If there's one thing homeowners and renters alike can come together and agree on, it's that parking in someone else's spot is a big no-no and can cause plenty of drama for all involved.
This is a feeling one homeowner knows all too well after a neighbour started letting a new tenant park on their land - without properly asking permission.
The unnamed homeowner shared their situation online, asking whether they were in the wrong for banning the neighbour, their tenant and anyone else from parking on their property, even though the space is pretty much always empty.
They explained in a post on Reddit's Am I The A**hole forum that the others were now struggling to park their cars, as there was no other space, but they were standing firm in their decision.
They said: "On my street, we all have driveways for two cars and NO on-street parking. For some reason there was an error on my house deeds and I actually own some land big enough for a car to park in across the street just off the road.
"I literally never use it, but sometimes if more than two cars turn up to my house at any one time, which hardly ever happens, I tell one of them to park on my land across the street.
"Well, my neighbour has just taken in a tenant and he slipped a note through my door to say his tenant needed a place to park because he and his girlfriend were parking on his driveway. His note said he told his tenant to park on my land across the street, and he left his number so if it was ever in the way so I could call him to move it."
They continue to say they were "p***ed" that the neighbour had just "claimed" use of their land assuming it wouldn't be an issue, so they confronted the neighbour and told them they could only use the space occasionally.
However, this message went ignored and the space was then used every single day, against their wishes.
"My land is basically theirs now," they proclaimed.
"So I told him to stop parking there and I bought a no parking sign and safety bollards and tape and taped off my land across the street so no one could park there.
"Am I the a**hole? It was causing me no problems whatsoever him parking there, but it was MY PROPERTY that he just claimed as his, so I was pissed and now my land is just empty every day while he and his GF and his tenant struggle to park every day."
More than 170 people responded to the post, with many agreeing the landowner wasn't in the wrong, as it was their property.
One person replied: "He didn't ask he TOLD you what he did. It isn't hard to ask for someone's permission for something."
Someone else commented: "It was incredibly presumptuous of him to offer up YOUR property. Perhaps if you don't really need the space you can rent it out to them (but I’d strongly advise a month-to-month lease)."
While a different user added: "It is your property. If they, their visitors, or their property get damaged, you are liable."
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