Fences?? Do they make good neighbors?

[Skatermom23]

I have neighbors on both sides that have put up fences. I was very happy to have the privacy on both sides until I realized that the families on both sides seem to think that my lawn was free game. Everyone uses my lawn to cut through now. So I am ready to call the fence company tomorrow and have one put it, much to DH's disapproval...but what else can I do. I can't stand to have strange people cutting though my yard, let alone the young children of the neighborhood.....My kids are older...been there, done that....
So, what would you do???

 

[perdidobay]

I'd do the same as you, sadly. I was raised to know someone elses property was not to be entered unless I was invited to do so... and it really irks me when people (young or old) take liberties they don't deserve.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Since you have become the public pathway, you have no choice...I would certainly put one in.

 

[sajetto]

Same here. Fences do indeed make good neighbors. I can't believe the audacity that some people have

Our house has a fence all the way around the back and I couldn't be happier. I know I'd be ticked if I had everyone just waltzing through my yard

 

[disykat]

I think generally that fences make good neighbors.

However, I have to comment that if it is the fenced families that are now walking through your yard - I'd go tell them to knock it off! Apparently they just put up fences to keep you out, but your yard is fair game?

We go on the other side of our fence (the neighbor's side) once a year, but it is to weed whack and pressure wash so that our fence doesn't become an eyesore for them.

 

[ashjohnson80]

I would get the fence enclosed in. Our neighbors are always parking on the part of our yard that isn't fenced. I wish I could put a wall around the whole lot, but I guess that wouldn't be very neighborly of me.

 

[sajetto]

I would get the fence enclosed in. Our neighbors are always parking on the part of our yard that isn't fenced. I wish I could put a wall around the whole lot, but I guess that wouldn't be very neighborly of me.

Thank God I'm not the only one. I'd be walking right next door and telling them to get the heck of my lot!

If I coud put a huge fort around my house I'd be on

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

WWRFD?

What would Robert Frost do?



It sounds like you're in the market for a fence. There's really no other way, I guess.

 

[Kycha]

I am having a similar problem. We didn't start to have neighbor issues until our southern side neighbors moved in about 3 years ago. They have 2 children, ages 6 and 13. I am constantly shooing them and their friends out of my yard. You see, my yard is the only one on the street that is free of obstacles. Everybody else has pools, swing sets, landscaping laundry lines, sheds etc. Our yard is open with a few trees on the perimeter. Great place to play ball, or at least the 13 year old brat, oh I mean boy next door thinks so.

So, DH and I were planning on installing a privacy fence this summer to keep the kids from cutting through/playing in our yard. But, fortunately our northern neighbors sold their house and the new owners have dogs. So, they put up a privacy fence and it seems to have stopped all the activity in my back yard. So, for now we will wait and see.

 

[Disney Hot Mama]

Here in California where I live we all have fences on all sides of us. It is not an option...... I don't think we would know how to handle it if we didn't have a fence. I say go for it and put the fence up.........

 

[barkley]

Here in California where I live we all have fences on all sides of us. It is not an option...... I don't think we would know how to handle it if we didn't have a fence. I say go for it and put the fence up.........

i was going to say the same thing! in the (one week shy of) 45 years i've lived here i've never seen a housing development that did'nt have fences-generaly it is what denotes the property line between houses (so each neighbor has 50% liablity for repairs).

 

[Skatermom23]

I think generally that fences make good neighbors.

However, I have to comment that if it is the fenced families that are now walking through your yard - I'd go tell them to knock it off! Apparently they just put up fences to keep you out, but your yard is fair game?

We go on the other side of our fence (the neighbor's side) once a year, but it is to weed whack and pressure wash so that our fence doesn't become an eyesore for them.

Well they put the fences up to keep someone out, it wasn't my kids because I have teens and they never go into the neighbors yards. Both neighbors have little kids and they think it is easier to cut through my yard then to go through theirs to get to the back. In fact, I heard one mom was keeping a lock on her back gate so that the kids couldn't open the gate to let the dog out. The one guy has been coming over weekly to weed whack the fence on our side. While I think it is nice of him, I want to just say, Hey, get off my lawn....I'll take care of that. Well, I did in nicer terms but he apparently didn't listen. Our houses are not that far apart so when someone trespasses, you know it.

 

[aprilgail2]

I would put a fence up...Around here everyones back yard is fenced in but no ones front yard...you can start at one end of the block and just walk across the front lawns to the other! I would not like sitting in my back yard if we did not have the privacy fence.

 

[AlleyKat]

Fences make wonderful neighbors, as do stone walls!

Have a fence put up a.s.a.p. and display a few "No Trespassing" signs on your property. You'll have a legal "angle" if things escalate.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I say get the fence!

 

[Skatermom23]

I say get the fence!

Reluctantly, I do agree with you... So both neighbors have the high wood privacy fences, how stupid would if look of I put a vinyl pickett type in the back and maybe match their wood ones on the front sides. No ones sees my backyard. We are up against the common area with woods, so no houses or streets...hence my reluctance to fence it in. I just don't want to block my view.

 

[Melrosgirl]

Here in PA, very few people have fences where I live. We have a pool so we have a fence just around the pool area. We're now looking to fence in the entire perimeter of the yard also. So we'd have two fences, one around our yard and the other around our pool, for added safety.

DH is somewhat against it because a vinyl fence will cost nearly $10,000, but I'd like the added privacy too.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Reluctantly, I do agree with you...

Guess there is a first time for everything

 

[Skatermom23]

Guess there is a first time for everything

I didn't mean that in a bad way! I just meant that I really don't want the fence but agree that it is probably for the best.

 

[Mermaid02]

Love our fence!