“My neighbors keep stealing my parking space – I get angry.”

If there is a parking space in the building where you live, you assume that it will always be free for you – because it belongs to you.

However, one angry resident became enraged when his neighbors repeatedly parked in their “shared” parking lot – but this was specifically for the building’s tenants, not the entire street.

“Neighbors cannot park their cars in our parking lot. It’s private property, a busy city, so people always want to park off-street,” they explained, but of course, since all parking spaces are reserved in the lot, they shouldn’t park there.

At first they admitted that they assumed the car belonged to the “new tenants”, but one day they did something surprising that made it clear to them that they should not have been in that parking space at all.

“When they started parking there, we thought they were new tenants, until one day one of them ran into the house and turned off the electricity (he hit the power box in the house or something like that)” – they explained in the Forum program “Neighbors from Hell” native” on Reddit.

They continued: “I sent photos of the cars to our property manager (mainly because I was worried about the other tenants and I would be blamed for the incident since there are no cameras on the property or in the house) and she said that this car (and another car behind him, the guy’s girlfriend) couldn’t park there. They weren’t tenants.

This baffled the building’s residents and they wondered why they thought they had the right to park there when they didn’t even live in the building that owned the parking lot.

The original poster admitted that calls had been made for vehicles to be “towed” before, but the company had acted “too slowly” and moved their cars before they could be caught in the act.

Either that or “the neighbor hears us coming down the stairs and runs out, stopping both cars”, but the irate neighbor said the perpetrators had been towed “three or four times in the last few months”, clearly saying “they don’t care” about it that their car will be taken away.

They wondered what they could do about it, fuming: “It’s getting to the point where our parking lot is becoming crowded with two random people parking.”

One vindictive Redditor wrote: “Search for parking stickers on Amazon. I use them when cars are parked in my spot. I have never had my car returned! Removing them is a nightmare. I usually put them on the driver’s and passenger’s windshields, but if I get really nervous I’ll sometimes use several.” Someone responded to this person by saying, “This is borderline evil in pure simplicity.”

Another suggested: “I would call the local police department and see if they can be legally violated. If you can, I would try to get proof that they parked on your property and then see if you can press a trespassing charge. AKA had them arrested.

“Install foldable parking bollards,” someone said, but first he would have to check with the building manager to see if it could be done.

A commenter on the thread wrote: “Ask for cameras to be placed in the parking lot. This way you can check to see if your neighbors are there and call a towing company without anyone leaving the house, preventing your vehicle from running out and moving your vehicle quickly to avoid being towed. The mere visibility of the cameras may even be enough to stop illegal parking.

“You could also ask your local police if it would be a problem for them if you called every time you saw them (again, cameras would be helpful here). Having to pay multiple parking violation tickets, in addition to the towing fee if the truck arrives on time, may be enough to stop it. Additionally, having a lot of tickets may make insurance companies reluctant to cover them, which may also encourage neighbors to stop illegal parking.

“The only other possible option I can think of (that is not destructive) would be to fence the plot so that residents (and of course property owners/managers) have access to it. The problem is the cost of the fence.”