Neighbor with Pest Control van keeps parking in front of our house!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of our neighbors (I can’t figure out who) has been parking their van with a big CAPITOL PEST on its side, right smack in front of our house for the whole week!

Oh please you know whose van it is OP. Stop acting like a “itch-bay” and go say something to them.

[Anonymous]

The person who stays home needs to park the middle so that there’s just enough room for your cousin to park between that car and the driveway, but not enough space for the large van. Hell, put a cone there, if you like. Then when cousin comes home, she can park there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP has a point- I always perk up if I see a pest control van in front of a neighbors house. It makes me think they have bedbugs or raccoons.

We have quarterly pest prevention service. The neighbors don’t point and gawk at the van.

After a lot of research, we just changed providers, and are very happy with the new company - Capitol Pest! The techs are very hard workers, and don’t deserve the derision on this thread.

[Anonymous]

God forbid a person wants to make a good, honest living and drives a company vehicle where it could be seen from A BABY'S NURSERY! PERISH THE THOUGHT. What if the baby sees this van and decides to take a blue collar job???



I would rather have the past tech as a neighbor than you, OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The person who stays home needs to park the middle so that there’s just enough room for your cousin to park between that car and the driveway, but not enough space for the large van. Hell, put a cone there, if you like. Then when cousin comes home, she can park there.

Good idea. Mark out the public street with cones to claim *your* land. I know some spots in Alexandria I need to claim for future use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think OP has a point- I always perk up if I see a pest control van in front of a neighbors house. It makes me think they have bedbugs or raccoons.

We have quarterly pest prevention service. The neighbors don’t point and gawk at the van.

After a lot of research, we just changed providers, and are very happy with the new company - Capitol Pest! The techs are very hard workers, and don’t deserve the derision on this thread.

I always insist that they visit with the undercover disguised van. I can't have the neighbors thinking I am low class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The person who stays home needs to park the middle so that there’s just enough room for your cousin to park between that car and the driveway, but not enough space for the large van. Hell, put a cone there, if you like. Then when cousin comes home, she can park there.

What an ass. You put a cone on a public street?? And you can go to a whole lot of rigmarole park and funny and then somebody get a come out another person comes home and doing a whole bunch of bullshit just so a particular van doesn’t park in front of your house because your ass can’t just park across the street or down two spots and walk your happy ass up to the house ! what a barrel of idiots!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it’s there all week, your neighbors, mailman, etc. know whose van it is. Why would you care what anyone else thinks?

It’s an eyesore. It’s a gigantic ad for pest control that I have to see right outside my baby’s nursery every day.

UGH.

I sympathize.

Guy must have no brain cells if he parks it in front of the same house every day too.
You can leave a note on the windshield explaining that you are having work done st your house and those work trucks need to park there so could he please park somewhere else.

If he keeps it up have the police ticket him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who stays home needs to park the middle so that there’s just enough room for your cousin to park between that car and the driveway, but not enough space for the large van. Hell, put a cone there, if you like. Then when cousin comes home, she can park there.

What an ass. You put a cone on a public street?? And you can go to a whole lot of rigmarole park and funny and then somebody get a come out another person comes home and doing a whole bunch of bullshit just so a particular van doesn’t park in front of your house because your ass can’t just park across the street or down two spots and walk your happy ass up to the house ! what a barrel of idiots!!

No one wants their children crossing the street to get in the car. I never want my young kids in the street - the first time they do it themselves to go get a forgotten toy or something could mean they get run over. Drivers are often not paying attention - staring at their phones while driving - making neighborhood streets very dangerous places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God forbid a person wants to make a good, honest living and drives a company vehicle where it could be seen from A BABY'S NURSERY! PERISH THE THOUGHT. What if the baby sees this van and decides to take a blue collar job???



I would rather have the past tech as a neighbor than you, OP

A lot of people wouldn’t spray poison all over their property no matter what is around. Spreading cancer causing poisonous chemicals around is gross. No matter - you should only have 5-10 years max left living on the earth if this is you so we won’t have to tolerate your tirades much longer.
Sniffed too many fumes already I guess.

[Anonymous]

When this happened to me, I was not thrilled.

On one hand, I don't mind a neighbor's work van being parked on the street.

On the other hand, I found it annoying the guy parked it in front of my house on a Friday nearly every Friday and left the van there for the entire weekend.

The van blocked my view of the street.

People asked if we were having work done.

I began parking a car in the spot before he could and I took up as much space as possible. This allowed me to see to the street from my house and it may have gotten him out of the habit of parking in front of my house.

I thought it was unusual he would not park in front of his own house ever.

Eventually, he moved.

We have other work vans on the street. They park in front of their own houses most of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who stays home needs to park the middle so that there’s just enough room for your cousin to park between that car and the driveway, but not enough space for the large van. Hell, put a cone there, if you like. Then when cousin comes home, she can park there.

What an ass. You put a cone on a public street?? And you can go to a whole lot of rigmarole park and funny and then somebody get a come out another person comes home and doing a whole bunch of bullshit just so a particular van doesn’t park in front of your house because your ass can’t just park across the street or down two spots and walk your happy ass up to the house ! what a barrel of idiots!!

Why can’t the pest van driver park in front of his/her own house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it’s there all week, your neighbors, mailman, etc. know whose van it is. Why would you care what anyone else thinks?

It’s an eyesore. It’s a gigantic ad for pest control that I have to see right outside my baby’s nursery every day.

UGH.

I sympathize.

Guy must have no brain cells if he parks it in front of the same house every day too.
You can leave a note on the windshield explaining that you are having work done st your house and those work trucks need to park there so could he please park somewhere else.

If he keeps it up have the police ticket him.

Yup. It would bother me as well OP, because it is the wrong thing to do. While yes it is technically public space, the most baseline level of common courtesy is that you don't just park your big ugly van in front of someone else's house over and over again. Park in front of your own. I third the idea of pulling one of your other cars in the middle to block this clueless soul. After a couple of days of this hopefully they'll figure it all out and move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Argh!!
Another post from someone who feels as if they own the public road.

I am so tired of people complaining how seeing a certain car parked in front of their house irritates them.

If it irritates enough to vent online, then they should seriously consider moving into an apartment or condo.

Also, this is the bottom of the barrel for people’s problems.
Be grateful that you have your own home, a healthy child and you are not in hospice....dying of cancer.
It could always be much worse.

Try changing your perspective in life-
You will feel much better!

That doesn’t stop it.

Our complex of apartments and townhouses doesn’t have assigned parking. Most people tend to park in the same spot everyday, but a few neighbors compete for a couple spots they perceive as better somehow. There are hard feelings if someone feels a favored spot is being monopolized.

This is a very common dynamic in places without assigned parking. My best friend lives in a townhouse on a street with only street parking. She once witnessed a fist fight between two neighbors who were upset with each other about this same type of issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We already switched our car parking places so that the person who is home most of the day has one of the two street spots in front of our house, the person who gets home latest (me) gets the driveway. But that leaves our cousin living with us high and dry. She usually gets home after the Pest Control person. She's forced to park in front of someone else's house and she feels terrible about it.

Park in the middle so someone else can’t park there. Then, when the cousin is almost home, she can call and you can move up so she can park there, too.

Yes, it’s public parking, but people should have first choice on the street right in front of their own house. It’s common courtesy in most neighborhoods.

Yes. Obv the capitol pear person doesn’t want the van in front of his house bc it looks embarrassing. Really bad manners to do that to neighbors.