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Post by Lexica on May 25, 2020 0:43:53 GMT
This is a frequent issue in my neighborhood. My next door neighbor goes crazy if anyone parks in front of his house. The curb out front runs from the edge of my driveway to the edge of his and there is probably room for 3 cars to park on the street there. Unfortunately the neighbors on the opposite side of his home do park in front of his house often.
I’ve told him numerous times that he is welcome to park in front of my house, or even in my driveway if his front has a car there, but he has never done so. You could fit 4 cars in my driveway if I pull up enough. I don’t usually pull that far up, but have offered to do so when he is having a party at his home. That gives him parking for 3 guests. He also has his own driveway to park in, but he likes the street in front of his own house. I think it is just a control issue as I know he hates the neighbors that do park their car in front of his home. I’ve learned to just listen and nod to give him an outlet for his anger.
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Post by monklady123 on May 25, 2020 0:49:14 GMT
Many people in my neighborhood don't have driveways so if you're coming home with a load of groceries, or if you have a baby/toddler who needs to be carried, it's nice to be able to park right in front of your own house. I keep my car in the driveway (which can fit both if we really scrunch up), and when dh comes home from work (back in the Old Days when he was actually going into DC for work) after a long day it's nice to be able to pull up right in front of your own house, and not have to search for parking. Everyone around here is considerate of that and everyone parks in front of their own house. If someone has guests then it doesn't matter, everyone knows that's only once in awhile.
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Post by freecharlie on May 25, 2020 1:01:25 GMT
then there is street cleaning.. every two weeks.. and the tickets are $90. Wow. Our street sweeper just goes around. I try to remember and put the car in the driveway if available I didn't mind too much but I did think it was weird that he didn't park in front of his dad's house across the street. Could it be that he just came in that way and parked instead of flipping around?
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Post by Ryann on May 25, 2020 1:01:40 GMT
One of our next-door neighbors had a second family living with them for a few months and there were 6 vehicles between them. Often my step-son would come home from work at midnight and the two spots in front of our house were taken (one by me, one by neighbor) so he would park in front of our other next-door neighbor's house. She did not like that and would passive aggressively park in the very middle of the space so only her truck would fit. She is the only person that lives in the house, has a driveway she could (and does) park on and only has the one vehicle. My issue is the guy that lives further up our cup-de-sac but likes to park directly across the street from us. He will sit in his vehicle for hours at a time, chain smokes cigarettes, drinks beer and then pees on the curb next to his truck. We regularly have to close our windows to avoid this smell/sight. I did ask him not to park there (because of the smoke going straight into our windows), so now he parks at the house diagonal from ours. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/handovereyes.gif)
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Post by jenb72 on May 25, 2020 1:08:39 GMT
We live right before a blind curve in our neighborhood. I honestly prefer no one park in the street (it's dangerous for the kids running around because people drive through our neighborhood like it's Atlanta Motor Speedway half the time), but it's especially dangerous in front of our house. The people coming through from either side of the curve will whip around any car in front of our house without even looking and there have been many swerves and near accidents because of it. We also have two driveways and if you park in front of my house, the cars in the second drive (my DD, my BIL, and my niece) can't see what traffic may be coming on one side when they try to pull out into the street. Even when we have friends come over, I ask them not to park in front of the house if at all possible. And when we have service people come by for something, we ask them to pull up into the driveway.
Having said that, there was one period of time inparticular when we had a group of young 20-something boys (and the father of one of them) living next door. They all drove massive jacked-up trucks, which aren't uncommon around here, but they would have parties on random nights and there would be 10 or so of those trucks parked up and down the street in front of their house (right in the curve) as well as on their lawn and in front of myhouse and second drive. I was forever asking them to move their trucks out from in front of my house as it made it dangerous for my DD going to and coming home from work at night in the dark trying to get into and out of that driveway. I can definitely say I got mad about that after having to do it time after time.
Jen
ETA - the space in front of my house is probably two car lengths long and most people park closer to the mailbox if they park there (because it's less steps to the door), which means the mail carrier will skip my house when he drops off the mail.
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Post by freecharlie on May 25, 2020 1:10:45 GMT
He will sit in his vehicle for hours at a time, chain smokes cigarettes, drinks beer I think you can call the cops. Here that would be illegal. You cannot drink while sitting in the call
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Post by epeanymous on May 25, 2020 1:11:03 GMT
I live in a city where parking is tight, so there really is zero “ownership” of the space or spaces in front of your house.
I grew up in a community that was more suburban/rural, and it drove my mother nuts if anyone parked in front of our house.
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Post by Lexica on May 25, 2020 1:12:24 GMT
One of our next-door neighbors had a second family living with them for a few months and there were 6 vehicles between them. Often my step-son would come home from work at midnight and the two spots in front of our house were taken (one by me, one by neighbor) so he would park in front of our other next-door neighbor's house. She did not like that and would passive aggressively park in the very middle of the space so only her truck would fit. She is the only person that lives in the house, has a driveway she could (and does) park on and only has the one vehicle. My issue is the guy that lives further up our cup-de-sac but likes to park directly across the street from us. He will sit in his vehicle for hours at a time, chain smokes cigarettes, drinks beer and then pees on the curb next to his truck. We regularly have to close our windows to avoid this smell/sight. I did ask him not to park there (because of the smoke going straight into our windows), so now he parks at the house diagonal from ours. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/handovereyes.gif) Ewww. Who parks and chain smokes and drinks, then pees in public? Can’t he do that at home? Or a bar? Or even in the privacy of his own back yard? I would be livid! I was once awakened in the middle of the night by some party goers from way down the street that parked in front of my house. I looked out just as one of the guys whipped it out and peed right onto my rose bushes. I threw on my robe and marched out front and chewed him out. I pulled out my hose and made him wash it down. That is just disgusting.
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Post by nnnsmom on May 25, 2020 1:27:11 GMT
Reason #458 why I’m happy to live in the country, way off the road, with no super-close neighbors. 😉
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 1:42:39 GMT
We live in a subdivision with alley access to driveways. Many of the homes have detached garages. Many people with these detached garages use said garages as storage units.
I don't have a problem with visitors staying for a few hours parking in front of my home.
I do have a problem when my neighbors, who own two huge trucks, and a large SUV with no farm in sight and only two drivers park their trucks in front of my house instead of their own. We live across from a golf course and I didn't pay a lot premium when I built the house to look at someone else's truck all day. About two weeks after they moved in and settled we kindly asked them to not park in front of our house but they kept on and on and on. We finally took our three cars and parked them in front of our house for a week until they got the message.
We have residents who will park in front of another's home and block their neighbors mailboxes because "it is easier" to just park in front versus driving around to the alleyway and park in their driveway. (e.g. lazy).
Our neighbors behind us always have people over. They will sometimes block our driveway. They are normally really good about moving their car or truck if I need to leave and can't get around them. However, the MIL just stops her damned Suburban in the middle of the alleway as if its her own private parking spots and blocks the whole freaking alleyway then gets pissed when you ask her to move.
We also have other homes, which are row homes where the driveways aren't long enough to hold a mid-size sedan muck less the big huge trucks and SUV's we like to drive in Texas. Many homeowners will either parallel park in their own driveways in order to not block the alley. Some have resorted to adding a parking pad. The 80% majority just park on the street and then bitch about the street being too narrow and they have no place to park even though they knew they didn't have a driveway or use their garage for storage. It's a public safety hazard.
We do really well (at least now). We bought on our street because it is a really wide residential street, no one lives across from us, and our driveway can fit six cars -- not that I would even own than many unless I had a business that needed that kind of transportation.
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Post by jemmls4 on May 25, 2020 1:47:15 GMT
We have a business diagonally across from us (older neighborhood and weird zoning). It’s a painting place so they park their work vans and trailers and then the workers park their cars across from my drive and in front of my house. Sometimes I almost cannot back out of my own driveway.
When there is a lot of snow the plow sometimes can’t come down because of their vehicles parked on both sides of street. On time we had massive amounts of snow. I had to get kids to school and gunned it out my drive (the painter guys weren’t there yet). I get home, grab some stuff and have to leave. Dude rolls up and the entire other side of street is open and he parks DIRECTLY across from driveway. I got out, explained and asked him to move. He just looked at me and started to walk away. I told him if he didn’t move his car I would call the police. He finally pulled up one car length. I had to fun it again to get out and yeah my car was where his was parked. I opened the window and I said “I told you, please don’t park there.”
I came home later and he moved his car back. We’ve talked to the owner and it gets slightly better and then bad again. They also have tendency to park their vans and trailer on our side of the street flanking our driveways especially on weekends and holidays. Hubby has gone over and asked that on weekends especially to park in their driveway because we have older relatives etc. that would benefit from parking closer.
my issue is that while they pay property taxes, I do too. And they take up way more space than the property they have. They never park around the corner in front of their building.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 1:59:36 GMT
Yes it is a problem. My drive hold one car and our other car parks in front. If somebody parks in my spot, then where am I suppose to park? Down the street? No the neighbor’s guest can park down the street. And get the hell off my lawn. How would people know it is your spot? If you park down the street, what if you are taking someone else's spot? It is hard to know where to park if you are in a new neighborhood. Well it is in front of my house , it seem logical that we have the right to park there.
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Post by 950nancy on May 25, 2020 3:28:49 GMT
How would people know it is your spot? If you park down the street, what if you are taking someone else's spot? It is hard to know where to park if you are in a new neighborhood. Well it is in front of my house , it seem logical that we have the right to park there. We don't own the street though. That belongs to the city.
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Post by freecharlie on May 25, 2020 3:56:47 GMT
We have a business diagonally across from us (older neighborhood and weird zoning). It’s a painting place so they park their work vans and trailers and then the workers park their cars across from my drive and in front of my house. Sometimes I almost cannot back out of my own driveway. When there is a lot of snow the plow sometimes can’t come down because of their vehicles parked on both sides of street. On time we had massive amounts of snow. I had to get kids to school and gunned it out my drive (the painter guys weren’t there yet). I get home, grab some stuff and have to leave. Dude rolls up and the entire other side of street is open and he parks DIRECTLY across from driveway. I got out, explained and asked him to move. He just looked at me and started to walk away. I told him if he didn’t move his car I would call the police. He finally pulled up one car length. I had to fun it again to get out and yeah my car was where his was parked. I opened the window and I said “I told you, please don’t park there.” I came home later and he moved his car back. We’ve talked to the owner and it gets slightly better and then bad again. They also have tendency to park their vans and trailer on our side of the street flanking our driveways especially on weekends and holidays. Hubby has gone over and asked that on weekends especially to park in their driveway because we have older relatives etc. that would benefit from parking closer. my issue is that while they pay property taxes, I do too. And they take up way more space than the property they have. They never park around the corner in front of their building. Id pay some friends/strangers to park their beat up vehicles everywhere around there.
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Post by manomo on May 25, 2020 4:00:59 GMT
I never mind when my neighbors have a get together and their guests park in front of my home. However, it drives me crazy that the next door neighbor has instructed their Airbnb guests to park in front of our property. It should be noted that they have 90 feet that is unobstructed in front of their house but they don't want guests parking there. It may be public property in front of my house but it's also public property in front of theirs. To make it even more irritating, where they tell them to park blocks my view of traffic coming up the hill and it's dangerous to back out of the driveway.
I had a civil conversation with the owner telling him that the city doesn't allow in-home businesses to have their clients park anywhere but in front of their home or in their driveway. He immediately told me that the city doesn't regulate Airbnbs (this is true). I told him I was prepared to go to our councilman and suggest the city start regulating and taxing Airbnb businesses. Their business has halted with the pandemic so we haven't had the problem for a couple of months. We'll see how it goes when things start up again.
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Post by papersilly on May 25, 2020 4:06:05 GMT
My next door neighbor is kind of a freak about it. I'm okay with people parking for a short time but a neighbor parking their extra car in front of my house would bug me.
I think people just feel that area is an extension of their own property even though the city owns it.
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Post by hutchfan on May 25, 2020 4:35:31 GMT
I moved into my home late last September and this is a huge problem. I don't mind if it is a short period of time but my 2 neighbors across the street park in front of my house all the time while their driveways are empty. The one told my husband he parks there because his car leaks oil and he doesn't want his driveway to look bad. The other has a huge truck and his wife an SUV and their driveway is always empty. We finally had enough when we left one day and came home and couldn't even pull in our driveway due to their vehicles blocking our driveway. My husband had to go beat on their door to move so we could get in the driveway. I took to taking pictures if their cars in front of my house and their driveway empty to have proof. It's ridiculous.
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Post by katlady on May 25, 2020 6:21:03 GMT
So, I was thinking, the streets in my community are actually private. Our HOA dues pays for the street maintenance. Each homeowner is responsible for the area up to the street. My side has a sidewalk, and I am supposed to maintain that sidewalk. Does that mean the parking right in front of my house is technically mine? Can I actually claim “That is my space”? Just wondering. I would never do that however.
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Post by gar on May 25, 2020 7:59:31 GMT
I think people just feel that area is an extension of their own property even though the city owns it. I agree. It's a weird thing :
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 25, 2020 8:24:19 GMT
DH parks on our drive, I park on the road outside. There is space outside our house for 3 cars when parked considerately. Most visitors don't park considerately, so that only 2 cars can park there. If I get home from work at 8pm with a boot-load of groceries to unload, and find that 2 cars have parked outside our house leaving no space for me, and I have to park in the next street, I do get irritated. Especially when one of the cars belongs to the neighbour in the next street, outside whose house I now have to park, because he doesn't like parking on a steep hill yet that's the house he chose to buy.
And before lockdown, I used to attend a crop on one Saturday per month. Only 1 day. But that Friday night when I got home at 8pm, someone had always put their car outside our house meaning I had to make multiple trips to carry a boot-load of scrap-crap round the corner and down the steep hill the next morning. It just always seemed to happen then. I was joking with DH that we needed a "crop cone" to put on the road!
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Post by Patter on May 25, 2020 9:18:30 GMT
This happened to me last night. Maybe you saw my post elsewhere. It's not illegal but the law is to park no farther than 12 inches from the curb. I don't have a problem with it but when you can't park next to the curb and are in the middle of the street where it looks like you have abandoned your car, I have a problem with it. When you drive through my yard trash on the curb (as instructed by the city) and you drag it into the street, I have a problem with it. It's always the same group of "kids/young adults." Here was last night's example. They never park in front of the house they are visiting which has a straight curb, just mine (or in the middle of the street). And they never use their driveway which will easily fit 8 cars. I don't care if they don't use it. It's weird though, and people teach your kids to park properly. Thank you. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) ![](https://d28lcup14p4e72.cloudfront.net/146144/5232414/IMG_6373.jpg)
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Post by malibou on May 25, 2020 10:25:40 GMT
I'm in an hoa neighborhood. Though I don't own the street in front of my house, it is not considered public space. The city does not maintain our streets in any way, we do it. We also don't allow for overnight street parking. Last Nov a car started parking in front of our house every day. There is plenty of space out there for them to pull up a bit so that I don't have to see their car from my front windows. I left them a note asking them to pull up a bit, and they did for a few days and then it was back in front of my house again. I didn't know who the car belonged to, so I started watching for them. After about a week I finally saw them and asked them to step up on my porch so they could see how obnoxious their car was. They apologized profusely and I never saw the car again.
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Post by malibou on May 25, 2020 10:29:45 GMT
you all live in parking privileges areas... most streets in town have 2 hour parking limits. many many neighborhoods --you apply for a permit to park for a long time on the streets. they limit permits to 4-6? or something per household.. after it came out that danielle steele had 27 permits in a neighborhood with tight parking. then there is street cleaning.. every two weeks.. and the tickets are $90.. we live on one the the few streets with no time limit.. and with lots of parking. no one complains about anyone parking in front of your house.. you think you've hit the lottery if the space in front is open.. so the first question we have when going around town is "where should we park or should we take uber?"... few garages are parkable.. they act as storage sites... anyway, a public street is public.. When I lived in San Francisco the street cleaning thing was a nightmare. I was extremely lucky that I lived in a street with no street cleaning and loads of street parking. My friends were all jealous that I never had one single parking ticket while I lived there, nor did I ever bitch about parking.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 10:32:48 GMT
Oh, and also I live on a fairly busy street and when cars are parked by my driveway they block my view of oncoming traffic or pedestrians as I back out. Same here. It's not that busy all the while but it is on route to a school so it's usually fairly busy morning and afternoon school opening/closing times and I'm only 4 houses away from a blind corner. They're not visiting the school though that is in the next street.What makes it even worse is that there is plenty of room to park further down away from the corner. It's the safety aspect of it that bothers me rather than the fact that they park in front of our house. I've had a few near misses coming out of the drive.
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Post by mich5481 on May 25, 2020 12:48:34 GMT
My main pet peeve is when people park opposite my driveway. My neighbors across the street raised their granddaughter, and when she and her friends got old enough to drive, a lot of her friends would park in front of their house, but right across from my driveway. When they parked their, they also blocked the access to her mailbox. If they had pulled up a bit, they would have avoided my driveway and her mailbox, but then they would have to walk a few more steps to get to her driveway to walk up to her front door without walking on the grass. 🤦♀️
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Post by SweetieBsMom on May 25, 2020 13:08:08 GMT
Not an issue where I live now but I grew up in Boston. Unwritten rule was you had the spot in front of your house. We all followed it. If someone parked in “your” spot you dealt with it by bitching about it UNLESS you had shoveled out that spot, then it was ON! Kidding....but in Boston, it’s serious business to park in someone’s shoveled spot (like coming back to you car with 3 flat tires serious)
My two sister-in-laws actually don’t speak and haven’t for years over a disagreement about a shoveled parking spot. But that WHOLE family has issues.
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Post by purplebee on May 25, 2020 13:12:39 GMT
Thankful that I have lived in a rural area without this issue for my entire married life (48 years). I was born and raised in NY so I get it. I would be ok with the occasional guest/party attender parking in front of my house, but the close neighbors who park in front of my house and still have an empty spot in front of their own house, or an empty driveway? We would be having a conversation.....
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Post by librarylady on May 25, 2020 13:49:14 GMT
Our annoyance---people who park across the street but right at the end of our driveway, making it very difficult to back out onto the street. That house has a huge shade tree so it is tempting to put the car in the shade, never realizing you are almost blocking us in.
On man who lived there was a real jerk about it. We wrote him a polite note asking him to just move a little bit so that we could easily back out. 99% of the time he would not park elsewhere.....and would not come to the door when I wanted to ask him/discuss it. I was so very happy when he moved.
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Post by myboysnme on May 25, 2020 13:52:51 GMT
I have a problem with it. Here's a few reasons why.
They frequently block my mailbox and the mail won't get delivered My family parks there. I don't want to look out on someones car right out my front door just aesthetically. This is a weak reason but it just bugs me.
I would never tell my guests to park in front of someone's house when I know it bothers them. If anything I can move my car and let them park in my spot or driveway.
There is a quirky neighbor at the top of my street who lives on the corner and he has space to park all along the side of his house and in the front. But he is a stickler for his lawn and instead he parks across the street in front of his neighbor's house.
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Post by Darcy Collins on May 25, 2020 14:46:43 GMT
I'm trying to train my kids friends to park in the driveway, but it's definitely a process. We have a super long driveway that goes over a culver. I think they're scared to backout of it again - especially at night, so prefer to park on the street. They're parking in front of our house, so that's not the issue. But the street is kind of narrow and I would just prefer they park in the driveway.
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