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Property boundaries become especially important when occasional favors start turning into permanent expectations.

So should neighbors be allowed to block someone’s gate simply because that entrance isn’t used every day?

After treating public parking spaces like they’re private, this family decided their neighbor’s rarely used driveway was fair game.

Read on for the full breakdown.

AITA because I want my neighbours to use their garage and not my driveway?

“I have been living for three years in a village that unfortunately has very few parking spaces. My house is located on a small but steep hill, as is the one of my neighbors.

Since their garage (big enough for two cars, but so full of garbage that there is no room for a car there) is at the foot of the hill, they park their cars in the general visitor parking lots, which are located directly in front of our houses on top of the hill.

It just boils down to LAZINESS.

They are just too lazy to clear out their garage or walk the 200 stairs from the garage at the bottom of the hill to their house on top of the little hill.

My garage is next to my house, right on the hill.

That’s why I only use the visitor parking lots when I have visitors.

But when I do, Kevin and Karla show up at my door within minutes and complain that I use their parking spaces.

FYI: These are available to the general public, the two of them just think that they belong to them alone.

You can’t talk to them calmly about it because Kevin drinks a lot and Karla is agreeing with everything he says.

Since I rarely need these visitor parking spaces, I have accepted it, for better or worse.

There’s another issue.

But now there is another problem that I do not want to accept…

Kevin and Karla’s daughter – let’s call her Jessica – has had a moped for a few months now. She parks it in front of my garden entrance (a gate which I only use once a month). She didn’t ask me if that is okay with me.

So I told her and her father that I don’t want that. She didn’t park there for a few weeks, then it was right in front of it again. And also that of her boyfriend.

So now two. I asked Jessica again politely not to park the moped outside my backyard driveway.

These people…

She didn’t ask me if that is okay with me. I already told her and her father that I don’t want that. She didn’t park there for a few weeks, then it was right in front of it again.

I confronted her and her mother yesterday about the situation. They don’t see how it can bother me, because I don’t use the driveway very often.

They think it’s mean that I force their princess to park the moped in her garage (a moped just fits in despite of the trash).

Welp, too bad!

So now she has to climb 200 stairs every day because of me and that is too exhausting for her. But for me this is a matter of principle.

The moped will soon become a car. And I don’t want them to park it in front of my gate. I don’t want to have to ask my neighbors to drive away if I want to reach my own property.

AITA because I forbid them to park in front of my backyard driveway, which I myself do not use very often?”

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This person didn’t hold back.

Another reader shared their thoughts.

This individual spoke up.

This Reddit user said they’re NTA.

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And this individual weighed in.

This homeowner has been remarkably patient, but repeatedly blocking a private entrance after being asked to stop crosses a clear boundary.

The neighbors’ overflowing garage and dislike of the stairs don’t give them the right to use someone else’s property.

If climbing 200 stairs feels unreasonable, clearing enough junk for a moped seems like an excellent warm-up.

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