Understandable svelte. Just curious if it was a $1000 lawyer up and find out you’re porked or $25k lawyer up fight in court/arbitration

I totally get where your friends re coming from. Everyone lived with the assumed property line for years. Including the mature landscaping the. Someone came in and said we don’t care we want an add on. And let be honest IMHO if five feet of yard is enough to prevent the add on you’re doing McMansion building and. It shed be banned IMHO add ons shudder require a minimum 20 ft set back from the property line. Original buid cud have smaller but removes should be required to maintain space. Qa 10 ft set with one story homes is very different than two story homes

One point of advice when setting a fence you may want to make sure you’re right in the line if code allows or basically set it five feet back as you are still responsible for maintaining landscape on the other side if its your property

Of course when you put up a fence you can decide which way the finished face faces. I’ve seen people install them and put the nice finished face towed as their own house and not the neighbors.