You are parked in MY spot, please move your car!

[WeLoveLilo05]

I live in an apartment complex and we are given numbered spots that coordinate to our apartment #, so you are allowed one spot per household. We have visitor parking spots and there's also street parking (if you could get it, those seem to be the most desired spots, as they are right in front of the complex, so your door to your apartment is within a few feet).
We recently got a new car, so now we are a 2 car family. I took the old beat up car today and when I came home there was a visitor spot wide open so I grabbed it. Fiance is due home any minute with the new car....and I just noticed there is a car that is parked in our spot.....this lady does this ALL the time, takes ANY spot she wishes (she is a girlfriend of our neighbor) there is even a no parking zone out front that she occasionally parks in. The thing that gets me though....HE is not parked in HIS spot, so his spot is wide open and she is parked in ours
Please move your car....

 

[WheresTheLove]

Ugh, how frustrating! Some people are so inconsiderate. Why doesn't she just park in his spot?

 

[hereyago]

I am not nice. I would be going over there, doing the "cop knock" and tell her to move it. Or better yet, call a tow truck and then when it comes have them knock on the door.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

The same thing happened to us when we were first married. We had one assigned spot in the carport and would use visitor parking for our 2nd car. When we knew we were coming home late, we would leave our spot open so we didn't have to hike to our apartment in the dark. One of the apartments downstair had 4 girls living in it. They all had boyfriends who would come at all hours of the day and night. They seemed to think it was OK to park in our spot. If it was daytime, we hit the horn and they would come out and move their car. We didn't want to do that at night and be rude to the other neighbors. Once we knocked and this guy came out pulling up his pants. He said it was past midnight so he assumed we weren't coming home. We asked him to please not park there again and he said, "Oh, if I do just ask and I'll move it." No! We shouldn't have to ask you to move and wait for our own space! Sometimes we would call the security guy and let him deal with it. That kind of rudeness really annoys me!

 

[pearlieq]

Have her towed.

It's not like she's just some new person who made a mistake. She does this habitually. No need to put up with that junk.

 

[robinb]

Is your parking enforced? I know that when I lived in Chicago (in Wrigleyville ... a tough place to find parking) that almost all private lots were "protected" by a private towing company ... The Lincoln Park Pirates. If your lot is protected then a friendly reminder would be in order and then a call to the towing company next time ... when she's in someone else's parking place, of course .

The Lincoln Pirates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaOtAluwG4s

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

when we have visitors I always tell them to park in one of the visitor spots or on the street, if I see one of my guests parking in a numbered spot, I stick my head out the window and tell them they can't park there....
jeesh, people are rude!

 

[hereyago]

Did she move her car yet?

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

No, fiance still isn't home either. Wonder what he will say when he does get home.
It's a convertible....I guess her car is more worthy of the spot than our Ford Fusion

 

[Mickey's Minion]

I live in an apartment complex and we are given numbered spots that coordinate to our apartment #, so you are allowed one spot per household. We have visitor parking spots and there's also street parking (if you could get it, those seem to be the most desired spots, as they are right in front of the complex, so your door to your apartment is within a few feet).
We recently got a new car, so now we are a 2 car family. I took the old beat up car today and when I came home there was a visitor spot wide open so I grabbed it. Fiance is due home any minute with the new car....and I just noticed there is a car that is parked in our spot.....this lady does this ALL the time, takes ANY spot she wishes (she is a girlfriend of our neighbor) there is even a no parking zone out front that she occasionally parks in. The thing that gets me though....HE is not parked in HIS spot, so his spot is wide open and she is parked in ours
Please move your car....

But you parked your 2nd car in a spot meant for visitors.

Where are visitors supposed to park if the residents "grab" visitor spots?

She shouldn't have parked in your spot, but you also should not have taken up a visitor spot when you are only allotted 1 space per car.

The girlfriend should have parked on the street, but you should have also parked your 2nd car on the street.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

But you parked your 2nd car in a spot meant for visitors.

Where are visitors supposed to park if the residents "grab" visitor spots?

She shouldn't have parked in your spot, but you also should not have taken up a visitor spot when you are only allotted 1 space per car.

The girlfriend should have parked on the street, but you should have also parked your 2nd car on the street.

the street was full (street is always full as I mentioned before, its the most "desired" spot to be), so where do I go now? We are a secluded complex, so we are about 3-4 blocks long parking on one side of the street, thats it. We are also off of a main highway so can't park OUTSIDE of the complex either.
There's about 20 or so visitor spots by the pool, which is a little bit of a walk, but spots are always open there, no one likes to park there b/c of the walk. There's also other visitor spots scattered around (there 2 by our little lot, 5 in the next lot, etc, then by the pool is the swarm of just visitor spots). And I guess I shouldn't say "allowed" one spot per household, I guess your are given an assigned spot per household.
Where would you park your 2nd car?
Bottom line, we pay to live her, she doesn't, don't park in my spot!

 

[Mickey's Minion]

the street was full (street is always full as I mentioned before, its the most "desired" spot to be), so where do I go now? We are a secluded complex, so we are about 3-4 blocks long, thats it. We are also off of a main highway so can't park OUTSIDE of the complex either.
There's about 20 or so visitor spots by the pool, which is a little bit of a walk, but spots are always open there, no one likes to park there b/c of the walk. There's also other visitor spots scattered around (there 2 by our little lot, 5 in the next lot, etc, then by the pool is the swarm of just visitor spots). And I guess I shouldn't say "allowed" one spot per household, I guess your are given an assigned spot per household.
Where would you park your 2nd car?
Bottom line, we pay $1200 a month to live her, don't take my spot.

Probably the same thing the visitors ask. If the residents take spots meant for visitors, then they can't park either.

Where would I have parked my 2nd car? Definitely not in a visitor spot. When I was apartment living, I liked to have visitors and so did my neighbors. We were always courteous to leave the visitor spots open for ..........visitors.

If I pay $1200 a month for my apartment, I would be very, very upset that another resident was hogging visitor spots and my guests couldn't find parking.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Probably the same thing the visitors ask. If the residents take spots meant for visitors, then they can't park either.

Where would I have parked my 2nd car? Definitely not in a visitor spot. When I was apartment living, I liked to have visitors and so did my neighbors. We were always courteous to leave the visitor spots open for ..........visitors.

If I pay $1200 a month for my apartment, I would be very, very upset that another resident was hogging visitor spots and my guests couldn't find parking.

But she COULD park, she would just have to walk a little bit further than she would have liked I am sure.

 

[Mickey's Minion]

But she COULD park, she would just have to walk a little bit further than she would have liked I am sure.

So could you.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

So could you.

yes but it was easier for me to park in the spot with my 5 year old and 3 bags of groceries.
Seriously, your gonna argue with me over something like this? SHE could get towed for WHERE she is parked, I cannot, so that should tell you something don't ya think?
AND she could of parked in her boyfriend's spot, why'd she park in mine?

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

Probably the same thing the visitors ask. If the residents take spots meant for visitors, then they can't park either.

Where would I have parked my 2nd car? Definitely not in a visitor spot. When I was apartment living, I liked to have visitors and so did my neighbors. We were always courteous to leave the visitor spots open for ..........visitors.

If I pay $1200 a month for my apartment, I would be very, very upset that another resident was hogging visitor spots and my guests couldn't find parking.

OK, let me get this right - if you owned two cars and one car was parked in the assigned spot, you wouldn't park your second car in a visitor's spot and there is no street parking, where do you suggest parking the second car? I doubt it's going to fit in the apartment.

Not trying to be picky, but I'm really wondering where you expect to park the second car?

OP - I hope the car moves soon.

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

yes but it was easier for me to park in the spot with my 5 year old and 3 bags of groceries.
Seriously, your gonna argue with me over something like this? SHE could get towed for WHERE she is parked, I cannot, so that should tell you something don't ya think?
AND she could of parked in her boyfriend's spot, why'd she park in mine?

You should park in her BF's spot! That would be classic! Then if either of them would say anything, just tell them you figured it was OK since your spot was already taken by the GF! LOL!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

OK, let me get this right - if you owned two cars and one car was parked in the assigned spot, you wouldn't park your second car in a visitor's spot and there is no street parking, where do you suggest parking the second car? I doubt it's going to fit in the apartment.

Not trying to be picky, but I'm really wondering where you expect to park the second car?

OP - I hope the car moves soon.

Fiance just got home, he said the neighbor's girl's car is taking up both spots (our spot and the BF's spot) he is annoyed. The girl who lived below him just moved out before Easter so he parked there for tonight, as we know the apartment is vacant.
Just so annoying!
One of our neighbors also commented about the GF being strange (was locked out of the apartment, mind you she doesn't live there, and was asking people if she could sit in their apartment until the BF came home )

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

OK, let me get this right - if you owned two cars and one car was parked in the assigned spot, you wouldn't park your second car in a visitor's spot and there is no street parking, where do you suggest parking the second car? I doubt it's going to fit in the apartment.

Not trying to be picky, but I'm really wondering where you expect to park the second car?

OP - I hope the car moves soon.

I think Mickey's Minon just wanted to do one of these
unless its the boyfriend or the boyfriend's g/f haha

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

Fiance just got home, he said the neighbor's girl's car is taking up both spots (our spot and the BF's spot) he is annoyed. The girl who lived below him just moved out before Easter so he parked there for tonight, as we know the apartment is vacant.
Just so annoying!
One of our neighbors also commented about the GF being strange (was locked out of the apartment, mind you she doesn't live there, and was asking people if she could sit in their apartment until the BF came home )

That is REALLY strange! Wow! Obviously she's strange and also doesn't know how to park a car either...

I'm glad that you have a spot to park for the night at least.

I think Mickey's Minon just wanted to do one of these
unless its the boyfriend or the boyfriend's g/f haha

I'm thinking that too... Oh well...