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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Z71" data-source="post: 2045745" data-attributes="member: 26805">The way it's done on the farm..where neighbors might share miles of fence...when you stand on your property looking at a fence bordering a neighbor's land(not the road..that one's all yours)..the fence from the middle to your right is your responsibility...the neighbor stands on his property looking at the fence and the fence to his right is his responsibility.The norm is that if both partys agree to replace the fence..they share or split expenses and labor...I'm preparing to replace a chunk of fence that's my responsibility....The neighbor and I will tear out the old....I'm buying all the materials('cause it's my shunk of fence)...and hopefully the neighbor will help build it....However my neighbor and I have reached a 'gentlmen's agreement' beforehand...we need the fence and both know it...I'm buying the stuff because this particular stretch of fence is mine that he shares..and he has in a very neighborly fashion agreed to help me with cleaning out the old and installing the new.That's the way it's supposed to be done...Years back when I lived in town..I chainlink fenced my entire backyard...at my expense with both neighbor's permission...one of my neighbors came over after it was done and insisted on paying his half of his side of the fence....However again..I had notified the neighbors(plus I was replacing some really bad fence!!).My thougfhts on a guy just up and putting in new fence with no prior consultation with any neighbors at all...then it's his baby.</blockquote>

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