Okay let me start by saying I’m not the person this is about but idk what the sub is when you want to find out if another person is being an asshole. So bear with me if you can. 

We are building a house for these clients in a rich, waterfront neighbourhood. We are coming close to finishing and the price all up is getting pretty high so the clients insist on doing somethings for themselves here and there. 

One of these things was building the fence on the left side. The owner is not a very handy person so he called upon his two brothers to help out one of which is a carpenter. 

Neighbours on the left side were notified and were aware that the fence was being built so they were prepared. Although they refused to pay for the fence at all. 

The fence took about one week to be built and the very next day the neighbour on the left calls in a surveyor which cost him about a grand which would’ve been less than the amount to pay for the fence. 

The surveyor determined that the fence breaches the the Boundry line by 70 mil and so now the neighbour wants to fence removed entirely and re-done

Is he not an asshole for not being involved from the start where he could have got exactly what he wanted and paid less money?