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Original poster

Another parking thread! Idiot neighbours!

56 replies

cjt110 · 04/06/2015 14:50

We live in apartment (which we own) and each apartment in the block has their own allotted space. There are also several visitor bays too. As with many families in the block, we have 2 cars so I park in our bay (which is underneath the building) and DH parks in a VP bay outside.

2 issues that are bugging me which basically boils down to the same thing - people NOT parking in their alloted bays, leaving them empty and taking up a bloody VP bay!

AIBU to be pissed off when they leave their bays empty and park in a VP/vacant apartments bay (the space is underneath rather than outside) meaning people who use the VP bays cant park anywhere?!

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Roseformeplease · 04/06/2015 15:27

I think that if they park one in their own bay, one in the VP bay, then they will be in VP only if the one in their own bay has driven off. Surely you aren't expecting them to move the 2nd car?

MadameJulienBaptiste · 04/06/2015 15:31

Aibu?
Resounding yes.
ianbu, neighbour wees in the lift.
ya still bu
flounce.

Original poster
cjt110 · 04/06/2015 15:31

People are missing the point! He doesnt park, or use his own bay!

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HoldYerWhist · 04/06/2015 15:34

But he's not doing anything differently to your dh!

Irishlassie · 04/06/2015 15:36

Sorry cj I didn't see post re parking at fence as cross posts.
Have you a residents committee , could you not sort it out at that and set a rule that says if your allocated bay is free , use that , if you have more than one car , you may then use a vp bay . Anyone not parking in a proper bay will be clamped. I thankfully have loads of parking but my sil and Bil have similar apartment block as you but only have one car. When I come to visit they would park in a vp bay so I can get parked near their apartment.

londonrach · 04/06/2015 15:37

Yabu as your dh shouldnt park in a vp space either.

Original poster
cjt110 · 04/06/2015 15:40

Hold We use our bay, and a VP bay. We do not monopolise a particular bay and park where-ever is available, even if thats means going into a lower carpark. He doesnt use his bay, parks in a vp bay and people cant park because he's taken up a neutral bay! ARGH lol. I would never park in a VP bay and leave our own bay free,. Just seems very odd to me!

Irish it prety much says that and something about not being parked in a bay for more than 24 hours if it's a VP bay... but thats a hole 'nother kettle of fish lol.

Uck, I hate apartment living! Roll on mortgage expiry lol

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ghostyslovesheep · 04/06/2015 15:43

this get's on my nerves where we live - another house has decided the VP next to his drive is for their second car ...

your husband should not be parking in the VP space anymore than your neighbour should - yabu

Original poster
cjt110 · 04/06/2015 15:45

I think its s shame as there are just clearly not enough bays for the number of cars that live at the block. Never had this issue when we had a motorbike and a car lol

I shall agree to disagree thanks all Smile

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TedAndLola · 04/06/2015 15:45

You're both being unreasonable - you and the neighbour. I wouldn't have the nerve to complain about this while my household was misusing a visitor's bay so I suspect you won't get very far if you bring it up.

RustyParker · 04/06/2015 15:51

Most blocks I have lived in with allocated and visitor parking only allow for one car per flat to park onsite i.e. no resident allowed to use the visitors parking.

Whether your neighbour choses to use his spot or not, he is doing the same as your DH. He might be pissed off with what you are doing so he's making a point?

Blinkinwinkin · 04/06/2015 15:51

yabu
So what happens if you and your husband are both parked up - you in your designated space and him in the visitor bay and you go out in your car, leaving him at home? Does he dash out and move the 2nd car immediately into the owned space you have just vacated?
Surely there must be times when your vb is being used and your own bay is empty too?

Original poster
cjt110 · 04/06/2015 15:57

Nope, we move the cars to free up the VP bay if we go out in his.

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quietasamouse · 04/06/2015 16:08

I really don't think I am missing the point, but thank you anyway! Wink I am merely trying to make the point that the other resident may well view things differently to you.

Yes it seems a illogical and irrational to always park in a VP bay if your own is empty.

HOWEVER

Very few decisions in life really are logical and rational. I would be pissed off that another person in the block was always using one of the VP bays when they are not a visitor. It wouldn't be a fair use of the visitors parking if one family always took it. They would be monopolising something that was there to be shared. That would annoy me and I might exercise my right to have my 'share' at times by using it. Like a sort of silent protest! Not pretty behaviour, but honest.

Of course there could be a million other reasons but that is what sprung to mind first. I hope you don't miss my point Grin.

Original poster
cjt110 · 04/06/2015 16:11

As I said, I'll agree to disagree. Thanks everyone Smile

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The5DayChicken · 04/06/2015 16:19

Maybe they're parking the the VP bay in order to ensure their assigned space is always available for their visitors as they've noticed that residents with multiple cars have been using the VP spaces?

AnyoneForTennis · 04/06/2015 16:26

Go and park further away on the road... Leaving the vp bay free

Roussette · 04/06/2015 16:43

cjt110 you say this I would never park in a VP bay and leave our own bay free,. Just seems very odd to me!

Does that mean that if you go out whilst your DH is at home, he goes with you and moves his car from the VP to the residents bay? I doubt you do. Or do you just go out and leave your residents space free until you get back?

Which means that it is no different to your neighbour. If someone was parking in your resident space it would be a different matter, but they aren't. Neighbours choice to leave his resident parking space empty.

quietasamouse · 04/06/2015 16:48

I guess the OP didn't want her own parking habits being questioned!

TrueBlueYorkshire · 04/06/2015 16:55

You should put your second car on the street, currently you are just as bad as them.

emmelinelucas · 04/06/2015 17:23

I think the op was BU. One car - one parking space. Two cars - park somewhere else, not in an allocated space for visitors. They are not visiting. They live there.Never mind what other folks do
Pointless thread, though. OP wasn't open to opinions/advice really.

Original poster
cjt110 · 05/06/2015 09:06

emme I was open to opinuions and advice and have actually thought maybe it's not actually an issue at all. Let him park where he wants Smile we shall just do the same... like other other 125 apartments in the complex Smile

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TheFlis12345 · 05/06/2015 10:37

Surely this is no different from people who have drives not using them and parking on the street when there is limited room there? That has been complained about on here plenty of times so I'm not sure why the OP is getting such a hard time!

sebsmummy1 · 05/06/2015 10:47

We used to live in a new build development where one neighbour used visitor parking as his own. Because his driveway blocked his garage and he liked to use it without reversing the car. This behaviour was tolerated until he would actually knock on people's doors if they had visitors park in the VB while he was at work and he would demand that they move the car so he could park.

My parents are elderly but feisty and he was basically told to FO and he crawled back under his rock. He now has to share the VB with another car and they park on the diagonal and he has as much right to use the space permanently (ie zero right) as the other resident who has taken to using it too.

Moral of the story is font but new build with one car parking space if you have more than one car. It's just more hassle than it's worth.

sebsmummy1 · 05/06/2015 10:48
  • don't buy a new build
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