If the fence is directly on the boundary, then it’s a shared fence. You set it in a foot to establish in good faith that it’s strictly yours. Shared fences have a bunch of legal issues just because sharing property with other people often sucks. If you’ve lived in a development with shared fences you should look at your HOA’s CC&Rs. There’s always a lengthy chapter on how the walls should be handled. Just to cut out the legal nonsense that always comes with shared fences/walls.
The HOA I live in won’t even let you have an actual fence like in the OP the only thing they allow is a shitty metal pole fence that isn’t even tall enough to keep a determined dog in and offers no privacy. Also because every yard on the street is visible to every other yard we get to listen to everyone’s dogs barking at each other constantly.
Ah, I didn’t know about the 1-2 foot inset. And my argument was a “slippery slope” one, not Whataboutism!
If the fence is directly on the boundary, then it’s a shared fence. You set it in a foot to establish in good faith that it’s strictly yours. Shared fences have a bunch of legal issues just because sharing property with other people often sucks. If you’ve lived in a development with shared fences you should look at your HOA’s CC&Rs. There’s always a lengthy chapter on how the walls should be handled. Just to cut out the legal nonsense that always comes with shared fences/walls.
The HOA I live in won’t even let you have an actual fence like in the OP the only thing they allow is a shitty metal pole fence that isn’t even tall enough to keep a determined dog in and offers no privacy. Also because every yard on the street is visible to every other yard we get to listen to everyone’s dogs barking at each other constantly.