Neighbor's ongoing harassment.
We live across from the neighbors from H@ll and unfortunately, share our driveway with them. We also share the driveway with a neighbor to the right. These three homes are built close very together. You drive up off the main street to get into the shared driveway and then get into the individual garages. I actually was very considerate of the neighbors across the "street", or I should say, across the driveway INITIALLY, because it IS a tight squeeze. We ALL park one car on the driveway and one inside the tiny garages.
My consideration has disappeared because of their sense of entitlement. The wife has the fancier car that they want in the garage but the husband gets home first. In addition, they want to "show car" park (meaning, the wife wants to rear end into their garage rather than "front / nose in"). The husband gets home first, parks his car at the very end of the driveway and then the wife arrives. Because that corner of the driveway where he parks is taken up by his car, the wife does a 180 turn at the start of the driveway and then moves slowly up to position her car, butt in, in front of her garage. This works IF my car is parked only in the EXTREME corner of the driveway. If it is anywhere else, she cannot do the 180 turn ALTHOUGH she CAN get into the garage "nose in" first!
So, from the beginning, they have been telling me that therefore I *cannot* park my car anywhere on the driveway, other than the far end, just because (a) they WANT her car in their garage, (b) they DO NOT WANT the husband to not park on the street (even if it means that she has more room to maneuver her car into the garage) AND (c) they want her car in, rear end first.
Over a yar ago, after the continuing harassment, I told them upfront that I am not going to bend over backwards just to accommodate their demands, that if they want to "show car" park, that then they needed to figure out how other than demanding / dictating where I park! Unfortunately, we do not have a HOA. If we did, I wouldn't be harassed like this. This made the husband SO MAD that he abused me with foul language and also raised his fists at me as if to attack me. My then 2-yr-old daughter witnessed this and was scared out of her wits. The cops told me that as it was a 'civil matter', that they cannot interfere. Because I was afraid and didn't want my daughter intimidated, I began to park at the end of the driveway. They seemed to see this as a major victory.
This may have been, except for the fact that in these past few weeks, I'm seeing ugly tire marks on the driveway. I wash the driveway every week but it's all undone during the week. If they "fronted" into the garage, they wouldn't even need access our side of the driveway. They are quick to quote "ingress / egress" when I bring this up with them, but they don't want to clean the driveway on my side "because that's MY JOB!" Also, if the driveway cracks, shouldn't they share the cost of repairing it?
What should I do? I'm at my wits' end. Surely it is illegal to threaten someone with physical violence? Do I have any options other than moving away (which is impossible as I owe more on the house than I could possibly sell it for!) Please, please advice.
Thanks.
