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The house next door to us was flipped and we just got new neighbors. They are putting up a fence to contain their pup (don't worry! no drama here.) and asked our opinion - nice of them. We live on small lots - all about .16 acre. And they're narrow. Anyway, I just said I preferred that we have enough room to mow between our garage/fence and their fence without risking damage to our fence and their fence. They agreed that made sense. They found what they think is the property line marker in the back corner of the yard - it's a metal stake so not sure what else it would be? They roped off their fence line using the stake as a guide and it is so darn close to our garage (about 2 feet away). Our township does not require any setback so they can build right on the property line - if that's indeed the line but I honestly don't know. I don't really love the idea of this big white wall closing us in but it is what it is.
I'm concerned this doesn't give us enough room to maintain the grass/weeds there and I don't want to risk damage to their fence or mine. For reference, it would be a space about 25 feet long and 2 feet wide. Ours fence is cedar and handles the weedwacker well but they're putting up vinyl which I've heard takes a beating from the weedwacker.
Would you ask them to move it in a little? I don't really care about the loss of space...it's kind of useless area to us anyway so I thought about telling them they could just line up with our garage but that would mean lining up with our driveway which is narrow so that wouldn't work. Do I just leave it be and come up with some alternative like filling that area with mulch or stones?
Oh, the fence is going up tomorrow. We've known for a little while but they just roped it off yesterday and that's when I realized how close it would be.
I'm concerned this doesn't give us enough room to maintain the grass/weeds there and I don't want to risk damage to their fence or mine. For reference, it would be a space about 25 feet long and 2 feet wide. Ours fence is cedar and handles the weedwacker well but they're putting up vinyl which I've heard takes a beating from the weedwacker.
Would you ask them to move it in a little? I don't really care about the loss of space...it's kind of useless area to us anyway so I thought about telling them they could just line up with our garage but that would mean lining up with our driveway which is narrow so that wouldn't work. Do I just leave it be and come up with some alternative like filling that area with mulch or stones?
Oh, the fence is going up tomorrow. We've known for a little while but they just roped it off yesterday and that's when I realized how close it would be.