Neighbours parking in our bays!!

[MsMiaWallace]

So we bought our property about 5 months ago. It's a newish townhouse with x3 parking bays. We own the bays they're in our deeds.
There is a particular neighbour to us who likes to park in our bays, without asking etc.
After it happening a couple of times DH requested politely that they didn't do this. We work shifts & leave & come home at all times.
They basically told him to do one & drove off.
After it happened again DH left a polite note saying these bays belong to .... number please don't Park here.
They posted a note back saying GET A LIFE on.
So we bought & fitted parking bollards.
Tonight I'm at work. A bollard was left down awaiting my return so I can park up they have parked in a bay!!
so DH speaks to them again & he received a load of abuse, threats, saying we need to get a life etc
Despite them being our property!
It is equivalent to someone parking on someones driveway.
Anyway the police were called to have a chat with them for being verbally abusive.
Is it just us BU or are they being dicks?
The bays are even marked up to the number of our house!

They said we were so sad & pathetic to get bollards!
Oh & need to get a life!

Do they have no parking bays of their own? Or have they too many cars?

I'd be going straight to the housing association about their harassing you; using your property and then lobbing abuse at you. Might as well try and get them moved.

Can you get CCTV to cover the parking bay area?

Why is the bin store not yours?

Yes they do have their own bays!!

The actual bin store is not in our deeds for some reason

Yanbu, what sort of entitlement is that. We had a neighbor who did that always where we used to live. Every house has an allocated parking space but he has 1 car and 2 vans so he just parks wherever he wants. After warning him twice, the next time he parked in our space, dh just blocked him with the car. He was ringing our bell in the morning when he wanted to go out, no answered the door.
That was the last time he did that.

Keep a record of all notes and incidents and complain to the housing association if the abuse continues or escalates as anti social behaviour is against their tenancy agreement.

Definitely get CCTV. And don't scrimp on it if you can afford it. It can be infuriating having cctv evidence but the picture isn't clear enough for an identification.

They sound awful. Make notes tonight of everything you can remember from the beginning and send a very clear email to the HA. Make sure the HA know you are raising a complaint, I also think this is verging on harassment now the police have been involved. I agree with the need for CCTV as soon as you can

Why on earth do they park on yours if they have their own? Surely theirs are closer to their house than yours are?

If this was me i'd just keep up with the bollards (literally) and avoid the confrontation. They'll park in someone else's bays and row with them instead.

Sometimes asserting your rightness isn't worth the stress. Especially with people who won't be stressing about this at all. THEY won't be losing a nano second's sleep over this.

Sad and pathetic for wanting to use your own parking bash? That essentially you've paid for (as part of your home purchase) I'm sure they'd be fuming if you took over their bedroom and called them sad and pathetic for getting upset. Bullies plain and simple

I’m sure on a parking thread a while ago the OP had dashcam on the car which operated 24/7 and it caught someone messing with her car. I only mention it as if you are worried about them damaging your cars a dashcam might be a good investment.
Apologies if you’ve already covered that in any of your posts I haven’t been able to read the full thread as I’m with poorly baby

1. Contact HA and put in a complaint in writing. Detail everything and include the fact that police were involved and they have threatened to park in the bin store
2. Keep bollards up at all times
3. Get CCTV
4. Put up a sign saying it is privately owned and anyone else parking there will be towed
5. Report any further aggressions from them to the HA and police. Report it as intimidation and harassment. Do you have DC? Mention that too.

GOOD LUCK x they are CFs

Buy a second hand scrapped and park it on their bay

CFs, but volatile ones by the sounds of it.

Formal complaint to the HA, as suggested, and don't let them do nothing. Make sure they know the police have now been involved and you feel threatened.

YY to looking at at dashcam or cctv pointed towards your cars- you can pick them up quite cheaply on amazon etc.

Unfortunately I think it’s probably more a case of when, not if they try and play silly buggers by messing with one of your vehicles.

Yes we do have small children. DH was alone with them tonight whilst I was at work when incident happened l

Block them in every single time.

God humans are awful sometimes, why do people like these cfs make life so difficult and unpleasant for themselves and you?? Life is short and boring and hard enough, my blood pressure's gone right up reading this

Just a note of realism here, I work in housing and there is really not much we can do about this other than "remind" your neighbours about good behaviour. The landlord doesn't actually have as many powers as MN seems to think it has. It would need to be a hell of a lot worse than this to invoke any tenancy action, the courts just do not support us.
Tomorrow I am preparing a case for eviction for a tenant who threw acid over her neighbour. We are not guaranteed to get possession because of mental health issues. Tbh, I would recommend you ignore each other and keep your bollards up.
Unfortunately Housing cannot deal with everything despite everyone seeming to think they can and should.

I know it's ridiculous. These people are behaving like self righteous twats.
We have been nothing but polite.
This is our first house we've owned too.
It just feels like they feel they can help themselves.

Penguin bollards.

I think abandoning a vehicle in one of their bays is a hood idea! Lol