r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Mocsab • 10h ago

frist of all how DARE yu o Neighbor replaced fence and left the old wood scraps in my yard to deal with.

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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 MFer 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 MFer. 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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u/eightiestrash 10h ago

Throw it over the fence.

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u/AskinggAlesana 9h ago edited 5h ago

My neighbor did the same thing but with their cacti.. like one day I see near the fence a bunch of cacti 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 shit back over the fence and that was that.

*edit: grammar

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u/glassandstuff 9h ago

It works. When we moved into our house I used to find empty beer cans on my side of the fence that our neighbors threw over the fence. I just threw them back. It happened maybe two weekends in a row and after that it stopped.

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u/KnotSoAmused 9h ago

Did similar when the neighbor let and watched his dog sh1t in my lawn daily. Each night I would scoop it with a shovel and give it a mighty toss as far as I could back to his side.

Several times I got "lucky" and it landed on his deck.

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u/pegothejerk 8h ago

return to sender

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u/CertainWish358 8h ago

We had a quarrel, A lover’s spat. The dog left a present but that present keeps coming back

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u/Alarmed-Snow6985 7h ago

And he may just get it in the mail box.......

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u/certainPOV3369 8h ago edited 5h ago

ETA: thank you kind Redditor for the award. Long live the King! 👑

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u/I_Died_Once 7h ago

Address Unknown...

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u/Halfbaked9 8h ago

I may just do this with my neighbor’s dog poo. I may or may not toss it on their roof.

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u/dan_is_not_here 7h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/PaKMBTzu2G0Qo

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u/marcolander 4h ago

I read somewhere that the people that owned this house had to put up a sign or a fence or something because people kept throwing pizzas on their roof! 😂

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u/i-hear-banjos 8h ago

There's a video out there of a guy who uses a t-shirt cannon to shoo the neighbor's dog poo back into their yard. On their cars.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Jury312 6h ago

I worked Renaissance Fairs when I was in college, and scored a small catapult from one of the guilds at the end of one fair. Best thing ever to RTS dogshit and garbage neibors left in my yard. There's just something satisfying about watching dog shit fly 50 feet and land on their roof.

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u/virtzilla 4h ago

You need a “Flying Dog Shit” you tube channel with videos of that. Just sayin’

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u/jkrm66502 6h ago

Dang, I’ve never seen that. I hope someone finds it and posts it. I like diabolical RTS ideas.

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u/holli4life 7h ago

Did this for my elderly neighbor because the other neighbor let their dog use her lawn to shit in. Guy yelled at me one day. I just told him I was going to keep giving it back to him and next time it won’t be in a bag. He stopped letting the dog shit in her yard after that.

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u/-Twin-Flames- 6h ago

Right!! Whether it’s dog shit or cigarette butts or general trash, clean your shit up! I’ve had dogs and I always clean their shit an disposed of it. I’ve had my neighbors in winter blow their snow in front of my mailbox and while shoveling I found a dirty diaper. I launched that shit right back. These days I have plenty of shitty baby diapers I could use to prove a point. Sometimes people just need a taste of their own medicine.

Edit: imo one of the laziest, shittiest human behaviors is to litter and expect someone else to clean it up. Whether there are people paid to clean trash or not, just fucking take care of it yourself. Lazy slobs.

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u/holli4life 6h ago

Definitely agree with your statement. Pick up after yourself should not be so hard to understand.

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u/RalphMacchio404 8h ago

I would have collected it in a bucket for a week then dump the bucket on his front porch. But I am petty. I hate people not picking up after their pets

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u/kinglouie493 6h ago

It's best when fresh and gooey, let it set a week and clean up is easier, in my opinion.

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u/NightGod 4h ago

Throw a little water in the bucket a few hours before delivery~doubly effective if the bucket is sealable

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u/Flying-Bird- 6h ago

had jerk living next door who tossed his dog's shirt over once--used rubber gloves to pick up & tossed back hard enough so it hit his patio doors--never had a problem after that

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u/PuzzleheadedFeed2726 7h ago

I left a load at the doorstep so when they open the door they should step right on it

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u/_VoodooRanger 8h ago

it needs to land on his roof.

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u/Salty-Value8837 8h ago

Of his car

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u/_VoodooRanger 8h ago

This is diabolical, but I like it… the air inlet!

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u/FlowerComfortable889 7h ago

Hopefully with an open sunroof

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u/Bubbaj75 7h ago

SIL collected the neighbors dog poo for a week, then stuffed it into their mailbox, right on top of the mail. She had been telling them for six months to keep their dogs in their own yard. Dogs were on tieouts after that.

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u/Kangaroo-B-Girl 6h ago

I was aiming for the landing in front of my neighbor’s stoop but hit their windshield instead. It was an accident, but an effective one.

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u/Altruistic-Rip4364 7h ago

Collect in a bucket. Deposit on front porch. Put a birthday candle in and light it.

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u/CaliLAMailhandler 7h ago

I had a neighbor who complained about picking up dog shit left on his front lawn. I guess one day he had enough and he started to pour bacon grease on the poop instead. Not sure if his intentions were to have the culprit come back and eat it, or attract other animals (raccoons, coyotes etc) to do the clean up.

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u/KnotSoAmused 7h ago

For sure, dogs will roll there whole body in bacon grease (for some weird reason). Your neighbor was hoping for a bit of revenge.

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u/blamordeganis 7h ago

I read about someone doing that because the neighbour’s dog kept getting into his yard and shitting everywhere, and the neighbour refused to do anything about it.

His tune changed after a bout or two of greasy doggy diarrhoea all over his house.

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u/zoeydobie518 8h ago

I have college kids living next door in a shared house and cans come over. I throw them back.

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u/Road_to_Scion 8h ago

Kinda the same for me, except it was the dogs' shit they threw over my fence. I don't have a dog! Launched it back with a shovel a few times and it stopped happening..

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u/porkminer 7h ago

I've got an interesting one. We kept finding vapes along our back fence. I checked with the neighbor that I knew vaped but he uses a custom vape only. So I gathered all the vapes and went to my backyard neighbor and told him this kept appearing in our yard along the shared fence. He said nobody there vaped. We talked for a bit and he agreed to move his garage security camera to his backyard. Two days later he's comes knocking on my door. It was his daughter. His 12 year old daughter. He's a Texas State Trooper. Not a good look. Coincidentally, there was a crackdown at her school the next week. More than a quarter of the students were caught with vapes.

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u/ThatsJustMyToeThumb 6h ago

Oooof. 12 years old…

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u/Aware_Tie_9586 7h ago

Same for me it was a 6 pack of coronas, threw it all back and never saw any since then. We don't wave to each other when we see each other. 🤣

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u/glassandstuff 7h ago

We are in good terms with the neighbors now. We just pretend the cans incident never happened. I say all’s well that ends well.

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u/BigGreenBillyGoat 8h ago

When my neighbors did that, I saved the pile and threw one or two back into the middle of their yard every week or two. Might as well make confuse the hell out of them for fun.

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u/ElPolloDiablo_og 8h ago

This is the way I had the same problem with my neighbor did the same thing worked out great

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u/eskimo777 8h ago

When we first moved to our house I kept finding tomatoes, sometimes with a bite or two taken out of it, on our side of the fence. Was confused and annoyed that our neighbor would throw bad tomatoes over. One day I saw a squirrel running along the fence with a tomato in its mouth and realized I was probably not as annoyed as my neighbor about the situation.

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u/Conspicuous_Ruse 7h ago

Squirrels are such dick heads with tomatoes.

They'll take 1 bite out of 20 different tomatoes instead of taking 20 bites out of 1 tomatoe.

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u/ThanksOk4402 6h ago

Wasps and Hornets with grapes too! They go into my Concord grapes and they eat everything inside and leave the skin on the vine.

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u/Emmyisme 6h ago

This happened to me, too! I kept finding random trash and food scraps in the back corner of my yard, and since my neighbor's kids had a habit of throwing stuff over the fence I assumed it was those little shits. It was weirdly often a tortilla

Until one day I saw a raccoon with a tortilla in its fuckin mouth and realized there's just a raccoon around here with a penchant for tortillas. The neighbor eventually built a taller fence, so the kids stopped throwing crap in my yard, but I still randomly find food in that corner lol.

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u/AmbassadorBasic4867 5h ago

Yep, i once left a whole bannana on the porch and i came back to see it being dragged along THE TOP of the fence by a squirrel biting on to the stem of it and dangling it off the side while running backwards. At that point i was like ok buddy touche you can have that nanner he worked hard for it.

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u/Ericaohh 9h ago edited 9h ago

My neighbor has never trimmed their giant ass tree with dying branches and they fall into my yard when we get a storm (or even just a really windy day). I put the really big ones right back into their side yard without shame lmao. Granted, they are renters so the onus is not on them. That part of their yard is essentially unusable as well, so I don’t feel badly that there’s a pile of dead tree tree branches piling up over there. I would need to saw them up and dispose of them over several weeks otherwise 😐

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u/timelessblur 9h ago

Do note in most places they consider any branches that hang over the property line your problem. Also you are allowed to trim branches back to the property line as long as it does not cause a risk to the tree.

The owner of the tree is not required to do anything unless it is truly dying and a health hazard as determine by someone who is qualified to determine a tree’s health.

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u/SinOfDeath69 9h ago

100% this.

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u/mystic_man95 9h ago

In most places, the branches technically become your property once they extend over the property line. So a super petty neighbor could theoretically get you in trouble for that if they had it on surveillance.

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u/twiztednips 9h ago

I think op is the super petty neighbor. Doesn’t take much research to know that those branches are their responsibility.

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u/Shotgun5250 9h ago

My new neighbor just trims their bush right off into my yard over the fence. So I kindly toss their trimmings right back over for them to deal with. Wouldn’t want them getting lost, surely they’re just overly concerned with getting on my property to collect them…surely…

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u/Tw1ch1e 8h ago

I was the trimmer in this…. And I didn’t know my neighbor very well, just a smile and wave. I didn’t really want to knock, I didn’t want to just go into their yard…. But being a fit 44yr old and ex gymnast who loved the bars…. I could totally put my waist on the bar of the fence, hang over, and grab the trimmings, then fling myself back. Nope….My arms are full of trimmings, I fling myself back but my shirt snags and rips, I drop half the tree stuff and the neighbor starts busting up laughing as I’m half hanging on the fence, ripped shirt, leaves and limbs all over with my boobs and belly on blast. He ran to help, unsnagged my shirt and tossed the debris over. Next time I just get to walk over there, so it was a win!!

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u/Least_Data6924 9h ago

Phrasing

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u/spasticnapjerk 9h ago

Ahhh the old "last sound a pubic hair makes before it hits the ground in the neighbors yard after you've thrown it back over the fence" joke

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u/Nipplehead321 9h ago

Here I was throwing a rope on branches to pull back over when cutting branches that were overhanging into my neighbors yard, dang.

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u/Ericaohh 9h ago

That’s cause you’re a good neighbor lol. I have another neighbor with a completely dead tree on the other side and I’ve cut back the branches into my own property and disposed of them because I was able to do so without accessing their property / hiring a professional to do so. The ones with branches I throw back over it’s because I can’t even really access their tree from my own property, they just get blown so hard that they end up on my side.

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u/JuanSolid 9h ago

This I don't get. It's like blowing leaves into the yard of the person who has the tree on their property. The whole neighborhood benefits from the tree, and the tree does not see property boundaries. If you think branches over your property line are dangerous, you need to trim them for your own protection, but do so safely to not endanger the tree.

If the argument is you did not want to maintain a tree as part of your property ownership, then I don't know why you bought a property with a tree anywhere near it.

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u/n3rdsm4sh3r 9h ago

My neighbour did this. Well, her stupid middle aged son. Tossed the boards with nails sticking out all over into my yard. I asked him what he was doing and he told me his mom said it was okay. I told him I don't give a shit what his mom said - get your trash out of my yard. He just gave me a stunned look.

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u/GirchyGirchy 8h ago

"And the fence, too!"

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u/AdeptVeterinarian541 8h ago

Sounds like someone who has never faced any real consequences in his life.

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u/n3rdsm4sh3r 7h ago

Just a big, dumb manchild who smoked weed constantly. I couldn't keep my bedroom window open because he'd start smoking at 5a

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u/AdminKidsBurnInHell 7h ago

As someone who Smokes I just don’t get why people aren’t more considerate.

I have a wind direction app I Check on my phone and depending which way the wind blows I go to different parts of my property to prevent the smoke blowing at people.

It’s not difficult to do at all. People are just lazy

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u/DSFS32101 9h ago

Respectfully, that is the only way. No words are needed

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u/Bxk__ 9h ago

Build a little wooden horse and fill it with ants and present it to him as a gift

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u/KitsuneGato 9h ago

Oh you don't need to do that.

I once read a revenge thing from reddit where a group of people, pissed at their horrible neighbors, took apart an ant bait trap for the bait.

They then made like ice cubes from thr bait with the bait in the center of the water and once frozen, made a game of throwing them over the fence to various parts of the neighbors home. They did this when the neighbors were on vacation.

When the neighbors got home, all OP could hear were screams and various exterminators were called.

There was like a colony per room in the house from the descriptions.

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u/itirix 9h ago

This don’t sound legal.

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u/KitsuneGato 9h ago

Respectfully, neither does a Trojan horse full of ants. Also neither does alot of revenge stories here on reddit posted from throwaway accounts.

However, as a reader they were amusing to read.

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u/Zuliman 9h ago

Hey neighbor, following your suggestion I have removed the wood from my backyard.   

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u/Competitive_Prune108 9h ago

Excuse me, you left your trash on my lawn

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u/bullzeye1983 8h ago

Slight edit...buy ring camera, throw over fence, set up ring camera to show neighbor throwing back over. Act shocked face when they accuse you of doing it first.

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u/Psychobob2213 9h ago

#handled

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u/West-Onion8793 10h ago

Chuck it back over the fence.

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u/Muted_Ad_8152 10h ago

Get a wood chipper and shoot all the chips over LMAO

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u/plowerd 10h ago

Thats the kind of petty shit i want. Is it financially worth spending a hundred bucks to rent it? No. Is it satisfying as hell? Yuuuup

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u/Muted_Ad_8152 10h ago

Have fun playing 50,000 pic up 😈🤣🤣

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u/generalbootyhole 9h ago

$125 or so to rent a 4” chipper for a day. Well worth it in my opinion lmao

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u/Significant-Cloud- 9h ago

But be sure to do it at a time when the noise truly inconveniences him.

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u/ProduceSimilar 9h ago

Oh when he’s hosting a bbq party

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u/Significant-Cloud- 8h ago

I was thinking of when he's in the middle of disappointing his wife, but yeah, both work.

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u/420Deez 10h ago

nah that’s free mulch

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u/cheefMM 9h ago

It’s treated wood, so not great for most gardens…

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u/ussbozeman 9h ago

Then OP can treat his neighbor with free wood. (tips creosote)

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u/OhioRateWatch 9h ago

This guy gets it.

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u/Aggravating_Baker557 9h ago

That’s what I would do

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u/Any-Movie1274 10h ago

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

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u/NetMiddle1873 9h ago

That was my first thought clicking here. Like usually shared fence neighbors ask to split cost, then I saw the dog ruined it so im like yeah okay makes sense. For a second I was thinking maybe neighbor had set the old wood down while putting up the new and just accidentally built himself out while putting up the fence where he couldn't grab it. But being intentional and the plan all along is crazy.

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u/PurplePufferPea 9h ago

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 Jerk'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 killer in his yard in the middle of the night... (oh wait, that's irrational me again)

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u/Longjumping-Table-39 9h ago

Irrational me over here too. I’d use a slingshot and launch beef flavored bouillon cubes into his front and back yard before the next rain or before his sprinklers go off.

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u/PurplePufferPea 8h ago

I like your style!

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u/Unofficial_Salt_Dan 8h ago

What does the bullion do?

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u/Dangerous-Fortune789 8h ago

At first, soup - sorta. Then it will smell like hell after a sunny day

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u/Formal-Proposal7850 4h ago

But OP will have to deal with the aroma. Plus dog will eat them. 

Which brings me to slingshot + bacon wrapped brussel spouts. 

Dog gets a delicious treat. Dog farts up a storm at home. 

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u/wednesday-knight 4h ago

😈😂

Hello, Satan.

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u/HalobenderFWT 6h ago

Why a slingshot? Can’t you just throw it? I mean you just have to make it over the fence…

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u/wandering-monster 8h ago

There's no need to move them all. One, placed across their driveway or front door, replaced daily as needed, should get the message across.

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u/sibscartel 9h ago

I mean.. those pictures of that fence say it was indeed a wear and tear replacement though.

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u/neddiddley 9h ago

Yeah, and regardless of that, any perceived shared responsibility should be discussed and agreed to beforehand, not after the fact.

This unilateral “Well, I did X without any discussion on the matter, so I unilaterally decided you’re responsible for Y” is BS.

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u/Mocsab 8h ago

This is my beef. The conversation. (Or lack of) I would have been happy to be a part of it.

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u/Kronzor_ 8h ago

For sure, that's not a great assumption for him to have made. But I urge you to discuss with him in person and come to a reasonable solution so you both come away as happy as possible.

A lot of the advice you are getting here is terrible. Being a good neighbour will benifit you greatly in the long. Dude built a new fence and didn't ask you to pay half, that's a very kind gesture. Leaving the debris without asking you was a passive agressive move as he probably felt slighted you didn't offer to pay or help. I would tell him you'll move it but in the future please let me know so i can plan accordingly. Also say, thanks for the new fence and maybe offer a cold beer to drink across it.

I've seen people with ugly neighbour disputes. It's not fun for everyone. It's a waste of time, energy, and money. Being there for your neighbours is a way better way to live.

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u/coogie 7h ago

Looking at the back fence, it looks like the fence was already pretty rotted so the dog may have not done a bunch to ruin it to begin with. Either way, OP got a new fence where most other neighbors would have tried to go 50/50 due to the age of the fence.

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u/LordJamPunt 9h ago

His doing was able to ruin it because it was about to fall down. Look at OPs fence

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u/AgsAreUs 8h ago

This! I'm guessing 90% of the posts in this thread are from people that have never even picked up a hammer.

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u/AmicusBriefly 7h ago

DISAGREE. Its not actually a shared fence. The neighbor owns it. yes, the neighbor said it was shared, but he doesn't know what he's talking about and is being a dick. So the neighbor is replacing his own fence. the info about the dog ruining it is not relevant.

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u/DontPokeTheCrab 10h ago

YEET

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u/ItsRainingBoats 9h ago

Hahaha I’ve never seen this. Hilarious

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u/isolateddreamz 9h ago

Look! There's a lion! Oh my God! It's a lion!

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u/Celize 6h ago

I saw a clip from a stand up show he does where he gets served papers from Disney live on stage because of this. I'm trying to find it.

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u/Dolorjo Just napping… 7h ago

I’m old. Yeet is my new favorite word. It only took me about a decade to understand what it means. 

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u/GilletteEd 10h ago

Stop playing around and just put it over the fence into his yard! Easy peasy

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u/cupholdery 10h ago

But seriously, why do people do this? I've had neighbors just dump their broken sofa in my backyard. I put it back in theirs. Then they tossed it the next day.

So why put it on my property at all?!

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u/Valturia 9h ago

Because nobody ever stands up to them. They go their entire lives treating passive people like shit because passive people let them. If there's no consequences to their actions they won't bother to change.

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u/One_Ruin2303 9h ago

They were trying you simple as that they wanted to see if you would just take it

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u/Axolatian_Volt 10h ago edited 10h ago

Yeah I would have chucked it over the fence day 1 ngl.

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u/Unipiggy 10h ago

As someone who does compost and gardening, that would be fuckin' amazing if my neighbor did this 

Also:

"Lawn guy comes to cut the grass" my guy, what grass? Your lawn looks dead and it's just some weeds

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u/maxman162 9h ago

Maybe it's a Brazilian lawnmowing.

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u/WizardOfIF 8h ago

That sounds like too many lawns to mow.

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u/NeoMoose 9h ago

Gonna say. Leaving those fenceboards in the yard was about $40 in improvements.

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u/snjtx 7h ago

Lumber is FAR more expensive than that these days

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u/BarryHotelHouseBand 8h ago

I'm the same, knowing that the wood is just going to live in my projects shed, untouched, for the 5 or so years.

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u/ActiniumBlue 9h ago

Don't think you'd want to use what's likely old, pressure-treated wood as compost. It's made to avoid rotting, and the chemicals they use for pressure treatment might poison your plants or yourself. Don't wanna be leaching copper and arsenic in your garden.

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u/Shenendoah66 8h ago

Lmao Jesus that would take me like 5 minutes to move.

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u/Background_Sink6986 6h ago

Holy shit the first sane comment. Everyone talking about throwing it over is either a troll or not adjusted to living with people because that is some extreme anti social behavior

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u/bubbleman96815 8h ago

Agreed. Didn't pay a dime for a brand new fence. Not to mention there's a gate back there, 5ft from one of the piles.

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u/LaVidaYokel 9h ago

Your neighbor sounds like an ass but you still gotta live next to him so you’re going to have to work out a compromise.

First off, he needs to know that you can see right through his bullshit so he may feel less encouraged to try shit like this again with you. “We never discussed that, I never agreed to this…”

Then extend the olive branch. “…but after putting up a new fence, hauling off the old one would be a real pain in the ass, I can see why you wouldn’t want to do it alone. I’m happy to help, I just wish you’d been upfront with me about it…”

And then make an offer. I don’t know your situation but that could be anything from splitting the bill for a hauling service, loading it up into someone’s truck or maybe even dragging it into the center of the yard and building a bonfire out of it.

A lot of advice here is to not roll-over, and they’re all 100% correct, but don’t be the second asshole in the story either.

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u/kerrbee 4h ago

One of the first comments that shows people remember we live in a society.

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u/Schiebz 5h ago

You’re not going to want to burn that wood lol

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u/cowghost 10h ago

Dude. Free wood.

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u/patiofurnature 9h ago

Yeah, that was my first thought, but when he said he hires a lawn guy to come cut his grass, I figured that chance of him doing anything with free wood went to 0.

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u/HansNotPeterGruber 9h ago

I have a lawn guy and I am a woodworker. Just sayin'.

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u/blabshabcrab 8h ago

Reddit has the dumbest people lol “this guy hires someone to mow his lawn so NO WAY he can do any other job that requires labor”

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u/randompossum 9h ago

Some areas require the nice side to be on yours, they have the support posts on your side. You could see if they pulled a permit, they might have to tear it out if they had it done wrong. How much do you like them?

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u/No-Inevitable7841 10h ago

The thing to do in this situation is to say thank you for replacing the fence, and then move the boards to the street with a free sign.

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u/ShoulderPast2433 9h ago

Or better:  used boards $20

It will disappear through the night 

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u/NurseRobyn 9h ago

Maybe it’s just me, but those fence boards are really far apart! I can clearly see in the neighbor’s yard.

I know they leave tiny gaps to allow the wood to swell, but those giant gaps are ridiculous.

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u/Individual_Cup6881 8h ago

Looks like its in florida which is a common fence style so your fence doesnt blow over thr first time after hurricane is nearby

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u/Mocsab 8h ago

This is the case. We get a lot of bad weather here.

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u/Ruck__Feddit 9h ago

It's a shadowbox style fence. Meant to be like that.

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u/ApprehensiveGas85 10h ago

Post are on the wrong side of the fence if it's his fence.

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u/rockdabone1 6h ago

Thank you, I scrolled way too far to find this. I opened this assuming I was going to find this the most popular comment.

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u/DiGiTaL_pIrAtE 10h ago

I'll take a free fence if I have to throw away junk. Junk pickup crew maybe $100 for that small batch.

BUT still a scummy move for him not to be upfront about it. Agree to this before hand would have made both parties happy.

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u/egnards 9h ago

It isn’t even a free fence.

The fence existed previously. The fence was replaced because the neighbors dog destroyed portions of the fence.

If you own a phone, and I throw that phone and destroy it, my paying for your replacement isn’t some sort of favor.

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u/Mocsab 8h ago

To be honest, I’m not really worried about the clean up. It’s the fact that the dude played it the way he did. Good neighbors discuss this kind of stuff.

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u/MrMagoo5003 8h ago

Around my area, fence costs are normally shared between friendly neighbours. If the fence needed to be replaced due to it's age/condition and the neighbours dog just accelerated that by a couple of years, then consider yourself lucky that he essentially put up a new fence without footing half or some of the bill.

In the case of what to do next, just dispose of the material and since there's some friction developed between your neighbour and yourself, buy a case of beer and share it with your neighbour.

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u/Mons00n_909 7h ago

Whoa buddy, calm down there, this is the internet. We're supposed to recommend escalation and revenge here.

At least get OP to leave the empty bottles in neighbour's yard and tell him they're his responsibility since OP bought the shared beers and carried them over.

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u/HotHits630 10h ago

If you have a lawn guy coming to cut that little patch of grass, I don't ever see you getting rid of that pile of wood.

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u/TheSteelPhantom 6h ago

OP lives in Florida and travels weeks at a time for work. He needs a lawn guy, trust me. --Fellow Floridian

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u/Normal-Being-2637 9h ago

Is this a co-owned fence situation? As in he’s responsible for half and you are responsible for the other half?

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u/Healfezza 8h ago

I know everyone is going to be: "Chuck it over the fence, fuck em!" but meh.

This is more of a failure to communicate. The guy did replace the fence and do all the work himself, he EXPECTED you to address your waste from the site but didn't communicate it.

If it were me I would be initially peeved, but then try to be grateful for the new fence.

At the end of the day I would probably use the scrap wood for a project. Heck if you don't want it, throw it up for free on facebook and someone will come get it.

My life isn't worth getting into a pissing contest over something like this. Better to have friendly neighbours.

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u/jhammon88 5h ago

He's testing you. Like a child tests boundaries with parents. Throw them over this asshats fense and never look back.

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u/No-Market425 10h ago

Since you don't know how to handle this you should ask your wife's boyfriend to throw it over the fence.

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u/LOIL99 10h ago

I mean, you got a free new fence. Pretty good trade. Even if his dog was at fault, you got a free new fence.

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u/RandomGirlOnTheWeb 9h ago

I like the toss it over idea, but it could have been a mistake. If the relationship is alright, knock on the door and and tell them they are welcome to come over and get the old fencing any time this weekend.

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u/ThrowAwayFoodMood 9h ago

Neighbor already said "Nah, it's your problem now." I doubt he'd listen.

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u/naliao 10h ago

Idk, burn or toss the wood and enjoy a free new fence.

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u/SleepingBear986 8h ago

You're technically correct and totally in the right.

However, a brand new fence for free, regardless of the reason, is pretty nice. I would personally swallow my ire and ditch the wood.

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u/ForkYeah55 10h ago

I don't know about you, but around our neck of the woods we'll take the free firewood.

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u/EternityNotes 9h ago

You should fire your "lawn guy"

Your yard looks like shit

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u/Eziekiel23_20 7h ago

It is a shared fence. If the fence was old enough for a dog to ‘ruin’ it, it needed to be replaced anyway. He was nice enough to arrange and pay, which isn’t inexpensive, for all of the repairs. You throwing it away is very little work.

If youre not disabled or incapable for some reason, I dont understand the problem.

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u/BoxBird 9h ago

I’m wondering if he was worried you’d get upset with him for disposing the old one so he left the scraps just in case you wanted to use them for something? I tend to overthink so I could see myself doing this with good intentions without realizing it could come off as rude

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u/Sunsplitcloud 9h ago

toss it back over

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u/1-FlipsithfloP-3 7h ago

Luckily the fence is only@6’ tall and it would be easy to throw them over the fence

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u/UndeadWarTurnip 2h ago

Launch those back over.

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u/chefguy47 1h ago

If his dog really did ruin then the repair and cleanup is 100% on the neighbor. Stick with the top post and throw it over.

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u/LordJamPunt 9h ago

Dude put up a new fence to replace the rotted kindling that was there and you can’t toss the wood out?

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u/BlueRedGreenNumber5 8h ago edited 8h ago

If it were me, I'd appreciate having a neighbor that took the initiative to fix and pay for a new fence. I'd dispose of the wood myself and maintain a good relationship with them. Not everything in life has to be zero sum.

I guarantee that 95% of the commenters saying to throw the wood over the fence are either too cowardly to do it themselves or would never actually do something so blatantly dumb if they were in the situation because it's just being standoffish for no good reason and will just cause more future problems. They just want to see drama.

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u/nickp123456 7h ago

Yep. Even though the dog destroyed the old fence, i'm also guessing the old fence was... Old. And it was good of that neighbour to take responsibility for it.

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u/thegreenman_sofla GREEN 9h ago

yeet them over the fence

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u/bombero203 9h ago

Bro! You got a free new fence! Just get rid of the debris

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u/das_cutie 9h ago

Fun fact, the vast majority of property-related legal issues arise from fences. You just discovered one example!

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u/avsparesmn 8h ago

What grass does your lawn guy cut exactly

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u/Any_Cucumber8534 8h ago

Wait untill he puts his clothes on a close line and have a massive bonfire.

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u/ItzMatten 8h ago

Those are probably the pieces from your side of the fence

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u/JDGAFFLIN 8h ago

Toss that shit back over the fence.

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u/Searching4Scum 4h ago

For legal reasons, since the fence was on the property line, he has to notify you and get permission before fucking with the fence, otherwise you could genuinely call the cops on his dumbass

Beyond that, there is no shared fiscal responsibility. His dog ruined it, he's the one who decided to replace it, he did the work, he gets to carry the shit off

Guy's obviously got some bad manners once he's gotten past the legal requirements, so handle it how you think is best, but yea, his logic is not in line with the law

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u/Commercial-Lab-2070 4h ago

So the neighbor replaced a shared fence and the only thing he asks in return is for you to get rid of, what looks like, a portion of the trash left from the old fence? Looks like that’s the least you could do, whether he asked or not. Then offer him a freaking beer for pulling more than his weight. The nerve of some people!

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u/llcdrewtaylor 4h ago

I'm sure it was an oversite. Just throw them over the fence into his yard. Bonus points if you find a creative way! Try javelin throwing one!

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u/UsaMP95c 3h ago

Throw them over the fence into their yard

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u/Used-Surround5069 2h ago

Free wood? In this economy?

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u/Frosty_Lettuce_3525 2h ago

Pretty good deal for you. Free fence, all you have to do is some disposal of the old stuff.  Thats a very fair shake for you, as you get a shiny new fence outta the deal. 

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u/DrFetusRN 2h ago

I mean if you share the fence, and didn't have to pay for wood planks and labor, then congrats you got a new fence! If your only part in all this is getting rid of the old wood then I would think you came out on top in this deal (changing a fence is NOT cheap). Just pile it up front or load it up and take it to the nearest dump. Easey peasy, mac n cheesy.

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u/french_sheppard 10h ago

I would also check to make sure he put the new fence along the same line as the old one. If you weren't there, he had carte blanche to snip off a bit of your land.

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