Is it passive aggressive to put up a No Parking sign?

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Ok it is. I know it is.
5 garages. Mine one end, the other end is empty. I drive nose first to the empty garage door and swing round to park in front of mine.
As it’s empty my upstairs and next door neighbours let their guests park there. There have been people from up the street park there when it’s been difficult to park in the street.
I’m fed up of coming home and not being able to park because people who don’t live here are blocking my turning circle and door knocking until I find them. Last year I ended up having a row with someone because he said I could park and was being difficult.

Now lockdown is starting to lift and neighbours are having guests I’ve already been blocked. I can’t be doing with it anymore and because it doesn’t affect them the neighbours don’t realise how annoying it is.
So should I get a no parking sign and stick it on the end garage?
Phew, that was cathartic!
(Please be gentle, I haven’t posted in AIBU as it’s too scary)

I'm wondering how neighbours 2 and 3 get their cars in and out, especially when you are parked outside your garage?

Surely they have a greater challenge?

Where does it state cars shouldn't be parked in front of the garages? If the owners of 2 and 3 are renting their garages for storage frankly it's tough shit for them and they need to stop being inconsiderate neighbours.

Great minds

I think there are two real options.

1. Have a discussion with the neighbours/residents committee/space management and everyone stops parking in front of the garages.

1. Reverse into the drive from the road and then just continue to reverse to your spot.

Can you reverse in down the drive, so you don’t have to do the big swing circle to change direction?

How does 3 get in/out?

Given none of you should be parking outside your garages, you can't lay claim to the access space unless you are trying to park IN your garage and others are preventing this.

Unfortunately I think this is part and parcel of living in busy places.

If you have to reverse past two other cars anyway then why can't you reverse in from the road rather than driving into a space first?

I'm guessing that the space between neighbours 1 & 2 cars and the fence is only just wide enough to drive down? If this is the case then I can see that if someone is parked in front of the empty garage it doesn't leave enough room to actually get round the corner without doing some kind of hundred point turn. Does neighbour 1 have trouble getting in if neighbour 2 and empty garage are parked?

It does look like getting to your space at the end would be tight if you do it forward and sticky if you do it backwards. But I think getting good at reversing in is the only way to go. Is there any chance you can swap garages

No, I don’t think I could reverse in down the drive, same problem of not having space between the fence and the neighbours parking in front of their garages.

I could ask the neighbours not to park there and yes that would solve the problem but I know it will cause problems with n3 and she probably wouldn’t take any notice anyway. But as they live here I think they have more right to park than randoms from down the road.

What does it says on your leasehold/deeds?

If it says that you can't park in front of your garage then perhaps you need to enforce it?

Alternatively park in your street, is that a possibility?

Sorry OP, I think you need some reversing lessons. If you can drive in nose first then technically you can reverse back out the same way.

Does neighbour 1 have trouble getting in if neighbour 2 and empty garage are parked?

Yes, she would have exactly the same problem. But so far I don’t think it’s happened.

No, I don’t think I could reverse in down the drive, same problem of not having space between the fence and the neighbours parking in front of their garages.
But you are still reversing past them if you can drive into the empty space first aren't you?

But what if that garage wasn’t empty and the owner wanted to park there. You need to practice reversing...if your car fits forward down there then it also fits backwards.

I don’t want to be mean, but I have got a neighbour who is making all the other neighbours parking situations difficult because they can’t park their car! It’s actually really sad, the other day I saw them parking the first time and I wonder how these folks got their license ...

I haven’t read all the comments so not sure how it unfolds but looking at the diagram you just need to learn how to reverse down all the way to your spot. Don’t make your problem into someone else’s problem... sorry but practice and you will get the hang of it.

So what’s at the other end of that drive that means you can’t reverse all the way down?

OP, is this the issue?

Yeah - sorry but you just need to reverse in from the road and around to your space. And you can't possibly complain about the others parking in front of their garages while you do the same thing. If you can drive straight out when you are parked facing outwards then you can also reverse straight in.

Parking on the street is a pita, hence everyone parking in front of the garages. It’s in the lease that we shouldn’t park but n2 has lived here longer than anyone and has always done it and as she does n1 and I do.

Crap, I’ve just realised I’ve mixed n1 and n2 with n2 and n3 upthread. That’s not helping the confusion

Move house

I’d just park on the street, or even the next street.

Practice, practice, practice if you're not prepared to tackle the issue of parking where they shouldn't. You've made that tricky discussion to have by parking in front of instead of in your own garage. I lived on a street of terraced houses with no garages for many years. I honed my reverse parking skills no end out of necessity until I could squeeze into very tight spaces on either side - it was one way too so if you had to go round the block there was always the chance there were even fewer spaces by the time you got back.

If you reverse to go in then why not just do the same to go out instead?