Ok ... some of you are going to tell me to get a grip, but anyway ...
We live in a house with a block paved frontage providing generous and adequate parking, for three cars side by side, or four if we close up a bit. Our next door neighbour has a similar amount of space, and the two drive ways are open to each other. The only thing which indicates the boundary is a change in the block paved surface: no fence or anything. Both households own two cars.
In spite of having generous amounts of space, our neighbour insists on parking his vehicle (a large 4x4) within inches of the boundary. So close, in fact that he can't open his car door without it overhanging our drive and he can't get out of his car without his feet actually landing on our drive as he does so.
The other day, OH actually watched him drive up, back in, then pull out again and move closer to the boundary!!!! Even though there was acres of spare space between him and his wife's car which was already on the drive. Needless to say OH is getting pretty fed up, but in every other respect the people are lovely neighbours. Would you say something or just put up with the guy's behaviour.
AIBU?
To be annoyed at neighbour's parking habits?
MrsExpo · 10/09/2016 12:46
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DSis had a neighbour like that. 6 houses with individual driveways off a communal drive in (iyswim). The developer appended the communal bit to the last house completed... sadly the owner of that house sold it to a total twat who insisted that, regardless of the wording and his conveyancing solicitor having explained the situation, the land was his and his alone!
Apparently DNs basketball hoop 'overhung his airspace', something he complained about weekly. It didn't, the rear of the fixing jutted out from the side of DSISs house, over her own curtilage, where she allowed all neighbours to put their wheelie bins - including the moany one!
But when the other 5 houses started parking right on the edge of their boundary lines, making it a little less of a simple swoop in for him, he started legal proceedings against them all!
It went to court... judge told him he was a twat. They offered to buy the piece of land off his deeds, he used that to 'prove' they all knew he owned it, it really was his. It went to court. Judge told him he was a twat.
Of course now no one could sell without having to declare Mr Officially A Twat, Twice.
Then he put his house on the market... and did NOT inform the prospective purchasers of the ongoing disputes he had caused. One neighbour spoke to the man who eventually bought the house, explained the situation. Mr OATT made a police report of harrassment!
New owner turned oit to be the police officer who had to respond to the allegation 
Sorry. The point is that some people get really odd about their boundaries they like to occupy every piece of their land, prevent others from encroaching, but don't see that their actions encroach on others.
I'd just park close to the boundary and smile at him!
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