [Am I wrong] for building a shed without informing my neighbors?

  
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  A wooden shed built by a homeowner nestled in a lush backyard surrounded by green foliage.
  
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• Neighbors are always a tricky thing to deal with, locked eternally next to each other by, probably for many years, even most of their lives, through the sheer necessity of the fact that they have both sunk a significant, if not all, of their net worth and savings into chunks of land that are directly adjacent to each other.

  This can be a very fortunate thing when you have neighbors with whom you get along well and who don't seek to take advantage of you or your property or otherwise do things that are impolite and inconsiderate. That sense of community and the striking of that social contract can be a greatly beneficial thing to all parties when the relationship is good. it really turns your house where you live into a home with a real sense of community.

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  Homeowner's white shed and boat storage in a backyard near the property line, representative of the shed in question.

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• And being considerate is the foundation of any relationship, but especially so with neighbors. There's always this strained component, this fragility, to a relationship that isn't built on love or closeness, but necessity. It's almost a professional relationship in a sense, as if you had a coworker who knew the ins and outs of your life and was privy to your secrets purely because they can overhear a lot (or enough) of it through sheer proximity.
  
  So, when the contract frays, things get tense quickly, small slights rapidly accumulate and grow large. And without the usual foundations of a relationship to fall back on the whole thing sours rather quickly and then you're stuck together on those adjacent plots of land, the proximity alone grating like sandpaper that can't be escaped.

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  Neighbors engage in a tense conversation

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