Family’s Apartment Comes With A Parking Spot, But Their Neighbor Parks There And Refuses To Move
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Imagine renting an apartment that includes an assigned parking spot right outside your door. What would you do if your upstairs neighbor claimed the spot as their own and refused to move their car even when you called the landlord?
In this story, one family finds themselves in this exact situation, and they’re not sure whether to just accept the situation or find a way to get the neighbor to back down.
The neighbor is full of excuses, but it’s still their parking spot!
Keep reading for all the details.
Neighbor took over our parking space
We’re in Ecuador and moving to another apartment.
For context, a lot of private homes and small apartment buildings here are conjoined like condos and each place has a front gate, so you can park your car in front of the building and it’ll be safe from burglars.
Anyway. We chose this apartment, which has a parking space in front.
But there was a problem right away.
The day we get the keys, we realize that we can’t open the large gate to park our car inside.
That’s when the neighbor from the second floor came down. They briefly introduced themselves, and quickly claimed the parking space as theirs.
We already knew this wasn’t the case, but didn’t want to start a fight, so we simply called the owner to explain the situation and re-confirm that the space is supposed to be ours.
Owner talks to the neighbor, who then goes back to us, basically begging us to let them use our parking space because of the convenience and because they have small children and blah, blah, blah.
The owner’s compromise is less than ideal.
By now, the neighbor has already planted their car in our space.
During all this, it’s discovered that the neighbor changed the locks on the large gate without the owner’s knowledge or permission, sometime after the previous neighbors from the first floor moved out.
So what happened? The neighbor clearly has no intention of budging, we don’t want to cause a fight because we’re not like that, and I don’t know if the owner either can’t or won’t do anything about it, because all the owner did was offer us the parking space of the building next door. It’s like a house I think, with a gate and two yapping little dogs that run outside when the gate is open.
OP doesn’t think this is fair.
On one side, at least we’d have a safe parking space. But on the other side, it’s going to be an inconvenience, and I’m ticked that the neighbor took over our space just like that. Because the neighbor already has a designated spot.
It’s horizontal, so the car needs to be parked in reverse and requires more maneuvering.
Our spot lets you go straight in, easy peasy.
I think the neighbor had always been planning on taking the parking space, and seized it as soon as the prior tenants moved out.
It’s not fair. It’s their parking spot. Let the neighbor upstairs take the other parking spot by the yappy dogs.
Let’s see what Reddit recommends.
This is a good idea.
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Another person says to fight for the spot.
This person would only let the neighbor have the spot if they pay.
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Nobody thinks they should let the neighbor claims the spot.
It’s their parking spot. The neighbor needs to back off. They can’t have it just because they have kids.
OP’s family shouldn’t let this issue go. The parking spot is included with their apartment. The landlord needs to change the locks and make the neighbor move the car.
Can they call a tow truck since it’s their spot?
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