I have been in my neighborhood for almost 8 years and had a 6 foot privacy fence installed the first week we were in our house. I am the last house on the corner of my street and for some reason the builder built the first house on the corner of the next side street right next to my house. That house is perpendicular to my house (from above our house's profiles would make an upside down "L" shape with about 25' between the long (my house) and short (neighbors) pieces of the "L". The side of my house, outside my fence, is their very small (maybe 15 feet from their house to my fence) back yard, but they have a huge side yard if that makes sense. They have 3 large dogs that they just let run and crap everywhere and approached me letting me know they wanted to put in a 4' fence. They do not keep up their yard, do not pick up their dog's crap when they go on the sidewalks, and I often have to trim their weeds out of my fence from the inside since I can't mow the outside of fence anymore (The previous owners put a garden in right against the outside of my fence that runs about 50' along my fence which these new owners have let become overrun with weeds). I told them I was OK with them putting in the fence (what choice do I have), but didn't really want them to tie into my fence so their fence company put the end posts right next to mine. I also told them that I would need access to the outside of my fence in the future if/when I need to power wash and reseal it, or might have to temporarily remove and pay to replace the front part of the fence next summer of we decide to get a pool, which they agreed to. My concern is that I will no longer have open access to the outside of that 75' run of my fence (It is probably 6" inside my property line, I willingly gave up access that 6" when the previous owners installed their garden as it would have been a hassle to try to mow), and I don't want the neighbors tearing up the outside of my fence since it will be the entire back side of their fence. My wife and I argued about me not asking them to pay half the cost of that run of fence and my argument was that if they paid for it, they could let their dogs destroy that side, shoot arrows into it, ...etc, since they would basically own it.
I know it is a blessing that their dogs will be contained now, but I'm wondering if I should tell them to enclose their yard with their fence leaving the 6" gap between the 2 fences (I would definitely be responsible for weeding/cutting it as they just don't care, but this would also absolutely prevent me from being able to access the outside of my fence. Just wondering if anyone else has gone through this and if they have any insight. It's driving me a little crazy because I am OCD about my yard and house upkeep on the outside just like my car (Murphy's law, the Clampetts move in next door...), and the neighbors fence company just put the posts in yesterday evening.
I know it is a blessing that their dogs will be contained now, but I'm wondering if I should tell them to enclose their yard with their fence leaving the 6" gap between the 2 fences (I would definitely be responsible for weeding/cutting it as they just don't care, but this would also absolutely prevent me from being able to access the outside of my fence. Just wondering if anyone else has gone through this and if they have any insight. It's driving me a little crazy because I am OCD about my yard and house upkeep on the outside just like my car (Murphy's law, the Clampetts move in next door...), and the neighbors fence company just put the posts in yesterday evening.