Fencing Help

[Jacob A.]

I'm 95% done with my flip and I'm running into the issue that my budget is getting pretty tight on me. The nieghbor immediately behind me doesn't have the greatest looking property including an old beat up shed in his back yard that you can easily see from my back deck. I'm struggling with whether or not to put up a privacy fence just spanning the back of the lot to block off his yard. It's looking like it will cost around $2,200 (1/2 acre lot so it will be a long fence) and I was curious if any of you have had experience with this and if you got your money back out of your investment to put the fence in?

[Suzie B.]

We got a great buy on a property we bought to hold and rent this year... only reason we could figure it didn't sell higher and quicker than it did... The neighbor behind the property. The house was recently updated and in great shape... didn't even have to clean it to rent it.

At closing we asked the owner what she thought was keeping the house from selling like it should. Her response without so much as a thought was the neighbor behind it.

We rented it, no problem. May put up some hedges or tall shrubs in the future.

So I'd say, fence or disguise... do something to hide the worst part of the neighbor anyway.