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  2. Fence on the wrong side of the property line. Need advice

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    Figure I would post some pics of the fence. Just so everyone can see what I'm dealing with. I'm all for taking the section that is on my side of property line down however that would leave the ends of the fence still up since they are not the issue at hand.

     

    At this point, I think I'm just going to move the long section back the 20" onto the property line and just be done with it. It's going to cost me about $100 in line and terminal posts and a day of my time.

     

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  3. Fence on the wrong side of the property line. Need advice

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    Figure I would pose this question out to the crew and see what their take is on it.

     

    On the left hand side of my lot, there is a chain link fence that runs parallel to my drive way and they makes a 90* turn and runs back to the neighbors garage, The problem is that when the neighbor put the fence up it was discovered that it was installed over the property line by about 20" about a year after.

     

    After we found the issue, The neighbor and I talked about it and we both looked at the lot survey and agreed that it was over and if it ever became as issue that he would move the fence. At the time it wasn't a big deal because we got along pretty well and I didn't feel like making it an issue since essentially the section of land borders the driveway and is just a grass strip.

     

    As you know, one of the projects I worked on over the summer was filling in my backyard. (The Big Fill). Since I've built the retaining wall and leveled everything out, I no longer have access to the back of the garage from the right hand side. I have to access it from the left hand side. With the fence being over the property line, I essentially have about 36" from the corner of my garage to the fence. As I was working on the project, I talked to the owner and mentioned that I now needed the fence moved because of access issues. He said that he would move it.

     

    Here is were it get's interesting, in the past 7 years he had divorced and moved out.The property became a rental and he had various tenants living there. In the last 6 months, he became divorced again and the tenant who was there was not paying and essentially left in the middle of the night. The house has been abandoned for the last 4 months and last week the owner sent me a text message saying to do what ever I wanted to do with the fence and that the house was going into foreclosure.

     

    So essentially, I'm being left holding the bag on this stupid fence. Knowing the owner has no intentions of moving it on his own, It's now up to me to deal with it. So what are my options?

     

    1.Cut it down.

    2.Move the fence myself.

    3.Talk to the town and have them pursue it?

    4. Contact the bank that owns the property and file a "lean" or some other type of complaint.

     

    The section is about 60' long and if I had to buy some new line and terminal posts it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but I have enough stuff to do than have to worry about moving someone else's fence..

  5. Socket trays

    in Hand Tools

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    I have the Harbor Freight knock off's of the Hansen's. They work pretty well, however you always have sockets and adapters (Hex, Torx, E-Socket) that don't necessarily fall into the the same organizational grouping of everything else. To get around it, I've purchased some of the cheap socket rails and I then fastened the rails to a strip of wood. Doing this I can then organize the oddballs pretty well.

     

    I'll take some pictures on Sunday morning on how I have my socket drawer organized,

  10. Credit Card Fraud

    in Pub Talk

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    That sucks. We just went through a similar scenario over Thanksgiving. Had to close out the accounts and start from scratch.

    Like you said this is becoming all too common. It's more surprising to find someone that hasn't been a victim of fraud.

    My wife and I have taken measures to limit electronic payments and pay cash whenever we can but still manage to be victimized.

  19. Sun-room rehab. I got a little carried away today.

    in Around The House

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    Thanks for getting back so fast with the paint color, it takes me awhile to pick a color. Then I paint the walls and when it dries I'm like that's not really what I wanted, so I just leave it and paint the room again in a few years..lol  Hey for your tiling you should try the perfect level master t-lock system it does cost some money but it is worth it Home Depot has there own system which is similar and cheaper. Its a 2 part system a spacer and a wedge it will make your tile dead level. 

     

    Yes, I saw the T-Lock system on some of the videos I watched. Didn't realize HD had something similar. I'll go check it out.

     

    No problem on the paint color. Glad I could help.

     

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  24. Give away week

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    Congrats to all of the winners.

     

    They pulled my old YouTube screen name "Dirk Diggler". I recently changed it to "Streeter's Garage" after my daughter asked me about the name and my wife giving me grief about it. :)

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