Hi all - I just moved into a new house. Basically new construction. The builders had a new fence put in. Pics below. Completely unacceptable correct? Or am I crazy? There are about 100 nails sticking out in similar fashion. To remedy am I looking at pulling out all the nails and replacing? Grinding down? Thanks in advance.

Hello to everyone! I am so excited to have found a forum like this. I want to preface this that this may be more for the landscaping category, I wasn't sure. Feel free to move if needed. My wife and I have been searching for a house for a while now. We found one and my wife and kids fell in love with but I have some concerns about the yard. The backyard slopes off into a small storm runoff creek. My property line is the middle of the storm creek. I need to build a fence along the back area so I can keep the kiddos and dog in. I want to make as much of my backyard useable as possible, but most of my lot(.62 acre) is side yards, so it doesn't have to be right in the creek either. I want to make this work for my wife so I have a lot of thoughts rolling around in my head as far as options and wondered if any made sense, or if I am biting off more than I can chew. My desire is to build a 6ft privacy wood fence. At least on the sides and to the rear property line where it hits the creek. I don't know if the wood fence would be the best along the creek as I don't know how high that water comes up when it rains and I am worried it will rot the base of the slats if it does occasionally. I already intend to use metal poles instead of 4X4s. Long term(2-5 yrs), my intention is to build a retaining wall next to the creek so that I can level my backyard and then a wood fence will be a no brainer. My question is, should I use a different material close to the creek like chain link instead of wood to avoid rot until I raise that part of the yard up? Or should I stick with wood and are over thinking this. I have added pics of the slope in the backyard, you can see the little creek/storm runoff area in the lower left all the way along my property line(~150ft). [img]https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x905/houseslope2_3950e24604fdf2b8995d635d37aa8e35f4976e4a.jpg[/img]