Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

It drives me crazy. No one has driveways on my block by choice. They have put grass over them.

I have a one-car driveway. All I ask for is room in front of my house to park one more car. The neighbors across the street and next door on one side are really good about leaving room for me. But on the other side (who by the way have the longest driveway on the block-it could hold like 5 cars) only park one car in their driveway and park the rest on the street. It's not bad most of the time, but when their daughter is home from school over the summer, she always parks there! And their guests all do.

It's SOOO frustrating to have to park 3-4 houses away some nights and have to drag in my laptop and all my work stuff down to the house. Sorry so long, but it really bugs me!

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

It REALLY bothers me!!! I pay 9k a year for taxes on my 20' of road frontage, and I'M GOING TO PARK MY DAMN CAR IN FRONT OF MYYYYYYYY HOUSE!!!


I've been known to knock on a few car windows in my time. Dh gets mortified, but I don't give a flying fuk.

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

I hate it. Luckily no one really does. Our block is pretty good that way. In our town in is against the town laws to park on the street so that is great.

On the weekends DH parks his car in front of our house so no one else can.

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

Posted by Goobster

Posted by KellyFG

[DH says I'm going to get shot one of these days, I say "at least I'll die doing something I love!"

My dh says I am going to say something to the wrong person too one day. I yelled at a guy who ran the stop sign when we were walking our dog and almost hit us...and he proceeded to keep driving around the block as fast as he could to F with me. So our DHs could be right.....

so tell me,seriously, I want to use your words! And yes, I rememeber McGruff...my dad had gotten some pamphlets with McGruff when I was younger and I gave them out at school...lol, the little nerd that I was...

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Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

I can see it being annoying if someone leaves their car there for weeks at a time... but seeing as we don't own the street, anyone's allowed to park there - so I don't get upset about it.

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Parking in front of other's homes isn't really an issue where I live since we have pretty large driveways and properties.

BUT...there's one woman on our block that actually parks on the street when we get snow storms b/c she doesn't plow her drivewayS...yes, she has 2 driveways! One has a small parking lot too!!!! So her car stays on the street during winter storms until all the snow melts. I guess she hasn't caught on that as a courtesy to the town highway employees and other residents, we all put our cars in our driveway/garages so the streets can be cleared.

My DH has been tempted to "push" her car with our truck bumper.

Message edited 7/28/2007 8:17:09 AM.

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

When I was a kid, I used to get annoyed when the kids in the neighborhood would use our circular driveway to turn their bikes around in.

My Mom used to scold me, say they're just kids using the property for just a small amount of time, don't worry about it.

Years later, we had five cars and only three would fit in the driveway, one on the street, and then the last person would have to park in front of our neighbor's house.

One day my neighbor had a party and their guests parked in front of our house, even though our neighbor had a corner lot and lots of other spots available.

My mother started looking out the window and complaining about it and I said to her, "They're just temporary guests using the spot for just a small amount of time, don't worry about it."

Mom doesn't like having her words used against her.

Message edited 7/28/2007 8:35:17 AM.

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

Forgot to actually answer the question...

The white trash of the block lives across the street, one house down from us. They have a renter with a canary yellow coupe that always parks right in front of our living room window. We have a corner lot, they don't. They also have a beaten up, rusty van that they use to trail their boat with that has also been in front of our house (and didn't move for a month one time - my neighbor called the town on him because it looked abandoned). And a 25 year old crumbling motorhome which has also appeared in front of our window.

His tenant likes to get on his cellphone and walk around the street YELLING into his PHONE about F*CKING this and F*CKING that. And he does it in the presence of his son, who can't be more than 9 years old.

So yes, we have quite a history with this. We don't like it. But we are also renters. We only park in our own driveway and keep our mouth shut until we own property.

The property we're looking to buy now is also a corner lot and one side is all fenced so I would assume that will be used by the neighbors. We only have 1 car and a driveway so we really wouldn't care that much if anyone used the spots. If there was a bay window with a view of the front, then we might mind.

Message edited 7/28/2007 8:47:19 AM.

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

I think its annoying but my DH always tells me who care we dont OWN th road

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I hate it.

My next door neighbor has an apartment that he rents in his basement, and the tenants park on my property. That bugs me to no end. If you live over there, then park in front of that house.

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Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

Posted by greenfreak

When I was a kid, I used to get annoyed when the kids in the neighborhood would use our circular driveway to turn their bikes around in.

My mother started looking out the window and complaining about it and I said to her, "They're just temporary guests using the spot for just a small amount of time, don't worry about it."

Mom doesn't like having her words used against her.

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I have absolutely noone parking in front of my house on a regular basis, so I really don't have an opinion on it.

If it were a constant thing, I would probably get annoyed.

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HATE IT and what I do is park my car real close by a hair line in front of theres to get the hint. also if they are close to my driveway I have parked blocking my driveway just about right up against thier car too!

Message edited 7/13/2009 2:38:20 PM.

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

Drives my DH NUTS too.

But we are kinda in a weird situation b/c we rent a house and our landlord's son parks infront of our house with his giant pick up and giant trailer. And sometimes just leaves the trailer

We keep my sister's car a lot and we will park it out front so he can't. One time I left for TEN MINUTES and he parked there.

No one has said anything to the other parties, but we kinda have a parking war going on.

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Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

I grew up in Queens...all of the homes on our block had a 1 car garage (which most used for storage) and a driveway. Street parking was on a 'first come first serve' basis. So, I guess I just got used to other people parking in front of my house.

One thing that bugged me then and would bug me now is blocking my driveway...unacceptable!

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This one takes the cake. My mil lives across the street from church. It was time for mass and I guess this woman was running late and could't find a spot and parked in my mil driveway. My sil got home and parked behind her. This woman had a fit because my sil wouldn't move her car immediately. Could you image the gall of people. Me I wouldn't have answered the door and made the lady wait a very very long time.

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Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

I think it's courteous to not park in front of your neighbor's home but it's something you can't control and it is sometimes unavoidable so it's easier to not let it bother you.

Message edited 7/29/2007 12:30:09 AM.

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

Posted by LIBOUND

I just had to come back with an update:
They moved out today!! I went outside and saw a moving truck and them putting stuff in it. The apartment is legal btw...but I don't care..they're gone!! woo hoo!!

Re: Poll - How do you feel about people who park in front of your house?

It's true we don't "own" the road however, our mailbox is curbside and when people park in front of our house (our neighbors parents ALWAYS do this so they can park in the shade of our trees) they often park so that the mailman has to get out of his truck...when he does that WE get a note from the mailman expressing his displeasure