Side House Easement
From the side of your house to the fence is
usually the side property easements, however, sometimes the fences or
the houses are not built in exactly the right spots.
I have ran into this problem doing room additions and building tract
homes. 99% of the time the fences and the homes are going to be located
on or close to the right spots.
Rarely will you find a house with less than a 5 foot easement on each
side of your home. This is usually the smallest easement allowed by most
cities and the reason for this is, just in case someone needs to get
some heavy equipment into their backyard, an example of this would be
for pool construction, they would tear the fence down between the
properties and this would give them 10 feet which is usually enough room
for the equipment to drive into one of the backyards.
Don't forget some houses have zero lot lines where the house will be
built on the property line and this form of building will probably
become more popular in the future because there is less build able
property for construction use.