Neighbor demands new homeowner not park in spot on his own land, says HOA told her it was her spot, homeowner thinks she's bluffing: 'Doesn’t introduce herself, goes straight into how I’m parked in her spot'

A new homeowner was confronted by a neighbor demanding that he move his car out of a spot on his own land. The neighbor insisted that it was her parking spot that had been given to her by the HOA. The HOA declined to support her story, leading the homeowner to suspect this was a story that had been concocted by the neighbor to push previous tenants out of those spots.

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Neighbour tried to kick me out of visitor parking on my land

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This homeowner, who recently bought a house in the UK, found themself in the midst of an unusual parking dispute before even moving in. Their new property includes visitor parking spaces for residents actually within the confines of their property, in the form of an old legal right-of-way or easement. However, these spaces are for everyone, and the neighbor had the same rights to them as anyone else; all that her bluster had been was a bluff attempting to get the homeowner on the back foot.
Another neighbor came to confide in them, warning them that the neighbor they had encountered was very unpopular in the area, which did a little to set their mind at ease about moving into what would be their new home.
Plenty of people get territorial over parking spaces, even if they're public spots that happen to be out on the street for anyone to use. There's this inherent sense of "mine" and "yours" that develops over time when it comes to where on public property you prefer to deposit your wheeled transportation. None of this is official, of course, it's not like there are any gold-plated nameplates out on the curb announcing whose spot is whose. And just when you've settled into a clear pattern of who parks their vehicles where, here comes some new upstart to upset the carefully crafted balance.
Hey, I mean we are creatures of habit after all, and anyone over the age of 30 (or younger even perhaps) has been guilty of peering through the front windows any time they hear a car door slam outside our house. But, still, it's not as if we have any ownership over these spaces, and going over to knock on your new neighbor's door to start the relationship off on a bad foot before
And if you park a loud car out in front of my house in the middle of the night and start up again at the wee hours of the morning, I'm not going to be stoked about it. But, there's really not all that much to be done about it either, unless the noise becomes a constant problem.
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