MrOutraged
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Hi
I own a terraced house in an estate where the back gardens are seperated by wooden fences which are probably about 9years old (same age as the house).
The house next door is rented and new tenants moved in back in March. There are 4 kids in the house and from the moment they moved in they have been damaging the fence. We did have to speak to them one time as they broke a massive lump off the fence so they could come into my garden to get their football. The mother assured me that they would fix the fence but all she did was nail a piece of chipboard that the kids had been scribbling on over the biggest hole.
Eventually I got sick of waiting for them to fix it and said i would do it myself and went out and bought some wood, screws, nails glue etc.
I also had to buy paint ( I usually spray the fence but since the damaged parts would need to be replaced with fresher would I reckoned I would have to paint it by brush so would take 4 or 5 times more paint).
It turned out that the week I was about to start fixing the fence they broke about 3 or 4 more pieces off it so I got very annoyed as I had only gotten enough wood to fix the bits damaged before that week.
I mailed the management company asking them to pass on my mail to the house landlord ( I don't have any contact details for the landlord) asking for them to arrange to fix the fence, they did pass it on but the mail was ignored.
Due to the state that the fence was in and the amount of damage done to it, last weeks strong wind completely finished it off. Half of the fence is now lying on the ground.
I again asked the management co to get in touch with the landlord and stated that if my mail from 3 weeks earlier had not been ignored this would not have happened.
As it stands the fence is still broken and I have still gotten no reply to my mails.
Can anyone tell me where do I stand legally on this?
I am sick of looking at a broken fence and we are too embarassed now to have any visit us due to the state of it.
Sorry for the long post.
I own a terraced house in an estate where the back gardens are seperated by wooden fences which are probably about 9years old (same age as the house).
The house next door is rented and new tenants moved in back in March. There are 4 kids in the house and from the moment they moved in they have been damaging the fence. We did have to speak to them one time as they broke a massive lump off the fence so they could come into my garden to get their football. The mother assured me that they would fix the fence but all she did was nail a piece of chipboard that the kids had been scribbling on over the biggest hole.
Eventually I got sick of waiting for them to fix it and said i would do it myself and went out and bought some wood, screws, nails glue etc.
I also had to buy paint ( I usually spray the fence but since the damaged parts would need to be replaced with fresher would I reckoned I would have to paint it by brush so would take 4 or 5 times more paint).
It turned out that the week I was about to start fixing the fence they broke about 3 or 4 more pieces off it so I got very annoyed as I had only gotten enough wood to fix the bits damaged before that week.
I mailed the management company asking them to pass on my mail to the house landlord ( I don't have any contact details for the landlord) asking for them to arrange to fix the fence, they did pass it on but the mail was ignored.
Due to the state that the fence was in and the amount of damage done to it, last weeks strong wind completely finished it off. Half of the fence is now lying on the ground.
I again asked the management co to get in touch with the landlord and stated that if my mail from 3 weeks earlier had not been ignored this would not have happened.
As it stands the fence is still broken and I have still gotten no reply to my mails.
Can anyone tell me where do I stand legally on this?
I am sick of looking at a broken fence and we are too embarassed now to have any visit us due to the state of it.
Sorry for the long post.