Someone’s parked in our allocated space

[Flowerpowerr1]

Not sure what to do as it doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s so inconvenient!
We live in a small flat with 7 parking spaces (one for each household) we have two cars so we park one in our allocated numbered space and one we have to park down the road.
Nobody usually parks in anyone’s spaces because there have been warnings at the start from the landlord stating nobody is allowed to park in anybody’s space.
last night my husband took the car that’s usually parked in the parking space to work and he doesn’t get home till after 12am ish when he returned he found a car parked in our space, this never usually happens regardless how long it’s empty nobody normally parks there.
So he had to park down the main road where our other car was, this meant I had to rush my child to walk him down to the main road to get him in school on time, it’s also a busy road and hard to get out off so it was a massive inconvenience! The car is still there now at nearly 11am I don’t know who it belongs to and I need to do a big food shop which I can’t do when my car is parked far away 🫣 I just can’t believe how inconsiderate some people are!

I have no further suggestions but unashamedly want to know whose car it is!

I love a good parking thread. Is the car still there?

Do you have a local rugby team?

Destroy them!

Someone did this to us. They had actually buggered offf to Heathrow (we were nearby) and left their car for two weeks, enjoying the ‘free’ parking.

if I were you, I would mock up a parking sign threatening fines and towage, with a fake company name (“ParkPrptect’ or something) and get it printed offf on hard plastic then put it up in the driveway. I bet you could get one from Amazon ready-made actually.

Is this really that big a deal

All of the aggressive suggestions (dog shit, etc) seem to miss the point that this is the OP's allocated space, where OP also stands for the Only Person who would object to this space being parked in sufficiently to take action.

So when CF comes back to their car and gets dog shit under their fingernails, they can phone their mate who lives in the block and ask who spot 5 belongs to. And then they can up the ante, at a time of their choosing. (Or they could also just come back one night and give the paintwork of the car in spot 5 a good once-over with a chisel.)

So if you're going to do anything, OP, make it a polite note. Maybe add how it made your elderly mother late for her taewkondo class or something. Plenty of flowers and smilies. No dog shit, please.

We just bought a traffic cone from Amazon and stuck a reserved sign on it. People like that can't be bothered to move the cone so they'll just park in someone else's space instead of yours.

Can you have it towed?

Yes. It happened to my Mother in her eighties. One flat, one parking space but several flats were let to sharers with three cars.

Got sorted in the end but not without some grief.

My DD has had this happen to her on many occasions. It is infuriating. She has now bought a no parking/private property/keep clear-type sign (it’s only Velcro-ed on to the wall) as have many other residents - and has had no problems since. A deterrent sometimes helps.

We have issues all the time, not number allocated spaces but private residential parking. On event days I've taken to "washing" my car then challenging people parking, I'm not the only one, 2 other residents chose the same time to wash theirs. 6 cheeky people tried to avoid paying for parking by parking here! So annoying, I want a barrier at the entrance

Yes it is.

These parking spots are paid for by their owners and they should be able to park there without having to move CFs on.

The CFers! What happened when they returned?

I think I’d be camped out waiting for them. Shame you can’t block them in.

Bottle of cooking oil on the roof

Could be an abandoned stolen vehicle

Someone does this in my car parking space. They did it on a peri menopausal bad PMT day and I am not proud of myself but I left a strongly worded note on their car it said FUCK YOU YOU CUNT

I rang everyone’s door bells most didn’t answer apart from two who said they didn’t know who’s it was “yeah yeah”.
I can’t see who parks in the drive because I don’t have a view of the front of the flats so I have to physically go out and check.
Ive just checked downstairs and the car is gone hallelujah I think they understood how angry I was because of my note haha.
But I still don’t know who the car belongs to 😤

This occasionally happens to my sister. They know what they are doing and she's spoken to them. They don't care and were miffed with her for having a problem. The flat is near main road with shops and restaurants. There's very little parking in the area so they could be visiting someone (not in her block) or going to the main road without having to pay for parking.

Put one of these on their windscreen.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266117207192?itmprp=cksum%3A2661172071929e4e671ca53b442bba0d203476bad4ee%7Cenc%3AAQAJAAABgP9d%252BMZSXlztIfYFu3kI%252B7ft0VcQix7rTrUVdiJwc2upzwLfM

Marmite door handles...

Indeed. Years ago I moved into a rented flat with a private car park. We simply parked in any empty space for the first couple of weeks because we weren’t told by the landlord or letting agency that specific spaces were allocated to each flat. We received a really arsey letter from the management company admonishing us for parking in the wrong space and saying that the neighbour had repeatedly complained about us.

Of course as soon as we knew the parking was allocated we stopped parking in that space and only ever parked in the correct one. But it was an innocent mistake/the fault of the letting agency for not telling us that spaces were allocated to specific flats.

This could easily be a similar scenario- new neighbour or someone’s visitor who doesn’t know it’s your space. I wouldn’t go in all guns blazing.

Bookmark, I only heard anecdotally. I didn’t have a car at the ti e so didn’t pay much attention but I remember the residents association guy saying what had happened. I understand that the police did get involved because the family had parked in the very first space, next to the entrance, and so badly that no one could get in or out of the entire car park unless they had a mini (minis were minis in those days). Which meant that ambulances and rubbish trucks and delivery vans could t get in. So it did hit the police radar. No idea if they were prosecuted but the car was moved.

Do you have any glue for your child’s projects or anything like that ? If so, get a big sheet of paper, write on it something along the lines of ‘this space doesn’t belong to you dickhead, please don’t park here again’ and then use as much glue as you can to paste it over the drivers’ side.