You are looking for a parking space because parking is terrible in your neighborhood. You arrive late on a weekday night on your short but well-deserved vacation. You leave things at the door and while your partner carries them, you drive the car into your garage. But when you arrive, there is another car in your space. This is no joke. It’s eleven o’clock at night, the next morning you wake up early to find cars parked on the street walking around a neighborhood.
How to avoid next time?
This is no joke. I thought so though. I promise that what I am about to say is not literary license. One day, having a drink with a friend, he told me that the other day he came home and someone had parked in his garage. “I was shocked because I didn’t have a place to park outside, on the street,” he told me.
After managing the parking and several hours of hooking up on phone calls, they learn that the person who parked is the neighbor’s brother. He chose the wrong parking space because he wrote the wrong parking space and went for a walk. He had a free garage in Madrid with his sister also on holiday.
“And a lot,” my friend told me, insisting, laughing, “it’s like I’m paying for it.” Luckily, the neighbor’s spot was empty and he was able to park without issue until he returned and they exchanged.
What if not wrong? That’s what our editorial office asked themselves Xataka What if you arrive at your garage space, it’s occupied and you can’t find the owner of the car. And the point is that in this case it was a mistake but that is not always the case.
A few months ago we said that “garage squatters” exist. People who use other people’s space without their consent and block their use daily. My colleague Carlos Prego collected cases and testimonies from Murcia, Galicia and the X account “Tíos de Vecinos”, where all kinds of coexistence problems are collected.
In this case, there is no option but to try to contact the car owner to demonstrate that an attempt has been made to reach a diplomatic solution. If there is no other way, you should take photos and videos and report the case. Because yes, this is why it came to court.
Or I avoid. A common solution in this case is to install a trap. directly This is something that is totally allowed as long as the place is yours. Firstly because it is something that can be thought of with horizontal property law in hand. And Article 7.1 thereof reads as follows:
The owner of each apartment or premises may modify the architectural elements, facilities or services of the former when it does not undermine or change the security of the building, its general structure, its external configuration or the state or damage the rights of other owners, and must previously report such work to those who represent the community.
That is, according to this wording, we can set a trap that works with our key. It will be anchored to the ground so that, when we take the car out, we lift it and lock it with the key. Once we arrive, we unlock it and it folds up so we can park in it. No one can stop this way.
wash off. When asked about the possible installation of such objects in parking spaces, the College of Property Administrators of Madrid (CAF Madrid) confirmed that, in fact, there is no problem as long as some basic rules are met:
“As long as you own the space, there will be no problem as long as you don’t encounter any technical problems while installing it. If necessary, if the space is sold, it will be the new owner who can decide whether he wants to remove it before buying or himself because it makes parking difficult.”
Therefore, just as someone installs a railing so that his car does not get scratched, there is no problem in placing a block in the garage as long as, we say, there is no inconvenience to the rest of the neighbors. A problem that should not occur in this case.
Picture | Curtis Stick
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