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truffle · ‎01-04-2016

The street in front of your house is considered public domain and anyone can park there anytime they feel like it. If someone has abandoned their vehicle you can report that and after the police leave notices to move it and check up on it a few times, they will tow it. But as long as it's not abandoned there's absolutely nothing you can do about including putting cones up. That is not legal. If you have no space to park feel free to park in front of their house or any other house for that matter. Yes, it s*cks.

GCR18 · ‎07-03-2013

I don't like cars parking in front of my house either. Luckily where I'm situated, only one neighbor does it. They had a teenage son and his pals parked in front of my house. It always seemed to happen on the day I mowed the lawn. I wouldn't know they were there until I opened the garage door. They parked one inch from the grass, so I couldn't mow by the street. What bothered me was they would leave in the middle of the night and their cars were noisy. Luckily that neighbor moved and the new ones kids are way too young to drive.

chiclet · ‎03-19-2010

It is so umcomfortable when you have a problem with close neighbors. We bought a home and my husband asked about the neighbors to the lady selling. She gave a run down of the ones one each side and across the street. Now I have this preconceived idea of what they are like. I don't even know the seller very well and am letting her opinions cloud my feelings. She said one will come over and borrow all the time and bought something from her and never paid for it. The seller was a very nice and genuine lady but now I can't get that out of my head. It seems so unfair that this women who seems very nice does not have the option to defend herself from the things the seller said. In the past I have always said I would make up my own mind about people and not listen to others and many times I wish I had heeded their advise.

zanna · ‎06-13-2010

I have never understood why my neighbor's visitors choose to park in front of my house when they could park in front of the house they are visiting. I have tried to accept this practice, telling myself it provides some security for me because it appears I have visitors, but it annoys the heck out of me and I feel like it's disrespectful. The neighbors who started this practice finally moved and I got new neighbors. Guess what? Their visitors immediately started doing it, too. Sometimes there are 2-3 cars lined up in front of my house. I know it's a public street, but when there is parking available in front of the house you are visiting, parking elsewhere is just RUDE. I thoroughly enjoy turning the sprinklers on them from time to time. ; )

debic · ‎09-02-2010

LOL, some of you guys must not watch the neighbor shows on the ID channel. I would not tick off mine, especially since they are not breaking any laws.

Your probably lucky they didn't report the cones to the police.

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*Off The Deep End~A very short trip for some!*

colliegirls · ‎05-13-2012

It may not be the most important thing in life but it would bother me also. It is just common sense to park in front of your own home. I would never park in front of someone else's house so cannot imagine why anyone would.

Haha, the cone idea is funny!

lucymo · ‎12-13-2010

If you don't ask the neighbors not to park in front of your house they probably think you don't mind. The cones? That would be pretty obvious to some people but maybe not everyone.

I understand your feelings and I would feel the same way. But try talking to them in a nice way and the problem might be resolved without having bad feelings between you.

CAcableGirl2 · ‎06-03-2010

Hmm, it would be a shame if your sprinkers weren't adjusted correctly, and their car would get sprayed every time you turned them on.....especially if their windows were left open.....

My elderly parents would get teenagers sitting on the curb in front of their house partying at all hours keeping them awake and leaving their empty bottles on their lawn. It only took a couple of times for the *automatic* sprinkers to come on and douse them with water for them to move along.

......You look like I need a drink.....

Boehm Collector · ‎03-09-2010

I seem to have the opposite problem. My DH and I have a long driveway and garage. We always park off the street with one minor exception. ONE morning a week I park my car in the street for a maximum of two hours. I do so in order to allow my cleaning woman to park on my drive way.... so she isn't taking up a parking space on the street for half the day. I have no choice but to park across the street because our street is so narrow. If I parked on our side.. with cars parked across the street no one would be able to get through. One day one of the people who lives on the corner .. across for me... informed me I am NOT permitted to park in front of their house! I only parked in front of their house if it was the only available space on our street. I have since stopped parking there .. even if I have to park a block or so away... because they are really nasty people. I wouldn't put it past them to slash my tires if I continued to park there. I don't think it is unreasonable to park my car on the street one day a week for a couple hours. I guess these people must own the street!

Toppers · ‎01-01-2015

@peggyhbsl wrote:
I have lived in my home for a good 15 yrs. The neighbors that moved in 2 years ago rolled on in, took their wooden fence down, and started to control my dog and my property.

I live alone, take care of my yard. Go out with my mini doxie. I have been a good neighbor for years.

Long story short, after surveys, many Sherriff visits, all I got is, you now have a civil case. Well, that's just more money.

My conclusion...its their world, I live in it. I will never win.

So, I try to just ignore them.

Sometimes I can't! After all, I am human so I do loud outdoor chores at inconvenient times for them. I also plan on buying a loud outdoor wind chime to help with the silent whistle they use on my dog. My dog Julio, won't even bark when strangers are on the street if they are home. They pull out their silent whistle at his first little bark.