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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3477028" data-attributes="member: 7533">It's not ideal, but there are reasons for it.Oh, it's broke good...  the main problem is whoever put the fence up (a previous tenant, not the landlords) made a pretty bad job of it.The posts of the wooden fence were only sunk into the ground about a foot deep, and no concrete was used to fill in the post holes -- they were sunk straight into the ground.  On top of that the fence was placed too close to several small trees which have since grown up.  Rotten posts combined with expanding tree trunks have uprooted the fence in numerous spots.  In addition, general rot has weakened the fence to the point that it leans precariouslyin several spots, and both gates have had to be removed.  We'd previously repaired it a few times, but now the fence is bad enough that it violates city ordinances and must be taken down.</blockquote>