Neighbor keeps parking in front of our house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a polite way of bringing this up to a neighbor?

I'm tempted to just call parking enforcement. Truthfully, I don't understand how someone can be SO clueless to park in front of their neighbor's house for more than 2 days or so, on a constant basis. One neighbor has been parked in front of our rowhouse for probably 25 out of the past 30 days.

What's parking enforcement going to do? I'm sure the code doesn't say "don't park in front of your neighbor's house"; what does it actually say?

In the City of Alexandria cars that sit in the same spot for 72 hours get towed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a polite way of bringing this up to a neighbor?

I'm tempted to just call parking enforcement. Truthfully, I don't understand how someone can be SO clueless to park in front of their neighbor's house for more than 2 days or so, on a constant basis. One neighbor has been parked in front of our rowhouse for probably 25 out of the past 30 days.

What's parking enforcement going to do? I'm sure the code doesn't say "don't park in front of your neighbor's house"; what does it actually say?

They would ticket. You cannot park for 3 days in a row, anywhere. Street parking is not meant for vehicle storage.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a drug house!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a polite way of bringing this up to a neighbor?

I'm tempted to just call parking enforcement. Truthfully, I don't understand how someone can be SO clueless to park in front of their neighbor's house for more than 2 days or so, on a constant basis. One neighbor has been parked in front of our rowhouse for probably 25 out of the past 30 days.

What's parking enforcement going to do? I'm sure the code doesn't say "don't park in front of your neighbor's house"; what does it actually say?

They would ticket. You cannot park for 3 days in a row, anywhere. Street parking is not meant for vehicle storage.

And they would also equally ticket someone’s car parked in front of their own house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a polite way of bringing this up to a neighbor?

I'm tempted to just call parking enforcement. Truthfully, I don't understand how someone can be SO clueless to park in front of their neighbor's house for more than 2 days or so, on a constant basis. One neighbor has been parked in front of our rowhouse for probably 25 out of the past 30 days.

What's parking enforcement going to do? I'm sure the code doesn't say "don't park in front of your neighbor's house"; what does it actually say?

They would ticket. You cannot park for 3 days in a row, anywhere. Street parking is not meant for vehicle storage.

And they would also equally ticket someone’s car parked in front of their own house.

Yep. It doesn't matter where you park. The whole point of street parking, is to use it as public parking. It is not long term parking. It is not your personal spot to park in. If you are parking *anywhere* for more than a couple days, you are using street parking wrong. Which is why I feel NO remorse calling parking enforcement on my neighbors who WFH and leave their cars parked for chunks of time. Have some compassion for those of us who commute daily, carry stuff daily, deal with weather issues, etc.

That said, most people are wayyyyy less likely to rat you out to parking enforcement if you're parking in front of your own home. It's common sense and basic etiquette. Don't park your car for days on end in front of someone else's home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've got a neighbor's grown daughter's car parked in front of my house for day 9 now in Del Ray. It's only because I like the old lady that I haven't had it ticketed yet. I know the daughter is garbage. She's had three kids with three men. And she committed residency fraud for schooling with all three.

You are making yourself sound worse than this woman none of know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've got a neighbor's grown daughter's car parked in front of my house for day 9 now in Del Ray. It's only because I like the old lady that I haven't had it ticketed yet. I know the daughter is garbage. She's had three kids with three men. And she committed residency fraud for schooling with all three.

You are making yourself sound worse than this woman none of know.

I know right? Being a whore and a thief is one thing, but caring about proper parking is pretty much reserved for Nazis.

[Anonymous]

It could be worse OP. When I lived in a different neighborhood and walked to the metro, I used to walk past a block where a person had a collection of 8-12 “vintage” pickup trucks that were parked in every single street spot for 2 straight blocks on one side of the road. I know they were all owned by the same person because they had a unique flag sticker in the same location on every single one.

I suppose there is no law prohibiting a person from owning that many vehicles and parking them on the street, but this was a dense Arlington neighborhood close enough to the Metro that they had to have neighborhood parking zone decals so that commuters didn’t take all the parking spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This is what i did when it happened to me. It worked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a polite way of bringing this up to a neighbor?

I'm tempted to just call parking enforcement. Truthfully, I don't understand how someone can be SO clueless to park in front of their neighbor's house for more than 2 days or so, on a constant basis. One neighbor has been parked in front of our rowhouse for probably 25 out of the past 30 days.

What's parking enforcement going to do? I'm sure the code doesn't say "don't park in front of your neighbor's house"; what does it actually say?

They would ticket. You cannot park for 3 days in a row, anywhere. Street parking is not meant for vehicle storage.

In my neighborhood it is. Most of the houses don't have driveways on our street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a polite way of bringing this up to a neighbor?

I'm tempted to just call parking enforcement. Truthfully, I don't understand how someone can be SO clueless to park in front of their neighbor's house for more than 2 days or so, on a constant basis. One neighbor has been parked in front of our rowhouse for probably 25 out of the past 30 days.

What's parking enforcement going to do? I'm sure the code doesn't say "don't park in front of your neighbor's house"; what does it actually say?

They would ticket. You cannot park for 3 days in a row, anywhere. Street parking is not meant for vehicle storage.

And they would also equally ticket someone’s car parked in front of their own house.

Yep. It doesn't matter where you park. The whole point of street parking, is to use it as public parking. It is not long term parking. It is not your personal spot to park in. If you are parking *anywhere* for more than a couple days, you are using street parking wrong. Which is why I feel NO remorse calling parking enforcement on my neighbors who WFH and leave their cars parked for chunks of time. Have some compassion for those of us who commute daily, carry stuff daily, deal with weather issues, etc.

That said, most people are wayyyyy less likely to rat you out to parking enforcement if you're parking in front of your own home. It's common sense and basic etiquette. Don't park your car for days on end in front of someone else's home.

I take it you live in a neighborhood with driveways. Because you do realize there are neighborhoods without driveways, right? And just how does it affect you carrying stuff if someone is parked on a street for days at a time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a polite way of bringing this up to a neighbor?

I'm tempted to just call parking enforcement. Truthfully, I don't understand how someone can be SO clueless to park in front of their neighbor's house for more than 2 days or so, on a constant basis. One neighbor has been parked in front of our rowhouse for probably 25 out of the past 30 days.

What's parking enforcement going to do? I'm sure the code doesn't say "don't park in front of your neighbor's house"; what does it actually say?

They would ticket. You cannot park for 3 days in a row, anywhere. Street parking is not meant for vehicle storage.

And they would also equally ticket someone’s car parked in front of their own house.

Yep. It doesn't matter where you park. The whole point of street parking, is to use it as public parking. It is not long term parking. It is not your personal spot to park in. If you are parking *anywhere* for more than a couple days, you are using street parking wrong. Which is why I feel NO remorse calling parking enforcement on my neighbors who WFH and leave their cars parked for chunks of time. Have some compassion for those of us who commute daily, carry stuff daily, deal with weather issues, etc.

That said, most people are wayyyyy less likely to rat you out to parking enforcement if you're parking in front of your own home. It's common sense and basic etiquette. Don't park your car for days on end in front of someone else's home.

I take it you live in a neighborhood with driveways. Because you do realize there are neighborhoods without driveways, right? And just how does it affect you carrying stuff if someone is parked on a street for days at a time?

Lets say you live on a block of THs in Del Ray and one of your neighbors WFH. They park their car in front of your house on Tuesday the 16th and let it sit there, unmoved until Wednesday the 24th. Your work is in Herndon and you drive to and from there evry single day and have three teenagers in your house. Every night you come home to park and lug in 20 pounds of groceries but you can't park in front of your house because your inconsiderate neighbor is storing their car there.

That's why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a polite way of bringing this up to a neighbor?

I'm tempted to just call parking enforcement. Truthfully, I don't understand how someone can be SO clueless to park in front of their neighbor's house for more than 2 days or so, on a constant basis. One neighbor has been parked in front of our rowhouse for probably 25 out of the past 30 days.

What's parking enforcement going to do? I'm sure the code doesn't say "don't park in front of your neighbor's house"; what does it actually say?

They would ticket. You cannot park for 3 days in a row, anywhere. Street parking is not meant for vehicle storage.

And they would also equally ticket someone’s car parked in front of their own house.

Yep. It doesn't matter where you park. The whole point of street parking, is to use it as public parking. It is not long term parking. It is not your personal spot to park in. If you are parking *anywhere* for more than a couple days, you are using street parking wrong. Which is why I feel NO remorse calling parking enforcement on my neighbors who WFH and leave their cars parked for chunks of time. Have some compassion for those of us who commute daily, carry stuff daily, deal with weather issues, etc.

That said, most people are wayyyyy less likely to rat you out to parking enforcement if you're parking in front of your own home. It's common sense and basic etiquette. Don't park your car for days on end in front of someone else's home.

I take it you live in a neighborhood with driveways. Because you do realize there are neighborhoods without driveways, right? And just how does it affect you carrying stuff if someone is parked on a street for days at a time?

Lets say you live on a block of THs in Del Ray and one of your neighbors WFH. They park their car in front of your house on Tuesday the 16th and let it sit there, unmoved until Wednesday the 24th. Your work is in Herndon and you drive to and from there evry single day and have three teenagers in your house. Every night you come home to park and lug in 20 pounds of groceries but you can't park in front of your house because your inconsiderate neighbor is storing their car there.

That's why.

You need to start working out if carrying 20lbs of groceries along a couple of houses is an issue for you.