Neighbour Parking outside Others Garage

wolfazrael123 on 04/05/2017 - 16:07
Last edited 04/05/2017 - 16:08

I live in an old unit.

Last night, I heard my angry neighbour A shouting at B.

A is a nice person and B and his family are annoying tenants. Out of curiosity I opened my door and asked what happened.

Simple story, B kept parking outside A's garage and said sorry many times, but apparently he doesn't mean it. A got furious because he has been late for work a few times because of B, and B's excuse was like, I need to go to work. I don't know the logic of that.

My garage was full of old furniture and other stuff, but I'm cleaning it and preparing to buy a new car. I'm wondering if B parks outside my garage. What could I do?

I don't expect B suddenly learn to be a decent person. His family only stopped ringing my bell in midnight asking me to open the door for them because I told them that I would not open the door a few times and also threatened them that I will call police. And before that even I told them that my wife was pregnant and then I had an infant in my family, they just kept ringing my bell and then say sorry.

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  • scrambledeggs on 04/05/2017 - 16:13
    +2

    Let his tyres down

    • wolfazrael123 on 04/05/2017 - 16:15
      +2

      If it was 5 years ago, I would not bother to ask this question. I will let his windows teach him a lesson if necessary. But dude, I'm not single and I have a baby. I would not do anything like that now.

      • scrambledeggs on 04/05/2017 - 16:16
        +3

        Use the cover of darkness, Azrael.

        • wolfazrael123 on 04/05/2017 - 16:17
          +1

          If you blocked other's drive way or garage and then your car was damaged, you will know who did that. The cover of darkness would not work.

        • jelko on 04/05/2017 - 17:03
          -1

          @wolfazrael123: Well just damage his car preemptively. i.e. do it NOW. That way person B won't suspect you and may even give Person A the blame and you get off scott free.

        • airzone on 04/05/2017 - 20:50
          +2

          @wolfazrael123: Jack the car up, put it on dollies, push it onto the street, use the jack to take the dollies out again.

  • geek001 on 04/05/2017 - 16:17

    Can you complain to the body corp? Is there anyway to turn off the bell? Like put in a switch or something so that you can turn it off at night?

    • wolfazrael123 on 04/05/2017 - 16:19

      no the bell can't be turned off, unless I cut the line. But it is no longer an issue, since I refused to open door for anyone a few times.

      I'm interested in the body corp suggestion. But I really wonder what body corp could do with this sort of issue.

      • geek001 on 04/05/2017 - 16:23
        +5

        Maybe speak to your body corp. You are paying the body corp to resolve such issues. At my friend's apartment, they put up tow away signs. After the second warning, they tow your car away. If they won't do anything, you can try and become a body corp committee yourself to give this a matter some priority.

      • Toons on 04/05/2017 - 16:32
        +4

        The body corporate at one of my places put up clamping signs that anyone illegally parked Could / would be clamped with a $200 fine for offenders, basically the charge of the clamping company to remove said clamp because it's not monitored constantly but a private situation apparently legal on private / common property.

        stopped the offenders pretty quickly just with the signposts and if someone is parked where they shouldn't be you can either call the body corporate or the clamping company. if they are blocking access they will tow also.

        All anon so you don't have to worry about being grassed on, the signage alone should give you and your neighbour 1 less thing to worry about. if the corp agrees.

        The corporate can also issue warnings and if they are leasing the unit get the landlords involved all with out you.

  • JoFord63 on 04/05/2017 - 16:41
    +1

    Sounds like you live in the same block of units I do!

    • djkelly69 on 04/05/2017 - 17:28
      +7

      So are you A or B??

  • altomic on 04/05/2017 - 16:45
    +6

    bikies

    • brazen00 on 04/05/2017 - 16:48
      +7

      The fact that this took 38 min shows me OzBargain is going downhill. Shame!

      • Euphemistic on 04/05/2017 - 19:59
        +1

        Maybe B just wants A to help open the bonut.

      • mattyman on 05/05/2017 - 09:32

        Because it wasn't posted sooner?

        • brazen00 on 05/05/2017 - 09:49

          Exactly

  • Diji1 on 04/05/2017 - 17:31

    It sounds like you live next door to trolls.

  • try2bhelpful on 04/05/2017 - 18:08
    +1

    I know it is inconvenient but have you thought about getting some of those lockable foldable parking bollards. It will mean you have to get out of the car and unlock them and fold them down but it might be worth having if this is an issue.

    http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/Parking-Bollard-Protective-Gear/1…

    (I've seen them in "man" shapes, do not look up "lockable metal men" on Google - trust me on this.)

    • loulou1 on 04/05/2017 - 18:44

      Reminds me of the time a friend of mine was having a milestone birthday and requested a bottle of perfume called Young Sexy Lovely. Thought I would do a quick search before leaving the office for lunch. I had a lot of explaining to do to my boss.

  • [Deactivated] on 04/05/2017 - 20:30

    get strata to install them yellow parking lock/barrier things on everyone's parking space.

  • kale chips suck on 05/05/2017 - 11:30
    +10

    I have a neighbour who for 12+ years parked on my property daily. No requests, demands, ~ whatever ~ made any difference. He didn't give a shit because he knew there was nothing I could do legally.

    Eventually, I had to deal with it or have an aneurism. I borrowed a trailer and parked it on his nature strip. It was registered so he had no grounds, legally, to come back on me. It pissed him off quite a lot. Then I parked a van on the balance of his nature strip, which pissed him off more.

    Then I put another trailer on my property where he had been parking. Now he couldn't park on my place, and he couldn't park out the front of his own place. He had to park further away and walk. At this point, he was borderline homicidal.

    He had a "enthusiastic" go at me, and I pointed out that I have a yacht, on a trailer, and I was thinking of parking it where he was parked when he went to work the next day. I also mentioned that, by my reckoning, it'd be at least another 12 years of this before I considered us even. At this point he realised the rules had changed.

    So, then I made him an offer. You agree to park on your own place, and not on my place, or other neighbour's places - don't be an arsehole, in other words - and I'll remove everything. You violate that and I'll put everything back and the yacht AND I'll get the neighbours actively involved.

    That was three years ago. Hasn't happened again yet.

    So, in your case, coordinate everyone with an interest to park in front of this guys garage. Let him experience it. Eventually, the cost exceeds the benefit and they change, or move. Either way, you win.

    • wolfazrael123 on 05/05/2017 - 13:17

      well done. I wish I have a yacht T T

    • smux on 05/05/2017 - 23:16

      Weren't you worried he'd damage your property in revenge?

      • kale chips suck on 06/05/2017 - 00:09
        +2

        Revenge for what? Giving him a relatively slight dose of his own medicine? He wasn't being victimised any more than the level he'd subjected me to for well over a decade.

        Honestly though, had he gone that way, I would probably have thrown him off his own balcony. Fortunately, he didn't.

        But to answer your question, no, I wasn't worried. I didn't think he had it in him. Most don't.

        The crucial thing is making the hassle to them (when they take advantage) greater than the benefit they gain from having taken that advantage. When the negatives exceed the positives then they'll stop out of self interest.

  • HeWhoKnows on 05/05/2017 - 12:17

    Wheel clamps with $200 release fee. Also complain BIG TIME to strata manager AND his agent or landlord. Get him evicted! To find out agent/owner just plug address into google and look for last FOR LEASE listing or ask strata manager for the owners details

  • backpaqer on 05/05/2017 - 14:12

    OzBargain solution = this looks like a bargain
    ;)

  • Filbert on 05/05/2017 - 21:03
    +2

    If he parks in front of your garage just start leaning things against his car.
    Rakes, shovels, off cut pieces of wood.
    Put a piece of furniture on the bonnet and start working on it.
    They'll get the message.

  • Speckled Jim on 06/05/2017 - 18:26

    If B tries it on you, just take photos and email them to his estate agent. Safe to assume it's not private, who'd want that hassle with an investment property?

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