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for wanting people to follow the rules

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ScarlettAlexandra · 21/05/2012 15:42

i am really annoyed with this. i moved from my last home for my neighbours parking their vehicles in our spaces and it got really nasty. we have since moved to a new development where there are set rules about what you can and cant do re: parking and vehicke types its ones of the reasons i bought the house. My new neighbours are basically flouting them even though they have been warned by the developer.

aibu to expect for people follow the rules that are set, and not take the piss.

its been handed to the solicitors now i hope this can be resolved ir ill be moving again.

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fuckarama · 21/05/2012 21:50

Oh and they all had very large legal bills.

fuckarama · 21/05/2012 21:51

If you are Scarlet's neighbour with the white van, please PM me.

I'd be delighted to assist you.

And I wouldn't even charge.

It would be a pleasure.

Grin
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ScarlettAlexandra · 21/05/2012 21:52

it wouldn't be the neighbor complaining its the developer. there was a family in the next street who have been told to move their camper van, and they have.

they are normal rule abiding people.

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fuckarama · 21/05/2012 21:53

But the developer is going to have to tell the neighbour who complained if it goes any further.

Or at least, if the neighbour gets himself a solicitor and the solicitor has any balls, he will.

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ScarlettAlexandra · 21/05/2012 21:54

i won't be here that long i move every two years anyway. and ill be on the otherside of the world for most of it.

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LentillyFart · 21/05/2012 21:54

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BawdyStrumpet · 21/05/2012 21:54

And you would know this.....how?

PickledFanjoCat · 21/05/2012 21:54

If the developer is getting involved why have your own solicitor at all?

Why don't you just leave it in their hands, and save yourself money and upset?

fuckarama · 21/05/2012 21:55

Maybe they went on holiday? In their camper van? Is the man called Jesus?

PickledFanjoCat · 21/05/2012 21:55

Scarlett, really if your only going to be there for a year why on earth are you bothering?

fuckarama · 21/05/2012 21:55

If you're going to move and be on the other side of the world anyway, WHY THE ACTUAL BASTARD FUCK DO YOU GIVE A SHIT?

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ScarlettAlexandra · 21/05/2012 21:56

The neighbour is in the wrong. Not me.

he doesn't have a leg to stand on.

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fuckarama · 21/05/2012 21:56

Have you considered being a Traffic Warden?

BawdyStrumpet · 21/05/2012 21:57

Nah - tis classic roll out a load of cliches, never answer any questions or engage with posters type of stuff.

fuckarama · 21/05/2012 21:57

I'm off for a Brew, anyone else?

Original poster
ScarlettAlexandra · 21/05/2012 21:57

jesus? huh?

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PickledFanjoCat · 21/05/2012 21:57

Why are you getting involved then at all?

Why Why Why for the love of God Jesus and All the Saints Why?

BawdyStrumpet · 21/05/2012 21:57

Amusing though.

PickledFanjoCat · 21/05/2012 21:58

I am too fuckarama I know where to come if I get a parking pedant as a neighbour.

Olympia2012 · 21/05/2012 21:58

Well I have just taken a look at some of your other threads Scarlett and you don't seem to be a happy person all round..... Bigger probs than vans I think!

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ScarlettAlexandra · 21/05/2012 21:58

solicitor is a family freind and offered help.

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Booette · 21/05/2012 21:59

We live in a part buy part rent house. We had a choice of this house or staying in our tiny rental house to live. So we took this house. Probably your neighbours were in the same situation. DH has a van for work, it's not the nicest looking thing and I have to look at it out the window when he's home (and the people opposite can see it out of their window too Shock

Where are your neighbours supposed to park then? Occasionally DH has parked round the corner when our drive had another car on it, but he prefers the security of the van in the drive, so there's less chance of his tools being nicked.

When we first moved in together our flat had a no vans rule in the car park. There was a carpet fitter who lived there who parked his truck there, and the only person who gave a shit was one bitter old lady who complained about everything to everyone. The management committee had a file just full of her complaint letters! The petty things she went on about were unbelievable! (She even complained when my DSD stepped on her precious the communal gardens (the grass!!))

Life is too short to stare out the window at vans and sky dishes!

LoopyLoopsTootTootToots · 21/05/2012 21:59

Whilst trying to completely ignore much of this, I wonder if you (OP) could explain to me the difference between a large, old car and a works van? Why is one more offensive than the other? Do you actually care about the van, or is it just the rules?

FamiliesShareGerms · 21/05/2012 21:59

OP, haven't read all 17 (17!!) pages of this thread but...

I know the sort of development you mean. We used to live in a private close that had various covenants about the vehicles that could and couldn't be parked there, use of visitors spaces etc.

One of our neighbours complained to the council about our satellite dish (he couldn't even see it from his house, he was along the row behind a staggered terrace). To this day I don't know why he felt the need to do this. His behaviour towards other neighbours got so bizarre and erratic - notes on the windscreen of cars he deemed not parked in the correct spaces etc - that eventually the police were involved and he received a caution for harassment.

I'm honestly not saying that you are in his league, but just to say that you might want to learn how to deal with the small stuff - however annoying - that comes of living next to other people, and not go down this slippery slope.

olimpia · 21/05/2012 21:59

scarlett how did you know see this coming honey? No, really. You bought a house with a front room facing a car park...of course there'd be neighbour with vans! Did you honestly not expect them to think "fuck the covenant" and park somewhere near their property?. By the way had it occurred to you that perhaps they don't even KNOW that they can't park there? I wonder how many people actually bother to read and memorise all the covenants unzip the deeds!