Neighborhood Courtesy
 

I wanted to see what people's thoughts are. If you are in a house, and a neighbor keeps parking their car at the sidewalk parking directly in front of your house/yard and leaving their driveway and sidewalk parking completely empty, would that be considered rude? Isn't it common courtesy/knowledge/respect, that you should only park in your own driveway, or the sidewalk parking in front of your house, and not park in front of someone's house every single day? Yes, I know that the sidewalk parking in front of a house does not belong to anyone.

Park in front of your neighbor's house.

lol, if I had another car, I would. At the moment, I don't.

We've been here for almost a year, and they see on a weekly basis, that where they are now parking one of their cars is where we put the trash and recycling bins on collection day. Now we have to try to squeeze it on the other side of the driveway, near one of their other vehicles and hope the city picks the bins up and doesn't pass it since they may be "too close to a vehicle for pick up."

That is very lame. I'm guessing they aren't the "neighborly" type. Tough to make friends with assholes.

Too bad you don't know someone with an old RV.

This happened to me a while back. I went on photoshop and made a fake citation, on which I wrote the details of what was wrong and that it was a warning only. It was signed by Officer Hugh Jass.

They never parked there again.

Put your bins on top of their car.

That sucks. Sounds like you need a inexpensive project car or truck.

Cooking up some good ideas here.

They're not bad, and they always compliment my car. However, I just don't think they care or think of others. Like the first week we were here, they were parking one of their cars in the same spot I'm referring to here, but intruding a 1/4 into the front of the driveway. They also play their music loud enough where I can hear it (but not feel it).

LOL, I should put up a craigslist ad for old RV parking. http://www.8thcivic.com/forums/images/smilies/rotfl.gif


Interesting...interesting. Wouldn't know what to say on the "citation" though.


:lol:then the bins will definitely not be collected.


I need an affordable, cash car to keep the miles on my FR-S down. I'm averaging 22k a year!


Keep em coming; bonus results of this thread. lol

Let's discuss the elephant in the room. Have you ever brought it up with them? What would keep you from doing so?

This^^^

Buy a big ugly panel van and leave it parked outside your neighbour's property.

@"Kaotic Lazagna" is this the music they're playing loud enough for you to hear?

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGKrc3A6HHM"]Daddy Yankee - Gasolina [Official Music Video] - YouTube[/ame]

If so I'd move.

I wanted to, but my mom thinks it's going to cause problems (I really don't get this whole Asian passiveness BS).

Spray paint "free candy" on it too? :lol:

Unfortunately, that's what I hear a couple of them blasting when they role up. The music they play in the house is different though.

Hard to find a house with a garage for the same rent as an apartment though.

Realistically speaking If there is no law that say that they can't park in front of your house. Then they can do whatever they want, you could too. It would become an issue of courtesy and that's just it, they don't have to be they can be a douche bag if they want. I had this happen before where this old Chinese guy would keep parking his car across the end of my driveway so it made it hard to back out and in, cause his civic is right at the end. And this guy doesn't even live on my street he's around the corner and like to leave his driveway empty.

I tried at first to just ask him nicely but he say he doesn't speak English and only speaks Chinese, so I got a Chinese friend to talk to him and he still didn't do it. So we asked a cop who like to park at the end of the road when he's trying to catch people who roll off stop signs to talk to him and like I said above there's no law he couldn't do anything.


Finally, we threw a party at my house and I asked all of my friends to park in front of his house block his driveway etc. and come Monday when he parks blocking my driveway. He's moved back enough to let our cars in and out. Now this year we got smarter, we planted bushes where he parks and the branches reach out far enough to create scratches if he parks there.


He's finally using his driveway.

Or spray "Neighbourhood Watch".

Probably cheaper to just throw dog shit on their driveway.

Just write a note from the POV of the trash company. They are inhibiting a paid service. As of XXX date if not remedied they will ask house owner to put his trash in their driveway instead so it could be collected.

If they don't move, put your trash in their driveway. Also all your friends trash too. :P

Now that does sound crazy.. they won't make the connection between dog shit and parking. It's land grabbing and will continue as it's much like the towel on a sun bed as done by certain nationalities at certain holiday resorts in Europe.

Had a neighbors cleaning lady that did this daily. Not only that she would drive deep in my grass in the rain and foul up the yard to park there. Visualize 40-50 feeet of driving with two wheels deep in the yard to get to the chosen parking spot in my yard. All the while the neighbors driveway was empty.

I asked the lady several times, at least 6 face to face and 3 or 4 by silly note on windshield, politely to move her car and please stop parking in my yard. She refused. One morning I went out to cut my grass and her car was parked in my grass again. I rang the door bell and asked the house owner and the cleaning lady to come out and tell me what was wrong with using their driveway and asked for car to be moved so I could cut. Convo started pretty low key but the cleaning lady then said she would be done in a couple hours and I should wait until then to cut MY yard. That set me on fire. I cursed her out with every word I knew and probably some I made up on the spot. Ended the conversation with "I'll tow that POS mustang every effing day at my own expense if you don't move it right now." Looked at the neighbor and told her unless she wants me to put my cars in her yard daily she'd better handle her cleaning lady.

Cleaning lady quit on the spot and I haven't had a problem since. Second bit of good news is my neighbor doesn't speak to me anymore, lol.

@JD001 this might be more effective: [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIjO0Kp_lXU"]Farmer sprays poop all over protestors trespassing on his land - YouTube[/ame]

Oh yeah a lawn sprinkler is a good tool here. As well as garbage cans on garbage day. Cut down limbs etc.

Seems very popular.......

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I disagree. There's always risk but it can be mitigated by the approach. Friendly, non-confrontational honesty is a skill that takes practice. If you can first shed any expectation for the outcome and focus on candor, it helps the other party to open up.

If they're nice already and you send the message that you aren't judging them, they might surprise you.


...might. ;)

That is how I handled our neighbour that kept blocking our laneway. They never even really realized they were causing an inconvenience. They apologized and never did it again.

Found some photos of that old "citation". I think it's been long enough for SoL, lol...

http://imgur.com/QoJfKmN.jpg

http://imgur.com/6l69ejc.jpg

Damn, that's all bad. It was actually in your property. Glad it got resolved. Haha

For what ever reason, my mom doesn't think so. She fits the stereotypical passive Asian (-_-)

Put some yard furniture, invite your rice friends and bring the bbq with some coronas

It's up to you to break the shackles of tradition.

And....have a paint ball party.

Ultra beat me to it again!
Your mother doesn't even need too know you talked to them.

I hate you.

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For 2 weeks my next door but one neighbour parked his beat up 90s Civic directly opposite my driveway. Nobody parks on that side of the street for 200 feet or so and after a few days I started to wonder if he had done it just to fuck with me. It wasn't a huge inconvenience, I just had to be careful not to hit his car every morning when I backed out of the drive and then drove past his house noticing that the street outside his home was empty.

I thought about going to talk to him but I normally kind of let my emotions get the best of me, and what was I going to do, complain about him parking on a public street? It was the principle of the thing though, he must have known it was an inconvenience for me, right?

Some neighborhoods have HOA rules that prohibit parking on the street.

Not that they're ever followed or enforced, just...ya know...rules...
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They must know it's bothersome. No one is that stupid.

Unfortunately/fortunately (I never saw the point of HOA's), I don't have an HOA.