new neighbor put electric fence up on our fence

Ummmm, the guy put it on the OP's side of the fence not his side of the fence. That's why she is upset. You know like someone encroaching on your property????

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Ya but that was 7-1/2 Years ago when first posted by the OP.

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~sighs~ I should check the dates of the posts more often. I am unaccustomed to having ancient threads just pop out from the grave. I didn't think to look at the date.

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I know it was 7 1/2 years ago....people are still getting it wrong! LOL LOL

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The OP said that they (OP and her husband) put up a fence. The new neighbor put another fence up - the electric one inside the OP's property. Now there are two fences. I would also be mad.

Nancy

He put the fence on your side and on your own fencing, that's trespassing and destruction of property if nor just trespassing and defacing property.

I put electric on MY side of my neighbors fence. But that was because they refused to keep up the fence. I am always fixing it, tightening it and the such. They didn't care that I put hot wire on my side of it. And they better not, or I will just put their fence back in the run down condition it was in.
I only go on their side to fix their barbed wire if I can't reach from my side.

I wouldn't like it one bit.
But, i would have asked the neighbor what he thought he was doing. Then, I'd listen.
There are lots of questions in all this, but the important answers are unknown. What exactly did the neighbor say? Did he just stand there and listen? While there may not be any right answer, at least listen to his rationalizations.


In Michigan, there is an old law that if a neighbor runs livestock, using your fence, you can charge him fence rent.Different states have different laws.


I own 202 acres. 80 in one place, 120 across the road and 2 a half mile up the road. The 2 acres is on a road corner. The other two sides are the beginnings of a ravine. Just off my property the ravine continues to a small stream. Beyond that is the other side of a ravine. The whole ravine is brushy. The owner of the ravine, also owns 400 connected acres. She has a house across from my 120 acres. She's wealthy. Her husband died 6 years ago. She has two sons that she is giving her property to. One retired at 50, married and kids, bought a house on the shore 6 miles away. The other son, lives with mom part time and the family home 300 miles south. He's never had to have a job. He’s mid-50s, too.

Last week as I was on the 2 acres, these guys stopped to check the property line. There are clearly identifiable survey stakes. One of them noticed that my hay baler and a wooden wheeled wagon were parked "over the line". He said they plan to run cattle and I'll need to move my stuff, so they can fence.

They aren't running cattle and they aren't going to cut brush along the ravine to run a fence. In spite of owning 400 acres they do nothing with, my stuff is encroaching.
So, I don’t want a neighbor nailing up an electric fence on y property, but I think it is petty for a couple of rich kids to make me move my baler off an unusable piece of their 400 unused acres? Is this apples and oranges or am I rationalizing?

I didn't realize that either.

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This thread is so funny. What I want to know is what became of "oilpatch". Is he in jail, shot, or still zipping around on his neighbor's back 40?

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Doesnt make it right.

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Funny, if I was in the situation, I'd just string up my own electric line around the rest of my fence, and hook to his hot wire. Use his electricity to power the rest of my fence line....

What if that's MY favorite spot to hunt on MY land?

I might not "see a problem" digging a 3 ft wide trench 4 ft deep across the path and covering it with small limbs either, but YOU wouldn't like it when you found it.

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Why do you think your neighbor is an idiot just because he moved from out of state? Why do you think he is an idiot just because he paid what you "think" is to high of a price for HIS house. Maybe the house and twenty acres had something he liked which he couldn't fine anywhere else and decided to buy it rather than risk losing it by waiting for the price to go down. Maybe he thinks your an idiot for buying 100 acres you don't live on. Maybe he thinks your an idiot for having livestock there but no electric fence to protect your fence from the livestock pushing on it. Maybe you and your husband are just jealous that he had the money to buy it but you didn't. Maybe we will see a thread on here soon from him complaining about his idiot neighbors who don't live on their land, don't protect their fence from their cattle and get ----ed off when he out of kindness and generosity fixes their stupid fence free.

Sounds to me like you got a real good neighbor. Sounds to me like maybe he doesn't.

We bought our property five years before the newest neighbors bought theirs. After they moved in, we went over to introduce ourselves. Soon after, I noticed the guy was one motivated dude! He was really hitting the ground running in just about every respect. He did a number on the house, beautiful concrete walkways around back, logged quite a few trees, and just began transforming everything for the better! He and his family are all very nice, too. Shortly after we first met, I stopped by for a little visit, asked them what they planned to do with the acreage below their home, bordering ours. Fence it, was my answer! Hey, I was pleased, and told them to please stop by and let us know FIRST, so we could show them the property lines. The guy was very pleased to hear we had a legal survey and our property is well marked!

Prevention is worth a pound of cure...

However, after the fact, a simple request to move the fence, showing where it should be is all that is required. If he refuses, you remove it, as has been suggested.

Let us know how it turns out!

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You're talking to someone who only had 6 posts, and the last one was 7 years ago

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I was wondering if anyone else noticed that this thread is from 2005.

Jasonsneakers, who has only four posts, apparently dug it up and renewed the conversation for some reason.

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He thought it was just fine to Trespass, cut fences, Cut through the neighbors woods, fields or pasture. It has been a long time since I've seen any of his posts though. Maybe he just moved back to the city??

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So many old names on this thread, whatever happened to Boylez, Bolyez, I could never spell that name right

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Thank you so much for dredging up this thread! I didn't realize how old it was, and was mentally formulating my own reply as I was reading. Imagine my delight when I discovered that I posted on this in 2005, and that while 7 years have dulled my bright chatter a bit, I DO still have the same values and opinions!