re: Someone Parked in My Parking Spot

Leave a note now. Have them towed if they do it again.

I had a similar problem. People used to park to where I couldn't get out of my garage. The drive directly outside my garage was next to a stairwell. Because of that I couldn't turn my car until I was almost completely out of the garage. I had to back straight out cut my wheel hard to the right, cut back left & out the drive (see red arrow).



One morning I went out to leave for work & a car is parked parallel to the fence directly behind my car. It's a no parking zone, meaning they could tow my car if I parked it directly behind my garage. I worked my way out cutting & pulling up, then backing up, over & over that time. I put a note on the car telling him it would get towed next time.

Very next day I wake up to the same thing. I blew my horn several times, tried the backing up, cutting, pulling up, cutting, backing up thing again and dented my fender on the facing of my garage door. I immediately called the number on the sign, then sat waiting.

When the tow truck was backing up to hook up to the car, the guy ran out yelling in Spanish. His gf came out and begged them not to tow the car. They argued & the tow truck left.

The square you can see on the door is the tape that was around a "No Parking" sign I put up. Been years since I've been over there. If I still live there, I'd probably have another sign up by now.