Parking - relatives neighbour left note on my car r

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It's a late night parking thread! AIBU?

My sister has recently moved to a new area. She lives in a cul de sac with room for 1 car on her drive. I have visited maybe 2-3 times since she's moved in and parked on the street outside apposite the cul de sac. I visited this evening and when I returned to my car found a note from her neighbour asking me not to park outside their house. No please/thank you, no explanation, just don't park outside our house basically, very blunt. This is a public road FYI. They do not have a driveway, but they do have a double garage a bit further up the road (at the back of their garden I guess). I have attached pictures.

I don't want to cause problems for anyone, especially my sister but there is room for maybe 3-4 cars along that road so surely they're not asking every single person who doesn't live there to move their car?! What do you all think? Crazy people?

Lora of advice to ignore but personally I wouldn't. You don't live there your sister does. There will be a reason the neighbour finds it irritating maybe it makes something more difficult or maybe they are crazy. Either way if there is an alternative use it. Once things escalate it's far harder to build a positive relationship and those are worth gold in neighbourhoods.

This. Not that I would actually do this but I agree with the sentiment and would completely ignore their note. They don't own the road, they have no claim over the road, they have no business policing the parking on the road.
People like that need to be told NO.

Oh dear.

Most of that part of the road isn't even their "house" (as in outside their front door and path). It's basically alongside a wall that circulates their boundary.

Speak to your sister, she may not want the aggro, but i’d continue parking there if your sister doesn’t object. It’s hilarious how people think they own the road outside their house.

It’s not even outside their house, it’s in the road that runs alongside it, on a side that doesn’t even have windows.

they’re not even neighbours, they live on a different street.

ignore them op.

You're gonna be late for school. Hurry now.

It depends on where you are parking OP

I'm on a cul-de-sac and people who park opposite on the road are a pain as cars using the road have to be on the wrong side.

Just a word of warning. One of my neighbours didn't like a van parking on the cul-de-sac. It wasn't doing any harm and no other resident was bothered.

But arsy neighbour contacted the council and we now have double yellow lines.

A complete waste of the council's resources. Occasionally they send a traffic warden to check the parking, he turns up, takes a photo and drives off.

People are just weird about the space outside their house, it’s ridiculous.

I'm another vote for check with your sister. My brother had an arsehole for a neighbour who hated people parking outside his house. It wasn't worth the hassle to my brother to park outside the neighbour's house as much as we had a right to do so.

What is on the other side of the road OP? This is why we need a diagram to fully assess the situation.

Ask your sister you don't want to make life difficult. We had nightmare neighbours, they had double car (that they ever used for cars) plus a large drive that could get upto six cars (they had three). We had no drive or garage so had to park outside our house. We had two cars, our house was roughly the length of one and a half cars so half a car was infront of their wall (at least a cars length away from their drive) it wasn't even visible from their downstairs window. But They would be apoplectic with rage. And would park a car bumper to bumper with ours. We ended up having to park a car across the road (in front of a different neighbours house) In hindsight I wish we had just told them to fuck off. They gave us grief about everything, kids playing in the garden, new fence. Was so glad to be rid when we moved

Could your sister park on the road when you are coming over, then you park on her drive?

The neighbours can’t be mad at her parking in the road right next to her house, since this is what they think they have the right to do.

Surely the easiest thing is just to block your sister in unless that would make it difficult for anyone opposite her to get off their drive. However, from the pic your parking spot is indeed not outside anyone's house, it's alongside the side wall on a different street. I think I'd just ignore for now but if you could shift a metre or so one way or another it could show willing that you're not in "their" spot. Depends how up for a row you are.

Hahahah absolutely second this!

Pop a note through the door saying

Do not touch and/or attach notes to my legally parked car

Continue to park there, they have no ownership of the road.

I just wouldn't park there. Maybe they've been fighting for a disabled bay but haven't been able to get one and all the other neighbours know their struggle so don't park there but you don't. A please would have been nice but honestly, is it even worth the hassle?! I wouldn't give it a second thought.

I live in a cul de sac and despite everyone parking "legally" it's a real pain in the arse as sometimes I can barely get through or some blind spots are created or someone tears through and nearly drives into head on because they have the anticipation and awareness of a garden gnome. From your photo nothing looks "wrong" but just park somewhere else and everyone's happy.

Can you not park on the same side as your sisters house? And as a pp has said is there a reason you haven’t parked over your sisters drive? Agree you have every right to park where you want but your sister does need to live there.

I had a colleague who parked regularly outside a house, he got left notes telling him not to park there

next time he parked there, he left a note on his dashboard

to leave notes on my car is harassment & 2 notes is counted as evidence. This evidence can then be used in the civil court. I suggest you leave me alone. The cameras are recording

no further notes were left, no damage to car