EricaS2 (New York)
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Hi,
I live in Queens, NYC and we are trying to form an HOA to deal with issues that are upsetting the homeowners in the area. One of the biggest problems we have is not enough parking, which results in driveways being blocked on a consistent and regular basis.
The problem is there is a homeowner that has an easement on the private driveway(to be shared with another homeowner as the first homeowner's driveway is the only way that the second homeowner can get their cars out)in which the other homeowner cannot park in, stand in or block said driveway at any time.
They have no problems with each other and there have been no issues with the driveway.
Enter homeowner number 3, who just purchased a house two doors away from homeowner number 1 about three weeks ago but homeowner 3 has no driveway at all and has no rights to park his vehicle(s)in any space on the block except for a legal space(which is the very coveted and almost impossible to find NYC street parking).
Homeowner 1 has just filed a complaint a half hour ago that homeowner 3 keeps blocking the driveway with the easement on it while he is performing construction(without a permit - but that's another story)and having materials/supplies delivered to his home.
Homeowner 1 spoke to homeowner 3 about this multiple times over the last week alone and yet he keeps parking his service vehicles across the base of homeowner 1's driveway/allowing other vehicles to do it too with no regard for what homeowner 1 told him. He indicated that he understood(I believe that they are Mexican but seemed to understand English, so there is no language barrier).
Remember, he lives TWO doors away from Homeowner 1/2's driveway and he seems not to understand why homeowners 1 and 2 keep complaining at him(They've confronted him while the vehicles are still parked across the base of the driveway and took pictures for proof).
Now, what is the best way to handle this(ie. a letter? Send the NYPD - most good homeowners are part of the community affairs meetings with the NYPD which furnishes Neighborhood Coordination Officers(NCOs)that can be called to handle community issues for non-emergency situations such as loud parties, blocked driveways, etc.
Can you imagine having to get out of your backyard and someone has parked a car/truck across the bottom of the driveway - trapping you - and they are not in the car or nearby at all?
No one has time for this and definitely, they should not have to go through this when the driveway should not be blocked ever. We can already tell that homeowner 3 is going to be a nightmare because he is already doing too many things wrong and he JUST started coming around to do work on the house before they move in.
Corona, which is the next neighborhood over from ours is a slum ghetto and East Elmhurst(on our block)is right at cutoff between the two neighborhoods, so we get a lot of issues in the block such as bad homeowners or worse, former renters who have never owned a home before, coming into the area with a lot of the stuff I named below.
They really are clueless at how to be good homeowners and good neighbors. This is an established neighborhood, one in which my own family has lived in our house for 71 years. I am the third generation. Most others have 30-50 years here and we have had an influx of 'new' people coming to the country and buying up homes and simply being ignorant on how to behave.
We already have a civil lawsuit against one really out of control family on the block(loud parties, blocking driveways because they've got four cars, public urination, illegally burning trash, littering, and the list goes on and on) Any advice? Thanks!
I live in Queens, NYC and we are trying to form an HOA to deal with issues that are upsetting the homeowners in the area. One of the biggest problems we have is not enough parking, which results in driveways being blocked on a consistent and regular basis.
The problem is there is a homeowner that has an easement on the private driveway(to be shared with another homeowner as the first homeowner's driveway is the only way that the second homeowner can get their cars out)in which the other homeowner cannot park in, stand in or block said driveway at any time.
They have no problems with each other and there have been no issues with the driveway.
Enter homeowner number 3, who just purchased a house two doors away from homeowner number 1 about three weeks ago but homeowner 3 has no driveway at all and has no rights to park his vehicle(s)in any space on the block except for a legal space(which is the very coveted and almost impossible to find NYC street parking).
Homeowner 1 has just filed a complaint a half hour ago that homeowner 3 keeps blocking the driveway with the easement on it while he is performing construction(without a permit - but that's another story)and having materials/supplies delivered to his home.
Homeowner 1 spoke to homeowner 3 about this multiple times over the last week alone and yet he keeps parking his service vehicles across the base of homeowner 1's driveway/allowing other vehicles to do it too with no regard for what homeowner 1 told him. He indicated that he understood(I believe that they are Mexican but seemed to understand English, so there is no language barrier).
Remember, he lives TWO doors away from Homeowner 1/2's driveway and he seems not to understand why homeowners 1 and 2 keep complaining at him(They've confronted him while the vehicles are still parked across the base of the driveway and took pictures for proof).
Now, what is the best way to handle this(ie. a letter? Send the NYPD - most good homeowners are part of the community affairs meetings with the NYPD which furnishes Neighborhood Coordination Officers(NCOs)that can be called to handle community issues for non-emergency situations such as loud parties, blocked driveways, etc.
Can you imagine having to get out of your backyard and someone has parked a car/truck across the bottom of the driveway - trapping you - and they are not in the car or nearby at all?
No one has time for this and definitely, they should not have to go through this when the driveway should not be blocked ever. We can already tell that homeowner 3 is going to be a nightmare because he is already doing too many things wrong and he JUST started coming around to do work on the house before they move in.
Corona, which is the next neighborhood over from ours is a slum ghetto and East Elmhurst(on our block)is right at cutoff between the two neighborhoods, so we get a lot of issues in the block such as bad homeowners or worse, former renters who have never owned a home before, coming into the area with a lot of the stuff I named below.
They really are clueless at how to be good homeowners and good neighbors. This is an established neighborhood, one in which my own family has lived in our house for 71 years. I am the third generation. Most others have 30-50 years here and we have had an influx of 'new' people coming to the country and buying up homes and simply being ignorant on how to behave.
We already have a civil lawsuit against one really out of control family on the block(loud parties, blocking driveways because they've got four cars, public urination, illegally burning trash, littering, and the list goes on and on) Any advice? Thanks!