Whose Fence is it Anyway? These Ladies Mean Business — Episode Eight!

October 18th, 2007 First Time Buyers, Reno Real Estate Terry

Here’s one for the books (or crooks?).

Neighbor Sam wants his fence repaired by the builder because there are some cracked slats, miss-cuts, and warped pieces/slats.

Fenceman/builder says, “Okay, we’ll come out and fix them.”

Sam complains that they missed a number of damaged slats.

Fenceman/builder says, “Oh no, we only repair the slats that front-face your property, not ones that back-face your property and front-face your neighbor’s.”

“What?”

Amazingly so, this was the logic explained to Sam. Because the fence is in effect two sided, with alternating sides facing Sam’s property — that is, the slats were alternately fronting his property. One eight foot section had the slats hammered to the supports with the fronts facing his property (no supports visible), while the next eight foot section front-faced the neighbor’s property, while they back-faced Sam’s property with the supports showing.  You get the picture (I hope)?

Sam was incredulous — he couldn’t believe what he was hearing, but it was true. The fenceman/builder would only replace the slats front-facing his property, but damaged slats that back-faced his property were only replaced in the neigbor’s requested it?Â

But These Ladies Mean Business, and although we didn’t bother to fight the slat war, we won the support war, by demanding that all “front-facing” supports that were crooked or cracked or marred, be replaced as they were front-facing Sam’s property.

There’s more than one way to straighten a fence when These Ladies pick up a “hammer”…and use it!

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