sinbin
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Hello Folks. We have a semi-detached house typical of toronto and the drive is a patch of asphalt that fronts our garage and that of the neighbours adjacent. The garages and house have one common wall.
The neighbours keep parking their car so that part of it is several inches on our side (this is after they would sometimes have it parked so that the half the car would be directly in front of our garage. We asked them to keep on "their side" but they persist in parking their cars so that it is past/over onto our side of the imaginary dividing line that would run down the drive from the middle of the common wall, and very close to our cars. They have a hard time cramming three cars in their side and they don't want to be shuffling cars I guess so they want to leave as much space as possible for the owner to back his car in and out withou the basement tenant having to move his. I mean at times the car is as much as a foot on our side and inches from my car which is developing scratches on the passenger side mysteriously.
What is the legal recourse here? can we call enforcement services? Can we run a fence down the middle of the drive? We will try to ask diectly the owner to ask his tenants to refrain (who also wanders onto our side of the property while on the phone sometimes).
Am I being uptight? I'm pretty mad at this point as generally ppl are polite but this issue has ebbed and grown over the year till it is now annoying. Shouldn't they leve at least the width of the dividing wall when parking? they can;t possibly be permitted to part directly adjacent to our garage door. We have moved our cars over a foot or two so that they are no longer directly in front of our garage but they only take the space up.
What should I do? Pls dont suggest talking to them politely , these ppl seem to have no concept of common courtesy. But we are going to try it as a last resort as we are nice ppl.
So what can I do legally as far as municipal enforcement or legal action?
Can I fence down the dividing line of the driveway? if yes what permits etc? The city of vaughan website is ****ing useless so I have to ask directly.
The neighbours keep parking their car so that part of it is several inches on our side (this is after they would sometimes have it parked so that the half the car would be directly in front of our garage. We asked them to keep on "their side" but they persist in parking their cars so that it is past/over onto our side of the imaginary dividing line that would run down the drive from the middle of the common wall, and very close to our cars. They have a hard time cramming three cars in their side and they don't want to be shuffling cars I guess so they want to leave as much space as possible for the owner to back his car in and out withou the basement tenant having to move his. I mean at times the car is as much as a foot on our side and inches from my car which is developing scratches on the passenger side mysteriously.
What is the legal recourse here? can we call enforcement services? Can we run a fence down the middle of the drive? We will try to ask diectly the owner to ask his tenants to refrain (who also wanders onto our side of the property while on the phone sometimes).
Am I being uptight? I'm pretty mad at this point as generally ppl are polite but this issue has ebbed and grown over the year till it is now annoying. Shouldn't they leve at least the width of the dividing wall when parking? they can;t possibly be permitted to part directly adjacent to our garage door. We have moved our cars over a foot or two so that they are no longer directly in front of our garage but they only take the space up.
What should I do? Pls dont suggest talking to them politely , these ppl seem to have no concept of common courtesy. But we are going to try it as a last resort as we are nice ppl.
So what can I do legally as far as municipal enforcement or legal action?
Can I fence down the dividing line of the driveway? if yes what permits etc? The city of vaughan website is ****ing useless so I have to ask directly.
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