Neighbor keeps parking in front of our house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in sligo park hills. Our street has curb cut outs for street parking because the streets are too narrow otherwise. Our first fourth of July here I encountered our neighbor putting up traffic cones in all the unoccupied ones so people wouldn't park here for the fireworks and then walk through our neighborhood back to their cars.

It was then that I realized our *friendly* neighborhood had its share of asses.

Someone parking in front of your house in the suburbs makes it look like someone might be home at your house. Since this can deter crime, Im not sure why it can ever be a negative... Except that people in suburbs are entitled enough to think that public streets are their private property.

Why would OP, who has 3 cars parked in her driveway, need the neighbor's cars out front to show that someone is home?

The neighbors don't want to have cars parked in front of their own house, so they park in front of someone else's house instead. This is incredibly rude and entitled. It might not be something that bothers you, but you can't deny the spirit behind the action: "I don't like this, so I will make someone else suffer it instead."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in sligo park hills. Our street has curb cut outs for street parking because the streets are too narrow otherwise. Our first fourth of July here I encountered our neighbor putting up traffic cones in all the unoccupied ones so people wouldn't park here for the fireworks and then walk through our neighborhood back to their cars.

It was then that I realized our *friendly* neighborhood had its share of asses.

Someone parking in front of your house in the suburbs makes it look like someone might be home at your house. Since this can deter crime, Im not sure why it can ever be a negative... Except that people in suburbs are entitled enough to think that public streets are their private property.

Why would OP, who has 3 cars parked in her driveway, need the neighbor's cars out front to show that someone is home?

The neighbors don't want to have cars parked in front of their own house, so they park in front of someone else's house instead. This is incredibly rude and entitled. It might not be something that bothers you, but you can't deny the spirit behind the action: "I don't like this, so I will make someone else suffer it instead."

Yes, her neighbors are gross, but they share her entitlement about owning a public street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in sligo park hills. Our street has curb cut outs for street parking because the streets are too narrow otherwise. Our first fourth of July here I encountered our neighbor putting up traffic cones in all the unoccupied ones so people wouldn't park here for the fireworks and then walk through our neighborhood back to their cars.

It was then that I realized our *friendly* neighborhood had its share of asses.

Someone parking in front of your house in the suburbs makes it look like someone might be home at your house. Since this can deter crime, Im not sure why it can ever be a negative... Except that people in suburbs are entitled enough to think that public streets are their private property.

You didn’t read this thread properly did you?

[Anonymous]

I just moved to a quasi-urban neighborhood of small 1940s houses. No HOA. Some houses have small driveways. Some houses have larger yards because there is no driveway. My neighbor has a larger yard. She also has two cars (she’s single).

She came over, as the movers were moving my furniture into the house, to tell me not to park in front of her house, because that is her spot because she doesn’t have a driveway. I have a driveway, and only one car, which I intend to park in my driveway, but this was a really odd first conversation. Either she chose to have her driveway taken out or she bought a house without a driveway. Either way, she chose a house without dedicated parking. I don’t think this entitles her to a reserved spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Park in front of their house. Who cares if it seems aggressive.

If you want to go fully passive-aggressive, park in front of their house. For full-on aggressive, make sure your wheels are on their grass or landscaping, even if you have to climb the curb to get there.

I am petty and this is precisely what I would do. I would not mess with their landscaping but I would pick my oldest/crappiest vehicle and park it right in the center in front of their house.

How would you feel if the neighbor wasn't upset at all? All that pettiness and you don't get the reaction you want...

[Anonymous]

I think everyone is missing the point. OP does not want *any* cars in the street, including their own. I would suggest putting nails or broken glass in the spots in front of your house to deter anyone from parking there.

[Anonymous]

OP, can you have a conversation with your neighbor, approaching the issue simply with curiosity? “Hey, I was wondering, why do you park in front of our house instead of your house”? Just see what they say and take things from there. Begin with trying to simply understand their perspective.

It would annoy me to look out my front windows and see especially a work van right in front of my house. Could be it that they saw you had Ring or something and they do not? The work van could contain some valuable equipment?

Could you address the street parking issue with your HOA?

[Anonymous]

Our neighbors used to park in front of our house when there was plenty of space in front of theirs. I started parking on the street in front of my house in a way where there was not enough space for them to park in front our house - can typically fit two cars. They eventually got it and no longer park in front of our house. It’s frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We spent 15 years living in some of the more urban areas of DC, where people would have laughed out loud at someone who suggested that no one park in front of their house. We moved to the burbs about 7 years ago, and I confess, I feel a quick twinge of irritation when someone parks in front of my house. But I quickly stamp it down, because IT'S FREAKIN' RIDICULOUS. Who cares?

Seriously, OP, why do you care? You already said it doesn't impact your life at all.

Absolute horsesh*t. I've lived in Capitol Hill and Old Town (SE quadrant no less) and everyone knows that the only way you take the spot in front of someon'es house is if there are literally no other spots available.

Like the Del Ray guy said- it is the height of rudeness to park in front of someone else's house and leave it there for a day or more. Taking up two spots would get your tires slashed in Boston.

The whole idea is to lessen the burden of lugging kids and groceries in and out of the house. If obeyed, everyone benefits. All the toys go back into their places.

That might work where there are large SF rowhouses and no multi-family housing, at least a few blocks form a commercial strip - maybe. I lived in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights, close to apartments buildings, condos, retail and restaurants, and where there's no street parking during the working day on one side of the street. Even apart from the visitors to the area who park, there simply isn't one spot per residence on those streets, never mind multiple spots per residence. You park where you can, hope it isn't more than a half a block away, and do a little jog if you find a spot in front of your house.

Please try and keep up. Are you always this dense?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We spent 15 years living in some of the more urban areas of DC, where people would have laughed out loud at someone who suggested that no one park in front of their house. We moved to the burbs about 7 years ago, and I confess, I feel a quick twinge of irritation when someone parks in front of my house. But I quickly stamp it down, because IT'S FREAKIN' RIDICULOUS. Who cares?

Seriously, OP, why do you care? You already said it doesn't impact your life at all.

Absolute horsesh*t. I've lived in Capitol Hill and Old Town (SE quadrant no less) and everyone knows that the only way you take the spot in front of someon'es house is if there are literally no other spots available.

Like the Del Ray guy said- it is the height of rudeness to park in front of someone else's house and leave it there for a day or more. Taking up two spots would get your tires slashed in Boston.

The whole idea is to lessen the burden of lugging kids and groceries in and out of the house. If obeyed, everyone benefits. All the toys go back into their places.

That might work where there are large SF rowhouses and no multi-family housing, at least a few blocks form a commercial strip - maybe. I lived in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights, close to apartments buildings, condos, retail and restaurants, and where there's no street parking during the working day on one side of the street. Even apart from the visitors to the area who park, there simply isn't one spot per residence on those streets, never mind multiple spots per residence. You park where you can, hope it isn't more than a half a block away, and do a little jog if you find a spot in front of your house.

Please try and keep up. Are you always this dense?

The buffoon is the one stating the obvious

[Anonymous]

I wish my neighbors with the two-car garage and driveway would park in front of my house.....because then they wouldn't park directly behind my driveway, inconveniencing me every time I go out. Why for FS do you not use your garage? You have kids! You have to scrape your windshield when it's cold. They haven't even lived there long so I have no idea how the garage could be full.

[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.

There's nothing to address. You. Don't. Own. The. Street. Calm down old timer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, can you have a conversation with your neighbor, approaching the issue simply with curiosity? “Hey, I was wondering, why do you park in front of our house instead of your house”? Just see what they say and take things from there. Begin with trying to simply understand their perspective.

It would annoy me to look out my front windows and see especially a work van right in front of my house. Could be it that they saw you had Ring or something and they do not? The work van could contain some valuable equipment?

Could you address the street parking issue with your HOA?

Doesn't warrant a conversation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put a note on their windshield

Why? OP needs to stop being a whiny beyotch

[Anonymous]

Even worse- I live on a long shared pipe stem with another house. It makes a Y and looks more like a street, but it’s as narrow as a driveway. The neighbor and I who own the house only park at the top of the Y unless we have a large party or a lot of guests. My bad neighbor parks there nearly every day and night. It makes it hard to get in and out and our kids can’t use the driveway to ride bikes like they like to. Sometimes he even parks with two wheels in our grass. He doesn’t own my driveway but somehow thinks it’s communal property.

We spoke to the HOA and they said it’s not against the rules because it’s private property and we should call a tow truck. I’ve spoken with him and he said it wasn’t a big deal because we weren’t using all of our driveway.