CF Parking Thread! (with diagram of course)

[LivingMyBestLife2020]

The house next door to me is for sale. It appears to be over priced but that’s another thread. Saying that, it’s has had an awful lot of viewings. They come in blocks of about 6 viewings every other day or so.

Anyway, I digress. The house for sale has a large driveway which fits 3 cars easily (green area on the diagram)
I have a double drive, one behind the other, and park in the red spot. The yellow spot is empty. The black arrow where they walk across.

Every single time there are viewings, at least one car parks on my drive and then slowly saunters across the front of my house, right across the window, where they have a nosey in!

I ignored it the first time but now every single viewing slot, somebody parks there. Yesterday I was in the kitchen at the back of the house. Took the bin out, opened the gate and came face to face with two women! I asked what they were doing and she said “just looking at the neighbours house!” I noticed her car on my drive and asked her to move it. She just reversed backwards on to the road, then walked straight across my lawn.

It’s happened 4 times now. As soon as I see viewings going on I’m going to reverse my car into the second space. It’s not like they can mistake which house with is. There is a full branded EA car on the drive (leaving 2 easily accessible spaces) and a for sale board.

Sorry, no advice needed, just needed a moan! 🤣😂

Do you think they've been told to park there by the EA? Maybe you need to tell the EA to warn people not to park there. CFs the lot of them !

park your car on the yellow bit until it's sold?

They must have been told to! I can’t imagine more than one person being so completely thick as to think it’s acceptable?!

@ChnandlerBong

park your car on the yellow bit until it's sold?

This.

That's really weird. I'd be straight on the phone to the EA to ask what on earth is going on. Or pretend to be buyer and book a viewing but just because I'm bored .

Can’t you talk to your neighbour and get THEM to tell the EA? Tell em if they want to sell their bloody house, not to piss you off or you’ll be standing naked in the window for shits n giggles.

Yes, park on the yellow bit surely?

Park your car on the yellow bit and make sure you 'barricade' any way for them to walk across your lawn.
Your wheelie bins with a rope strung through the handles should be enough.

Get a spray cat scarer for your front lawn. After a few of his potential buyers have been soaked the estate agent will soon warn them not to walk over your lawn.

That's so strange. I can't see how even one person would think that was ok, let alone four. It's so obviously yo IRC's driveway and garden. They must have been told to park there surely? Still so rude to walk across your garden.

your driveway

Agree you need to park much further down.

I would also think about putting a divider between the front gardens.

I would want the end of that walkway blocked anyway (at the end where it meets the neighbouring property).
Also definitely just park in the yellow spot from now on. Fuckers.

I had this when my next door neighbours house was for sale. People blocking my car in, peering though my windows - even coming into my back garden.

Houses about ten years old - so not a new build or anything. Clearly occupied.

I once found two men in my garden discussing the fact that my back garden was larger. It must be a mistake therefore the fence should be moved😳. I asked them to leave and they were quite put out.

Who the hell thinks they can inspect the neighbours gardens???

Thank god they didn’t buy the house. Would have been hateful neighbours

You need a psychological barrier, something as simple as a bin to make them walk round.
We were on a campsite once and without fail everyone walked across our allotted eating area to reach the shower block.
I put the airier on one side and a bin on the other and it stopped.

If they're like this when they're viewing, I hate to think what they'd be like as neighbours. I'd just ring the EA myself and ask them to make sure they tell people not to park on your drive or walk across your property.

@Ideasplease322, lucky they didn't buy. What a cheek saying the fence must be in the wrong place. You can imagine years of arguments about that.

People really are so rude! Let's hope some nice polite people buy it

OP it's in your neighbours and the estate agent's interests to sell the house. Contact them both and make it clear if viewers continue to use your drive you will behave in a way that will put them off buying the house.

Are you able to put a fence up along that boundary? Doesn't have to be a big one, but by blocking the route from your drive to the neighbours house, you remove the incentive for them to park on your drive.

Otherwise, wheelie bins and moving your car to park in the yellow spot for now.

@PhoenixReincarnated

OP it's in your neighbours and the estate agent's interests to sell the house. Contact them both and make it clear if viewers continue to use your drive you will behave in a way that will put them off buying the house.

Agreed.

Phone the EA and make a complaint. If you then see so done walking across your garden open the door and shout at them to move now they are trespassing

Make yourself as shouty as possible it will put people off buying and the EA then will make sure no one parks on your drive

Is there any possibility at all that people have the impression that your front garden belongs to the house which is for sale - so they’re getting all the bit with the red boundary? I’d be taking a close look at the advert and also having a word with the agent.

Agree with Whatdoyoudo, and suggest you get straight on to rightmove and see what it implies about the parking. (Although if it were me I'd have been on there already )

There may be a photo showing your drive and lawn which implies it belongs to next door. In that case the Estate Agents need a rocket up their arse.

The yellow spot belongs to you, correct? Just park there until the house is sold.