In preparation for a party my wife is hosting tomorrow (her Mom started selling Mary Kay), we cleaned the house today.
After the aforementioned difficult karate class, we had lunch at Steak and Shake and returned home to begin the cleaning extravaganza. We had many items on the To Do list, which started with a few logistical items relating to our fence situation.
I was happy to find that when the city surveyed my plot before we sold the house, they put designation markers in the corners of my property. That makes placing my fenceposts pretty easy, however it did present a few new wrinkles. The neighbor’s driveway on the right side of my house runs right down my property line. No big deal, though, because he doesn’t care how we do things. He even offered to let us tie the fence onto his garage so we didn’t have to actually run a length of fence alongside it.
The neighbor at the back of my lot has a garage that is technically one inch onto my propery. She’s got no problem with us running a fence right behind her garage so long as we put pavers or white rock in so weeds don’t grow up there.
The left neighbors have an existing fence. They have given us permission to use their fenceposts, however for reasons unknown their fence is about two feet diagonally from the corner of my lot. We’re going to plant a fencepost on my property and run a short length of fence to their fencepost so I have the option of re-running the fence down my actual property if the need were to arise. That was a fun logistical job to undertake on a Saturday, plus I got to meet the back-of-my-lot neighbor for the first time. I’m glad she was nice.
After that, my lovely wife and I spent the remainder of the day performing the following feats: bathing the dog, cleaning and vacuuming the rabbits cages and surrounding room, and cleaning the living room and kitchen. I love a clean house, however I hate the actual act of cleaning. It would really help if we cleaned up intermittantly between major cleaning sprees, but we’re just too lazy. So we’re always stuck with a full eight hour day of cleaning when it needs to happen. One of these days we will learn our lesson.
We still have a little more work to do before the party tomorrow. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my basement. Probably online. 
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Here’s a little unsolicited advice from someone who has been in your situation. Be very careful about the fence positioning. It’s generally considered bad form to tie into a neighbor’s post directly. Even though the current neighbors are cool, the next ones might not be. The preferred method is to plant a post adjacent to theirs.
The other suggestion would be to use neighboring fences and walls as much as possible. For your neighbor whose garage wall adjoins you, just put a post on either side and use his wall. If you put fence across that wall, he’ll have to take it down to paint his garage, etc. I have approximately 400ft of 6ft wooden privacy fence. One day I came home from work and found my new neighbor had hired some guys to start building a fence just 4 inches from mine. That’s fine, probably, except then I had no easement to maintain my fence, nor did he. I took the day off work and removed 150ft of fence by hand and let his new fence be the one we used.
Sounds like you’re already in progress, and like you’ve made smart decisions anyway, especially by planting a post in the corner of your lot near your left neighbors. It was a very good idea to have the survey done, though it’s sometimes expensive so people skip it. We had a new neighbor move in last summer and he built his fence 15ft onto my other neighbors property, a big problem caused by making assumptions about property lines and not talking to his neighbors…
Thanks for the advice! Technically, we’ve not quite begun yet… the only things we’ve purchased is the chain link itself. We have yet to purchase the posts or actually do anything in that sphere yet. As many posts as possible will go on my property, its just going to be tricky making that work out in a pleasing fashion.
Luckily, the survey was done before I purchased the house, but the city left behind very useful ground level posts with “CITY SURVEY – CORNER” caps on them. So I didn’t have to pay for any of it.
We’ll keep the updates coming, hopefully we’ll get underway in the next week or two.
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