Neighbors dispute responsibility when the guy next door dumps scrap wood in his neighbor's yard after fronting the cost to build a shared fence: ‘His dog ruined [the fence]’

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• Okay, so it's not a ton of wood out there, but it's enough to be unsettling. 

  This seems like it's almost a petty stack of planks: not enough to do anything with, but just enough to be totally annoying until you take care of things. But not everyone has the spare hours on their weekends to stack up planks and take them to the dump. In fact, most people don't even have a car big enough to transport 10ft pieces of wood, let alone the upholstery that can handle being poked and scraped by rusty nails. Sorry, neighbor, this project was yours and yours alone, and she never wanted to be a part of it in any capacity. 

• Neighbor replaced fence and left the old wood scraps in my yard to deal with.

  My next door neighbor called me a few weeks back asking if he could come Into my back yard to replace the fence that his dog ruined. I said “sure, I’ll be out of town for a few weeks, help yourself.” Discussion ended there and I left town for a few weeks for business.

• When I returned home, I noticed the new fence was up and the wood scraps from the old fence were on the grass in my backyard. One of the pieces is 10 feet wide. I figured I would give him a few days to clean it up before I said anything.

• Fast forward to yesterday and the lawn guy comes to cut the grass. I texted my neighbor telling him I could open the back gate to make it easier to come in the yard to grab the wood. This guy called me and said that it was a shared fence, and since he paid for it to be installed, and carried all the new wood into the yard, that I need to remove the old debris.

• The audacity on the guy. I would have been more than happy to help if he would have asked. He mentioned NOTHING of leaving the rusty nailed old rotten wood in my back yard. F this guy. Not the best way to treat a neighbor.

• TLDR: neighbor took it upon himself to replace the fence he owns, and left all of the scraps for me to deal with before discussing it with me first.

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• AskinggAlesana

  My neighbor did the same thing but with their cactus’s.. like one day I see near the fence a bunch of cactus just laying there and look through the fence to see their cactus tree like 5 feet away.. so i felt like it was on purpose? Idk.. but yup just threw all that back over the fence and that was that.

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  West-Onion8793

  Chuck it back over the fence.

• Muted_Ad_8152

  Get a wood chipper and blast all the chips over  lol

• Any-Movie1274

  I mean his dog ruined it so the whole "I paid to replace it" is totally a moot point

• PurplePufferPea

  THIS!!!!! This wasn't a wear & tear replacement! His dog damaged the fence, he should be responsible for the entire cost.

  Irrational me would drag every board into this guy's yard while he's not home and then lock my gate. However, rational me wouldn't want to deal with continuing a war that will just probably keep escalating, so I'd probably see if I could pay the lawn guy to haul them off, I bet it would only be $50 or so. Then I'd pour grass poisin in his yard in the middle of the night... (oh wait, that's irrational me again)

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