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Imagine living in an HOA neighborhood where there are only so many parking spots available. What would you do if a neighbor’s caregivers started parking in your parking spots since visitor parking was too far away?

In this story, one homeowner is dealing with this exact situation. She’s not upset at the sick neighbor next door. She understands that he needs caregivers to help him. However, she wants the caregivers to stop parking in her assigned parking spots. Is that too much to ask?

Keep reading for all the details.

Neighbors caregivers always parking in our parking spots.

I live in an HOA with assigned parking.

We own our home.

We automatically get two spots with our HOA dues, and I pay for a third spot for my teenage driver.

We are in a very high cost of living area, and my HOA dues exceed $1,000 per month as it is.

Meet the neighbor.

The gentleman next door is older and apparently very ill.

He is the grandfather of a very wealthy Hollywood socialite.

Rather than move him to California or put him in a convalescent or hospice situation, they have hired round the clock caregivers. Plus different family is visiting from California quite frequently.

This has been going on for over a month.

The caretakers are the ones causing the problem.

He has two assigned parking lots.

Until recently, they were both filled with cars of his. One a brand new SUV and the other an older BMW that really didn’t run.

Since the caretaking and visits have started, he often has 6 or seven vehicles here at one time.

They are constantly parking in our spots or our neighbor spots and when we come home we have nowhere to park.

This is awful!

I have spoken with the caretaker and the daughter several times but nothing seems to change.

I have started putting cones out in our spots when we leave and yet they just run them over.

I complained to the property manager as have several of my neighbors.

The property manager has been doing absolutely nothing and none of us could figure out why.

She found out something interesting.

Well I was chatting with her boyfriend, our groundskeeper, yesterday and found out that they gave him the old BMW for free.

So of course the property manager is doing nothing, her boyfriend got a pretty rad classic BMW that just needs some work to start.

I really am sorry that this old gentleman is sick but it’s getting to the point that it’s ridiculous.

The closest visitor parking is over half a mile away.

But the neighbor has two parking spots, right? They should move his other car too if he never drives it. Sell it or park it in visitor parking or something. That way there are two spots available for visitors and caregivers.

Let’s see if Reddit agrees or has another suggestion.

Here’s a suggestion for a sign.

Another person suggests going to a board meeting.

This person has a good idea.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a landlord who took action after a resident refused to respect an assigned parking spot.

But another person would get revenge.

It sounds like one of the big problems is that the visitor parking is far away. That’s really unfortunate. Where are the caregivers supposed to park? Still, it’s not right to park in OP’s parking spots or any of the other neighbor’s parking spots.

If only there were more parking.