What an A-hole. Guess he can’t afford a saw.

And those damn screws.

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I wish I was lucky enough to be a homeowner complaining about 2 mismatched fenceposts

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Check where you are, because come on, that’s the whole point of this community

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Wait, are we in mildyinfuriatinghomeownerproblems?

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I’m more than mildly infuriated I will likely never own a home.

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11 points

Have you tried looking for a home somewhere undesirable

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have you looked into the United States department of agricultures direct loan program?

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There are things I can relate to, and this is not one of them. Hence my comment

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I don’t know if you meant for it to come off this way or not, but to me it reads like you’re saying people who own homes shouldn’t complain about small things. Someone else always has it worse. That doesn’t mean those who are better off have no right to complain about things that annoy them (especially on the community made for complaining about mildly infuriating things).

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I think it’s the fact OP is calling their neighbor an asshole for fixing their fence in a less than perfect way that really irked me. I get annoyed when privileged people want to play the victim; it’s something I know I should work on, but right now it’s a part of my character.

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I get you. Until I noticed the spiked aspect of the new boards I didn’t see the problem. A repaired fence > unrepaired fence. I think it’s great.

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The 3 inch nails protruding through the rails are much more complaint-worthy than the too-tall pickets.

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They don’t even come close to the home owners fence bro

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What if they were 9 inch nails instead? I’ve heard people like them

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Good news is that many landlords excel at this level of craftsmanship.

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I also wish the same for us both. But I’d like to remind you, people who rent can also find themselves complaining about the neighbour’s mismatched fenceposts

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Looks life a shared fence. Maybe you should have offered to help instead of making this post.

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Maybe that was the deal, op puts up the posts and the neighbor puts up the planks

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It looks like there’s also a fence in the foreground and maybe a pathway inbetween, so I don’t think it’s a shared fence.

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The photo is also taken from the “inside” side. So it might even be his fence.

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It’s a better fence post than the one pictured

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Why do you even care?

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It looks like shit

Edit: Hate HOAs? Me too. But this shit is why they exist. If people never did dumb shit like this I think there’d be fewer of them.

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HOAs exist is a way toaintain shared services; i.e. insurances, utilities and roads, most importantly, but also things like clubhouses. Shit like this comes secondary.

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Presumably the fence runs between their property so they have to see it every day. Also those exposed nails could be hazardous to pets or children.

It’s also pretty trivial to cut the boards to length and use appropriate fasteners. Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I suspect this kind of carelessness is present in other parts of the neighbor’s life. They’ve probably gotten on OP’s nerves before.

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Since the photo was taken from the inside, he either went into the neighbors side to take the photo or it’s his fence.

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Has the same thought

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I had noticed that nobody in this thread seemed to notice that the neighbor’s fence is facing the wrong direction. Most places, at least here in the US, will have some sort of code about your fence needing to show the more attractive, “outside” side facing away from the house.

That’s the much more infuriating part here.

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Look at the shorter fence in the foreground. It looks like the space between the two fences is probably a line between the properties, and the neighbor did their fence backwards from what you’re imagining, whereas the foreground fence is oriented the way you’d expect.

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The photo was most likely taken from the outside of the fence, as evidenced by the smaller picket fence in the foreground

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7 points

Found the neighbor.

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Jesus your life is soft. Boo fucking hoo.

Fence is there. Yay. Thanks, neighbor, for fixing it.

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congrats everyone!

we found the neighbor!

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Didn’t notice the screws?

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There are no screws.

… those are nails

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Fair enough. Cant easily tell on mobile.

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This sub is called “mildly infuriating”, not “holy shit I’m out of my mind angry at this”

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Unless they also put the fence up backwards, that’s taken from inside the fence. So either that’s your own fence, or you trespassed to take the photo. Or this story could all be totally fake, who’s to say?

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Looks like they each have their own fence. The neighbor has a taller fence. You can see the top of OP’s fence near the bottom of the picture.

People often orient wooden fences so the nice side of it faces inward towards their yard.

Side note: Sometimes people make their fence with every other slat on the opposite side, so there is no front and back. Both sides are identical. I don’t like how those fences look. It just makes both sides look bad, and you can see through them when approaching from an angle.

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I know some places have laws or guidelines that tell you to put the flat pretty side facing out, but every fence I’ve ever seen, including the one I’m looking at out the window of this business I’m at now has the flat side facing the property and the ugly side faces out

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I don’t want to alarm you but it sounds like someone has been trying to fence you in.

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No. You just put the nice part facing the one who paid for it and so you can paint it and keep it looking nice. Let the neighbours have the ugly side. They can build their own fence if they want.

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