Worked out my apartment parking dispute

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 03/13/2014 at 13:56 • Filed to: None

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The saga of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! has come to an end, thanks partly to me posting a nasty review of my complex on apartmentratings.com, which I learned if you post a review it gets emailed to the property. Good to know.

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(For those who don't want to read original post: I park my 135is in my assigned garage space and my Grand Cherokee winter beater outside. Apartment manager left a note on everyone's doors saying any car left in the same spot in the outside lot for over 48 hours will be considered "abandoned" and towed. Now that spring is coming my 135is will be my daily so the Jeep will sit around and I didn't want to have to move it every other day to avoid being towed.)

When I talked to my apartment manager yesterday, she was totally unhelpful, kept escalating from me asking a question to her arguing at me, and I ended up telling her to fuck off then hung up on her. I then went on apartmentratings.com and posted a really nasty review with some other shady stuff the management had done in the past.

I left her a voicemail a couple hours later apologizing for acting rude toward her and said I wanted to work it out. We talked again today.

Turns out, many of my fellow residents have nothing better to do than be the parking police. They call and email her all the time about cars in the outside lots. Some people even take pictures of cars and send them to her. She posted the note to calm these people down.

BUT...myself and other 2-car-owning residents got all worried about the towing, and I was the last of like 10 other people who she had to talk to about it. Those other people were apparently even meaner to her than I was. By the time she talked to me she was at the end of her rope. She apologized to me for being bitchy. She also asked about the review I posted, which I said I had done in anger and I'd take it down.

End result of the convo today is as long as I keep my Jeep in a less-busy corner of the outdoor lots, and move it once or twice a week, it's all good. I still would rather be able to just leave it there, but I guess this will have to do.

Sn210 > Textured Soy Protein 03/13/2014 at 14:02

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Glad it all worked out for you. Some people just need hobbies.

Jcarr > Textured Soy Protein 03/13/2014 at 14:06

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I'd like to tell you it gets better when you buy a house, but I frequently argue with my wife over whether to park our '96 Ranger beater/hauler at the end of the driveway or in the street.

The Compromiser > Jcarr 03/13/2014 at 14:33

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I ask mine why the fuck she cares as she can't see the driveway from the Kitchen Window, and couldn't drive anyway without shoes...

Then after the swelling goes down and i regain conciousness, I move the cars..

Lekker > Jcarr 03/13/2014 at 14:34

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Lol me and my wife are both lazy about and we leave whoever gets home first inside the garage and the other one in the driveway.

Takuro Spirit > Textured Soy Protein 03/13/2014 at 14:35

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I had this EXACT same issue when I had an apartment and two cars. Three, if you count my wife's. My beater actually got KEYD out in the lot, and I had someone come up to me once and yell at me for taking a spot in the lot and not moving it "enough". I never even parked anywhere decent, nowhere near any of the entrances, and there were plenty of other people who let guests park in the lot (against the rules) but I got singled out. At least they had no tow-away policy (that I knew of).

buford-t-justice > Textured Soy Protein 03/13/2014 at 14:45

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Just get one of these

buford-t-justice > Jcarr 03/13/2014 at 14:46

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Some areas around me you can only have one car in the drive way, and the garages are barely able to fit anything larger then a focus in them

Textured Soy Protein > Takuro Spirit 03/13/2014 at 15:07

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Yeah, here I thought it was the apartment complex imposing an arbitrary policy when really it's other residents not minding their damned business. The outside lots aren't even full. The spots directly in front of the building entrances obviously get used more, but there's still plenty of spaces.

505Turbeaux > Textured Soy Protein 03/13/2014 at 15:44

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better than the developer of the condo I just bought double selling my parking spot. On the god damned deed. Good thing a friend is a property lawyer

Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight > Textured Soy Protein 03/14/2014 at 01:12

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So let me see if I got this right. You went from the original "move every 2 days" to "move every 3 1/2 days". And you consider that a win.

I'd have threatened breach of contract, stop paying rent, and let them evict me if they didn'r give me an exemption IN WRITING indemnifying them to pay if my cars ever got towed for other than a lawful offense.

3 1/2 days...PFFFT!!

Textured Soy Protein > Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight 03/14/2014 at 13:13

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Haha I do see your point.

Before it was move the Jeep every 2 days or they'll tow it. Which technically is what my lease says. I thought it was just the apartment company arbitrarily deciding to make this stupid policy for no good reason.

But, the apartment company doesn't really feel like enforcing this clause. The manager straight up told me she's got better things to do than have cars towed. It's other residents who get all butthurt seeing some car taking up the same space all the time and whining about it. Like one time some guy went out of town for a month, told the manager he'd be gone, and multiple people complained to her that his car hadn't moved. She told each one that the guy was out of town and not to worry.

So now that she knows the Jeep is mine, I just have to keep it in the less busy part of the lot, and move it when I remember. I can probably get away with more than 3-4 days between moves. Hopefully by not taking up a prime spot by a building's front entrance nobody will complain, but if someone does, the manager will call me instead of the towing company.