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    Default Re: Fellow Tenant is Lending Out the Shared Parking to a Non-Tenant

    No, there is only one parking spot, per se, but there is enough space to park one car right behind the other, which is something I would not like to do, as I don't know where the other person lives and would have to contact him every time I need to take my car out, or vice versa.

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    Imagine a normal parking space but elongated. Again, I would not mind if another tenant has a car, because that is within their contract lease and also because I can more easily reach them if I need to take my car out, etc., but for a stranger to use a spot that is not legally theirs does not agree with me. After all, when I signed the lease on the house I was given to understand the use of the parking space, and also at the time of signing, I told my landlord that I WILL bring a car, and he told me that thus far no other tenant has one - therefore, I was given to understand that I would have full use of the space. (Not that I would mind if another tenant suddenly decided to bring a car, but it's the principle of the matter that concerns me here regarding my rights).

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    Default Re: Fellow Tenant is Lending Out the Shared Parking to a Non-Tenant

    I see it as is apparelty the written lease.....written lease....not oral extra deals....

    Whether you like to park first or,second is not relevant ....but reads to me like LL must provide 2 spaces for the tenants cars if they own a car.....

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    Default Re: Fellow Tenant is Lending Out the Shared Parking to a Non-Tenant

    Are you looking for a law that prohibits the landlord from allowing the other tenant to allow her friend to use the space if you want to? Because there isn't one.

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    Default Re: Fellow Tenant is Lending Out the Shared Parking to a Non-Tenant

    Quote Quoting hadeion
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    No, there is only one parking spot, per se, but there is enough space to park one car right behind the other, which is something I would not like to do, as I don't know where the other person lives and would have to contact him every time I need to take my car out, or vice versa.
    The landlord sees it as two parking spots. The lease describes it as two parking spots. You would have to share with any other tenant who had a car. Your lack of interest in sharing is irrelevant.
    Quote Quoting hadeion
    ...I told my landlord that I WILL bring a car, and he told me that thus far no other tenant has one - therefore, I was given to understand that I would have full use of the space.
    Your rights come under the written lease. You have told us that you are able to fully exercise the parking rights granted to you under the lease. Your lack of interest in sharing the spot remains irrelevant.
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    ....but reads to me like LL must provide 2 spaces for the tenants cars if they own a car.....
    Two spaces for tenants, with each tenant entitled to use one space (assuming it was not already taken by another tenant). If a second tenant obtains a car, that second tenant would have a valid objection to one of the spaces being used by a non-tenant.

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    Default Re: Fellow Tenant is Lending Out the Shared Parking to a Non-Tenant

    Quote Quoting hadeion
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    I told my landlord that I WILL bring a car,
    Talking about bringing a car is not bringing a car.

    When, and only when, you have a car is when the landlord will be in breach of the lease and you address it when it happens.

    Till then, talking about it is wasting your time, and ours.

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    Default Re: Fellow Tenant is Lending Out the Shared Parking to a Non-Tenant

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    When, and only when, you have a car is when the landlord will be in breach of the lease and you address it when it happens.
    Even if the tenant has a car, which I understand to be the case, the landlord has committed to offering the tenant one spot in the shared two-spot parking area. (The tenant's desire to reinvent the two parking spots into a single space is not going to fly -- even he admits that there's room for two cars and that he could share the spaces with another tenant.) He is entitled to "the use of one (1) space in the driveway to the west of the building, which consists of two (2) and only two spaces" -- as long as he gets that, there's no breach.

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