UPDATE!!!!
Original post:
I female 24, tried to have my neighbors car towed.
So Here me out, I’ve been a resident at my apartment complex for 2 almost 3 years now. I’ve had this parking spot since I got my car in November 2025 (4-5) months. I’ve been paying $40 a month for my spot. The past month or so I’ve had random cars parking in my spot. I get up in the morning and take my partner to work. When I arrive home there’s someone in my spot. Usually I wait a min to see if anyone come out, let them know I pay for the spot. Worse case I honk until someone realizes that they are in the wrong place. I’ve been pretty nice about people being in my spot. I hate confrontation. But one day me and my partner planned a trip to go and see my family after my partner got off work. I went and picked them up and go home just to find another person in my spot (mind you it’s never the same car twice) I was a little irritated because I have two dogs and a whole house to pack into my car. The only other spots are far from my house and would be a hassle to walk back and forth too. So I look into my lease to see what to do about someone in my spot. Of course they recommend documentation of the vehicle and to just call the tow truck. I felt like a bad person towing someone’s car, but I pay for a spot I don’t get to use. But of course like every tow video you see they wait till the last second to come down yelling about their car. ( I also spent like 1 hour waiting to see if anyone would come out.) The dude sees me and immediately starts yelling at me saying
"you couldn’t just park somewhere else" "why you being a K” (K= a middle aged women, typically blond, that makes solutions to others problems an inconvenience to her although she isn’t even remotely affected.)He was just spitting and spewing a bunch of rage. Dude wouldn’t let me say much. I told him the spot is on my lease. He kept saying no it’s on mine blah blah blah. I asked for the proof. Luckily his girlfriend or whoever she was came to explain in a cool manner (something her man couldn’t do) that out complex double assigned spots. The girlfriend then explained that the complex said they were gonna tow my car but they didn’t. I can’t spot thinking about being called a K.
Never in my life have i acted like a K I was shook. (Also mind you the girlfriend said they were gonna tow my car…. Could I have uno reversed it on him…. Called him K and told him to park somewhere else. Idk I feel like I wasn’t in the wrong but still feel so guilty AITA!?!?!
UPDATE!!!!
So it turns out that when I bought my spot someone messed up the contract. It says on the contract November 5th 2025-November 29th 2025. (Which I missed) It was supposed November 2026. These people just moved in within the last month. I showed the office people Ive been paying every month since nov 2025. They then tried to show me all the available spots, to which I replied “there’s no way for me to keep my spot I’ve had for months??” They basically told me that they could talk to them about the situation but didn’t know if they would move. Like wtf you mean!?!?! I’ve lived here for years and it’s your mess up not mine I have proof I pay for the spot. They told me they’d call and let me know if I can have my spot!!!
Nta, but i would encourage you to have a conversation with your leasing office. Seems to me like you need a reserved sign to be added to your spot. They also need to make sure that they do a better job of tracking the spots that residents are paying for.
NTA for trying to get a car that you had all reason to assume was in your spot towed, but you need to check with your landlord about the double assignment claim ASAP. If the neighbours are lying, you can just go ahead and get them towed in future, but if they are not lying, you have to get that sorted so you have your own spot
I would be calling the complex office IMMEDIATELY and demanding a conversation about this double-assignation of spots business, and giving them the info on this person who wanted to tow your car. That’s what I would be doing, instead of wondering if I were the a-hole.
This!!
NTA – you pay for it, its yours. Have the building put up a sign or something. If the spot was double assigned like they claimed, make them prove it – then you both go to the building super and get it cleared up. He called you that to get under your skin – don’t dwell on it.
NTA. You did what you needed to do to ensure your access to what you pay for.
Get used to being called a “Karen”. It’s the standard go-to these days for people who feel they have been slighted by a woman.
Nta but you all need to go the complex and get a proper spot and some money back
Call your leasing company…. That still sounds fishy that they’re “Double assigned”
NTA.
You paid for a reserved space, so you have a right to be upset when others use it.
If they moved in starting Feb 1 and paid for a space, it would make sense that your spot was taken, but not by multiple random cars. More likely new people DID move in then, who didn’t care about using your spot.
It sounds like the GF was calmer, but also did not show you proof that the spot was on their lease. So if the complex DID double assign the spot, then they are the AH. Otherwise your neighbors are.
Double-check with the office, then go ahead with the towing. Your neighbors will have to learn one $300 tow bill at a time.
NTA. The first thing you need to do is check with the management office to see if the girlfriend was correct or lying to you. If correct then you might want to move because the situation will never get better.
NTA. Contact the management office immediately. Neighbors might be lying about the spot being “double assigned”, and management should send them a letter. If management did err and assign your spot to the new neighbor, mana needs to re assign the new neighbor pronto.
Nta that dude is full of bs
NTA but you need to deal with the complex right away if they’re renting the same spot to two tenants without telling you.
NAH. It sounds like the real AH is the complex for double assigning parking spots. I would go to the complex and tell them to either give you your own spot, or you will no longer be paying the $40/month fee.