Re: diy beware

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:

> Part of the problem was he built his fence on city property.

Quoted from the article:

"When Linares asked the city to repair the white three-railed fence
behind his house, he was told it was on his property and his
responsibility. So he replaced the termite-infested planks. Then the
city reversed itself and said Linares had illegally built the fence on
city property."

They way I read it he didn't "build" the fence at all.  The city should
be thanking him for fixing "their" fence - which was already there when
he moved in.

Typical bureaucrats...

Just to enlighten you to my frame of reference when it comes to dealing
with this sort of bull...

HUD repo'd the house next to me about two years ago (it's still sitting
vacant).  This spring they complained to the township that I had cut
down trees on their property.  The township took their word for it and
sent out some flunky to threatening me with destruction of property and
some other crap.

Nobody bothered to take a look at the property line drawings located in
the county office right down the hall.  Had they done so they would have
seen that the trees were at least ten feet on my side of the line.

Instead of the check to cover replacing the trees I sent in a copy of
the platt(sp?).  Haven't heard anything since.