All Forum Posts by: Collette F.

I'll gladly pay the woman for her entire fence as you all have made me out to be something I'm not, nor my dog being aggressive or destructive.  He had 1 time incident after my son moved out from being afraid to be alone.  Looking for any human being to be close to until I returned.  Luckily my neighbors do not think like yours on this website, as they did care and comfort him from his fear.  Oh my, and guess what....  he didn't hurt, bark, jump, chase, lick or run after anybody.  Just because he doesnt even have any teeth, they still know what a gentle creature he is and nobody hates him here like you all do.  So sounds like if I take your advice, i'll pay the $100 even though that is not what she paid for 2 pickets to be repaired.  When I give her the $100, for the 2 pickets he broke, I will then with all the advice I've received from you all---I will pull out the 25 pickets that I just paid for and keep them in my yard for repairing the immediate neighbors fence that allows (and has permission) to go into his yard.  She can have the damn 2 pickets for $100.  I'm so glad I'm seeing things your your eyes now.  Bigger Pockets....  I'm starting to get it.  Forget honesty or reality or fairness.  Well, peace out....  gotta go deliver this check and looks like i'll be fence uninstalling tonight.  Thank you!

I've already reported these to the mods.  Thank you

@Matthew Paul - I never said that I did not want to be responsible.  I'm sorry as a contractor you charge such a high price.  My neighbors handyman charged her $100 to install 27 pickets.  My dog broke 2 pickets.  So you are saying to pay for the entire fence and not just for the damages, but pay for the entire fence?  

@Mark Forest, I'm starting to enjoy these ignorant comments more and more.  I'm sorry I didn't realize you knew my dog and have spent time with him.  And also knowing the underlying issue as to why my ITALIAN MASTIFF rammed his head through a fence.  I didn't realize you were such an animal expert that could explain that his fear from being alone had escalated and injured only himself in attempt to find a human being to sit next too.  I also didn't realize you were so knowledgeable of my medical records of what I'm being treated for.  I'm so glad that you know it all and have all the answers.  I wonder if your public audience knows what an animal hater you are and the words that come out of you are so incredibly wrong for you to utter without reading everything or learning something or even taking the time to actually find out for yourself.  I pity the people that trust you for your business.  But thanks for making me laugh today!  Someiimes, people should keep their stupid remarks to themselves because they really do not need to be said, or heard!

@Thomas S. - thank you for being the only one that read and understood what I was asking.  The number of pickets she had newly installed on 3/5/17 was 27.  Her handyman charged her $100 to install 27 pickets.  On 4/12/17, my dog broke 2 pickets.  I am sending the cost of 2 pickets from her installation which totals $7.41.  In addition to paying her for the 2 broken pickets, I am personally repairing my immediate neighbors wood rotted fence pickets on his side without charging him for any labor.  The rotten wood pickets on my neighbors side is the way my dog has been able to go to and from yards and I did have the neighbors permission that it was okay and he had no problems with it because he knows my dog and knows he is not a threat.  Again, I'm doing more than I should by doing my immediate neighbors fence labor free, but I also offered the same for the other neighbor which she did not respond to my offer.  I was hoping to get the advice that would point me to some civil code or something legal that states that a dog owner is responsible for damages only and wanted to attach it to my note for her to reference.  I greatly appreciate you being able to read through all the unnecessary postings and heard my question as it was.  

On another side note, I take my dog on walks through the mobile park and introduce him to as many residents so they know he is not a pitbull and they see with their own eyes how mild tempered he is.  He is loved by many people through out this park.  Even the park management have admitted that he is the most sweetest and lovable dog and wouldn't hurt a fly.  My dog is so afraid of rain and  wind.  If a piece of paper moves because the fan is on too high, he jumps up and hides behind me.  I have had unwanted people come into my house and my dog jumps up and without barking but wagging his tail thinking whoever it is, will take him for a walk or a ride in their car.  He loves me but if any stranger comes by in a car, he is ready to take off with them just for the joy ride.  Where ever we go in public, people are amazed at his personality and never intrudes on any persons space, never barks at anyone, never jumps on anyone and doesn't lick or smell people like a typical dog does.  His only downfalls are his fear of being alone, drooling and farting.  I did not pick this dog to be my companion, he walked into my office off the streets.  I called the police and animal control and nobody would come.  I live in a very bad neighborhood, and they are dealing with gangs, shootings and deaths everyday.  This dog came to me at a time my depression was at it worst from being alone.  Because of him, I no longer cry everyday for no reasons at all and has given me purpose and to advocate for him.  Not all dogs are the same, neither are people.  Some cannot be treated the same just because of how they look or what they were born as.  It's not his fault, it's not my fault.  It just is what it is.  There's not one person on this earth that understands me like this dog does.  This dog is truly a lesson of how prejudice still exists in this society and it is definitely a battle to try and get people to stop, observe, determine and then reflect before treating someone or something inappropriately.  I've always been the one to conform and make everyone else's life better at my expense, but not anymore.  It's my turn, my life matters too!  

@Account Closed, you are absolutely right.  The problem is with roaming free, but that was not what my advice question was about.  Everyone has turned my simple question for my own legal inquiries into something I didn't need to go into explanations as much as I needed to.  My question is about paying someone for damages or paying for an entire whole new fence.  Everyone at this discussion feels I owe this person a whole new fence.  Is that what the laws are about fencing?  I don't know, that's why I turned to professionals for advice.  But it seems to me that people are not comprehending my question and answering through their own biases instead without actual legitimate answers that make any kind of sense.  For those of you that are still confused, I've worked very closely and collaboratively with park management, the property owner's attorneys and still having his behavioral specialist from SPCA working with him.  I also enrolled him into 2 doggie daycares so he does not have to be left alone if I am not able to go somewhere and take him.  I constantly keep him socialized in respect to not have him turning into something territorial or aggressiive.  

Thank you all, but Im not sure why everyone seems to think she paid $100 to repair her fence.  She did not pay $100.  $100 was the price she paid to have a "new" fence put in and she hired her personal handyman that charged her $100.  The fence he put in was about 20 pickets.  She paid him $100 on 3/5/`17.  My dog broke 2 pickets on 4/12/17.  I kindly agreed to pay her for the damages pending a receipt for the repair or I can have someone repair it promptly for her.  She never replied to me for more than 3 weeks until I reached out to her again.

I don't have a problem paying the $100 if my dog broke ALL 20 pickets on this small fence.  But he didn't.  He only broke 2.  

I've made over 7 posts trying to explain this.  If my dog broke 20 pickets, then of course I would immediately pay her the $100.  If I am supposed to pay $100 to replace 2 pickets, that means $50 per picket.  That is the most expensive picket I've ever seen.  

Or, if you all are saying, that as my dog was at fault, that I should give her a whole new fence and call that a repair, then I would gladly pay the $100 and will watch them tear down the fence and rebuild it again.  

My only question was do I pay for the parts he broke, or for the price she paid to have the whole fence built.  The fence built was because her fence was worn out like most of the parks fences are and we are being asked to make the repairs to get them fixed.  I've been doing my fence too and know the pricing of the pickets and have been buying 10 pickets at a time as I can afford it to replace them to the managements acceptance.  So, I've bought many pickets and have not even spent over $100 yet on the materials.  

PLEASE NOTE:  THE FENCE WAS NOT REPAIRED FOR $100...  please stop thinking that she paid $100 for the repair and that I have an issue paying that.   If this is easier for you to understand, let's say you damaged my car by putting a dent on your bumper.  Instead of you being charged for just the bumper, I give you the invoice for what I paid for the car.  From what you all are telling me, you would just pay for the entire car, rather than the bumper repaired.  I seriously think not.  Now, there are 27 pickets on her fence and my dog broke 2 pickets.  Since I did not receive a copy of the receipt for the repairs, I think the only logical thing to do is to divide the amount paid by the total number of pickets.  100/27=3.70 per picket for labor and materials.  My dog broke 2 pickets.  3.70 per picket x 2  =  7.41 is the amount to cover for what my dog damaged.  Can anyone else explain why you think the law states that I have to pay for any of the fence my dog did not damage?

Thank you P.J. and Steve, I do hear exactly what you are saying and appreciate your educated responses and recommendations.  I am at the beginning of (maybe) getting involved with understanding real estate for the sake of I let myself be taken advantage of by a former boss as I got into this manufactured home by paying him high market price of 54,000 because I was unaware about anything I should have really looked into.  I never had any plans or dreams to own my own home but when my former boss made it sound so easy I fell into it fast.  I am probably the only resident in this park that pays 1600 or more for my home.  Now that I've paid over half of the money owed for it and have lived here more than 3 1/2 years, there is new property owners that are hitting me hard to fix things such as painting the house, re-doing the porch, replacing the lawn etc.  Which are things I have always imagined would not be needed until I was actually holding the deed and it was completely mine.  Everyone at the park knows my dog and have been very helpful knowing he is just companion needing to be next to somebody and not one person has ever seen aggression from him at all.  I am not the perfect dog owner but I do my best to try to make this all work.  So to top it all off, when I can see a neighbor intentionally trying to charge me for a fence job done for $100, THE REPAIR WAS NOT $100, but the entire fence job she  had done was $100.  I do not believe that is fair nor is it even legal.  There must be some type of law that covers this, I just can't seem to find it and I thought someone in Real Estate would know.  I refuse to be taken advantage of from anyone in this park anymore.  Yes, you all say  that $100 is small price to pay.  But you are telling me that once again, I need to let people take advantage of me because I have a dog that is stereotyped to be destructive.  This dog only chews on his chewy bones or toys I give him.  He is smart enough to know from day 1 to never put his mouth on anything in my home, my yard or anywhere.  He never has.  So if I have to pay $100 for her entire fence, that tells the other neighbors that I am the sucker who will pay for anything if you mention my dogs name.  The message is also stating that she is correct into thinking my dog is like the other dogs you hear about in the news.  And because this animal that I didn't even choose, but he chose me which turned out to be the best cure for my situation, that I now need to conform to make everyone else happy, while I have to be put back into a depression now even deeper having to let go of one more thing that has been positive in my life and add it to the list of a marriage ending, my kids grown and moved on, my twin daughters dying at birth and my grandchildren too far for me to be with.  Not one person thinks, wow, this neighbor should be honest and charge her what she was charged for the repair, not the entire fence.  This place is making me sick and so angry that I can not even try to be happy in my own home.  Makes me feel like I should be making their lives as miserable as they are making mine.   I wanted to be just a normal home owner, but now after hearing what you are all saying, I can't wait for the opportunity to have to charge someone something that they shouldn't, but because everyone else does it... then so will I.  This dog has given me the chance to want to keep living, but because of all the stupid people in the world that I need to please and keep them happy.  There will be no purpose for me anymore when I let him go.

How rude you all are at this website and calling me names.  I have taken responsibility and quit my job to ensure he does not go looking for me or going through my neighbors fence that he hasn't repaired.  I have barracaded my side of the fence until he decides to replace his broken pickets that dangle like drapes.  I have put my dog through a behavior class and continue to socialize him and if he's not at a dog park he is by my side home alone.  How dare you criticize someone that has a disability and needs companion for therapy.  All I'm trying to do is find out, since now I'm unemployed, that I can pay someone as reimbursement for the repairs.  I'm sorry if I'm not flooding with money like you all seem to appear that I am and that $100 for her entire fence is now mine and my dogs responsibility.  How dare you call me irresponsible after I have volunteered with spca's and other shelters to find another companion animal for his sake.  And I thought someone on here would be respectful enough to give me an honest answer and not their judgmental feelings about things they saw on internet or read somewhere, because you obviously haven't a clue as to know how to answer the question of do I pay for 2 pickets or do I pay for her whole fence,  How come not 1 person on this website can't refrain from their personal feelings and just answer the question that I ask.  If she doesn't tell me how much she repaired it for, that makes me an irresponsible pet owner for questioning having to pay for the entire fence?  or just replacing the 2 boards?  

I bet if I asked a classroom of kindergarten kids, they would have much more educated input than anyone here.

so what im hearing everyone saying, that because my dog broke only 2 pickets, and she had the 2 pickets replaced, I have to pay her the $100 that she paid to have the entire fence installed.  So my neighbor gets a free fence because my dog broke 2 pickets???   To me that just doesn't seem fair.  Like I have said over and over and over.....  I have no problems paying for damages that he has done, but I have a problem with someone charging me for things he didn't do but now she has a new fence.  She had her discounted handyman put up an entire fence between her and another neighbor and charged her $100 for the entire project.  And because he didn't charge her anything to replace 2 pickets and put up an extra board, that I should pay her fence installation.  And then lock my dog up in a box and problem will be solved.