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

[manning]

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.

Huh??

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Huh??

yeah, I know...makes no sense.

 

[Cruisin]

yeah, I know...makes no sense.

makes perfect sense to me

 

[momrek06]

OP, plain and simple ... take this up with your Management Office personel.

They are the ones that make up the rules and regulations for the complex ... go to them.

DH & I live in a brand new complex with all townhouses, each one has a 2 car garage ... you HAVE to park your car in the garages. These rules are all given to each "potential" resident before they sign their lease. If you don't like the rules, don't choose to live at the complex. The guest spots are exactly THAT for the guests. PERIOD.

Write down the license plate # of the car in YOUR space and take that with you to the management office and tell them the situation and let them handle it.

 

[marcyinPA]

My mom has lived in an apartment complex for YEARS and this happens all.the.time. She gets so upset, and calls the office frequently regarding it. There's not a whole lot they can do to enforce it, besides sending out memo's, which they do. Whether or not the tenants read them, I don't know. I think some people are just clueless and other just don't give a crap. Unfortunate, but truth.

 

[marcyinPA]

I hate parking issues! We have the opposite problem. It's all street parking (public streets) and we have one set of neighbors who make our lives miserable because they don't want us parking near their house. It's not even that we're blocking them -- they just don't want us parking there. After talking to various town officials, we've come to just ignore their griping because we're in the right.

Anyway, what happened? Did you ever say anything, and what happened when she moved?

We have on-street parking too (no driveway, no garage...we live in the city). Isn't it a pain sometimes? The winter can be the most awful time, when there are snow piles on the streets. People in the neighborhoods throw any available piece of junk into the parking space so other people don't park there while they are gone. It's not legal, but it's hard to enforce. Every once in a while, the city will send a truck around and gather all of the old chairs, buckets, cones, etc. but they don't do it daily.
The other thing I hate is that some people (mainly, visitors) have no idea how to parallel park, or do it efficiently! They will either be sticking out in the middle of the street, or hogging up two or three spots with their car. Annoying!!!!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

I know the apartment complex that my son lived in had paid assigned parking.

If you wanted to park there you had to pay for your spot.

They had two cars, so they paid for two assigned spots.

The visitor parking spaces were for just that, visitors to the building, not people who lived there.

no where in my lease does it say I have to PAY for a 2nd spot.

 

[Tarheel Tink]

I would pretend they are ignorant and tell them the parking policy and then follow it up with warning them that you will be calling a towing company next time.

Or you could pretend to be ignorant and call the towing company anyway and say "Oh that was your car??? I didn't realize it because I figured the residents know the policy!"

Ditto!

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

no where in my lease does it say I have to PAY for a 2nd spot.

We don't have to pay for spots either. We are given two spots in our lease, any visitors can park on the street.

Obviously if you have to pay for a spot, parking in a visitor spot would be an issue, but since you're not paying, I don't see the big deal?

 

[sbell111]

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....

I read through the entire thread and I couldn't find where you told us what they said when you asked them to move their car.

This guy actually kind of gives me the creeps, he knocked on the door in January (he moved in in Sept I would say) mind you I really don't know him, just that he's my neighbor now and he knocks on the door and asks me if I have a "colandra" that he could borrow...I had no idea what he was talking about! He said you know what you put spaghetti in to drain the water. I didn't know what to do lol, I gave him the "colandra" and within 20 minutes he was knocking on my door giving it back lol, its weird he really doesn't know me, kwim....odd!

He's weird because he borrow his neighbor's colander and then promptly returned it?

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

I read through the entire thread and I couldn't find where you told us what they said when you asked them to move their car.

He's weird because he borrow his neighbor's colander and then promptly returned it?

I didn't, I wasn't going to knock on his door @ midnight to tell him to move the car.

I don't know, I think it's weird, I wouldn't ask someone I didn't know for something, I'd make do I guess and improvise. I just wonder, there's 4 doors on our building, did he knock on all 3, mine is the furthest away from his door. I don't even know his name haha.

 

[SundaeAfternoon]

He's weird because he borrow his neighbor's colander and then promptly returned it?

Actually it was a "colandra." I thought you read the entire thread?

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Actually it was a "colandra." I thought you read the entire thread?

hahahaha!
IDK, maybe its me, I think I have a "don't trust anybody" mentality about me.

 

[pixiefairy]

Ugh...that's one thing I hated about apartment living. The last apartment we were in didn't have assigned parking. We also had two cars. If we were REALLY lucky, we would find something near to our apartment. Otherwise...we had to trek from waaaaaaay down the main drag. No street parking for us at all....it was a no parking zone. The one thing that aggravated me the most was this neighbor who'd moved in above us right before we moved out. I was 7 months pregnant or so with our second child and had come home from a baby shower....they were in the process of moving in that day and the spot RIGHT in front of my apartment was wide open. I parked there and this guy comes out on his balcony and tells me I can't park there. HUH? Dude...I've lived here for 2 years...I know the rules. First come, first serve. He came downstairs and got in my face...then my dh came out and asked if he could help him, lol. Yeah...he never told us where to park again after that.

OP...sorry that it's a source of CONSTANT aggravation. I agree with taking pictures....those always seemed to work best with our management company.

 

[Scurvy]

I didn't, I wasn't going to knock on his door @ midnight to tell him to move the car.

Why not?

Okay, I do understand why you might be hesitant to do something like that but you may have to either learn to live with the situation or start calling him on it every time it happens. You pay for the space; you have the right to use it. You need to talk to him ASAP and ask him not to park there again. If he continues, you should knock on his door every single time it happens. . . no matter what time you discover it. If you make the consequences unpleasant enough for him, he will stop doing it. (That is assuming your management doesn't have a better suggestion for you. If I were you, I'd be calling them today to see what they will do to help you rectify the situation.)

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

In our Condo visitor spots were for residents as well as visitors. It was in our CC&R booklet. We had 2 assigned spots and people would feel free to park in them.I had no problem finding them & telling them to move it.

 

[SundaeAfternoon]

hahahaha!
IDK, maybe its me, I think I have a "don't trust anybody" mentality about me.

Trust me, it's not you!

 

[Cruisin]

no where in my lease does it say I have to PAY for a 2nd spot.

I never said that it did or that you were required to

Just stating that in some cases the visitor parking is actually for visitors.

 

[MushyMushy]

We have on-street parking too (no driveway, no garage...we live in the city). Isn't it a pain sometimes? The winter can be the most awful time, when there are snow piles on the streets. People in the neighborhoods throw any available piece of junk into the parking space so other people don't park there while they are gone. It's not legal, but it's hard to enforce. Every once in a while, the city will send a truck around and gather all of the old chairs, buckets, cones, etc. but they don't do it daily.
The other thing I hate is that some people (mainly, visitors) have no idea how to parallel park, or do it efficiently! They will either be sticking out in the middle of the street, or hogging up two or three spots with their car. Annoying!!!!

Ah, I see you're from PA, but on the other side of the state from me. Yes, we sure have our on-street parking issues. It's not really common where I live for people to save their spots with chairs and such, but we see it a lot in NE PA where my in-laws live.

 

[SundaeAfternoon]

Just stating that in some cases the visitor parking is actually for visitors.

Well, she has stated in her case, it's not.