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One of the best things about owning your own house is the privacy it affords. You will be able to have control over your own home and more privacy than living in a apartment. The best thing you can do to ensure complete privacy is building or acquiring a house with a fence. Not only will you have more privacy with a fence but it will also help with the relationship between you and your neighbors.

You will never know what your neighbors are really going to be like until you actually move into your new home and experience it. You may have heard good things or bad things about your neighbors but you are going to be building your own relationship with them. If they aren't exactly the type of neighbors you'd consider ideal, a fence will help keep the boundary between the relationship. If you do get along well with your neighbors, you can invite them over for barbecues or a nice relaxing drink in the backyard on a hot summer day. That will ensure a healthy fence building for the relationship between you and your neighbors.

When you're looking at homes and see a home that already has a fence posted, you'll have to find out where the fence is located according to the property line. If it is on your side of the line you will be responsible for it, if it is sitting on your neighbors side they will be responsible and if it is right on the line you will both have some say in the fence.

A fence can cause problems if two neighbors don't get along or if the fence needs to be replaced and it is placed right on the property line. If you're looking at properties and see a fence on the property, you'll need to find out where it sits, and what type of shape it is in. If it is going to need replacing soon, you should take the initiative of fixing it yourself. That will give a good impression to your new neighbors, and if you don’t do it, who knows who will?

You should also take a look and see if there are any trees near the fence. At times these

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