Clusterduck

A full re-cap of the drama associated with the installation of our fence certainly calls for a timeline:

Monday-
10am- dudes show up to start building the fence, they want to get the holes dug before the inspector was to arrive at 2pm.

2pm- inspector doesn't arrive, we learn he will be late.

5pm- by this time, dudes of dug almost all (over 30 of them) 42'' deep holes, only using a manual post hole digger. The inspector arrives and tells us to STOP WORK and that we can't build a fence where we're trying to build it because it abuts another (chain link) fence on either side. He says that he doesn't know why our permit was granted, that we'll have to talk to the boss man in the morning at 8:30 to decide what to do.

5:07pm- I leave a preemptive message with the fencing company, letting them know that things are really screwed up, that they told us that putting our fence next to the neighbor's fence would not be a problem, and that if this whole thing blows up, there's no way we're paying them. (probably a bit of an over reaction, but I was mad)

5:30pm- deciding that we should probably start talking to the neighbors to attempt to convince them to remove their fence, Nick goes next door to ask if any of the tenants over there have contact info for the landlord. They do, and as a matter of fact, they tell us that we already know her, her name is J and she was our attorney when we purchased the house. Furthermore, they say that she had told them that she was our attorney and then she told them not to tell us that she had told them that.

WTF!!!!!!!!!

5:45pm- Nick leaves a message with J (our attorney and, apparently also our neighbor) letting her know that we needed to talk to her about the fence. We don't mansion the "and we think you were wrong not to tell us" part.

7:00pm- I arrive home by which time I've managed to get REALLY angry about the whole attorney lack-of-disclosure thing. I think she was completely obligated (by any normal sense of ethics) to disclose to us that she owes the adjacent property to the property we're buying. We should have had been able to then decide if we were comfortable with her representing us. She could have been best friends with the person we bought the house from, for all we know. I feel like I might throw up.

8:30am- I leave for work the next day, Nick stays home waiting on the village building department "boss man" to arrive.

8:45am- nick calls to let me know that boss man has not arrived, we decide he should call the office. Nick calls the office, they say that they didn't know they were supposed to come out/call us at 8:30 this morning. They will call us back in a few minutes to let us know what to do.

9:00am- FP building department calls, tells us "you're good to go" according to "mr. boss man" (they gave us the actual name). We call the fence dudes, tell them to continue building.

later in the day I talk to J the attorney about the fence... tell her that things are resolved... ask her about some unrelated south house sale question, don't confront her about her questionable ethics. (I am a wimp, and also not sure how to handle it since she is now our neighbor.. we don't want to piss her off too much.)

So yeah, that's the drama. I'm still brooding over the attorney ethics issue. I think I may write her an actual letter to let her know that we didn't appreciate her lack of disclosure.

We don't really suspect (nor can we prove) and harm that came to us due to her potential partiality in the situation.

Our fence will probably be finished today. It looks great and we are very very excited!!!