Neighbour is beginning to annoy me .

[droves]

we moved away from neighbours from hell. It's a relief. I love our new house.

We have a garden , it's larger than the neighbours , but parallel to theirs .

Before we moved in the knocked down the fence so they could fit a giangantic trampoline in the back garden. It sort of took a few inches of my garden.

Had told neighbour that we will be replacing the fence in summer.

At new year party , neighbour pops in . And tells people we have a shared garden . Wtf ?. Now her crappy double swing set it half way into mine and blocking acces into my shed.

I've moved it back into her garden several times. Not only is it really annoying I have to walk around the damn thing to get into my shed , she has started talking about what we will do about our shared garden.

It's not a shared garden. It's two gardens that happen to have a fence missing because she broke it.

And her dog shits all over .

So I'm planning to get the fence rebuilt and have the garden landscaped and decked by may .I will not tell her , but just do it . Aibu ?

I think you are going to have to go round there with a copy of the deeds and say "Look, you can see here that it is not shared, please stop putting your swing set on it."

Can you not get something before May? Even if it's bloody chicken wire or something

tbh, I'd be tempted to bag up the dog muck and take it round to her, or knock on her door, present her with a pair of marigolds and a carrier bag and insist she cleans up.

Or - is there a smell dogs HATE? Cover your garden with that?

Get chicken wire across the gap to contain the dog asap. Tell her your dc are allergic/unhappy if needs be. Does she own the property ?

cheeky fucker! go round to her house and inform her that she needs to pick up HER dog's shit from YOUR garden, until you get the fence back up.

or just deposit the shit on her swing set, next time either appears in your space

oh, meant to add - if you don't deal with her firmly right away, you will simply have swapped one neighbour from hell for another

Put up a tempory one asap!

WIll her trampoline still fit in her garden?

How did she break a whole fence??

What is stopping you getting the fence up now?

I have a tenant like this, she drives my old neighbours to distraction with her general sense of entitlement. It will only get worse

convention is, I believe, as you look down the garden, the fence on the right is your responsibility.

My god, that would really piss me off . Cheeky cow, have you asked her not to move the swing into your garden? You need at least a temporary fence asap

Have you checked the deeds to make sure it's not shared in any way? Am a property lawyer so happy to answer questions/look at documents

Won't have money for the fencing before may , as we will have to save up for it. Or else the fence would be up by now.

Might tell dh to take the swings away ( he has vans) and skip them ( no that's wrong isn't it? )

. Or move them into her front garden ? Or hand a great big sign on them - keep out of droves garden or she will find the blowtorch !

It's tempting .

You are only responsible for the fence on your left (as you look down the garden). The neighbour on other side is responsible for the fence on the right so if the fence has come down on the right side, then it is her responsibility to erect a new one. However I'm not sure whether you have to have a fence or not by law. I'd get the cheapest fence up regardless of which side it is as quickly as possible.

Get the fence up. This woman knows it's not a shared garden and she is not nice - she knows just what she is doing. Don't get too close.
Normal people do not behave like this. She sounds like my neighbour, and it's not pleasant to live next door to. I guarantee when the fence goes up there will be some sort of bother because you took away 'her garden'.

You're sure the deeds/boundaries are all in order, right?

I would be tempted to ring up the solicitor who did the conveyancing on your house and tell her what's happening.

She can confirm that the boundaries DEFINITELY end where you think they do and that there is no indication from the land registry, when she searches under the crazy woman's address, of some sort of discrepancy between what the deeds say about where crazy woman's garden ends and yours. YOu should also be able to search this yourself online - the land registry - but if your sale was recent the lawyer may help you for free. If there is a history of a dispute of some kind, she should have picked up on this in any case....yes the woman's probably just nuts but your solicitor won't want to have missed something she could thenb e liable for.

Agree with temp fence. And don't just move the swing go round and tell her to do it and whilst she's there she can pick up the dog shit. Absolutely disgusting.

That's what I'm thinking . The fence fiasco will never end. .

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Put up chicken wire to keep her dog out until you get the real fence back up. Go round to her house and tell her 'I have put chicken wire up to keep your dog out of my garden until we get the fence properly replaced. Please keep your trampoline and swing set on your side of the boundary.'

Tbh I doubt if your neighbour is nice actually. Sorry. But I think it is suiting her right now to act as if she's nice to see if that gets her what she wants. Once you put your foot down she may try being threatening instead.

Before paying for it yourself, I would a) check the deeds to see who the fence belongs to, then b) check the inventory the estate agent created stating what you got when you paid for the house (usually includes light fittings etc), see if the fence is mentioned on that. With both of those you would have a good case for making her pay to have it put back up, as effectively she has stolen/vandalised your property before you moved in. Also, if it were done through official channels, she can't pretend you are breaking the terms of your "shared garden".

Oh and she is clearly several sarnies short of a picnic.

What size area is it for replacing the fence? Would you be able to put chicken wire up as a temporary measure?
Also you may want to check your house insurance, you may have legal over which would over neighbour disputes, however theinsurancemay also presume you have appropriate boundaries in place, hope lack of fence doesn't jeopardise cover.

Have spray paint , will spray line down garden where the fence should be .

Have to check exactly where first to be sure.

I'm thinking neon pink ....against the grass it should show up well .

At least Id know where to chuck the crap then .

Not necessarily the one on the left etc - we have both sides at back, not shared, and at the bottom ! The solicitor's paperwork form your purchase should clarify it and if not you can ask them to do so as it should have been queried in the land registry pack. Take a copy and take it/write to her.

We used to have a shared yard, when we lived in a flat, so do check your legal position.

If it's definitely not shared then she sounds like a serious fruit loop. I don't envy you at all

Never thought about insurance . If this invalidates it I will be furious.

My left hand fence is shared ownership, in my last house it belonged to next door, you really need to check the deeds to be sure.