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CF neighbour and parking

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Meadowflower88 · 29/08/2021 20:33

We have a little townhouse that we rented out while we rented in another city for a job contract. We're now back and we are just about to put the townhouse on the market as it's too small for us now, it's vacant.

It's attached to another townhouse and it has a shared driveway with a double carport at the end of the driveway by our little garden, one space for each house. The problem is that the NN in the front townhouse just parks in the middle of the driveway by her house. This didn't bother our previous tenant who didn't have a car but I am getting increasingly annoyed! She has been slightly aggressive to me as I knock and ask her to move everytime, she basically doesn't see why it matters as the house is vacant but then she gets grumpy at me when I knock on her door at 7.30am to move her car when I need access. She was also very rude to the carpet layers and the people who staged the house for sale.

It's really going to affect us if she keeps doing this when we are on the market. And I should be able to drive down my own driveway when I bloody want to!!!!!

Im not quite sure what to do next. I contacted her property manager in advance of us taking back the house so he could tell her that as of X date, she could no longer park in the middle of the driveway. I knocked on her door to introduce myself and commented that we now need clear access. I knock on her door everytime I can't access the house. She won't stop!

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OhSmellyCatSmellyCat · 30/08/2021 07:55

@Onlinedilema

Sorry op but my parents told me from a young age never, ever but a house with a shared drive. They had endless problems with their shared drive. The house was bought before they could drive. I think you need to price your house accordingly. Hopefully your neighbour won't be parked in the way when prospective buyers turn up.

How is that helpful? 🙄

Onlinedilema · 30/08/2021 10:29

It's the truth, the up needs to price her house accordingly.
I wouldn't look at a house with a shared drive I know what lies ahead. That's why I said sorry, it's not desirable, unless you happen to live next door to a person who spent own a car. However I remember the relatives of my parents next door neighbours, they parked across the drive every single time they came to visit.drive
I offer no solution except to say well your house cheaper to compensate.

Onlinedilema · 30/08/2021 10:30

Typos!!!!!

HarkeyQuim · 30/08/2021 10:31

Sorry op but my parents told me from a young age never, ever but a house with a shared drive. They had endless problems with their shared drive. 🙄

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Meadowflower88 · 30/08/2021 10:59

It is priced accordingly, it will cost about 150k less then a house the same size with its own drive. But it's affordable housing precisely because it's a small townhouse with a shared driveway and a carport instead of a garage. It's a desirable part of town for first time buyers as it's close to the city and in catchment for a very good schools and it has a garden so we have lots of viewings booked in already through our agent.

Just need her bloody car not to be on the drive!

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ButYouGottaHaveASkillJeff · 30/08/2021 11:06

This isn't about how the OP should price her house to compensate having a shared drive?!

It's about how the CF neighbour has no right to park where she's parking!

SantanaBinLorry · 30/08/2021 11:13

@happinessischocolate

Buy a cheap car and park it where she parks hers, then leave it there for a few days.

Only on Mumsnet!

FrippEnos · 30/08/2021 11:19

SantanaBinLorry

I know several people that have done just this.
But I am fairly certain that it wouldn't work in this case.

Mariell · 30/08/2021 11:22

Tell her that her car being parked there is causing potential reputable buyers to be put off so you have no option but to rent it out to ex offenders via a scheme with the council.

That might make her see some sense.

HarkeyQuim · 30/08/2021 11:23

@Mariell

Tell her that her car being parked there is causing potential reputable buyers to be put off so you have no option but to rent it out to ex offenders via a scheme with the council.

That might make her see some sense.

Brilliant!

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Meadowflower88 · 30/08/2021 11:40

If I parked my car where she parks hers, she wouldn't care. She'd just block me in 😂

I think the only thing I can really do is leave a car in my carpark and see if that changes things (which it might not as she knows property is vacant) or just badger the property managers/owners about it constantly so they are on her back about it.

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Billandben444 · 30/08/2021 11:45

Do you think the carpet fitters or t'other people (scene setters? Sorry, can't remember what you called them) might have parked where your neighbour parks now and it pissed her off? Would the carpet man have driven down the end of the drive and lugged carpet up to the house? She needs to stop whatever the reasons.

BlackShadowCat · 30/08/2021 11:49

I think this is all you can do really, just keep hassling her to move every time she parks there. Ignore her rudeness or bad attitude. Hopefully she will realise it's less hassle for her to not park there.

godmum56 · 30/08/2021 11:52

do you actually have legal right of way over the bit of drive in front of her house and have you reminded her of this?. Might be worth pointing out that blocking a right of way (if you have one) is actionable and could cost her money in costs if it went to law.

user1471538283 · 30/08/2021 11:53

I would knock her door each and every time. You will sell regardless of her antics.

Alternista · 30/08/2021 11:53

I think you need to go there every day for a week or so requiring access. More than once a day if you can. Break this habit.

itsgettingwierd · 30/08/2021 11:53

@Mariell

Tell her that her car being parked there is causing potential reputable buyers to be put off so you have no option but to rent it out to ex offenders via a scheme with the council.

That might make her see some sense.

That genius!!!!

She may also then decide her cars safer a mile or so down the road 🤣

godmum56 · 30/08/2021 11:54

is she a tenant at the property....continued badgering of the landlord or their agent can help....and by continued I mean relentless.

CatMandarin · 30/08/2021 11:54

@Meadowflower88

If I parked my car where she parks hers, she wouldn't care. She'd just block me in 😂

Can you block her in with your car?

Jaxhog · 30/08/2021 12:14

Get your DH to occasionally park a car behind hers and block HER in. After all, if her car wasn't there you could park in your bit.

PuppyMonkey · 30/08/2021 12:20

Does anyone else not understand the diagram?

How does your neighbour get past you when you're parked outside your house if the drive is only the width of one car?

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Meadowflower88 · 30/08/2021 12:32

@billandben444 yes they drove to the end of the driveway and parked in my carpark. My house is by the carparks. Her house is at the front by the road.

@godmum56 yes i have legal right of way. Maybe I should take a photo the next time I am at the house, it would be very clear from the set up that I couldn't not have right of way. The driveway runs beside the two houses, not in front ot them. She is a tenant, I think she has lived there a long time and she got on very well with my tenant.

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SantanaBinLorry · 30/08/2021 12:34

@PuppyMonkey

Single driveway between two houses filtering into a parking space each at the end. No one can get to the parking spaces if someone parks on the drive.

@FrippEnos Thats truely bonkers and the perfect example of more money than sense

godmum56 · 30/08/2021 13:35

[quote Meadowflower88]@billandben444 yes they drove to the end of the driveway and parked in my carpark. My house is by the carparks. Her house is at the front by the road.

@godmum56 yes i have legal right of way. Maybe I should take a photo the next time I am at the house, it would be very clear from the set up that I couldn't not have right of way. The driveway runs beside the two houses, not in front ot them. She is a tenant, I think she has lived there a long time and she got on very well with my tenant.

Thanks everyone, I think that's all I can do is keep hassling her and the property managers and popping around to the house at all hours. I can't really block her in and do what she's doing if I want to maintain the moral high ground as well as the legal![/quote]
'couldn't not" doesn't mean that you actually do....I have seen crazier stuff! and if you do, then talk to the neighbour and their landlord about legal action.

WeAreTheHeroes · 31/08/2021 10:18

It's possible the owner of her house doesn't know you are selling. I would write a letter to them and send it c/o the agent. Who knows, they may be interested in buying your house as it's easier to manage neighbouring properties than ones which are spread out.

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