Update: 'I'm going to have it towed': Neighbors demand to park their car in next-door's driveway because they 'don't use it'

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    GNP 778
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    Neighbor kept parking on my property - so I had him towed Hello everyone. First thing is that this issue just happened this week and I am so mad that I am shaking as I type this. I am going to apologize up front if I ramble but I honestly can't believe this actually happened. I've tried to condense this weeks activity into a single story but sadly, it turned out to be super long - sorry in advance. I think I have to put TLDR? Backstory: I'm a single mother of 2 teenage boys and I live in a nice,
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    some will park on the street. It's never been a problem since everyone is considerate on how they park and no one has ever had an issue with getting in and out of the street. In addition, I tend to keep to myself. I'm not antisocial and I wave and say hello to my neighbors when I come and go from my home but usually when I get home - I stay home. So, I say all of this to give you an idea that I'm a homebody and my neighbors pretty much know that when I get home - I stay home. About 6 months ago,
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    garage for storage and thus parked their 4 cars in their driveway. I didn't know it at the time, but their youngest son was just months away from his 16th birthday. Now that you have a little information, onto the story. The players: Me is me, ND is entitled Neighbor Dad, NS is entitled neighbor son, and NM is entitled Neighbor Mom, and NP is the poor nice police officer. Today is Monday afternoon and this story began last Tuesday. Around 6PM on Tuesday, I received a knock on the door and it was
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    throat today and so I'm not sure what's going on with him. How are you and how can I help? ND: I'm sorry to hear that - I hope it isn't anything serious. We are okay. My son just turned 16 a few weeks ago and I'm sure you saw the new truck we bought him. Me: Yes, I did. It's such a pretty truck and big! Does he like it? ND: Yes, he does! It's what he wanted so we got it for him. It is very big and that's what I wanted to talk to you about - (Let's take a brief pause here and understand that when
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    Me: I don't understand? ND: We have been having complaints from some of the other neighbors that his truck is so big that they can't get around it when they are driving through and we're afraid that it might get side swiped if he continues to park it in the street. Me: Yeah, I've had some intense moments trying to get around it myself, but I'm sure he will get better at parking as he gets more experienced. I'm not sure what this has to do with me I haven't complained. ND: Oh, I know you haven't
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    get to my garage without using my driveway. Besides, I have issues with depth perception and your son's truck is so big it will take up most of my driveway and I don't want to be responsible for any damage that might happen while it is on my property. ND: Well, we will make sure that he parks so that it will allow you to come and go without any issues. Me: That isn't possible. The only way he can park to allow me to get around him is if he parks halfway on my lawn and that wouldn't work because
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    ND: We've already discussed that and we would have to park 2 cars in the street in order for him to use the driveway. It would be very easy for him to park in your driveway and I can assure you that it will not be an inconvenience to you. You don't even use your driveway. Me: I'm sorry, but the answer is no. I'm not going to be responsible for his vehicle on my property and I need to be able to come and go without worrying about someone else's property. ND (very upset at this point): You are not
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    leave. I'm sorry you don't have enough parking for all your vehicles, I'm sure its frustrating, but its not my problem that you decided to buy a vehicle that didn't fit your property. Now, while I also find it irritating to try to navigate the road with that truck in the way, it is public parking and so I deal with it. I will not have anyone else's vehicle parking on my property. Now, if you don't mind, I have a sick kid and need to get back to him! Have a good day. With that I closed the door a
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    virus and to keep him home and do self-care. Was told to bring him in if he got worse but not to worry. I went to work the next day and told my co- workers the story of my neighbor's request and they were shocked. I had one co-worker suggest that I send an email to my HOA to explain what happened just to get it on record because it was such an odd request. I took her advice and typed up an email that day when I was at lunch and sent it. For those who want to know, it was just an FYI email - not
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    When I got home Friday evening, I checked him and he had begun to run a fever and was complaining of several other things. I had been doing self-care with him since Tuesday and he didn't appear to be getting any better. Around 7 PM, I decided to take him back to minor emergency and loaded him up in the car. I opened my garage door and I was absolutely shocked to see that very big F350 sitting in my driveway - BLOCKING me! I can't describe to you how angry I was to see that vehicle sitting there.
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    keep those curtains drawn and never look out of them). So, I get out of my car and stomp over to my neighbor's house and bang on their door. NM answers the door and this is the conversation: NM (irritated and kind of angry): Can I help you? You are interrupting our dinner! Me: Your son is parked in my driveway after I told your husband he couldn't. I need to take my son to minor emergency and that truck is blocking me in! [Its at this time that ND walks up behind NM and proceeds to talk] ND: He
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    Me: No I can't. You need to move that truck or I'm going to call the police AND a tow truck! I need to get my son in to see a doctor! ND (turning to call for his son and then turning back to me): He's not blocking you but I will have him move it. Me: It doesn't matter whether you believe he is blocking me in or not. He is not allowed to park in my driveway. No one is allowed to park in my driveway and if I find an unauthorized vehicle parked in my drive-way again - I'm not going to bother to kno
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    in her life! I ignored him and headed to my car and watched as he got in and after some effort finally was able to back out of my driveway and parked his truck in the street a little way down the road. I was able to leave and take my son to minor emergency where, as we waited for several hours to be seen, I shot off another email to my HOA about what had just happened. I want to advise, the HOA had already responded the day before that they received my email, made a note of it, and advised my pr
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    Saturday evening, my oldest started complaining of a soar throat and I was starting to feel poorly myself. My youngest appeared to be getting better so I figured that whatever he had, that we were getting so we stayed in all day Saturday and Sunday. Sunday evening at about 5:30 my oldest son spiked a fever and while it came down a little, it didn't come down enough so I loaded him in the car and off to minor emergency we went. The only one I could find that was open on Sunday at this time was on
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    let it run it course. I had to drive even further to the only 24-hour pharmacy available to pick up the inhaler and we did not get back to the house until almost midnight. Let me set the scene for you. My son is half asleep in the passenger seat and complaining that he just wants to go home and I am exhausted and feeling drained and having coughing fits myself and I'm just looking forward to going to bed when I rounded the corner and saw that truck sitting in my driveway. I couldn't even pull in
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    that was fine. In the meantime, I walked my kid to the house and put him to bed and then quickly went outside and took a picture from the street to show how much of the driveway he was taking and that he was also parked on my lawn. I couldn't understand why they would park in my driveway again after I had told them no and the only thing I could come up with is that since there had been no activity at my house for hours that my neighbors probably assumed I was in for the night and wouldn't notice
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    any activity from them and the driver left with the truck without incident. I went in, shot off another email to my HOA along with pictures and an explanation that I had towed the vehicle and then went to bed. At 6:00 AM, this morning I woke up to someone banging loudly and rapidly on my door. I didn't have to look; I knew who it was. I grabbed my phone, hit the video record button. Before I opened the door, I looked. through the peep hole and saw ND and his son at my door. I opened the door and
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    back. ND: You didn't have the right to tow it. You're going to pay to get it back! Me: I had every right to tow an unauthorized vehicle on my property. I told you not to park on my property and you did it anyways. It blocked me from getting in my driveway last night. I told you I was going to have it towed after the last time you parked without my permission. And I won't be paying anything to get it back. ND: You stole my truck "you f'n B" and I'm calling the police. I'm going to sue you! Me (ha
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    moment. I looked out the peep hole and they were still there. ND started banging and was also ringing my doorbell non-stop. He knocked and rang my doorbell for another 4 minutes before he gave up. I am still recording all of this and I didn't turn off the video he was gone. I turned and saw my kids standing there. The noise had gotten them up and I just advised that if they were still feeling ill, to just go back to bed because that was where I was going. Now I will honestly say that I didn't th
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    having it towed from the street and we need to talk to you about this issue. Me: Good morning officer. My neighbor is only telling you half the story. I had his truck towed this morning from MY driveway when I returned home from minor emergency. I couldn't get into my driveway and I have already told him twice that him and his family can't park on my property. This issue started last week and I have emails to my HOA, pictures of his truck parked in my driveway this morning, and a video of my nei
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    Me: Yes. Last Tuesday he asked if I would allow his son to park in my driveway. I told him no and he got mad at me and flipped me off before leaving. Then Friday evening, when I was leaving, I discovered his son had parked in my driveway and I couldn't leave my garage. I went over and demanded they remove the vehicle and I told them at that time that I would have the truck towed if they parked on my property again. I came home late this morning and the truck was in my driveway - so I had it towe
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    With this, the police officer said that he would wait for me to print everything off. Once I got the emails printed, I then returned to the door. Opened my photos app to the officer to show the truck in my driveway, timestamped. Handed my phone and printed emails to him. After looking at the photo where you could clearly see my house in the background, the truck blocking the entrance and that it was partially on the lawn, the officer then read the printouts. He handed my phone back to me and ask
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    NP: I am going to need a copy of that photo and video for my file. If I provided you with an email, would you be able to send it to me? Me Yes sir. No problem. NP: I have enough information for my files to determine that the vehicle was not on public property and was in fact on your property. I've made a note that you did not give permission for the vehicle to be parked on the property. Based on the emails you gave me with dates and time, it appears you did in fact advise your neighbor not to pa
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    [getting business card out, writing on it, and then handing it to me]. Here is my business card with my email address that you need to use to send me your photo and video and the case # is on the card as well. Do you want to file with me now? Me: Honestly, I'm exhausted and would prefer to file online later. NP: Okay. Reference this case # when you email your evidence and file the online report. Also reference my name in the report. One more thing I saw in the video where ND - stated he was goin
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    file an online report, you will need to keep a copy of that as well. I'm going to go talk to ND now and sorry to have bothered you. Me: Thank you officer. I'm sorry you had to come out. NP: Have a good day ma'am. Get some rest. With that, I closed the door and went back to bed. However, I am so mad that I didn't get any sleep. A few hours ago, I sent off my photo, video, and another copy of the HOA emails to the email address the police officer gave me and then saved all of that information just
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    I know that I'm going to get a lot of pushback from people saying that I should have just knocked on their door and had them move the truck but I feel that I was right to have the truck towed. I had already told them twice not to park on my property and it didn't stop - so this was the consequence. I will post an update later if there is anything that comes of my report or if ND does actually follow up on his threat and sue me. If you read all of this, thank you and again, I'm sorry for the leng
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    with the decision I made. I have so many comments that I can't respond to everyone so I wanted to address a few repeating comments that I saw: #1. This is a real story and if you don't believe it, then that's on you. #2. Yes, I live in a quiet neighborhood and my specific road is busy. There are 12 houses on my street. Busy road doesn't mean noisy. I guess I caused confusion when I said I was at the end of the the Cul-de-sac. I'm the last house right before the cul-de-sac starts, so I consider m
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    street. They are residents and guests. #3. Cameras. I don't have any cameras and I will have to save up to get some and based on the comments I will make that a priority. I have to budget to get extra stuff. My neighbor across the street have cameras and I'm almost certain the front of my house is covered by them. There is no way they can cover the front of their property without getting the street and my front yard covered. This doesn't bother me and when I'm feeling better, I will go ask them
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    driveway. This is purely an assumption. - #5. For those telling me I should have damaged the truck in some way - I just can't do that. Was it wrong for them to park on my property yes, but that doesn't mean I have to be like them. I'm satisfied with just towing the truck and the report I filed. If things don't escalate then I will call it a win. If they do, then I will certainly respond. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not a push-over. I will not start anything or escalate anything unnecessarily - b
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    Update 2: So I know a lot of you have been wanting an update, but I wanted to wait until I got a copy of the police report before I did, which I got this afternoon. Sadly, it didn't go anywhere. I was kind of hoping that he would have a false report charged against him, but the report states that NS told ND that he parked it in the street in front of my house and that is why ND called the police. The NP had questioned both of them after he spoke to me and that is when NS said he had lied to his
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    the son who would be listed as the trespasser and since he is a minor, I'm not sure where that will go. But, I discovered that if he is convicted then I could use that to have a protective order done. Will have to follow up later on the trespassing. So, I am getting a lot of messages asking about the truck and if there has been any retaliation. Yes, the neighbors got the truck back and no, I don't know how much it cost them to do so, and yes he is still parking in the street but he is parking it
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    I was amazed by how many offers I received from all of you to help me get some cameras. This has touched me greatly. I would like to say thank you for the offers, but I am okay. I was able to talk to several of my neighbors and I found out that my neighbors that are 3 houses from me may have been the reason that he asked to use my property. I discovered that the man who lives in that house tried to leave for work one morning (he leaves at like 4 AM) and he couldn't get around NS truck. So he ban
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    since he has moved in and so this family isn't well liked before this whole issue. Word has spread about what happened and now there is a "watch" going on. I have told everyone that I would just like for things to die down and have asked that no one instigate or does anything on my behalf.I told a couple of my neighbors about this post and one of them has a reddit account, so she said she was going to follow the post. And no, I'm not going to post a photo or video because I don't want to risk st
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    can't do anything about what they consider a "civil" matter. The reason my emails to the HOA were so important was because they contained date/time of the the information and that matched what I had told the officer. My HOA really isn't very good. In addition, some of my neighbors have cameras. I spoke to the lady across the street and her cameras weren't very helpful. They are at an angle and zoomed in on a bird bath in her yard (I guess she likes to watch them) and wasn't meant for security. H
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    own, but now it isn't such a big priority. And the retired man down the street knocked on my door yesterday and gave me his phone number. Told me if I got a visit from anyone from that house again to call him and he would come take care of it. and that he would make sure to keep an eye out. So I am feeling very blessed to have these neighbors. I again want to thank everyone for their support and I don't really have much else to update except for when the trespassing report plays out, which I don
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    before finally getting settled yesterday. I'm going to try and make this a short update, but no promises, LOL! While waiting for things to progress, I discovered from the neighbor across the street that NS had been caught parking in one of the neighbors down the street's house and I was able to get a notarized statement from that neighbor about the incident and was able to include it as supporting documents on my report. Sadly, I was disappointed with the outcome at court because it ended up tha
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    Furthermore, I found out that he and his family either found this post or was told about this post and are very angry about it and have mentioned that I am slandering him and that I lied, but he hasn't said anything directly to me. I also have been able to save up for a camera system and my ex-husband came over and installed them on my house and he made a very big show of doing it so I now have - eyes on my property when I'm not looking. There are two good things that have happened. The first is
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    of NS truck and replaced it with a much smaller truck that can easily be parked in the street. So I feel like this is some kind of victory in itself. But the BEST thing that has come of this whole thing has been the older man down the street. He's the one that I mentioned in my last update that he gave me his phone number and told me to call him if I had any issues. I never called him but I came home one day and I noticed that my yard had been mowed, weeded (is that the correct word?) and edged.
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    Before I could get settled in, someone knocked on my door and when I answered the door it was the older man. He said he had - seen me out pushing the lawn mower around and lugging around a weedeater that was bigger than me and since he had a riding mower, he decided he would save me some trouble and mowed my yard. I thank him profusely and tried to pay him and he declined the money and told me he liked doing yard work and he didn't mind helping me out. So I took him over some Chicken Spaghetti t
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    in some form almost every day. I had a leaky sink and he fixed it over my protests. I lost my grandfather several years back and I have missed him greatly and this man reminds me of my grandfather. He tells my boys stories of his time in the Military, about his kids and late wife, and gives them advise (he regularly used ND and his family as a "not what to do"), and he has become almost like my 2nd grandpa. Thanksgiving is just going to be me and my boys this year and so I invited him over for T
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    away some extra money and we are going to make sure that he has a present under our tree this year. I guess I should go thank ND and his family cause their entitlement made it possible for us to have some "family" for the holidays. Thank you all for your support and concern and don't worry about me anymore - I got my 2nd grandpa looking after me!
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    ntengineer No pushback from me! You did exactly what I would. have done. Trespassed them and had their car towed. I think you did exactly the right thing! I'm sorry that your children and yourself are feeling bad. I hope you all can get some rest after this and recover.
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    Unfortunately, your neighbor will probably be a pain for a long time. At least you park your car IN the garage so they can't vandalize it, but, you might want to think about getting cameras. installed so they don't do anything else to your property. Also, so if they do come on your property, you can call the cops and have them cited for trespassing. every time.
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    Suckerforcats Do you have cameras on the outside of your home? Amazon has some that are inexpensive and easy to set up. Just batteries, WiFi and screw them on the house. Download the app to your phone. That way, you can record them trespassing and have even more proof and piece of mind if they do any damage to your property.
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    [deleted] Be prepared for things to get really bad. But you've done exactly the right things up to this point.
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    Desert_Fairy You did everything right. Just a suggestion, get a video door bell that points to your drive way. You might not need it, but if those neighbors are vindictive then you may be facing vandalism or harassment. Crappy neighbors Hang in there and feel better soon
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    OptimalDidko Okay, I have to admit this was a good read. I hope your kids are okay and everything goes in your favor in case the dad in fact tries to sue you. AA AA Edit: Please update us if anything happens afterwards, I'm in need of a second episode.
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    nickis84 They just tried to file a false police report by saying that the truck was on a public street not on your property. They're future might be interesting.
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    [deleted] Yeah, nah, stuff them. They bought their baby a big- truck and now they're dealing with the consequences. Trespass them and see it to the end.

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