What are your red flags for neighbors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car. Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable.

We have the same or very similar neighbors. Ours have had their car hit by the neighbors whose driveway they’re parking across from at least once- maybe more, I’m not sure. Also, ours park cars across from two different neighbors’ driveways- and, the vehicles are “vintage,” a nice way of saying that they are old and beat up looking. So, we all get to look out the window at their junky-looking vehicles, while they can’t see them from their house. Crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car. Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable.

While I genuinely (really!) sympathize with your plight PP, in all fairness the street is a public street and the neighbors have every right to park where they want.
I am specifically referring to them parking across the street on the only side where vehicles can park due to the narrow street - not parking close to your driveway.

Since taxpayers fund city streets I believe everyone has a legal right to park on it as long as they are not blocking driveways or leaving abandoned vehicles parked longer than three days.

I believe it is a first-come basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car. Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable.

We have the same or very similar neighbors. Ours have had their car hit by the neighbors whose driveway they’re parking across from at least once- maybe more, I’m not sure. Also, ours park cars across from two different neighbors’ driveways- and, the vehicles are “vintage,” a nice way of saying that they are old and beat up looking. So, we all get to look out the window at their junky-looking vehicles, while they can’t see them from their house. Crazy.

I doubt people would intentionally park their junky looking car somewhere across the street from their home just so they won’t have to see it! 😂

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neighbors who have parking in front of their home, AND a driveway - but park on the street across/down from their own home, in front of someone else’s house - because their 20 yr old Toyota Highlander has an oil leak. So they park there so the oil puddles don’t stain their own driveway or street parking.


We live on larger street in a Kensington neighborhood, west of Connecticut Ave and south of Knowles Ave.

And I’m pretty sure she reads this forum.

Why do you care if they park in the street? Is that not what the purpose of on-street parking spaces is?

Stop acting obtuse. Park in YOUR driveway or in front of YOUR house. Especially if you are leaking oil.

I'm genuinely not acting obtuse. I have never ever understood why people care about cars parking in the street if they're not blocking a driveway or a hydrant. People who park on the grass of a house that's not their own -- I get that! People who block the driveway? I get that. People who park so inconsiderately that it makes it difficult to get through? I get that. But I don't care if they park in the street. Oil leaking sucks, but the street isn't my house -- if it's not leaking on my lawn or my driveway, why do I care?

Really, genuinely curious. Do you feel like it affects the look of your house or something?

I also do not care if my neighbors utilize the street for their parking needs as long as they do not blocking my driveway or a fire hydrant, etc.
But in my neighborhood I know that many of my neighbors do not think like this.
Most of them actually get angry when someone parks in front of their house on the curb which is basically public street parking.

It’s absurd how people think that they have the right to decide how other citizens use public city property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car. Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable.

We have the same or very similar neighbors. Ours have had their car hit by the neighbors whose driveway they’re parking across from at least once- maybe more, I’m not sure. Also, ours park cars across from two different neighbors’ driveways- and, the vehicles are “vintage,” a nice way of saying that they are old and beat up looking. So, we all get to look out the window at their junky-looking vehicles, while they can’t see them from their house. Crazy.

I doubt people would intentionally park their junky looking car somewhere across the street from their home just so they won’t have to see it! 😂

Haha, we all think they do. The cars are extras that they don’t really drive. Every so often, they’ll take one of them out for a drive and then park it again in the same space. Half the time they have to jumpstart the battery to get it to start. While the old junker is out for a drive, they’ll put one of there regular cars in the space so no one else will park there. Sure, it’s a public street, but they act like they own these spaces, which are between four and eight houses away from their own, in opposite directions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump flags year round. For years.

Democratic flags year round AND bumper stickers plastered across their vehicles.
Black Lives matter and coexist bumper stickers.

I’m here to tell you ALL lives matter and coexisting is human nature…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seeing the shape of a person, a shadow, standing at the window facing my house.

Stabbing my tires.

Growing lawn to 3 feet of weeds.

No trash collection.

Making special needs roomers carry trash half mile uphill to dump it because they have no trash collection, and are mean.

Holes in roof and bay window falling off.

Gutter falling off onto the lawn.

This is so specific. I want more of this story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they put up 4 signs saying dogs don’t poop here for their 4 foot x 8 foot lawn

The dog I babysit often (at my house) loooves those signs. So far I haven’t allowed him to take a leak or poo at one. But the sign gets his instincts going, same as a hydrant.

[Anonymous]

I concur with all the jerk-parking opinions.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It is definitely a red flag if you only think about how your parking works or is convenient for you.

If you have a driveway and use sparse street parking, that's rude.

If you're parking your vehicles for more than than a week without moving them, that's rude.

If you're taking multiple "spots" for more than a day, that's rude.

There's a neighbor that lives on an adjacent street. They have a truck they rarely drive, but park it by us to leave space open for them on their own street. Worse... they park in the middle of 2 spots. For weeks.

A few neighbors and I started getting annoyed, so we'd take turns calling parking enforcement. They never paid the tickets, and one day the got towed. It was awesome to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing the shape of a person, a shadow, standing at the window facing my house.

Stabbing my tires.

Growing lawn to 3 feet of weeds.

No trash collection.

Making special needs roomers carry trash half mile uphill to dump it because they have no trash collection, and are mean.

Holes in roof and bay window falling off.

Gutter falling off onto the lawn.

This is so specific. I want more of this story.

+1

[Anonymous]

Neighbors who have rowdy parties and provide alcohol for underage teens where some pass out and go to the hospital, and then the cops come and the whole street gets shut down.

[Anonymous]

Hello from my suburban cul de sac!

Shut your garage doors!

How about cleaning out your garage so it can be used for car storage and not hoarding?

I hate how you walk your dogs all over everyone’s lawns - and I’m not talking about the area adjacent to the sidewalk - I mean the center of our lawns and down private driveways! Stop it!

Hide your trash bins! These aren’t decorative items that provide curb appeal so maybe don’t store by your front door. So ugly.

Stop parking front end in at the circle. I think this impedes emergency vehicles.

Do you need a basketball hoop curbside on the main road that’s on an incline? How is this going to work?

Also what doesn’t work: an electric fence. You fail at dog own and pet care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For me, it's an overly manicured front lawn.

There's a difference between having a nice looking house and being psychotic about a lawn and spraying it with chemicals. Anytime you see two houses where there is a huge difference in lawn color, going in a straight line along the property line, you know the one with the unnatural green side is unhinged.

MAGA traitors.
MAGA stupidity
Republicans that vote red no matter what ie they are stupid and UnAmerican and not fiscally responsible.
Religious symbols (excluding christmas lights they are fine as along as the people are not any of the above idiots)

Anyone else happy to know you. Don't care about your lawn.

Live in over a $10 million dollar house, have multiple homes, neighbors with brains that is all I ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car. Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable.

While I genuinely (really!) sympathize with your plight PP, in all fairness the street is a public street and the neighbors have every right to park where they want.
I am specifically referring to them parking across the street on the only side where vehicles can park due to the narrow street - not parking close to your driveway.

Since taxpayers fund city streets I believe everyone has a legal right to park on it as long as they are not blocking driveways or leaving abandoned vehicles parked longer than three days.

I believe it is a first-come basis.

Of course they can park on the street, we simply ask them to not park right in front of the driveway so we can have a turning radius. There is plenty of space for them to do this, especially if they parked their cars like normal parallel parkers and not 4-5 ft apart. What we are asking is not unreasonable.

There are some laws in many municipalities about how many feet one can park to a driveway to avoid this very problem. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find one where we live in NOVA. Regardless it’s a pretty petty thing to do.

[Anonymous]

People who hang "be kind" et all yard flags in their yard. I assume they are not kind behind closed doors.