Neighbor has parked their cars overlapping our driveway

Shared driveway?

This was happening with a friend of mine. He was hesitant to have a face to face conversation with his neighbours. I suggested as an alternative that he post a sticky on their windshield with a polite note. Never happened again. Sometimes a person just doesn’t realize till someone points it out. But if your neighbour is a d**k….

skylimit121 wrote: ↑ Our neighbor (tenants not owners) have parked totally 3 cars - one in driveway facing garage, 2nd & 3rd one parallel to each other behind the 1st one
Problem is, i see this 3rd car suddenly (only 2 cars until last week) overlapping my driveway if i can exactly partition a line between our driveways. Honestly if i buy 3 cars, i will first ensure that my cars never touch their driveway or whatever. Regardless of whether it is a major trouble or not, I am not comfortable seeing their car touching my driveway (atleast 10 inches easily).
Just wondering if this is normal & people have come across this and ignore? or should i wait for a few more days & then politely tell them to park in their driveway line?

Got a pic? Is it affecting your usage of the driveway?
It might just be a temp visitor that will be gone in a few days. If they park on your driveway day after day that's another story.

I wouldn't let it go on for too long without addressing it.

People have a tendency to lose what shred of logic they may have had if they're allowed to do something wrong for long enough. No matter how obvious their stupidity has been.

I see this 3rd car every day now since a week atleast and i am gonna wait till tomorrow & very good idea if i will just leave a super-polite note in windshield
To answer the question 'Is it affecting your usage of the driveway', yes it does in a way that now it is little inconvenient (especially for my wife & my daughter) to reverse and it was way easier for them before as we had a huge gap in between & this 3rd car is literally crossing our border.
But as i said, regardless, if i have to buy a 3rd car, first i will respect other's property & never leave my car in other's driveway. Of course we do not have a clear line or partition but its just mutual understanding that we imagine a central line & leave it untouched.

Would it be like an overhanging branch over your property that you are allowed to trim it back till it's not over your property anymore?

I had a similar situation but my driveway was not shared but it was a roundabout so the bottom boulevard of mine and his were the closest near the road and there was a tiny patch of grass so tiny like the size of a brick, he would often reverse onto my driveway unknowingly. one time I had a garbage bin which i happened to conveniently place on that side and when he backed out he hit it, after that incident they never backed onto my driveway again.

Try placing a garbage bin or recycling or compost bin on the boulevard near the property line and see if he respects the boundries

skylimit121 wrote: ↑ Our neighbor (tenants not owners) have parked totally 3 cars - one in driveway facing garage, 2nd & 3rd one parallel to each other behind the 1st one
Problem is, i see this 3rd car suddenly (only 2 cars until last week) overlapping my driveway if i can exactly partition a line between our driveways. Honestly if i buy 3 cars, i will first ensure that my cars never touch their driveway or whatever. Regardless of whether it is a major trouble or not, I am not comfortable seeing their car touching my driveway (atleast 10 inches easily).
Just wondering if this is normal & people have come across this and ignore? or should i wait for a few more days & then politely tell them to park in their driveway line?

A photo of the driveway with the cars parked would help ...

just put a pylon or recycle bin or your garbage out a day early and conveniently place it right next to the property line. it should teach him not to cross over the property line

Post a photo or else we are just guessing

I agree - we need a picture.

Is it possible they have a college or university kid home for the summer? We normally have 3 vehicles but now that our college kid is home we are juggling parking for 4. Not impossible because we have lots of room, but not as easy as it was a month ago.

Gotta wait for the picture. The3rd car only parks there once in a while. Most likely a g/bfriend.
Now everyone is hoping the car shows up. Watch it never park there again lol.

Here is the picture.
Now way better than before but still always overlapping that partition as you can see in pic. Should I still tell them to park inside the line or just leave it? BTW, its not just temporary but everyday/permanently parked exactly there.

pretty easy to spot too as they are different shades. I'd tell them to try to stay between the lines as it makes reversing out easier for you.

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and tape it on the driveway, your neighbour will see this and not park over.