sheriffwoody
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Will try and keep this short.
After 2 years of parking in a gravel car park at the bottom of our development it turns out that there is a private parking space for our apartment within a little secure area (coded barrier) just outside our place - which is a 10 second walk from our front door rather than a 3 min walk.
Having only just noticed the parking space and the note in front of it I decided to let myself into the secure parking (obtaining the code from another occupant) and started to park there.
I get a couple of notes saying "this is a private space" left on my car and then a huge bit of A3 paper with "THIS IS A PRIVATE PARKING SPACE, PLEASE MOVE YOUR CAR!"
at this point i am aware i am ruffling someone's feathers, but i don't know who. Since parking in the space i always left a note in the windscreen letting people know where I lived, just incase i was infact annoying someone and they wanted to come and speak to me personally.
The person leaving the notes refused to come and see me and continued to leave notes. I moved the car back out of the space on Sunday and back into the gravel car park for fear that "they" might start damaging my car.
Anyway, it turns out, after a phone call to the letting agent, the parking space is owned by my landlord (think they were an extra option when the flats were built) - and he has become very angry at me parking there.
So angry and upset, yet he still won't speak to me personally.
The sign infront of the space clearly says "Private parking for Apartment xxx" - which is my apartment.
My landlord lives in the new development over the road, about a 5-10 min walk away. I don't see him parking in "my" space during the week, so i can only assume he has his own parking space for where he currently lives. I was only getting the notes during the weekend, and I am taking a guess that he is letting his daughter park there to go and visit him/go into town etc (she had her mail forwarded to us over the xmas period as well).
Now, do you think i am within my right to park in this space, or should i just give it up? Each apartment is given one parking permit regardless of if you have your own private space or if you have to park in the gravel car park. I have a parking permit - so where is he getting another one from in order for him/his daughter to park there?
Part of me doesn't want the hassle and will just go back and use the gravel parking (have done for 2 years), but part of me wants to use the private space for my apartment - it makes taking shopping up a lot easier (plus i can keep an eye on my car).
Do i give it up, or park it there in the hope i can catch him leaving me another not and go and speak to him about his issues with me parking there?
After 2 years of parking in a gravel car park at the bottom of our development it turns out that there is a private parking space for our apartment within a little secure area (coded barrier) just outside our place - which is a 10 second walk from our front door rather than a 3 min walk.
Having only just noticed the parking space and the note in front of it I decided to let myself into the secure parking (obtaining the code from another occupant) and started to park there.
I get a couple of notes saying "this is a private space" left on my car and then a huge bit of A3 paper with "THIS IS A PRIVATE PARKING SPACE, PLEASE MOVE YOUR CAR!"
at this point i am aware i am ruffling someone's feathers, but i don't know who. Since parking in the space i always left a note in the windscreen letting people know where I lived, just incase i was infact annoying someone and they wanted to come and speak to me personally.
The person leaving the notes refused to come and see me and continued to leave notes. I moved the car back out of the space on Sunday and back into the gravel car park for fear that "they" might start damaging my car.
Anyway, it turns out, after a phone call to the letting agent, the parking space is owned by my landlord (think they were an extra option when the flats were built) - and he has become very angry at me parking there.
So angry and upset, yet he still won't speak to me personally.
The sign infront of the space clearly says "Private parking for Apartment xxx" - which is my apartment.
My landlord lives in the new development over the road, about a 5-10 min walk away. I don't see him parking in "my" space during the week, so i can only assume he has his own parking space for where he currently lives. I was only getting the notes during the weekend, and I am taking a guess that he is letting his daughter park there to go and visit him/go into town etc (she had her mail forwarded to us over the xmas period as well).
Now, do you think i am within my right to park in this space, or should i just give it up? Each apartment is given one parking permit regardless of if you have your own private space or if you have to park in the gravel car park. I have a parking permit - so where is he getting another one from in order for him/his daughter to park there?
Part of me doesn't want the hassle and will just go back and use the gravel parking (have done for 2 years), but part of me wants to use the private space for my apartment - it makes taking shopping up a lot easier (plus i can keep an eye on my car).
Do i give it up, or park it there in the hope i can catch him leaving me another not and go and speak to him about his issues with me parking there?