Location: Indiana.
Hi. I’m a 19 F. I don’t know if this is even the right subreddit, but I’m still shaky and I can’t think straight.
So I live in a home with my father. We own the property. In our neighborhood, you can’t park on the side of the street that my house is on, so when my fiance comes over they park on the opposite side of the street. Where parking is legal. I think.
We have space in our driveway to park, but my dad doesn’t want us parking there because he’s constantly running around and we’d constantly have to move our car when he needs to leave. So we park on the opposite side. In front of our neighbor’s house.
We take special care to stay far away from their driveway. Because we know it’s probably annoying. My fiance has been parking there for the last 3 years. No one said anything. But we had a new person move in. And now we’re having issues.
The man two houses down has been coming out of his house recently to scream at us for parking in front of that house. On public parking. He yells about us not parking in our own driveway. He says we block the driveway across from us (we don’t). He keeps threatening to tow our car. Saying all of our neighbors apparently talk shit about us. I’m not a big woman. I’m 5’1. He gets loud, and close, and scary. We think he’s related to the neighbor across from us. Which is why they suddenly have problems.
Is what we’re doing illegal? Can our car get towed? He has a pickup truck, I’m worried he’s going to try and tow it himself. I’m also worried he’s going to get physical. I’m just scared.
TLDR; Egg looking neighbor screams at us for parking in what (I think) is public parking.
Comments
You’re not doing anything illegal if it’s public street parking and you’re not blocking a driveway. He can’t legally tow your car himself, that’d be a huge liability for him. Start documenting everything (video if you can), and don’t hesitate to call the non-emergency police line if he gets aggressive again. You deserve to feel safe at home.
Probably depends on the city, there could be a 24-48 hour law where you can be towed if your parked anywhere not on your property. If your driving it everyday and parking there your probably good
Just ignore him. Don’t talk to him. Turn your back and walk away onto your property and if he sets foot on your property order him to leave or you’ll call the police for trespass.
You owe him no explanations here.
You could also call the police and report him being shouty and belligerent towards people parking in public near his house and threatening to tow cars. Tell the police you’re worried he may call and lie about how long the cars have been parked there. If he is following you down street or trying to step in your path to create a physical altercation, tell the police that.
They may pay him a visit and explain the law to him.