'No more free charging for you': Entitled resident refuses to move their electric car from building's communal charger, leading neighbor to convince property manager to charge money for extensive use

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Mar 4, 2025 7:00 AM EST

As kids, we have always been told that 'sharing is caring'. Our parents wanted us to learn that the act of giving others something that is yours is good, that being kind can change a lot of people's lives. But as often as kids do, they don't really listen, and they find it very hard to do something for others without seeing how it benefits them. And still, learning to share is something everyone eventually learns to incorporate in their lives on way or another.

Somehow, it seems that many adults not only do not take this lesson to heart, they actually become worse at sharing the older they get. They act more like children than actual children when they are asked to 'play nicely' and share their toys with others. You'll hear more grown adults crying about how they are being treated unfairly than any kid you know, which leads to quite a few uncomfortable situations that could absolutely have been avoided if adults simply acted like adults.

Which is exactly what could be said about the story down below.

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  • We're not sure if the resident in this story was never taught the sharing lesson, or if they simply do not care, but maybe after this they will finally learn.

    This entitled resident refused to move their car from the electric charging spot at their building, even though it is meant to be used by all the building's residents. This led one annoyed neighbor to take action, and after a series of back and forth with the awful-at-sharing resident, the situation finally reached a boiling point.

    Keep scrolling to read the full tale.

  • AC "This really got their attention"
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  • "Tesla drivers hogging the chargers in my building? No more free charging for you xoxo"

    So I live in a wonderful mixed use building, and it's been great. Lovely amenities and decent tenants and even free electric car charging!
    via darling_darcy
  • This was simple and easy for the last two years and out of nowhere more and more Tesla people moved in, bringing their them. cars with
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  • And it's like oh okay, it's like 20 EV's sharing four chargers, no biggie, cuz most tenants respect the building's 4-hour limit rule, which should bother no
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  • rational person that understands not everything is about them. However Tesla drivers are a different breed, and a few of them think that those rules
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  • don't apply to them, whether it's because they have a bigger car or they have kids or whatever excuse they have for hogging the chargers day and night whenever they can. Yeah
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  • yeah they have bigger batteries and need longer charging...but 4hr limit is 4hr limit. It wouldn't be fair if someone in an on-site laundromat hogged all the washers and dryers all day
    via darling_darcy
  • long, would it? Who gives a sh their reasons for hogging the chargers. But wait this gets interesting. So recently the guest level parking charger stopped working. Something wrong
    via darling_darcy
  • nobody can get it to work. Now we're down to the one downstairs and that's it. Remember each charger has two points so it's now two charging cables for over 20 EV's, and some malicious Tesla drivers among them.
    via darling_darcy
  • I decide to leave a note one night on the charger itself because of said malicious Tesla driver decided to charge both their cars the entire afternoon into the evening taking up all the
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  • chargers, which others of need to use to get to our jobs and whatnot. It simply said the 4 hour limit applies to everyone. However the next morning I went to charge and found the note ripped up with a portion left
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  • with a reply written: "SAY IT TO MY FACE". And since then it's just been a race to the chargers before 4pm to avoid the greedy Teslas who come and take them the whole afternoon and night. Sometimes they win, sometimes the rest of us do.
    via darling_darcy
  • More recently someone else left a note as well addressing their behavior saying "please consider other drivers need to use these too" and the reply left on it was "I saw you on my cameras Imao I won't consider sh!"
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  • So I took this up to the top. I took that note, and the photos of my ripped up note, and sent them not only to the property manager, but to the regional manager for the property management
    via darling_darcy
  • the property management company itself, who have many more buildings throughout the country. They got back to me and I informed them that not only was this charger not working
    via darling_darcy
  • and this hogging was happening, which was of mild concern, but then I decided to use my nuclear option and told them that their EV chargers hadn't been charging anyone any money.
    via darling_darcy
  • This really got their attention and I find out that they are about to replace these chargers entirely with new updated ChargePoint Chargers that will start charging tenants money
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  • after four hours. Even it's the customary $3-4 per hour, this will add up for the teslas hogging the chargers all day and overnight. Now you might be thinking this will affect me too, but my partner and I are DINKS
    via darling_darcy
  • first of all, but also, my EV doesn't take long, it's tiny. I only need at most like 3.5. hours to charge to full usually. Basically unless I'm an inconsiderate a hole, I won't get charged ever.
    via darling_darcy
  • TLDR Tesla drivers being Tesla drivers at my apartment, I get apartment to start charging money for the previously free EV charging.
    via darling_darcy
  • Calm_Researcher9172 He he, pretty petty revenge
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  • darling_darcy OP I can afford the charging fees, they can't
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  • lanDOsmond So there WERE free chargers, but you could only use them for four hours, and now there are pay chargers, but you can use them for four hours for free and then pay?
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  • So technically, you just got more stuff than you had.. but it will make the hoarders not hoard. That is, frankly, brilliant.
    via lanDOsmond
  • Wyshunu Yeah, no. People who drive normal cars don't get free gas, people who choose to buy electric cars should not get free electric. Good on them for putting in paid ones. Betcha there'd be even less hogging if
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  • they gave zero "free" charging and charged a little more for the convenience of being closer to home instead of having to twiddle your thumbs at a charging station for a few hours.
    via Wyshunu
  • darling_darcy OP If it's free charging that means all the tenants are subsidizing the free charging since not all of them are making use of it. And that's not really fair to the tenants that they're all paying into something they don't all get to use.
    via darling_darcy
  • -BA-Greek I would have added to the note saying "I'd be happy to say it to your face as soon as you identify yourself to me and management".
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  • LibraryMouse4321 They should continue doubling the fee each hour past 4 hours. Or just tow the cars.
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