Hi all. Having a little ponder.
Just over a year ago I moved into a new flat. New flatmate told me there was a parking space for the flat around the back, the girl previously in my room had been using it. Flatmate can’t drive so obviously said I could use it.
Space is up a back road full of potholes, I used the space for 2 months, during which time the exhaust fell off my car and needed fixed. Also got a flat tyre from a nail on that back road.
I then realised that the on street parking permit for my old flat was still valid in this new area, so I started parking on the street at the front. When the time came to renew my on street permit I renewed it, as I figured the maintenance costs for my car going up the back road were greater than the cost of the on street parking.
So for the past 10+ months I’ve been parking on the street at the front, paying a parking permit and the back space for the flat has been empty.
Today my flatmate has found out she has been paying for the flat parking space at the back as part of her rent (which is more than mine). She’s pretty annoyed as she can’t drive. Landlady says the space is only included in flatmates room, not my room!
My AIBU is, should I pay flatmate back for the two months I used the space, or AIBU to think that this is between her and the landlady?
On one hand it would be a nice gesture, on the other I have been paying for an on street parking permit anyway and I had no idea that the space was an extra cost
to flatmate.