to expect neighbour to text or call me before allowing her friend to park on my drive?..

[neighbourhasfatarse]

pay parking round the corner if no visitor permits.

really peeved off, neighbour has done this before thinking it's ok to use our property with stupid after the fact notes! she has my mobile! she once slipped a note through my door then allowed her builders to jump over the fence into our property to fix her window!! then they did it again that afternoon with no notice!!

told woman i was not impressed her parking in my drive, used her baby as an excuse, actually don't care, my 2 kids were in my car waiting to park!!she told me "life was too short".... not even a thank you, so rude i told her!

i think i'm living on another planet!! i must be!

YANBU at all, what a pain

Of course YANBU. Go and key the car. That'll learn them not to mess with you.

oh to the point, neighbours friend thought it was okay to leave a note on her windshield and park for free!! how is that okay unless of course its an emergency?

... and breathe.

No, YANBU, they are rude and lazy.

Can you not just have a word with the said neighbour? It isn't the neighbour's friend's fault for parking there ...

Is it possible to get a gate fitted?

yadnbu ... we have this too...last week I ahd a stand up row with a man who was working on the downstairs flat after I asked him politely to move his car as he had blocked me in .. he told me I was being totally unreasonable and it was his right to park there ...
its a private drive !!

Should point out that I was trying to get a cat in a cat basket to the emergency vet with my dd with me - oh and i am 38 weeks pregnant..

Grr ...unbelievable !!

YANBU

Either block her in or ring the police next time.

@ Duritzfan - what a git!

@ neighbourhasfatarse - can you get the car towed? If you have a gate, can you lock it? Are you able to get a gate installed (one with a security code)? Can you put a 'no parking' notice up? Neighbour sounds like a freeloading witch!

thanks! i do need to breathe, good way to start half term! duritzfan i'm with you!

i've spoken to her in person about asking by phone/person beforehand after the builders incident, she clearly didn't get it then so doubt a "word" would do it this time. geek yes! next time i will call a towing company and the police! can't block her in next time without getting a ticket myself! maybe i'll get a sign on the drive threatening towing! ha ha

could do a gate, but expensive and opening and closing would annoy me!

can you put one of those pull up metal posts in?

I'm with tiredmumno1. We put in one of those metal post things when neighbours continued to park in our private car parking space, despite polite notes on their windsreen and knocking on their door. We also put high-vis yellow and black warning tape round it, because we were worried that they would try to park their again and drive into it one night and try to blame us for any damage to their car. It costs us about £100 for the post and a huge padlock thingy.

god,how rude...that would piss me off no end!
i would forget a polite 'word' with the nighbour and tell her in no uncertain terms,that if she allows anyone to park on your path again,you'll have them towed without a moments hesitatation...the brass necked fuckers!!!

metal posts it is, thanks for idea!

motherbeyond yes agree forget polite word, i'm not capable for her tbh! last time i tried that she did the whole patronising talk "aww sorry you feel that way i really didn't think you'd mind" reply rather than a simple "sorry i didn't friggin ask"!!

some people!! humph thanks for the support ladies!

loving your posting name OP....

Of course you are nbu.

But "aww sorry you feel that way i really didn't think you'd mind" isn't that OK then?

Friends of ours have a red/white plastic chain across their drive. It is a good and cheap way of stopping people parking there.

If you go for a metal post, just remember it's there when you swing into your drive way and don't hit it

how annoying and tbh bloody rude of your neighbour

a cheap chain should stop it, wit ha padlock so she cant move it lol

Agree. chain / gates / some sort of physical barrier is what you need.

YANBU, My mum gets this alot. She lives in a small block of flats and owns the drive. The old lady upstairs used to have all sorts of visitors who used to assume they could park on my mum's drive. One lady kept insisting it must be ok because she worked for the local council and as my mum's drive is "council property" (it's bloody not, she owns her flat outright) it must be ok .

I admit when she flashed her council I.D card at me when we had words I threatened offered to shove it somewhere dark where no one would ever wish to park...

YANBU.

My mum has just had gates and fence put out the front of her house, because parents were parking on her drive when dropping their children off at school.

Double check the price of gates, mum paid just over £800 for gates across a double drive and fence about 12ft long.

i cannot believe how common this is!! i could never park in someones drive just like that!! crazy world!

GoreRenewed when someone says "sorry you feel that way" to me imho basically is not an apology for what they did said etc, it's a patronising stubborn apology that she's sorry i felt that way but she's not sorry for what she did/said just about how i reacted... hope that kinda makes sense!

love the sign madam but from the US!

dh wants to discuss securing our drive situation tonight!! some great ideas here! thx