Im renting and have a long driveway. Can fit 6 cars if needed packed tight. The house next to me is weird. I think it’s 3 families living there and they have 6 cars but only a 2 car driveway so they park in the grass parralell the sidewalk.
Theres a family that lives in a room in the backyard, their only access is through a wood gate next to my driveway. The dudes car broke down in front of my house for two weeks, they walk through my driveway to get into and out of their backyard, and now he doesn’t have a car they have friends picking them up and dropping them off so they park in my driveway for 3-5minutes at a time to get picked up.
It’s annoying and my wife doesn’t like it much. Am I being petty or TA for not wanting them to use my driveway? I havnt talked to them yet cause I get the situation but it’s pretty annoying.
WIBTA for telling him to stop using my driveway?
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It’s your driveway. Do what you want.
No but also who cares if it’s such a small amount of time
NTA theor people can wait on the street.
Stop being rude.
I think you should let them wait inside the house.
Fuck no, tell them to get off your property.
Park at the end of your laneway
Most cities have codes defining how many people are allowed to live in a single property. If you want to go nuclear, you could call code enforcement about 3 families living in what sounds like a single family dwelling.
Fences make the best neighbors
Definitely wouldnt be the asshole. If it bothers you that much, tell them
Lock the gate.
They obviously have a ton of more pressing issues, why complicate their life even more. Maybe go say hi. Think of it as charity. My rule is don’t piss on people that are already backed into a corner. They typically aren’t receptive to your petty bullshit.
I live in a condo complex, had this happening with three neighbours who for some reason would not tell their guests to use the visitor parking less than 4 car parking spots away. I HAD to be the ahole in repeatedly telling them and posting notes on their guest’s vehicles until they for the most part got it. Yeah I don’t talk to them but I could care less.
Tell the folks you’re renting from to get the neighbors the fuck outa your yard otherwise he can kiss his rent goodbye.
No tell them to get lost.
When I was a kid, my Dad let some young couple temporarily park on our driveway for a month because their place didn’t have one put in yet. Rural. Vacant lots at the time. We had a driveway because we were fixing to build eventually.
These people took it upon themselves to constantly use it even after making a parking spot. Their guests would park there. The guests wouldn’t listen. So my Dad had to yell.
The moral of the story is fuck those people.