[biko]

Is it really clearly signed? Maybe just putting a traffic cone with a "private space" sign on it when you don't use space will be enough.
Where I used to live a lady used cones to mark the spot outside her house on a public street, this was enough to deter people*.




* yes it was a public street and blah blah but goes to show that it works.

[Victor]

Originally Posted by smallbrowncat

Good idea but would the management company not object to me placing this in what is a common area (even though space is specifically allocated to my apartment)?

Well, you would do it in consultation with the management company.

And how would I install it?!

It comes with instructions. I'm sure most handymen would have the tools to fit it. Otherwise, I'm sure there are recommended installers.

[athtrasna]

Originally Posted by Onwardandupwar

I used to have this problem I was renting a house and going to buy it the house was beautiful and when we moved it there was 3 spots right outside the front door. These houses had no front gardens. So the spaces where for my house and the houses either side of me. So we were moving in and the 3 spots where full we were trying to get the van in to unload. The next door neighbour had taking up my spot and there own we moved in and the car was left there for Afew days so I had to park around the corner. So eventually they moved the car the problem I didn't like was there spot was outside my front window. Now lots of people in this estate just parked on the road. So my girlfriend got her car and we used to park her car outside his front window where there wasn't a spot as such but the owner used to park visiting cars there so we started using it. And do u no what I hope I drove them mad because every day they got out of there cars outside my front window and used to stare in my sitting room so my advice is start parking in the space that they are visiting feck them and let the neighbour no that it's not on

Unless it's in the lease and deeds of the house that the spaces are specifically for those houses then you have no automatic entitlement to a spot outside your door. The OP mentions a reserved space with the apartment number on it, that's very different from spaces outside a house.

[Pkiernan]

Originally Posted by GerardKeating

Letting the air out might be construed as criminal damage...

By who?

It is not criminal damage by any stretch of the imagination. Some people watch too much Law & Order.

However, letting out the air will just make it harder for the owner to move his car from the OP's parking spot. It will also invite retaliation.

[mdebets]

Originally Posted by Pkiernan

By who?

By the law

Originally Posted by s. 1 Criminal Damage Act 1991

"to damage" includes.
( a ) in relation to property other than data (but including a storage medium in which data are kept), to destroy, deface, dismantle or, whether temporarily or otherwise, render inoperable or unfit for use or prevent or impair the operation of,

[Onwardandupwar]

Originally Posted by athtrasna

Unless it's in the lease and deeds of the house that the spaces are specifically for those houses then you have no automatic entitlement to a spot outside your door. The OP mentions a reserved space with the apartment number on it, that's very different from spaces outside a house.

Sorry u have miss understood me the 3 spots outside my door have my house number and the two houses either side of me number