It was a nice house in a nicer neighborhood than I usually could have afforded.

My home was build on a vacant corner lot that had two existing (back and side) neighbors that built many years before. They both had decent 6 foot fences installed long before I built but because the block is on a bit of a slope the first neighbor (on my side) to put in his yard, essentially put it in flat by digging his back yard down. The second neighbor to put in his back yard, and who shared a rear property corner with my side neighbor also wanted a flat backyard, but the common corner was now 8 feet lower than my rear neighbors backyard because my side neighbor dug that corner of his yard down to make his yard flat before anyone else built on the block. My rear neighbor brought in dirt and raised his yard up to make it flat except for about 6 feet from the other neighbors corner fence post. They both put their fences in pre-housing-slump when the vinyl fences cost more. The bottom of one fence literally starts at the height of the top of the other fence and left me with a landscaping nightmare in that corner, but back to the fence.

Finally after a year of scrimping and saving for a fence I had enough money to fence in my back yard with the missing side and across to my house. The day the fence company came to install the fence I got a knock on my door from my back neighbor who had never spoken to us or wanted much to do with us before. He told me that his fence cost 10g and wanted to know when I could pay for my half. We we blown away. We were paying much less than what he said he paid per foot, and didn't plan in the budget to pay for the existing fences. He also put the fence 1 foot on his side of the property line saying that he did this to make sure he could have complete say about the fence and make sure it matched the rest of his yard. His fence was also an inferior fence to the one I was putting up.
After speaking with my wife, we ended up chatting with the county and let him know that we could pay for the 1/2 of the fence based on the current price that I was paying per foot, as long as he would quick deed the 1' of property over to us so that the fence was on the property boundary and we would have some legal claim to upkeep, etc. in case he moved in the future. He stormed off saying he planned on moving the fence back that one foot in future and the measly couple thousand I was offering wasn't worth the land he would have to give up. He rarely speaks to me or my family, but we always treat them kindly. He is a great father and a nice guy, just willing to let a fence get in the way. Maybe one day we can be friends.