Weird Rule -- Parking Psychos
The more parking there is in an area, the more psycho that residents get about who leaves their car where. On a public street! (Thread at the link.)
Weird Rule -- Parking Psychos
The more parking there is in an area, the more psycho that residents get about who leaves their car where. On a public street! (Thread at the link.)
Steve Rogers answers the linked inquiry with this: "Most renters of homes, do not realize that they rent the inside of the home and the outside is not theirs to direct orders. They are tax payers, however, they are not property tax payers. The homeowners are the ones who pay for the up keep of the city, and the renters are only paying money to rent a space."
Um, Steve, what do you think determines how much rent the renters pay? Fees, taxes, and mortgage payments, along with market rental rates, Steve. The renters are paying the property taxes and HOA fees. They don't bear the responsibility if something happens to the property, but their rent helps to pay the property insurance. Time to stop acting as if renters are squatters.
On the other hand, renters have little-to-no incentive to make incidental repairs and spend money to maintain the house's appearance; nor to make major renovations or upgrades to the property. Renters are fairly transient, that is, they can pick up and move pretty readily, so their ties to an area are not as firm as those of owners. Those things, however, do not make them lesser citizens who are not entitled to park in a neighborhood or have guests over to their house.
Conan the Grammarian at March 23, 2019 7:15 AM
I saw Steve's comment as well. And that is the first time I've seen anyone claiming renters don't have the right to park on the street. Then again, Steve says he lives in New York City. So his comprehension of parking laws in front of single occupant homes would be minimal.
Ben at March 23, 2019 2:34 PM
I was annoyed by the fact that Steve Rogers didn't know "upkeep" is one word.
Patrick at March 23, 2019 2:45 PM
"Taxpayers," too.
Conan the Grammarian at March 23, 2019 2:54 PM
Few things would drive my father more berserk than a neighbor's visitor parking in front of my dad's house.
This was in elderly suburbia, with garages and driveways and plenty of places to park on the street. But woe betide anyone who would pull into my dad's "space" in front of the house.
"Why don't the Van Nelsons tell the son of a bitch to park in front of their house?" he'd scream (yes, scream) even though his car was snug in his own driveway with no impediment to excess.
This was not a trait that was passed along to the son, fyi.
Kevin at March 23, 2019 3:00 PM
I went to an HOA meeting when I was back in California. It was ostensibly about starting a Neighborhood Watch. They'd even invited the public affairs officer from the local police department.
He politely went into his spiel about neighborhood watches and was ambushed by questions about why the local PD did not issue tickets to people parked curbside in the street or whose parked vehicles extended beyond their driveway onto the sidewalk. The meeting went downhill from there as people insisted their neighbors be cited or arrested for parking in a manner that upset the them.
Um, guys, we're neighbors, not enemies. These folks were livid that a neighbor whose job requires he have a large pick-up was parked in his own driveway in a manner that inconvenienced them.
If someone had brought rope and torches, I think we'd have had a lynching party.
Conan the Grammarian at March 23, 2019 3:15 PM
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