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To not let neighbour park on our drive

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Sexnotgender · 27/10/2020 18:45

Neighbour 2 up approached DH the other day to ask a favour.

He’s getting a new car and doesn’t want to park it on the road in case it gets damaged. There’s plenty of parking and it’s a fairly quiet road but he wants to park it off road. Can’t park on his own driveway as his wife’s car is there. Wants to use ours.

Was I unreasonable to say a flat out no?

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AintPageantMaterial · 27/10/2020 19:44

Tell him he can’t park his Hummer on your drive because you’re worried people might think it’s yours!

OnceUponAnEnzyme · 27/10/2020 19:45

I feel bad as our drive is enormous

Presumably you paid for this size drive. He needs to do the same, if that's what he wants.

I have a spare bedroom; I'm not about to offer it to the neighbour for them to use instead Grin

legalseagull · 27/10/2020 19:45

What. CF not even offering you rent to start off with! I'd have said no too. Why would you want to look out the windows at someone else's car? Or listen to the engine every time they get 'home' or go to work in the morning

RedMarauder · 27/10/2020 19:46

@PlanDeRaccordement

I’d let him for £50 a month under a parking space lease contract.
You are too cheap.

If he can afford an expensive car he can pay that per week.

thenightsky · 27/10/2020 19:46

Depends on how well you get on with him. When we go away on holiday, I always tell my neighbours to crack on and use my drive for their visitors until xxx date. In return they've offered their drives to my visitors. One even let my friend who was fleeing DV to hide her car behind her gates!

Bargebill19 · 27/10/2020 19:46

A hummer...... there is a very good reason our local warehousing have banned these vehicles in their car parks. (Stobarts and Tesco).
And you don’t have the same size car parking!

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Sexnotgender · 27/10/2020 19:46

@AintPageantMaterial

Tell him he can’t park his Hummer on your drive because you’re worried people might think it’s yours!
That really is another consideration!
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Belleende · 27/10/2020 19:47

No fucking way I would have a wankmobile parked outside my house.

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Sexnotgender · 27/10/2020 19:48

Depends on how well you get on with him.

We’re only really on nodding terms. My husband occasionally passes the time of day with him when he’s out walking the dog but that’s all.

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PrincessPain · 27/10/2020 19:50

What about when a trolley dings it at tesco? Or gravel on road works hit his paint or windscreen? Or someone backs into him at his office (or wherever he works)?
Don't get a car you're scared to actually own because its so expensive. Mind boggling. I'll stock eith my 2006 micra.

RedMarauder · 27/10/2020 19:50

@Sexnotgender

Depends on how well you get on with him.

We’re only really on nodding terms. My husband occasionally passes the time of day with him when he’s out walking the dog but that’s all.

Then he can f* off.

CF.

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Sexnotgender · 27/10/2020 19:51

@acatscauldron

It could easily fit 2/3 cats nose to tail

Lions I presume, given were talking about a hummer.

I’d rather have lions on my drive than a Hummer!
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silverbubbles · 27/10/2020 19:52

Simply say no, you are not prepared to accept the responsibility for anything that might happen to it.

Bearbehind · 27/10/2020 19:52

I wouldn’t have said yes anyway but the fact he’s buying a Hummer means I wouldn’t even feel remotely guilty about it

That is an epic twat-mobile for all but a handful of people who actually require its abilities

Buying one if he lives in suburbia with no space to park it just makes him an arse

RedMarauder · 27/10/2020 19:53

Oh and the reason you don't want an expensive car on your drive is that too many people I know have been burgled for their car keys while they were sleeping.

Inthemuckheap · 27/10/2020 19:53

If it's a Hummer (the bloke's a cockwomble just for his choice of car) it's so heavy it'll probably damage your driveway which is probably why he doesn't want to park it on his own driveway!

Mrsmadevans · 27/10/2020 19:53

What if something happened to the car when it was on your property !
YADNBU OP!

Summerfreeze · 27/10/2020 19:53

Say no but don’t give him a reason he can then try to solve. Just ‘Sorry, no, it doesn’t work for us’.

The fact he asked shows what a cheeky fucker he is and the fact he’s a cheeky fucker means that this arrangement would not go well.

Tamingofthehamster · 27/10/2020 19:53

Just no.

Haffdonga · 27/10/2020 19:54

No. Insurance reasons (if you need an excuse, which you don't).

Bearbehind · 27/10/2020 19:55

Simply say no, you are not prepared to accept the responsibility for anything that might happen to it.

It’s not even that complicated - OP shouldn’t be prepared to have other people permentally parking on a driveway she has paid for!

Belleende · 27/10/2020 19:57

Out of interest what did your husband say? Me thinks you are being lined up to take the blame for saying no. "sorry mate, her indoors said no, bloody women"

windturbines · 27/10/2020 19:57

Absolutely not being unreasonable at all.

I'm very much of the opinion that neighbours need to be kept at arm's reach. Anything more seems to always end up in arguments and disaster. If you would have said yes, he would have most likely took that as a green light for loads of other CF things. Better to say no, nip it in the bud and forget about it. His wife's car can go on the road if he's so precious.

You did the right thing.

Whatamesssss · 27/10/2020 19:58

The brass neck on some people never fails to amaze me. I bet his wife didn't want him to buy it either and that's why he can't park it on his own drive.

What type of person buys a Hummer? 🤏

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Sexnotgender · 27/10/2020 19:58

@RedMarauder

Oh and the reason you don't want an expensive car on your drive is that too many people I know have been burgled for their car keys while they were sleeping.
Oh I didn’t think of that. That’s a very good point.
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