Not to let neighbour use drive

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Live in a road where parking is a pita. Not for me because l have a big driveway but l would not have bought a house in the road without one as it is near the town centre so a lot of people park here.

Neighbour has no parking and constantly asks if she can use my drive - aibu to say no? Don't really need all the space unless l have visitors which tends to just be at weekends but also don't want it to become a thing!

My next-door neighbour had young children like me but no off-street parking, we had a drive for one car in front of a garage. I suggested she could use the drive while we were on holiday, but not the last day because the builders were having the materials delivered for our extension and they were going to take everything through the garage. Well you can guess - got back and they’d had to take what they could through the house because neighbour’s car was on the drive but couldn’t leave everything as planned and took a lot longer. To make it worse, one of them was in the garage, forgot about the car (?!) and opened the door from inside damaging it and neighbour’s car! What a day, when we’d just arrived back tired from the family holiday. Btw before everyone had mobiles, in which case this wouldn’t have happened.

Yeah. That's how historically arguments happen. Because the neighbour will become used to using it. Then the neighbours family will be using it. And it will escalate.

This is a brilliant idea! Makes it a formal and changeable arrangement and you can withdraw the Just Park whenever it suits you - do it now!

Formalised agreement. You put in writing what is permissible and what is not.

An utterly ridiculous idea to get into a fee-paying contract to essentially lease her driveway out. Stop talking nonsense.

OP - say no firmly. Make it clear this won't be reconsidered in the future and put the entire conversation to bed promptly.

Nice manners you have there.

I also said: Or just say no. Full stop.

It has nothing to do with manners. You are encouraging the OP to enter into a legal nightmare by giving someone else rights over her driveway. It is utter stupidity.

I can't apologize because your aren't resilient enough to not feel bad about your daft ideas being called daft.

Beware that no matter how new a car is, all cars can all stain your drive with oil leaks, stink out your garden when started on cold mornings, and make noise when ice is scraped off the windscreen. Before you know it her visitors would park on your drive as well, and you’d lose any sense of privacy in your garden and for the view out of any of your windows able to see your drive. Don’t give in to her. Just say no, without any justification or reason.

Still won't work. Just be made out to be petty. What's one more car you got loads of room. Worse if another neighbour sees this happening and wants in on the driveway. Also I've heard that when a house with a driveway sells. The neighbour doesn't get that the agreement was with the previous owner.
Just say no. Stick to it.

Well I said the same in my last two sentences.

add the space to a parking site, you control the dates and revenue. Or it never gets used

My word, you really are as cringeworthy as they come. Stop embarassing yourself you silly little girl 😅

I'm 46. I'm not the one embarrassing myself.

You just called someone a "snippy bitch" and called out their legitimate spelling of the word apologize whilst "owning" your rudeness. All because you gave someone ridiculously stupid advice.

You have the mental capacity of a stroppy teenager 😅 you are embarassing, and we're done talking now.

Yawn.

Excellent. so, we agree,

Tell her yes. £500 a week, 50 week minimum, cash up front.

If it was just occasionally then I might if the neighbour was a nice considerate type of person. . But if it was every day then no. It would really get on my nerves. I don't even like folk parking outside my house and can't wait till they've gone.

rent out your drive on the app,
so then you’re making money (being close to town) and your neighbour can’t park there (bcoz it will become an annoying expectation).

Why the fuck are people suggesting stupid things like this when the OP has made zero reference to wanting to rent out their driveway?

I bet all those advocating this fucked up idea wouldnt do it themselves yet expect the OP to take up their insane "advice".

SMH.

Indeed. The vast majority of people with a spare bedroom would absolutely not want to take a lodger into their home, even though they would have capacity to do so.

For those who do want/need to do so, there are already several avenues by which they could actively achieve this.

Most private cars spend in excess of 95% of their 'lives' parked up and going nowhere; but you don't get people suggesting that folk should advertise their personal vehicles for hire for the rest of the time!

"It's just a nice thing to do but if you don't want to, that's your prerogative."

Loving this peak MN comment. Nice little snide "oh but IF you were a nice person LIKE ME you would!"

WTF are you going on about ?!?! 😂 Tons of ppl do it if they live in town close to stations etc. how can you take issue with that?!? She can either let her neighbour park there for free, and then it gets annoying after a while, or make money from her space which loads do. VERY different from renting a room in your home. Great a grip 😂