They’re each a single-width driveway, but split down the middle on the property line. So there’s my half and his half.
I could put a motorcycle or even a dumpster on my half and he can’t say sh- squat, but a car would be on my half and “trespassing” on his half. And v/v, so either neighbor has “veto power”.
Well, half-owning…
They’re kinda like these…
where you’d have a yard and possibly garage in back.
But half these schmos use their garages for storing their crap instead of keeping a car, and park in the driveway just off the sidewalk instead. Or worse, park streetside.
And there are the illegal conversions, 1-family houses illegally converted into 2-family (to prevent exactly this situation), basement apartments, attic apartments, rent-a-rooms, each one bringing more people (and more cars) onto the block. Their “rental income” is paying their mortgages, and giving a big “f-you!” to everyone else on the block.
I’m not a rat, but I’ve been sorely tempted to just sic the city on ’em all. Problem is, those who’d do the investigating only have ID cards, not badges, so you could slam the door in their faces or just not even answer the doorbell, and the “investigation” ends right there. It’s a (bad) joke.
Problem is, the past decade or so, I think all the cars in the neighborhood had sex and pooped out that many more cars, because I never used to have a problem coming home even late at night. Now? Unless you beat the quit-at-5 crowd to get home, forget it.
The only saving grace is that the neighbor on the other side prefers to park in front of his (streetside) garage vs under the tree in front of his house, where the birds would use his car as a toilet. So even though he can be kinda d-baggy on occasions, too, he doesn’t mind and even prefers when I park my car “halfies” between our houses. So that way no one blocks him out in front of my “placeholder” car, and I still have the too-short space behind so I can park across my half-driveway.
That’s why I’ve looked (and am still looking, ’though not terribly hard) to move out east vs in The City.