Monday, March 9, 2009
41st Street Fence
The 41st Street fence replacement is scheduled to start March 11th. They will start on the east end and work west. They plan to have the job completed in 4-6 weeks. If you back up to this fence, a letter was delivered to your home last night (Mon, March 9th)providing more detailed information.
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In reference to the 41st st fence. What is the intent?. To replace just the broken parts or the whole fence.
Cheryl,
The entire fence along 41st street will be replaced.
Polly
Is there a plan to sell the parts of the vinyl fence that are not broken? I know that fencing is pretty expensive and I would imagine the HOA could make some decent money selling it on Craigslist.
Did we not just lower our property values by replacing white vinyl with wood? Was it really cheaper to hire someone to replace the whole fence instead of repairing what was damaged? Was the entire fence along that road damaged? Could we not have just fixed what was broken for less than what we just paid out? Is there a reason that something that effects our neighborhood value was not put to a vote? We now have a mismatched fence from one road to the next and we have torn down and entire white vinyl fence and put up a wood fence because part of the vinyl fence was broken. Does not make much sense to me.
The wood fence was a great idea. I don't see that wood will be a product discontinued like this color of vinyl fence was. Seems to me this will increase our property values, not to mention the ease and lower cost of replacing just the damaged pickets, if in the future the fence is damaged again.
I am not exactly seeing how putting in wood compared to vinyl will increase property values. Ask any real estate agent if you think I am wrong. As far as lower cost. How much more did we pay to completely tear down that section of fence and put up wood compared to repair of what was damaged? Because any savings we get later IF the fence gets damaged again may already be used up by the extra expense right now.
I almost forgot. You mention replacing boards as they get broken from just every day things. That is a maintenance expense we did not have with vinyl. It took an act of mother nature to tear up the vinyl fencing. With wood every single year you will have the expense of replacing boards. Again, just not seeing any kind of advantage to what was done and actually seeing many disadvantages.
I am new to this neighborhood so I might be asking a redundant question. Shouldn't there have been a vote on replacing versus repairing the fence?
This seems like such a big expense.
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