Is it wrong to park your car

[ashjohnson80]

In front of your neighbours house for a "few days" without asking them because you're having "car trouble"????

We live in one of those modern neighbhorhoods where the houses are a good size, but the lots are narrow, and the driveways are narrow. And our next door neighbor, who lets his three dogs bark night and day, has decided to leave his car in front of our house for a "few days" and he didn't ask or anything. I'm pretty mad about it. Especially since we're supposed to have company over in a hour and they won't have anywhere to park.

Am I overreacting or is this just rude?

 

[Poohnatic]

Tell the friends to park in front of this guy's house.

 

[jfulcer]

IMHO Over-reacting. It's called being neighbors. When we had new people move in across the street, their SUV was parked in front of our house for almost a week. Was it an inconvience? Yes, because they blocked our sidewalk. Did it bother me? No, because they eventually moved it.

I'd say it was ok for you to ask him to move it because of your party. If can't move it, tell your guests to park in front of his house.

 

[ilovepcot]

Tell the friends to park in front of this guy's house.

Better yet, can they just pull right into the neighbor's driveway?

 

[kmp1191]

It's rude and I would go ask them to try to move it as you are having company over.
It's one thing to park a car there for a couple of hours, but a couple of days???? I don't think so.

 

[ilovepcot]

But isn't this public property where anyone (even me!) has the right to park?

 

[Cindyluwho]

The street is public, any car can use any space. Unless of course it's marked otherwise. You have no special right to the spots in front of your home, at least in Seattle.
In Seattle if a car is left unmoved for three days you can call the city and they will tow it away. 3 days and it's considered abandoned, even if it belongs to the house it's parked in front of. If you drive it around every day or move it every day it's OK but you can't let it just sit. Of course, realistically no one bothers to call the city on a neighbors car unless it's been there forever and they're doing nothing about it.

 

[Cantw8]

I think you should make them kiss that deranged squirrel in your siggie and call it a day

 

[luvmydogs]

Even being public property, I wouldn't park my car in front of a neighbor's house for an extended period of time without asking if they minded me doing so. I'd see it as a small and easy gesture of common courtesy and being a good neighbor.

 

[kmp1191]

Even being public property, I wouldn't park my car in front of a neighbor's house for an extended period of time without asking if they minded me doing so. I'd see it as a small and easy gesture of common courtesy and being a good neighbor.

I agree.

 

[kidzmom3]

i see no problem with them parking the car there. and honestly if something like that happened to my car and that was the only spot it could be brought to during the breaking down phase, i would never have even thought twice about it. It would never occur to me that something like that would bother anyone even a little bit.

 

[Cantw8]

Even being public property, I wouldn't park my car in front of a neighbor's house for an extended period of time without asking if they minded me doing so. I'd see it as a small and easy gesture of common courtesy and being a good neighbor.

Well yeah, there's that but she should still make them kiss that squirrel

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

But isn't this public property where anyone (even me!) has the right to park?

I agree -- the street is public, and anyone can park in front of any house. Now, the polite thing is to respect your neighbors, though.


We live in a cul-de-sac, and are at the end - no curb, really - so I used to park in front of our neighbor's house. He nicely asked me to not park in front on a regular basis, and I respected his wishes. However, other neighbors often park in front of my house perpendicular to the curb since there is not enough room to park parallel, but they don't leave their cars there, so I don't make an issue of it.

 

[luvmydogs]

Well yeah, there's that but she should still make them kiss that squirrel

Someone told me that thing was a beaver!

 

[Beth76]

While it's not illegal I do think it is very rude. I posted a similar topic a few weeks ago. There was a car parked directly in front of my house for several days. I did eventually find out that it belongs to a friend of my next door neighbor's kid. Problem is he comes over all the time and ALWAYS parks directly in front of my house. And then leaves it while the kids go out and take another car.

 

[liamsaunt]

The street is public property. Anyone can park there. I wonder, though--why don't they park in front of their own house? Is there another car in the street in front of your neighbor's house?

As for the barking dogs--have you let them know it bothers you? They might be accustomed to the noise and not realize how bothersome it is. I say this because we had new people move in with dogs next door and their dogs barked ALL THE TIME. These people left their dogs outside even when it was a -20 wind chill. DH and I almost called the cops on them a few times because we thought they were abusing thier animals by leaving them out like that. We finally went over and told them, nicely, that their dogs were bothering us and futhermore we were concerned that they might be cold. Our neighbors were responsive, explained some of the background, and since that conversation they've been very considerate with their dogs.

 

[tevagirl]

Even being public property, I wouldn't park my car in front of a neighbor's house for an extended period of time without asking if they minded me doing so. I'd see it as a small and easy gesture of common courtesy and being a good neighbor.

I agree with you. Public property or not, it's rude.

 

[luvmydogs]

I agree with you. Public property or not, it's rude.

Teva! And I bet you agree with me that the thing in Ash's sig is a beaver, too!

 

[ashjohnson80]

stop making fun of my hamster!

generally i'm really laid back about neighbors. i don't mind at all if they park in front of my house for an hour or two or if they are having a party or whatever, but its already been there for two days and he told my husband that he'll move it in the next couple of days or so....

And yes they know that the barking dogs bother us, but they still let them do it at 1 am, 2 am, 5 am and so on. These are the same neighbors that have also asked us if we have any weed twice. We didn't.

 

[shortbun]

i can't imagine worrying about things like that. A strange car might make me wonder in my neighborhood but not make me mad. Once a neighbor called the cops on us because we were parked in front of our own house and they didn't recognize our new truck. The parking violations people chalked our tire and gave us a warning. We have no driveway. The neighbor was embarassed and I was a bit po'd about that one. imho, THAT neighbor overstepped my boundaries.