Homeowner removes neighbor's gate after discovering they cut it into the fence he paid for himself: ‘I got my drill out and left the gate leaning against their car’

Why do people think they have a right to touch private property they didn't pay for?The rules of property should be easy enough: If you haven't paid for it, it's not yours, and you have no right to it. When it comes to homeownership, this rule shouldn't be harder to comprehend, but since some lines are not actually physically visible, people tend to make things a lot more complicated. We used to think the border was very straightforward. People buy a house with a fence so that everything within that fence is theirs, and everything outside of it belongs to someone else. However, we never considered the fate of the fence itself… If one fence separates two properties, then who owes the fence? Is it the owner of the house on the left, or the owner of the one on the right? That is exactly the line where people simply love to make everything a lot more complicated than it should be.If you're wondering how neighborly relationships can go up in flames because of a fence, the story below is the perfect example. Technically, both homeowners in this story are also the owners of the fence, since it sits exactly on the property line between the two houses. However, after a bad storm, the fence…

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