I wonder if anything at all can be done in these situations. We live in a large apartment complex that has about 12 visitor parking spaces, mostly taken up by residents.
Two of the biggest offenders are members of the SC who park their first car in their parking spot & their second car in the visitor parking. I cannot tell you the number of times I have complained to our Strata Manager & our Building Manager, all to no avail – these SC members feel it is their right. I can understand why other owners do it, as they see SC members doing it.
We have a mob that we pay to come and issue fines to people parking in the visitor parking without a valid ticket or for over 4 hours – however, they don’t show up very often & when they do, they never fine the two SC members, so clearly the SC members have struck some sort of deal with them.
Other owners just view an $88 occasional fine as the price they pay for off street parking.
Meanwhile visitors have nowhere to park.
The OC gets nothing from this arrangement, the fines collected go to the parking people and we pay $500 a month to a company that barely shows up and only fines certain people, while letting others do as they like.
I have suggested we dump them and put the $6000 a year we pay them to better use and make the visitor parking a case of first in, best dressed – at least it would be fairer.
The SC won’t agree to this though, of course not – they don’t want to lose their free parking!!