I rent an apartment in a gated community in Orange County, California. Every tenant is assigned 1 covered parking spot; open parking spots are available to additional cars on a first come first serve basis. Parking in our community has always been saturated; often, people would have to park along the curb of the narrow apartment drive because all open spaces are occupied by 8:00 PM. Our former apartment manager was good about accommodating parking needs-she assigned herself a less accessible covered parking spot and left the accessible ones to the tenants. She seldom used open parking spaces.
Our new apartment manager is not as considerate as the old one. Right off the bat, she assigned the best open parking spot to herself, thereby taking away one viable parking space for tenants with more than 1 car. Mind you, she is not handicapped. Do property managers have this right to give themselves the best parking privileges at the expense of tenants?
Please note that the manager also has a covered parking spot in addition to the open parking spot she has assigned to herself.
Management say to have the cars that park there towed. The tow company says the apartment manager has to order towing. Any other ideas -creative- that you can think of. I tried signs..they put in trash. I have asked..said no. Help !!
I live in a 30 unit Apartment building in California. When I moved in the landlord said if you move in you can have that parking under your apartment. I’m like…cool..I’m in. I’ve been living at parking here since November 2004.
Yesterday I come home and there is a brand new Honda Pilot parked in my spot. I honk and my (3rd one since i lived here) walks out of her apt and says, “Yvonne, that’s my car”. I think she going to move it but she walks back into her apt and closes the door. I’m like “what the heck?” I wait she never returns.
I park out on the street but very pissed off. I didn’t want a confrontation last night because I was tired and I think I would have ripped into her.
I need advice on how to handle this tonight when I go home and she is possbibly in my spot. I need a confident and mature response in case she says something like. ” I’m the manager and I can have any spot I want. ”
Thanks for your help…yahoo answers rocks!
I did mention she is the landlord, right?
There are only 3 parking covered parking spaces in the small complex. There are garages, I believe there are 3 of them also.
It is on my lease along with my small dog that I have that covered parking.
At my apartment it seems that there are way more apartments than spaces for tenants to park in. My roommate and I each have a car, and for our two bedroom apartment there is only one space, and little to no legal street parking in the area.
Is there some standard which mandates how many parking spaces an apartment complex must have in comparasin to how many tenants it can hold?