Neighbor keeps parking in front of our house

[Anonymous]

We live in a neighborhood with long driveways. Most houses have 2 car garages and drives that fit 6 cars. Our neighbors have a tendency of parking in front of our house. They usually park 2 or 3 cars in their driveway and 2 - 3 cars on the street in front of our house but don’t park any cars on the street on front of their house. We are new to this neighborhood. We actually don’t even know who our neighborhood are. In the 3 months we’ve lived here we have so many people in and out. I know that am being petty and can’t do anything about it because it’s street parking but it is annoying that they only park in front of our house. They are the people in the neighborhood who park on the street. Most people just utilize their driveways. Mostly I am just here to vent but also welcome any non confrontational way of addressing this.

[Anonymous]

Park in front of your house?

[Anonymous]

Learn not to be annoyed by petty things that don’t matter.

[Anonymous]

Park your cars there for a couple of weeks, it will send a not too aggressive message. If they semi compete by sliding back while you’re gone, park in front of their home.

[Anonymous]

This happened to us. We started putting yard waste/trash cans out on the curb where their visitors parked (under our tree in the summer) and they stopped.

[Anonymous]

Put a note on their windshield

[Anonymous]

Maybe they have lots of guests over and want the space in front of their house to be available to guests? Who really cares. Just retaliate and park in front of their house if it's really bothering you.

[Anonymous]

Just park in front of their house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a neighborhood with long driveways. Most houses have 2 car garages and drives that fit 6 cars. Our neighbors have a tendency of parking in front of our house. They usually park 2 or 3 cars in their driveway and 2 - 3 cars on the street in front of our house but don’t park any cars on the street on front of their house. We are new to this neighborhood. We actually don’t even know who our neighborhood are. In the 3 months we’ve lived here we have so many people in and out. I know that am being petty and can’t do anything about it because it’s street parking but it is annoying that they only park in front of our house. They are the people in the neighborhood who park on the street. Most people just utilize their driveways. Mostly I am just here to vent but also welcome any non confrontational way of addressing this.

Sounds like you can't handle living on a public street. Move to an HOA that bans street parking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happened to us. We started putting yard waste/trash cans out on the curb where their visitors parked (under our tree in the summer) and they stopped.

So you wouldn't let a visitor park in the shade? Yikes.

[Anonymous]

They are allowed to do this. It is a public street. What is your problem with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Learn not to be annoyed by petty things that don’t matter.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Park your cars there for a couple of weeks, it will send a not too aggressive message. If they semi compete by sliding back while you’re gone, park in front of their home.

This is what I was thinking too. Our neighbors park in front of our house at times too. The really annoying thing is they park in the middle so we can not get our second car there at all (there is room for 2). Our street has mostly short 1 car driveways so the second car is always on the street. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Maybe you have a camera and they don’t so they are trying to move into your camera coverage. Or your side of the street is more visible/free of plants. Why worry about it?

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain this to me? If there's scarce room on a street I get it. But if nobody parks on the street, it's jarring to see a car, on an empty street, in front of your house? Is that it? Why?