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SilvanaZ (California)
Posts: 1
Posted:
We have 9 guest parking in our community, and our board made a new rule that people who own more than two cars can’t park in guest parkings. Therefore, one bedroom owners, who have one parking and two cars, get a free second parking, but I live in a two bedroom and have three cars, I can never park in guest parkings. Basically two bedroom apartments are indirectly barred from guest parkings. If a one bedroom needs extra parking, they get it, but two bedrooms won’t! Our guest parkings are always empty, and nobody ever complained. Can even HOA do this, shouldn't I have to enjoy the same right as anybody else to this part of common property? Isn’t this new rule gives the common property to certain owners only. Also, could my HOA come up with new rules, even-though no body ever complained?

TIA
TimB4 (Tennessee)
Posts: 21,059
Posted:
Assigned parking and guest parking are two different things.

Your opinion that those with one vehicle and two assigned parking spots have "guest parking." They do not. Like you, they have two assigned parking spaces. They are fortunate enough to only have one or two vehicles and do not need additional parking like you do.

MelissaP1 (Alabama)
Posts: 13,836
Posted:
How do you know no one complained? It also may be something the boar is putting in place for future conflicts. They are trying to make it as equal as possible. A 2 bedroom should have room for 2 cars. A 1 bedroom room for 1. However, couples move into 1 bedrooms together. Which means they most likely will have 2 cars. Hence why the "extra" parking space is made available to those in 1 bedrooms versus the 2 bedrooms.

Now I own 3 cars myself and have a 2 car garage. The city code department just came around to give me a "warning" for parking my 3rd vehicle in the front yard on the grass. The area I park used to be gravel but it washed away. Been parking there on/off for years. None of my neighbors have complained. It's just the code of our city that you can't park on grass in the front yard.

So it's just the way the cookie crumbles.

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