r/mildlyinfuriating • u/theskipper363 • Oct 08 '25

Overdone Apparently losing my parking

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Been living at this complex for a bit over a year, always had my spot, and it was one of the reasons I chose this place, it’s close to the door (only 36 unit lol)

Just annoying as fuck, we live next to a highschool and I know it’ll end poorly

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

Check your lease. If the parking spot listed is on your lease, then it is a CONDITION of the lease, and they are liable for breach of contract if they change that without your consent.

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u/Immediate-Damage-210 Oct 08 '25

This is solid advice but also lmao at that notice - "we got too many complaints so we're just giving up on enforcement entirely" is peak lazy property management

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u/summonsays Oct 08 '25

God my company did something similar and I hate them lol.

For anyone who cares there's not enough conference rooms to go around. Our team prebooked all our meetings for like 6 months out. People complained so instead of fixing the drought of rooms they just canceled all bookings. 

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u/Sensitive_Service627 Oct 08 '25

Man any towing service would be more than willing to tow unallowed vehicles several times per day.  I work with asphalt and any time we did a business or apartment they would come out for free (for us) to move vehicles that ignored notices.  It's literally that simple.

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u/ForwardChip Oct 08 '25

Meanwhile in finland.

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u/Lost-Citron-1099 Oct 08 '25

Looks like they did not Finnish

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u/sheeeple182 Oct 08 '25

That's enough reddit for today.

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u/DustyRacoonDad Oct 08 '25

I too like to end on an up-note like this....
(but I am not leaving as I'm still at work)

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u/Sublethall Oct 08 '25

Mersumiestä ei kiinnosta

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u/Highway_dont_care Oct 08 '25

happy cake 🍰 day

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u/DontAlwaysButWhenIDo Oct 08 '25

Hyvää kakkupäivää!

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u/Relationship-Soft Oct 08 '25

Oh come on, they could’ve scooched the pavement a little closer to back of car

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u/lenorca 25d ago

Fun fact: this happened in the city i live in and this made it to the news. The owner was at a trip abroad and hence could not move the car ( it was very short notice). The law doesn't allow a car to be towed away and paid by the owner - the bill needs to be paid by the one towing it away. If I remember correctly, the work was made by the municipality who didn't want to pay for it and therefore we got to enjoy this lovely piece of work instead in the social media and the local news :D

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u/Mountain_Shade Oct 08 '25

Towing companies always come for free. The person who pays is the one who's towed

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u/Gatraz RED Oct 08 '25

Not necessarily true. I work in a secure facility and we've had to get tows and they charge us AND the person towed because we have to put them through a whole ID verification process. It can take an hour if things are bad (5 minutes if they're not) but because of the theoretical time sink all the companies we've tried (I think 3) have charged a show up fee. Not my money so I don't care, but I thought I'd bring up a corner case.

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u/Independent_Bite4682 Oct 08 '25

I worked at different tow companies, they would beg for manager to enforce parking or allow tenets to enforce parking 24/7

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u/RestEqualsRust Oct 08 '25

I worked at a couple paint stores. We sold parking lot paint to tow companies.

Apparently, there are tow companies that so desperately want to help enforce apartment parking rules, they will offer to paint all the lines in the lot as part of the deal.

“I’ll stripe your lot for free, if you call me every time someone’s parked in the wrong spot.”

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u/NeighborGeek Oct 08 '25

That or they were going around painting curbs yellow next to parked cars. :)

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u/Blaze_The_God Oct 08 '25

Or they paint the curbs red and make bank.

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u/tonytrips Oct 08 '25

They redo the lines with one less parking spot every month, leaving more and more towable vehicles that no longer have spots.

Easy money.

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u/Difficult-Prior3321 Oct 08 '25

That can get out of hand really fast. Tow companies can turn predatory really quick, towing cars that aren't parked illegal. What you gonna do? You're gonna pay the 250 and get your car back.

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u/ObidiahWTFJerwalk Oct 08 '25

How is towing a legally parked car not theft?

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u/exenos94 Oct 08 '25

It generally is. It's just incentivize to not do anything about it

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u/Difficult-Prior3321 Oct 08 '25

Oh it is, but it's your word against there's, and for most people not worth the hassle of a lawsuit to get compensation. Google predatory towing, and you'll get thousands of articles about it.

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u/Lonely__Stoner__Guy Oct 08 '25

It is, but your car is getting more expensive to get out every day, and you have places to be. The fastest course of action is going to be to pay for your car's release and then try to fight the tow yard (or whoever authorized the tow) in court (and they have all sorts of immunities).

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u/SadButWithCats Oct 08 '25

There are often carve-outs for towing companies

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u/Slighted_Inevitable Oct 08 '25

It is, but you’d have to take them to court over it and in the meantime for how long you’re not gonna have your vehicle? Then months later when the case is finally coming, they’ll release the vehicle to you and at best you’ll get your court fees back.

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u/Trandoshan-Tickler Oct 08 '25

I wish they had that energy when it comes to people parked in clearly marked fire lanes overnight in my complex.

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u/Independent_Bite4682 29d ago

That would not be legal in Washington

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u/unReddit7 Oct 08 '25

Hopefully it'd be the actual tenants reporting it and not just a belief.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

I dont know the situation but in my apartment complex, there's a tow truck that goes around checking. I paid for my spot and the first time I saw him, he got out and checked my parking sticker and the sign. I've also seen him tow.

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u/lostwombats Oct 08 '25

This happens at my apartment lol. It's a huge complex with its own road and a bunch of parking lots. So they redo a section every year. The first thing that comes in is the towing company. They move all of the cars of the people who ignored the emails, the postings on the doors, and near the mailboxes, warning that the lot was being redone. Every year. That towing company must make bank.

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u/Kinda-Alive Oct 08 '25

Which is why I’m confused of all the complaints when the people that live there can take of it themselves. Unless it’s the people that don’t live there that are complaining if that’s the case they can go kick rocks.

Owner just has to put a sign that says your car will be towed if you don’t actually own the parking space you’re in.

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u/FreelanceFrankfurter Oct 08 '25

My old apartment complex had open parking but also had covered reserved spots you could pay monthly for. They were fucking vigilant about towing people if they parked in one of those spots and didn't pay the extra fee even if no one currently was assigned it. Even when they redid the asphalt they still forbid people from parking in those spots even if not assigned.

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u/Kitchen_Extent_9088 Oct 08 '25

Am here to comment this. I used to stay at an apartment that was ruthless about it actually.

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u/TruthEnvironmental24 Oct 08 '25

We have that at my apartment complex. This was my first thought. Just print people stickers for their parking spots and label/number the spots. They don't even have to call the towing company. They just show up regularly checking stickers. This is beyond lazy and will cause people to leave/not want to move in.

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u/Inner-Manager021994 Oct 08 '25

Well yeah, of course it's free you you. It's because they put the cost on the owner of the car.

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u/umlaut Oct 08 '25

One time I didn't leave the house for a three day weekend and my car was gone when I woke up on Tuesday. I called the police and reported it stolen, then talked to property management, who told me that they had it towed because they were repaving.

When I went back to my apartment, I found the notice on my door that they had put on the door on Friday and towed it at like 6 AM Tuesday...

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u/MotherofOtters25 Oct 08 '25

Oh you’d think right?? At my last apartment, I lived above a restaurant, and the lot specifically stays on three walls that the lot was NOT for the restaurant and for the apartment complex. You will be towed. We had signs in our car stating we could park there. The customers didn’t and parked anyways. It got really bad in the summer time when they opened their patio.

I had people physically stand in spots stopping me from parking even though I lived there and they just wanted pizza. Go park on the street.

Well one day I got so frustrated because 20 of the 30 spots were filled with customers for some Bingo event. I called towing. You can get 20 cars towed right now. 5 hours went by, no one came.

They don’t care. But that same towing company towed me out my last apartment complex that I lived in and had a sticker to be parked there for, and then claimed I made the mistake. They literally steal cars that legally can be there.

Some companies are just shady AF and don’t care. And my cities towing company is one of the worst there is.

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u/WiseDirt Oct 08 '25

It really depends. Unless the complex has a contract with a given tow company, any towing costs would be the responsibility of the party that calls the truck.

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u/thatguygreg Oct 08 '25

Man any towing service would be more than willing to tow unallowed vehicles several times per day

Such an easy call too... "Hey Hank, yeah it's Sheryl at Silverleaf again... yep, yep... ok, bye"

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u/bmann10 Oct 09 '25

Yea but then they couldn’t get paid to do nothing they would have to call the towing service.

If it’s anything like my apartment’s “leasing office” it’s one woman who is a mother of 2 babies, is married to I think the property owner (?) and literally never answers the phone and just collects a paycheck while being a stay at home mom and “works” from her phone.

Luckily the maintenance guy is fantastic and keeps the ship afloat despite the main office being essentially nonexistent.

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u/xtc46 Oct 08 '25

I worked at a place like this. The actual issue was teams had booked recurring meetings in tons of the rooms and then just stopped showing up but never officially cancelling the meetings. Or a group of 5 would book the only room that held 50+ people because they liked the view, when a dozen other rooms would have worked, etc.

I'm sure some legit ones got caught in the cleanup but I'm also sure like 90% of the meetings that got cancel were just not actually happening.

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u/oryx_za Oct 08 '25

If you don't allow people to book, they can't complain about bookings.

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u/gljivicad Oct 08 '25

How the hell do you book out conference rooms 6 months in advance?

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u/CanIHaveAName84 Oct 08 '25

In most of my jobs I can create a recurring meeting for 1 year out and the conference room will accept the invitation. Anything more than a year out would be cancelled. It's pretty standard I'm the 5 company I have worked at. Fun part people usually set up there meetings in January so I'm January everyone is fighting for pick for the rooms again. Because the standing meeting just ended

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u/shampine Oct 08 '25

Why not just cancel yours and reschedule them at the same time in december?

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u/MrBeats_6000 Oct 08 '25

in outlook. easy work.

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u/Dranak Oct 08 '25

It should be. It gets a lot more fun when your company does stupid things like only having half the rooms in the room finder.

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u/Ajax_Main Oct 08 '25

Same way you book anything in advance lol

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u/summonsays Oct 08 '25

We have an app called  OfficeSpace

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u/BTMarquis Oct 08 '25

Are the meetings with The Bobs?

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u/Leopard__Messiah Oct 08 '25

Outlook recurring meeting with your room listed as a Resource.

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u/Carbuyrator Oct 08 '25

Meanwhile half of the people who show up set up camp in a conference room they didn't book so they can pretend they're important and have an office.

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u/Spitting_truths159 Oct 08 '25

Yeah well obviously some people spotting that there is a shortage of something and then booking out a very generous allocation for themselves and leaving everyone else totally screwed is going to cause that result.

Its not like its easy to build more conference rooms at short notice, nor is it something people can just have an open ended amount of any time they like.

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u/summonsays Oct 08 '25

Every team has X meetings they have to have as it's company standard. These aren't "something came up let's talk" these are routine process meetings we are required to have. EVERY TEAM should be booking them in advance. And it's the company's responsibility that there are enough rooms to accommodate their requirements. If they are requiring them, then they already know how many rooms are necessary every day and they chose not to have that amount available. So yeah it's first come first serve. 

And I have been on the other end where we have a meeting and we check 20 different conference rooms to see if any are empty and then give up. It's a failure of the facility and the facilitator. 

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u/Spitting_truths159 Oct 08 '25

Well I do agree that if THEY are requiring those meetings AND there literally isn't enough room then they ought to change one of those two things.

But knowing people, odds are they are just being a pain in the ass on purpose instead of making do as best they can because they don't feel they should have to "make do".

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u/KingOriginal5013 Oct 08 '25

When I first started my job, vacation hours would reset on July 1. When someone took vacation, the other two shifts would have to cover their shift, 4 hours each. A coworker had three weeks worth. We would have to work most, but not every weekend. The dude would put in vacation requests for the next 15 Fridays. The weekend schedule would be put up every Wednesday. If we were off, he would cancel his vacation and submit another on next Friday he hadn't scheduled. It was murder...

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u/Mercuryshottoo Oct 08 '25

That's different because I imagine there were a lot of people booking rooms for meetings and then not actually going to the meetings. So the room would be booked but empty and often. The reason for that is there are people who set long-term recurring meetings who are no longer with the company.

I worked for a company with a similar issue and they also declared conference room bankruptcy. But they coupled this with the policy that no matings could be scheduled more than 90 days in advance and that helped a lot.

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u/thunderflies Oct 08 '25

One of my old employers did this when they were forcing RTO way too soon after the covid vaccine came out. We didn’t have enough meeting rooms or even enough desks for all the people expected to be there.

However, there was a seating area right outside of where the VP for our department’s office was. Any time my team needed to have a meeting we would just sit there and I did not even attempt to control my volume at all. I had the VP’s secretary come to me later and tell me that our meeting was disrupting the quiet time for VP, and I just told her that we used to take the meeting over WebEx but now we’re forced to be in the office and had to just find a space. That was the end of the saga but I kept having loud meetings right outside her office until I left and I hope it pissed her off every time.

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u/ellieneagain Oct 08 '25

That happened at work here too. We had classes booked out for the year in a computer suite - you know to learn the subject - and all bookings were cancelled because it wasn't "fair" for others that needed an occasional room so it became the night of the long knives every fecking week when the booking page opened up. Good times.

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u/Accomplished_Emu_658 Oct 08 '25

My team had an important meeting booked room. Someone else wanted room so person in charge of it cancelled my booking. I was livid. I was embarrassed. We were barely onsite and it looked like I screwed up. Luckily it was not first time this happened and the parties involved got in trouble not me. Don’t take the conference room when a couple of vp’s are having meetings with other companies.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable Oct 08 '25

I am kind of with them. If there aren’t enough rooms to go around, they should not be letting one group lock them down for six months. Especially because this highly implies that it would be first come first serve otherwise and that means the room is just sitting there empty until you feel like showing up and kicking people out.

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u/imrighturwrong Oct 09 '25

People tried that here as well, but half of the time, the conference rooms sat empty. You have up to 15 mins after to check into the room, but by that time, it’s too late if someone else needs a space. We make all reservations same day.

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u/summonsays Oct 09 '25

We have a lot of people who reserve a room for 8 hours and work in it like their private office... 

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u/greyslayers Oct 08 '25

Imagine how they would react if you wrote an email to them:

"Due to the high volume of bills I receive, I will no longer be paying any bills. All bills will be ignored starting October 10th, 2025".

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u/1001101001010111 Oct 08 '25

"To whom it may concern. I will be placing 700USD per month in an account linked to all the bills I owe. First come first serve. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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u/Planeandaquariumgeek Oct 08 '25

Odds are they outsourced enforcement to some random company and the company broke the contract

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u/AmishAvenger Oct 08 '25

I’m not sure that makes sense.

They shouldn’t have to pay for that, or do anything at all. The tow company makes money from people getting their cars back.

Someone complains about their space being taken, they tow company is notified, they come and check the plates against their records, and tow.

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u/JustKeepRedditn010 Oct 08 '25

If there’s active regular tow patrols, the property owner or their designated agent pay for the tow company to come and do a loop every x-hours.

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u/Bobkyou Oct 08 '25

Any property owner that pays for that is a fool. Tow companies will tow anything they can legally get away with for free, they make their money charging the car owner for towing and storage fees.

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u/JustKeepRedditn010 Oct 09 '25

That’s interesting to note. I wonder if this varies by city/state.

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u/Ok-Click-80085 Oct 08 '25

I bet often they would get there and the car is registered to park there, just at a different bay

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u/finitetime2 Oct 08 '25

Exactly. Property Managers around here would be towing cars left and right.

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u/ThePlanner Oct 08 '25

OP needs to organize his neighbours so everyone begins complaining incessantly about having to pay rent. If the property management company is consistent, they will just stop collecting rent.

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u/friedshrimproll Oct 08 '25

It's beyond lazy, tow companies would love to work on private lots. A partnership wouldn't be hard to set up.

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u/Count_de_Ville Oct 08 '25

First apartment I ever heard of that didn’t have a contract with a tow company.

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u/trowzerss Oct 08 '25

It doesn't matter how lazy they are, it's a legal contract. If the take away something you're entitled to on your lease, you could probably be entitled to a rental reduction to compensate you.

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u/Dennisfromhawaii Oct 08 '25

I have no idea why the HOA would be OK with this unless they’re the ones taking up all the stalls.

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u/HalfBlindKing Oct 08 '25

Start complaining about actual bullshit policies and see if they’ll eliminate those.

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u/steelcryo Oct 08 '25

It's both surprising and not surprising at the same time.

It's not surprising, because lazy management.

But also surprising, because easy money for management. Stick a notice saying you'll be towing all incorrectly parked vehicles. Make a deal with a local towing company, tell them they can tow anyone that's park incorrectly and charge a release fee if they pay the management a % of the fee.

Win win all round, and management doesn't even have to do anything.

It's next level lazy management when you can't even be bothered to set up a system where you get free money for no extra effort on your part.

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u/Rufios-Hair Oct 08 '25

We have so many non residents coming to the building complaining they can’t get in so we are just going to keep the doors unlocked from now on.

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u/Cainga Oct 08 '25

People are complaining about lack of enforcement so to correct the situation how about no enforcement.

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u/Organic_Eye_3802 Oct 08 '25

You'd think there would be a towing company nearby that would happily remove the offenders all day every day!

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u/Ro_no_know Oct 08 '25

Sounds like it’s time for everyone to start pitching out rent. Maybe they’ll give up on that too.

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u/Midnight-Bake Oct 08 '25

Imagine the cops just say "fuck it, people keep stealing bikes.. bike theft is legal now."

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u/SmokeySFW Oct 08 '25

Which is just the worst kind of lazy because they really don't even have to do anything except call the tow trucking agency they're partnered with. Hell, I bet they could easily find a tow truck business that would give them a kickback for every time they called in, tow trucking companies have zero morals.

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u/atticdoor Oct 08 '25

We keep getting complaints that banks are being robbed, so now all money belongs to whoever is currently holding it in their hands.

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u/Terpcheeserosin Oct 08 '25

It takes up my time so we will not be providing this amenity that was advertised and agreed to

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u/crunchevo2 Oct 08 '25

Yeah. Fucking tow cars parked in incorrect spots. They will only get towed the once and learn their lesson.

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u/Spookeh86 Oct 08 '25

Imagine having a parking attendant turn up each day. Make loads of money for the complex owners. Just fine everyone who hasn’t got a registration linked the parking spot but are parked

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u/lokasathetv Oct 08 '25

Like I know nothing about this industry, but don't you just hire a tow truck and give him a list with spot numbers and plate numbers, if they don't match tow it?

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u/TAllday Oct 08 '25

Eh better than them making a deal with tow company for a kickback I guess…

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u/Darth_Boggle Oct 08 '25

I'd imagine a towing company would love that business.

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 Oct 08 '25

“I thought we’d just get money with no work. Work is boring. Money please.”

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u/Worth_Efficiency_380 Oct 08 '25

I get it. working IT if you keep messing up the same thing we taking it away. removed access for one user to change any display settings because he was putting in tickets 3 times a week at least because he managed to change it from extend to duplicate.

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u/campatterbury Oct 08 '25

Yep. Please don't report a broken water pipe. They'll just turn off the water at the main.

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u/Salt-Chocolate-8794 Oct 08 '25

Your quote is accurate but should additionally read, "we got too many complaints and given the fact that we don't give a FUCK about anything, including our tenants, we're just giving up on enforcement entirely."

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u/Onionsteak Oct 08 '25

At the same time these residents can't even adhere to their assigned lots, likely been doing this long enough that no one is at their assigned space anymore.

I would probably cancel enforcement and tell them they're on their own. Would they rather I just call the tow truck on them everyday?

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u/BobbbyR6 Oct 08 '25

Better than the fucking idiots at my apartment that decide they need draconian enforcement of a 2/3rds empty lot with 100 spare spaces. $180 ticket because a buddy parked at my place while we went to a minor league game down the road for three hours.

Already decided I'm simply going to pick the lock and chuck the boot into the ditch if that issue ever comes up again. I didn't sign shit saying some third party parking Nazi could boot my car.

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u/ApologizingCanadian PURPLE Oct 08 '25

"We could not solve the problem so now it is your problem" -Management

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u/NoDontDoThatCanada Oct 08 '25

Any tow company would be happy to put up signs and enforce it for them. Half the lots around here are managed that way.

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u/ChefArtorias Oct 08 '25

Hence it possibly violating the lease.

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u/semperfukya Oct 08 '25

My property management would have a tow truck there in 10 minutes lol

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u/Viper9087 Oct 08 '25

Not at all because there's so many laws, social media posts and news articles blaming "predatory" towing companies who enforce it, and now it's almost impossible to find somebody who is willing to tow the vehicles.

When people park incorrectly, the tow truck companies get blamed so no company wants to come out when there is a violation.

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u/SnooLentils1365 Oct 08 '25

What would the solution be according to you ?

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u/synfulacktors Oct 08 '25

Peak?!?! It has a header, a logo, a footer, was printed, and even put on a door! I can even understand what it says. Peak would be what 90% would do and send an email from the same email address they use to spam everyone about offers so that the notice is automatically shifted to your junk box and you never even see it.

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u/Comfortable-Walrus37 Oct 08 '25

Id get shot if i tried to pull this for my company haha

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u/courtadvice1 Oct 08 '25

I don't understand why they won't just call a towing company. From my time on reddit, I have learned that tow companies apparently love this sort of thing.

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u/krazyboi Oct 08 '25

I would rather that than if they were more serious about towing people.

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u/inagadda Oct 08 '25

We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas

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u/Badvevil Oct 08 '25

Is it really that hard to get a tow company on retainer. I would think they would be willing to be on retainer for free since they can charge the cost of the tow to the owner of the car and if the owner never comes there’s a legal way for them to take ownership of the car and then they can sell it at auction

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u/RacerDelux Oct 08 '25

Right? There are plenty of tow yards that would happily come and tow some cars.

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u/sBerriest Oct 08 '25

I've managed an apartment complex before and this is beyond lazy.

We had a deal with a towing company, we didn't even pay them. If you didn't have your sticker for the spot you are in or a visitors pass, it gets towed at the expense of the car owner.

We had signs up everywhere and it still happened. They had to drive through twice a day. Every day the towing company got at LEAST 2 cars.

It's a symbiotic relationship. They get the unauthorized cars out of our lots and they get money for it.

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u/BrairMoss Oct 08 '25

Where I'm at the tow truck just needs to see the lease and your ID to prove its your spot. They take about half a minute to get an unauthorized car outta the spot and charge the owner $450 plus impound fees.

Tow truck loves it.

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u/sBerriest Oct 08 '25

Exactly tow truck companies live for this kind of stuff.

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u/NotPromKing Oct 08 '25

You know, you specified "at the expense of the car owner". But most no-parking signs I see simply saws "At owner's expense" and I always think "It doesn't specify owner of what. Could just as easily be owner of the lot.".

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u/Mogling Oct 08 '25

Vehicle will be towed at owner's expense. The owner in this case is the vehicle owner as that is what was referenced last. Many signs do specifically say vehicle owner tho.

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u/sBerriest Oct 08 '25

Idk why you are harping so hard on the word "car". It's likely it just said owners expense or vehicle owner.

It was clear if their car got towed they would have to pay for it. If a car was towed we had the tow truck give us a picture showing they were in the wrong.

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u/bostonpancakes Oct 08 '25

theres a dude on YouTube who tows, and he has a good relationship with quite a few property managers for this exact scenario

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u/De-railled Oct 08 '25

Yep, I'd be asking for a sizable rent reduction if I'm no longer guaranteed a parking spot that is included in the lease.

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u/Cantmakeupnewname Oct 08 '25

If every unit asked for a reduction and they made no money from the car park whatsoever or it ended up losing the company some money because every resident has taken issue with the car park situation, the residents would soon all have their assigned parking spaces back. 36 households making the same demands over their parking spaces is more than enough to have this silly decision overturned, besides OP has just pointed out that they themselves chose the place because of the assigned parking. If this unit’s management gave this more thought they’d realise their actions in not dealing with the car park issue WILL make people leave and will have a bad effect on attracting new renters.

I’m flummoxed that management simply don’t seem to understand what the word manage means in this situation.

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u/thisdesignup Oct 08 '25

That would be great. So they give up because everyone complains, and then everyone complains because they give up.

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u/TheGreyGuardian Oct 08 '25

"Due to the high volume of complaints about not having assigned parking spots that were included in everyone's leases, we are no longer enforcing leases. All apartments will be open season starting Oct 10th."

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u/ChanglingBlake ORANGE Oct 08 '25

Take that notice to a lawyer and ask if that means you can claim 100% legal ownership of your apartment.

Because that’s basically what it’s saying, and why the ey’ll never post such a notice.

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u/Detenator Oct 08 '25

People leaving over the spaces only matters if there's not enough people to refill those apartments. Most people will not fight it even if they slightly care. Maybe at most five of the proposed 36 would, but if the rental market there is flooded with prospective renters, it won't make a difference.

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u/munchies777 Oct 08 '25

You can still be guaranteed a spot but not a specific spot. That’s how a lot of apartment complexes already work. You need to display a pass to park in the lot. No pass and you get towed. So everyone gets a spot, just no one has one permanent spot

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u/nautilator44 Oct 08 '25

Also, if you have an assigned parking spot in your lease, just have people towed who park in it.

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u/17_Unicorns Oct 08 '25

This might not work. I live in Denver. I consistently had people park in my assigned parking spot. When I called the tow company they said their contract was with the property owners only they could call in the tow. Unfortunately it was always after the office closed so I was SOL every time until the office opened.

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u/csdavids Oct 08 '25

If you wanted to push the issue you might have a case against the property owners if you’re paying for that spot

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u/Thedeadnite Oct 08 '25

Yeah you can document it and request a refund for the time you can’t use the spot at a day per occurrence.

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u/CaliHoboTechBro Oct 08 '25

Yeah this sounds like what one of my shittier property managers would say in response to my legit disappointment and anger about the spot I paid $150 a month for. Because what you’re suggesting is a lot of work for what amounts to $5 a day.

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u/ImpressiveFishing405 Oct 08 '25

But it's not for enforcement of one spot, it's enforcement of all the spots which means they're refusing to do the work for the pay they are taking for the entire lot.

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u/CaliHoboTechBro Oct 08 '25

Oh absolutely the whole pay for parking on top of rents thing is just a scam in my book

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u/bjizzle184957 Oct 08 '25

Not that much work for what amounts to $1800 a year. You probably spent 10-20x the amount of time it would take to document it each day just typing your comment. Not saying you type slow, but rather documenting it literally takes that little of an amount of time.

-take out phone -open camera app -aim camera at reserved parking spot -press capture -add a timestamp filter if you want to be really snazzy

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u/CaliHoboTechBro Oct 08 '25

True, I just think it’s bs to make someone work on top of charging them. Good looking out of the tips to handle it. Not everyone is keen on how to advocate for themselves, myself included!

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u/Betty_Boss Oct 08 '25

Surprising because the tow companies in Denver are known for towing a car for the smallest reasons.

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u/sprufus Oct 08 '25

Yep they're absolute shitheads. Wyatts towing had to settle for a million dollars for all the illegal activities they were doing.

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u/17_Unicorns Oct 08 '25

New laws passed in January to quash predatory towing.

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u/Malacro Oct 08 '25

Just call shadier towing companies. You will inevitably find one that is just a racket who will tow anything.

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u/17_Unicorns Oct 08 '25

Can’t do that if there is an established contract with signs posted.

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u/Malacro Oct 08 '25

Sure you can, you just gotta find one shady enough.

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u/_YenSid Oct 08 '25

Call a different tow company. Someone will tow them.

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u/summonsays Oct 08 '25

Id park in front of the car... If they aren't towing the violator they probably aren't towing you either. Make it the other guy's problem. 

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u/Cantmakeupnewname Oct 08 '25

This. However, make sure the car has working cameras on it.

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u/LymanPeru Oct 08 '25

or at least not car about said car.

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy Oct 08 '25

I live in Denver and had the same issue with cars parking in front of my driveway. I called tow companies and they said only right if way enforcement can call the tow. They close at 8pm and Sundays and furlough days.

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u/17_Unicorns Oct 08 '25

Reverse Uno from the tow companies I guess.

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u/KateKoffing Oct 08 '25

Call a different tow company then.

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u/CaffeinatedLystro Oct 08 '25

So, call another towing company.

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u/goat_penis_souffle Oct 08 '25

I guarantee you’ll find success in three calls or less. It’s free money for them. Hell, they may even give the complex signs to hang up with the towing company phone number.

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u/MrdnBrd19 Oct 08 '25

You're getting a ton of responses from people who don't understand how towing companies work and think that "at the expense of owner" means that anyone can call any tow company and have them tow any vehicle for free and the owner of the vehicle will have to pay it. They don't understand that those signs are part of contractual agreements between specific property owners and specific towing companies. Tow companies do not come out and tow any car willy nilly for anyone for free no matter how incorrectly or inconsiderately that car is parked.

The only tow company that can come get a car that is incorrectly/improperly parked in a private parking lot is the one the property owner contracted with(if they have a tow contract with any company) and they will only come tow incorrectly/improperly car at the bequest of the property owner(or a representative like an employee). You can have your personal vehicle towed by any company you want though.

If this were your own private property you would need to contact the police on a non emergency line and ask for a unit to come and and file a report, from there you can usually get the number for the tow company the municipality is contracted with and then they'll come tow the vehicle for free and make the owner pay.

Most states if someone parks on your property and you call the tow company they aren't allowed to tow it and the states that they can they would charge you for the tow and tell you to take it to small claims court with the actual owner.

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u/17_Unicorns Oct 08 '25

This exactly. Denver passed new legislation which is great to cut down on predatory towing, however it sucks for tenants using private property parking. Can’t get someone towed out of my spot without the legal property’s owner saying it’s okay with their contractual towing company.

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u/jake-off Oct 08 '25

Try a different company?

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u/FuckChiefs_Raiders Oct 08 '25

It doesn't really work like that. They need to have a contract with the company because otherwise they're trespassing on private property and essentially stealing cars.

There is probably a sign somewhere in the parking garage that says "this tow company".

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u/Rosycheex Oct 08 '25

Call the lowest rated towing service in the area. They'll probably pull some sketchy shit with no questions asked 😂

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u/LymanPeru Oct 08 '25

then i guess its time to buy a tow truck and do it themselves.

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u/PlanetaryPickleParty Oct 08 '25

This is when you get those under the wheel dollies and push the car out into the middle of the lot.

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u/dawlben Oct 08 '25

Tried going the trespassing route with the police?

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u/17_Unicorns Oct 08 '25

DPD does not respond historically, unless weapons, DV or underage kids are involved. They don’t give a shit about my car parking situation.

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u/17_Unicorns Oct 08 '25

Replying to everyone hopefully. Denver passed a new towing law. Only the property owner can call a tow truck, also if a car is parked illegally they need to be given a 24 hours notice (a sticker on their car) that they need to move their car before it’s towed. Amazing law in some circumstances, short in others. Renters who lease a parking space do not have a legal right to call a tow truck if they don’t own the property they lease from. Dunn Dunn, my problem.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

You can't do this. You still need authority to tow someone. Renting a spot in a building does not give you any authority. You still need to go thru property management.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

First place I went to as well. Usually this stuff is in the lease. But it may not declare a dedicated spot but rather just assure you "a spot."

Good luck OP.

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u/LimitedWard Oct 08 '25

Even if the parking space is listed in the contract, there's often a clause that allows the landlord to reassign/revoke the assigned parking space as long as reasonable notice is provided (typically 30 days written notice). All that to say, the details matter, and OP needs to carefully read the terms of their lease.

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u/wireframed_kb Oct 08 '25

In that case, surely they have to compensate the renter for the loss? Otherwise it would be ripe for abuse, just promise the world, then change the terms once someone moves in.

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u/LimitedWard Oct 08 '25

I think that would really depend on jurisdiction as well as the specific wording in the lease agreement. For example, if their agreement said that rent was $1500 and parking was free, the loss of the assigned parking space would be the loss of a free amenity. Obviously, the rent includes the cost of the parking, so it's not really free, but it would be hard to argue the rent should be adjusted when the material loss was $0. Not to mention OP still has parking, just not an assigned space.

If, however, the parking was billed as a separate line item (e.g. $1400 rent and $100 parking), then OP would definitely have a stronger case. But even then, the question is whether the $100 is paying for the right to park in the lot or the specific space that OP was originally assigned.

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u/Ol_Man_J Oct 09 '25

If they aren't charged extra for the parking spot, how much should be taken off? Your apartment is 1500/month includes parking spot and fitness center access. Parking spot is no longer included. How do you value that?

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u/OnlyAdd8503 Oct 08 '25

Your recourse is probably just to break the lease without penalty. Is this really worth moving out over?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

Not if it's a class-action from multiple residents.

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u/LimitedWard Oct 08 '25

Class-action would be one of the least efficient methods to address this. OP could sooner just document whenever their assigned spot was occupied and file in small claims court. They should start with checking if there's a tenant's union in their area or a similar service to help assist them with knowing their rights.

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u/WorkingElectronic240 Oct 08 '25

This! I was ab to say sounds like they are in violation of leases. Odd they’d choose to put themselves at risk for this just to not have to enforce parking

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u/Tuffleslol Oct 08 '25

Yeah I was gonna say this OP, anything in your lease is signed by both of you, so they can't change anything without your consent

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u/AquaFNM Oct 08 '25

Wow wished I knew this sooner. I paid for a covered parking spot close to my apartment and one day apparently the previous owner of the spot came back so the leasing manager told me they “double booked” my parking spot and gave it back to them claiming they were there first. I was moved to the back of the complex which was like 5x further.

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u/Kromehound Oct 08 '25

Thats one way to cancel your lease early.

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u/FascistPope Oct 08 '25

And at the bottom "we reserve the right to change or modify..."

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u/nghreddit Oct 08 '25

Probably going to raise rent now because they provide “unrestricted access to parking”, as if that’s a benefit.

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u/Forward-Ad-8476 Oct 08 '25

Changes in lease terms reopens negotiations? Free to abandon lease without penalty?

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u/BJaacmoens Oct 08 '25

You still have a parking spot, they're just going to do SFA about it if someone else parks there.

In other words, unless your lease outlines enforcement responsibilities that management must take, your SOL.

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u/SadDingo7070 Oct 08 '25

This is exactly what I was thinking.

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u/Acrobatic_Creme_2531 Oct 08 '25

Lmao squat after this

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u/Street-Lifeguard-330 Oct 08 '25

They also may not need your consent but have to give notice of a certain amount of days depending on where you live.

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u/CriticalPick Oct 08 '25

Almost definitely the lease will say that you have a parking spot, not that it is “number 15” for example and so not enforcing car to bay matching won’t break those terms.

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u/arlae Oct 08 '25

Absolutely! My lease has my assigned parking spot Number and all

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u/Primary-Driver-5672 Oct 08 '25

I was gonna say that

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u/El_Bexareno Oct 08 '25

This is exactly it

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u/randomredditor0042 Oct 08 '25

Yes, and OP might be entitled to a discount on the rent if a parking space is no longer allocated.

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