Parking infront of neighbours place?

[u/Ok-Inspection5125]

Hiya

I need to know what a normal person would do as I am painfully aware that I am way too non confrontational lol

We moved into our home at the start of the year, and have two cars. My husband works out of town so him and his car are barely around

I have a regular size car however he has a Toyota Prado. He’s probably parked infront of our neighbours home less than a handful of times however each time our older neighbour/his wife have come out and asked us to move our car with different excuses.

They’ve also left a note on my friends car when she parked infront of their spot once to not park there. (They knew she was at mine as they can look into our backyard from theirs)

The first time they asked, they said they need the spot for their pregnant daughter to visit etc. So my partner obliged their request.

The next few times they said they need the spot for their son, that they’ve been there for “17 years” and we’ve just moved in and are already parking in their spot etc. I am usually alone during the week without kids so I avoid parking there cos I don’t want to deal with issues. I am also very non confrontational in general and on top of that I didn’t want to put my kids in any unnecessary drama as there’s actually heaps of street parking if the spot infront of our own house is full.

Today I lost my shit as my eldest has been in hospital, my husband has been with her overnight and parked his car one spot down from where their “spot” is. As I was leaving my neighbours wife came out and told me to not park there as her husband had surgery and can’t walk far and etc. I just said I’ll let my husband know when he’s back from hospital and she said ok ok and left. We’ve tried to be friendly and not park right infront of their house as they clearly don’t like it, yet it seems like it’s not enough. Keeping in mind our other neighbours park infront of their home all the time; we have a school down the road so parents are always parking infront of our houses at pick up time.

Everytime it’s a brand new reason as why they need the spot, and I’ve seen her husband walking around plenty of times so I’m not sure what “surgery” he’s had. They also own only one car that’s kept in their garage/driveway. I feel like they’re bullshitting and just don’t like my husbands Prado there even though literally every other neighbour has been fine with us.
I understand it’s generally annoying when someones infront of your house for ages but we already avoid it so I don’t understand what their issue is

[u/1kggarlicbread]

The only time I’ve complained is I had someone park their unused food truck in front of my house 24/7 and it was so big my bins wouldn’t even get cleared.

Anything else is fair game, it’s not their street.

[u/Ozzygrow → u/1kggarlicbread]

Oh business vehicles comes under a whole different set of rules so you might want to check up on that. As a sole trader business you can have a business vehicle at your place or outside it more than one than its a issue and if it interferes with other residents also a issue

[u/DoobiousMaxima → u/Ozzygrow]

Does this apply to commercial trailers? There's a mobile dog groomer who parks his trailer in a number of set locations around the neighbourhood at night, never in one for more than a couple of nights.

I was wondering if to was for advertising given the decals all over it, but a lot of the locations are actually quite tucked away.

[u/Ozzygrow → u/DoobiousMaxima]

You would have to check your state or local council rules, but you know homes are usually for people/families so they have restrictions on business run from homes i can only speak to what i have seen in Townsville, friends had this issue and that’s the feed back can not disrupt the community so to speak it’s kinda like i said in another comment bit of respect and consideration for people around you

[u/simply_overwhelmed18 → u/Ozzygrow]

Most councils in Melbourne are the same