Homeowners park on their driveway to block entitled neighbors from parking on their property: 'We shouldn’t have to ask them 3 times in a month not to park at our house.'

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  • The neighbors in this story can't seem to stop parking on their neighbors' property. Their landlord needs to fix their property so they actually have a place to park, but that isn't their neighbor's problem!

  • Two cars parked in front of a garage

    Two cars are parked outside to block neighbors from parking on property that isn't theirs. 

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  • Am I the bad guy for making my neighbors not being able to functionally use their “driveway”?

    My husband and I bought a house about a month ago, and moved in 2 weeks ago but are already having a problem with the neighbors relating to our driveway situation. They

  • rent and have their daughter and grandkids living with them with 2 cars, plus the daughter's boyfriend's car sometimes. We have 2 cars and will have another person living with us, so soon to be 3 cars.

  • We have a gravel driveway that is old and losing gravel. The driveway is just barely big enough to fit 2 cars, if I park on the grass. just a little. We have a 1 car garage from our basement that we can't use yet due to it not

  • Garage door installation and repair

    The repairman fixes the broken garage door of a one-car garage.

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  • having an automatic opener and the opener button has to be held the whole time the door is going down. Fixing it is on our to-do list, though. So our driveway is wider at the front of the house, and then narrows as it goes

  • past the side of the house towards the backyard, and to the garage. Our house sat vacant for a while, so the neighbors had been using the driveway for their cars, but our realtor told them it was our driveway and to please not park there after

  • we closed. A couple days later, they talked to my husband and said the landlord told them half of it was theirs. I knew that wasn't right, so I went digging and found an old survey of our property and was able to locate the iron pin marking our property

  • was able to locate the iron pin marking our property corner. What had ended up happening was that over time (you can actually see this happening with old Google Street View images), the gravel had spread a little, so that, in combination with the neighbors parking on their

  • grass anyways, gave the impression of a wider driveway. A bit of a parking pad had been carved out on their property with their cars. But 3/4 of that driveway is ours. There's enough for 2

  • cars to fit on our side of the line, but there's not enough for them to be able to get out of their car if they keep parking on this makeshift parking pad, unless we stagger with one of us parked further down the driveway on the side of the house.

  • Once I located the property corner, I took some spray paint to mark it, pointed it out to them, and kindly asked they not park on our property. I also tried contacting the landlord, but I never got a call back. After the

  • conversation, they were still very frequently parking on or over the line in such a way that we couldn't get one of our cars in the middle down the driveway (and if our garage was usable, they'd be blocking us from getting in or out of the garage). I talked to them,

  • and asked that if we park as far to the left as possible, and they park as far to the right as possible, we could fit 3 cars and if that would be ok. They said yes, completely understood, and were very nice about it. But a couple

  • days later, they were back to parking over the line and we could no longer get a car down the driveway. Admittedly, I got frustrated and decided to prove a point. The moment they left, I moved my car onto the grass a

  • little and had my husband park next to me. We were completely within our property line, but because we weren't staggered, they wouldn't be able to get out of their car, if they parked there. When the

  • neighbors got back, the wife came out yelling about it and yelling about the spray painted line. My husband went to talk to her husband (who has seemed completely understanding of the situation) and he explained that he had a hard time getting out of his car. He is

  • and we are understanding of that, but every day, one of them has been violating our request to not park on the line. I don't want to make it hard for him, but it's also his decision to keep parking there when there isn't enough space on his side of the property to line to

  • have an actual parking space. The way I see it, is that they don't have a driveway, just a couple feet of asphalt where the city repaved the road a long time ago and overlapped with driveways, a little bit of our gravel that has spread, and bare soil.

  • What little they do have, is not enough space to park without us having to maneuver around their bad parking, or us just not being able to use our driveway fully. If they want to gain off street parking, they can gravel out their own driveway or ask the landlord to. But they

  • cannot block us from using our garage (once it becomes functional) by parking crookedly into our property. It is our goal to re-gravel the driveway and to add a fence between us and them (also, their grandkids are constantly on our property and have, multiple times, tried to

  • open our front door so the fence would also be for that) but after this blow up from the wife, I'm worried about what blow up she will have if we add a fence.

  • Toddler reaching for a gate latch outdoors

    Grandchild opens the door of their grandparents neighbor's house.

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  • I feel like a bit of an a ole for intentionally not staggering our parking. I want to be reasonable, especially because the husband has been so sweet and understanding about it, but we shouldn't have to

  • ask them 3 times in a month to not park fully or partially our property. AITAH for fully parking within our property, but functionally blocking them from using their corner of the driveway?

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