All Forum Posts by: Oren Pfeffermann

To date I have only two times met a neighbor of a rental property who wanted to split the fence costs.  

If it is a home-owner on the other side that shows high pride of ownership, it's pretty likely they'll care and helps if you make it a win for them (do you want the pretty side facing your home, or the secure side?  Do you want cedar or whitewood?  You won't have to do ANY work because I'll take care of it all, and other stuff like this)

If it is a LL or a low pride-of-ownership owner on the other side of the party wall then your SOL and you could either eat the costs and replace it yourself and document the heck out of it, OR you could have a new fence installed on your side of the yard to hide the decaying fence.  Kinda like flipping the neighbor the bird, but it gets the job done and smells a bit less like the welfare state than just eating the costs for a neighbor who doesn't want to contribute to solving a shared problem IMO.

The fence is shared. The expense should be shared as well.

SSS did a fence for me last week.  Good work - highly recommend.

Talk to your neighbours and ask if they will split the cost based on how much of the fence is shared (eg 60 ft on each side neighbour and 50 ft for the back neighbour).  They should split it, but may not.  I had my neighbour ask about it a few years back and I said I'd split the cost with them for my portion and they said the other neighbours weren't going to do the same.

It's a reasonable request in every state, but that doesn't mean they'll play along. Try talking to them and negotiating something, but be prepared that you may have to foot the bill yourself if they refuse to be good neighbors.

@Oren Pfeffermann I've found a few fence folks that are solid and ironically the bigger the company the better the price and service.

To the point of sharing the fence:  it's definitely worth asking.  It is technically a party-wall easement and this will exist by default on shared boundaries, unless something breaks that.  Sometimes you'll see folks have a neighbor who refuses to replace a fence so one neighbor will pay for the whole thing.  I suppose once this is documented correctly this would create a fence that is either practically or legally no longer a shared expense.

Even then, though, you can always ask :) 

This post kinda covers it for okc on what is shared.  https://www.findlaw.com/state/...

Only exception is if your HOA has a specific rule on who owns it otherwise the city code would dictate. Good luck on getting the neighbor to split it, that is always a tough one here. We do get lucky from time to time.

Rates vary alot on price but I have seen from around $20 per linear foot on up.