So, if you're a two adult household and both of you work in different areas of your city, then, too bad? That's crazy. They should've done better planning when they made the parking lot and apartments. I realize it may not be a new complex but it's just not good planning.

My son lives in a complex that only has street parking. The residents have to park up and down one single road on both sides so you can barely drive down it when everyone comes home in the evening. Dumb planning. There are plenty of open fields across from his complex, why not make a lot for parking? They're brand now complexes that look really nice, and the surrounding buildings are the same, very nice looking and they all don't look the same like most places. It looks more like a neighborhood, which is good, but they could've done better with parking.

Good for them. People who take advantage ruin it for the rest of us. Maybe they will have assigned parking spots next?

A friend lived in an affluent neighborhood in Queens. The whole street was filled with double parked cars.But….they worked together to make the shortage of parking work for their street, I guess police don’t care if no one complained.

Like Kath, I am curious about two car households. Is there off street parking?

If there isn’t enough parking, I’m okay with those with make your own as long as they are not creating a safety hazard and they belong in the building.

Not many people read the fine print on a lease.

Yes, I also feel for those that might need an extension on paying their rent. But, this is corporate.

We own a few multifamily homes. DH fine tunes rent due dates to individuals. He even had one tenant pay in two installments. But, you are not getting this in a large development.

It doesn’t seem reasonable at all. Did the lease say one vehicle per unit? What if you have a guest come for dinner?

1 car per lease? That's crazy! My husband and I have 3 vehicles between us! I would be LIVID! They can't expect people to only have one car per household! Stupid!

I asked about guests visiting and there is a section for visitors. It's always filled with tenants cars though.

Road into the complex is 2 lanes with homes on one side and police department on other. Have no idea where they will park other vehicles.

There's quite a business in leasing parking spaces in Chicago, and not every rental apartment (or condo) comes with a parking space in the building's garage or in an owned lot. Some people buy just the parking spaces and rent them to people who commute to work downtown.

Our two-flat in the city has a garage, but neither of our tenants wanted to rent a space in it. It's their choice, and they'd rather park on the street than pay to garage their vehicles. Currently, our DS uses the garage for storage.

I think that if a tenant has one assigned space, they should be able to park whatever vehicle they like in it, whether it is a work vehicle or a private vehicle.

Here in Australia that would be hard to enforce, because many jobs have a work vehicle provided, and that is the only vehicle the person drives as they are generally allowed to use it for personal use as well.

Yeah, that makes no sense, especially if some of the apartments are 2-3 bedroom, which assumes there could be 2 adults and kids who need to go places every day. It would be better to assign spaces and charge monthly for an extra space as required. And someone’s work vehicle might be their only vehicle. Just saying.

My DGD’s apartment building has gated and reserved, covered parking that is $85 extra/month. Yes you read correctly, that is on top of rent. We are happily helping her out with this for her safety. The complex does have open parking and it’s fairly generous but it adjoins a park and stays pretty full in nice weather. Plus some of the residents told her theft had been a slight problem when she first moved in last summer so she got on the wait list for a reserved spot right away.

How old is the complex? I’m not surprised if an older one planned one parking place per rental unit. City permitting was involved at some point.

Newer ones here (college housing) build parking garages and then charge $60/month for in the garage parking. Fifteen dollars a month for an unassigned parking place in the open lot.

Now I'm remembering that students would rent parking spaces at homes near their suburban high school rather than park 'too far away' in the schools lots. Poor dears!

I believe the complex was built in the 70's.

We have a similar issue where I live. The neighborhood was built before cars, so the streets are ultra skinny, and there are no driveways. Most of us have a couple of cars for our houses. By the time everyone has parked all of our cars in front of our houses, there's no room for anybody visiting..

Luckily, there's a parking lot across the street from the houses that are on this end. It's the church parking lot, so it's hardly ever used by the owner, and we just make it work.

The no parking of a company vehicle would have hurt us - although we only rented the first year we were married. DH had a company truck that he drove for - and back and forth to - work. It saved us a ton of money, we only had to own one car working in opposite directions. The company he worked for paid the fuel, maintenance, tires, insurance. We used it for local personal driving and errands but if taking it a few hundred miles out of town or overnight he did let his boss know in advance.

We didn't rent in a complex and had off street parking for it. My widowed landlady granted me half her double detached garage for the car. (I think our apartment had once been maids quarters behind a once stately home in a good neighborhood. Tiny, but a lucky find for two kids newly married)

I do not see how an apartment owner can enforce the no work vehicle prohibition. That may well be the young man you were speaking abouts only transportation. Are there garages? My son's apartment had similar rules but the second vehicle needed to use their garage vs guest parking. Parking in these situations is often a challenge. It's easy to say the empty lot could be parking as if parking lots come cheap. They do not. If the one car per lease is on the lease then the renters knew up front so anyone for whom this is an issue would look elsewhere for an apartment.

Yesterday I looked at the lot outside of my building and I counted 11 cars that were parked in the "I'm going to park in the wherever I want to" area. Tuesday should be interesting.

Did the lease state one car and no commercial vehicles? I think one car is reasonable if that's all the space they have. No commercial vehicles less reasonable, but if that's the rules, that's the rules. While I agree that people may not read every word of a lease, parking rules wouls be among the most important parts to look at before signing, for anyone owning a car. Really no excuse not to be aware of this.

There will be drama tomorrow!

Did the lease say that only 1 car per unit was allowed? If so, then tenants get what they pay for. If not, the new owners didn't leave people enough time to make other arrangements. I don't see anything wrong with a rule that says 1 parking spot per unit, if people know that in advance and have 3-4 weeks to make other arrangements (or move).

I do think a rule against "commercial vehicles" is weird if that is the tenants' only vehicle (i.e they don't own a solely personal car, only a car they use for their [whatever] business and it has a logo on it). If tenants get one spot per lease, it shouldn't matter whether the car or van in that spot has a company logo on it and is used for their business.....having a work car/van shouldn't disallow them from using the one spot they're entitled to.

Some work vehicles may belong to people who work for companies that don't have a brick and mortar location. Then what? Or they may work for themselves as plumbers, electricians and all they need is a cellphone to operate their business.

People with only one vehicle that happens to be commercial vehicle could buy a plain magnetic piece to put over logos once home. Not ideal, but.

I believe the complex was built in the 70's.

My father built an apartment complex in the 70s. Each apartment had two parking places, and their were others for guests and/or more vehicles. Their were lease stipulations that nothing could be on blocks, non functioning and no campers/trailers. There was never a problem.

In the states/areas I am familiar with, the number of parking spaces for commercial and residential must be to code. What is code in your area?

“Tuesday should be interesting.”

And? What’s it looking like?

My son would have brought a chair and cheered if any of his apartment buildings had ever enforced their parking rules. It was a non stop issue for many in his complexes.

My overly-developer-friendly metro city has said it is going to "update" the housing codes for multi-family buildings - and one of the updates is proposed to cut the required number of spaces for parking - to less than the proposed number of dwelling units. Ostensibly to help with the "housing shortage" but I suspect as much to please the developer's bottom line.

There is a residential single family/attached homes development not far from me - not really a new one, but maybe 15-20 years old. It has a homeowner's association, common areas, etc. I don't remember the fine details that I read in the newspaper, but apparently some major flaw in the paperwork of the development left the the parking areas out of the common ownership! And sure enough, some opportunist spotted that, bought (from whom I don't know, perhaps from the county) ownership of them, and has notified all the residents that they will need to pay him for the right to park their vehicles at their homes.

Oh Eld, that's the norm around here! In the Bay Area, or at least where I live in San Jose, new developments are allowed to put in very few parking spaces, which suits them just fine. The city wants us to believe that policy will encourage bike-riding (scary!) and bus-riding (not so convenient,) but the fact is, they want developers to put in as much housing as possible and developers want to make as much money as possible. We definitely need the housing units, but push will come to shove with all the cars around here and I don't know in the end where they'll all find parking; no one's going to willingly give up their cars. Already many have to park in adjacent neighborhoods.

Well mgmt extended time for tenants to turn in the car information to March 31st. Saw one car get towed that was parked in front of fire hydrant.

There is a new apartment building going up on a 4-lane street in town that is adjacent to a historic area. Friends of ours live there, a couple of blocks away from the apartments. They are worried because they have heard the parking structure has not been built large enough to accommodate all the vehicles that will be associated with the apartments, not to mention guests. There is no on-street parking nor much on the side near the apartments. Our friends and their neighbors are worried they will be inundated with cars parked up and down their quiet, narrow street. Most of the houses are cottages on small lots with small, deep driveways that don’t accommodate long-term street parking except for a few hours for parties, etc.

People are livid in general in the entire area about the apartments because it is totally out of place. with the surrounding historic areas. There are rentals but it’s a first for sure.