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Imagine renting an apartment with a set number of assigned parking spots per apartment. What would you do if your neighbor had more cars than they were allowed to park in their parking spots but parked all the cars their anyway, marking it hard for you to get in and out of your parking spots?

In this story, one couple is in that exact situation, and it’s just the latest drama from a neighbor from hell. They actually thought they had seen the last of her, but then the parking drama started.

Now, they’re thinking about sending a message to the landlord. Should they? Let’s read the whole story to decide.

Landlord asked our neighbor to leave or face eviction. She just moved back, maybe illegally?. Is this reasonable to send?

She moved in with the two neighbors in our duplex and made our lives hell.

Constant parties, screaming, dog waste and trash everywhere, dog barking for 5+ straight hours.

It was miserable.

We’d talk to them and she’d tell us to get over it.

This is so frustrating!

Eventually our landlord told them she needed to move out or he would start the eviction process.

She said she would move.

They got a new roommate from June-August and a different one moved in this month.

On Sept 2, she also moved back.

Then there’s the parking situation.

We have spaces for 3 cars for each unit, and now that they have a fourth car (the evil woman’s car) that car is parked directly behind my boyfriend and I, so we need to do a 20pt turn to get out.

A day after that, a bike was locked to the column of our front door making it impossible to get in and out of our apartment without crawling around the bike.

I’m quite frankly sick of the dog that’s started barking again and the car parked behind us.

Per our lease we’re only allowed 3 cars. Why do they get four??

They’ve drafted a letter to the landlord.

Is this reasonable to send to my landlord:

“Hi (landlord), sorry to bring this up, but we wanted to check in. It looks like (evil woman) has moved back in downstairs, since she’s been there since the start of the month. Given everything that happened before, the parties, screaming, trash, aggressive behavior, dog barking and waste, and the property damage, we wanted to ask if there’s a new agreement in place, since we understood she’d been asked to leave.

So far it’s been manageable with the exception of her (or the other new persons) bike blocking our door and her car parked perpendicular behind us which makes it hard to get in and out. However, the last two mornings we started hearing (dog) again and with their four cars now, the lot is getting tight.

We didn’t want to pry since whatever you discussed with them is not our business, but we’re a little concerned about escalation given the history.”

I assume the landlord doesn’t know she has moved back, and their letter is a way of clueing the landlord in while pretending like they assume a new agreement has been reached.

I hope she gets evicted.

Let’s see if Reddit thinks they should send the landlord this message.

This person says not to lie.

Another person thinks proof could help.

Here’s some good advice.

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But this person says to send it.

I agree that sending it to the landlord is a good idea, but a few changes could be made first. Acting like everything is fine is not going to help them if they really want her kicked out again. They need to emphasize the problems not act like it’s not a big deal.

I hope the landlord evicts her.