If a neighbor came you to and asked if you’d want to split the cost to put up a fence between your houses, would you agree or would you refuse?

In today’s story, the answer to this question changes for one neighbor as the years go by, and now one neighbor is arguing about what’s fair.

Let’s see how the story unfolds.

AITA for refusing to pay of the original installation cost for my neighbor’s fence five years after they installed it?

Five years ago we moved into a new construction single-family home neighborhood.

Two of our three neighbors (neighbors 1 and 2) wanted shared fences installed on our property, but the third neighbors (neighbor 3) and I weren’t interested in fencing our property (back yard), and we didn’t have the money at the time anyways.

The two neighbors who wanted fences decided to build fences on their property that are not shared with us.

Now, they all want fences.

Now (five years later) the neighbor 3 decided they wanted to have a fence installed, and asked if we wanted to do a shared fence and cover half the cost.

We agreed, and decided to finish fencing the remainder of our backyard by installing posts next to our house to run panels to the shared fence post with neighbor 3.

On the other side, we installed a separate post next to our neighbor 1’s fences to build off, so we’re not utilizing their fence post.

Similarly in the backyard, we installed a new post next two neighbor 2’s fence that doesn’t connect to their fence.

Some new neighbors had a question.

Neighbor 2 are the original family that put up their fence, while neighbor 1 is a new family that moved in 2 years ago or so.

Neighbor 2 reached out after seeing the posts we put up asking if we’d be willing to cover half the cost of the original installation of their fence since we’re finishing our fencing.

I told them no, because I don’t have enough money to cover the new fence plus their original, and I considered the matter settled when they decided to build the fence on their property and paid for it themselves.

I have no obligation to pay for something not on my property.

The new neighbors claim it’s not fair.

They responded saying it was clearly unfair since I was completing the fence by adding posts next to my house, and that I was getting a discounted fenced yard by refusing to pay.

While I acknowledge their fence is contributing to the fencing of my yard, they’ve had the fence up for five years and benefited from it all that time.

We had no agreement when it was originally installed that I would ever pay them back, and I don’t see how this is my problem.

AITA?

If the fences neighbors 1 and 2 built are on their own property, OP owes them nothing.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

The neighbor shouldn’t have even asked.

Here’s the perspective of someone with a fence.

This person calls the neighbor “insane.”

Beware of petty neighbors.

Fences make great neighbors until it comes to deciding who pays for that fence!

They need to sort it out.

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