Best way to contact landlord about decline of property

[Tammy Burks]

I live in an older, established neighborhood where most people keep their houses up to par. We have a few rentals in our neighborhood and you would not know it to drive down the street.

However, there is one rental that has an extra lot with it and the tenants (I assume) have put up some sort of hillbilly fence.....not chain link or wood, but tall metal posts and wire that look like something you would use out on the farm if you perhaps had cattle.  They are on a corner lot and inside their hillbilly fence they have 2-3 dogs, a dog kennel, a shed, a chicken coop with chickens (I think 5, which is allowable in our city) and now a duck as well as a plastic greenhouse.

They do keep their yard mowed, but this fenced in menagerie is an eyesore.

Would I be out of line to contact the landlord and ask him to PLEASE put up a privacy fence, so we don't have to look at all the junk these people have crammed into their back yard? 

You see this from every view except the front of the house.

Here is the front of the house, not so bad. ( I tried to link this to google maps, but it didn't work) You can see it on google maps if you type in 2019 S Link Ave, Springfield, MO

Here it is from the back, (I tried to link this to google maps, but it didn't work) this is from last year and there is more stuff in their yard than before. You can see it from the back if you google map 2016 S Valleyroad Ave, Springfield, MO

Like I said, the neighborhood is older and as far as I know, there are no longer any covenants or restrictions.

Thanks for your suggestions.