Last year i put up a fence on my property. 4 inches inside my property line to be exact. this year a neighbor behind me put up his own fence and now uses my side of the fence as one of the sides to his fence. is this legal?
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Fences around properties are communal between the abutting land owners. Meaning you put up a fence around your property the fence is 'owned' by you and each of your neighbors. Ideally one needs to discuss with their neighbor shared expenses on the fence, get a surveyor out there to define the real property line, and then have the fence put up. In your case one would assume your neighbor had no idea that you 'shorted' the property line on your side, and assumes that the fence is communal thus treats it as 'community' property.
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It's communal. It is stupid to have two fences because no one can cut the lawn between the two. We had a neighbor who had a chain link fence between our properties. When he sold the house the new neighbor moved in and had a solid fence put in behind it. I don't know if we should have made him take the first fence out or not.
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So...what you want is one of those "alleys" that run between fences, where vermin (rats) run and blackberries grow like trees? Sigh. No. It is not legal. You can have his fence removed from your side of the property line. But do it right away or you will be deemed to have abandoned that property. Why did you do such a silly thing anyway? So that your neighbor could ogle your property but not touch it?
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