QUESTION: I share an undercover double car space with a tenant. Because he parks his car too far forward I have extreme difficulty getting in and out.
I had the garages measured and a line painted in front and a letter was sent to him from his real estate and strata telling him to park behind the line.
He has ignored the request and has said he will park how he wishes as his tyres are on the line.
Is it OK to park like that, even though the front of his very big ute with a massive metal frame on it hangs way over onto common property? – Butterflyness2006, via Flat Chat Forum
ANSWER: If he’s parking over common property he’s parking on common property – it doesn’t matter where his wheels are. The next time the strata manager or rental agent writes to him it should be to explain that he is breaching a by-law which means he is also breaching the terms of his lease.
It’s a shame you can’t work this out amicably but this person seems to have no consideration for his neighbours so it may take a warning that he could be evicted if he doesn’t pull his head (and his truck) in.
Read about the whole parking madness here.