Condo president shrinks parking spot!

ZowieHowie

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There is an issue at the condo owned by my grandparents. Basically, the condo president is a jerk, and just does what he wants. He will be impeached once all the snowbirds come down over the winter, and we will have over 50% of the residents wanting him out. The guy basically does stuff for people on his board, and craps on everyone else.

This issue has come up, and I believe we have legal recourse.

-When the condo was purchased, we purchased its assigned parking spot, which is an extra large spot, capable of holding two vehicles. The spot is actually enclosed with a wall on each side. A few years ago, the president told the maintenence man to split our assigned parking spot in half (since it was a large spot), so he can sell the other half to someone who wanted another spot. When this was discovered, my grandfather told him absolutely not. Reluctantly, the president painted back over the line that had been painted down the middle of the spot.

-Fast forward to this week: No one has been at the condo for a few weeks (because my grandmother was ill), and we come back to see that he painted lines in our spot, so that it has shrunk about 6-7 feet on one side. Basically, he painted a yellow line 6 feet away from and parallel with the wall. There are then diagonal lines between the wall and the newly painted line. It seems that he conveniently waited for no cars to be in the spot for a week or so before doing this.

Do we have any legal recourse?
 

ZowieHowie

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Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: ZowieHowie
Do we have any legal recourse?
Home Depot. Black paint. All over his car.

Unfortunately, the security camera looks RIGHT AT his car. It used to overlook my grandpa's spot, as well as 3 others. Now it just looks at spot #5
 

tk149

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You have to look at the property deed (or whatever legal agreement) for the parking spot. Then get a lawyer.
 

cjgallen

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Originally posted by: ZowieHowie
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: ZowieHowie
Do we have any legal recourse?
Home Depot. Black paint. All over his car.

Unfortunately, the security camera looks RIGHT AT his car. It used to overlook my grandpa's spot, as well as 3 others. Now it just looks at spot #5

Ski mask and jumpsuit?
 

sixone

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Originally posted by: cjgallen
Originally posted by: ZowieHowie
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: ZowieHowie
Do we have any legal recourse?
Home Depot. Black paint. All over his car.

Unfortunately, the security camera looks RIGHT AT his car. It used to overlook my grandpa's spot, as well as 3 others. Now it just looks at spot #5

Ski mask and jumpsuit?

Duh. Paint the camera first.

 

SagaLore

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I'm not sure about the legal recourse, but I'm really interested to see if he really gets voted out. Please post a followup when that does or doesn't happen.

Maybe you should start a petition process now, document all the complaints, i.e. start meeting with some of the other condo owners to swap stories...
 

Miramonti

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99% chance that it is illegal. Your gp's have rights to that space, and whether he paints over it or not, he's taking part away from they own, which is illegal. And he can't sell or rent that space to someone else when its not his to sell or rent.

Make sure you or he takes pics.
 

Ronstang

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Go paint black over the stupid lines he painted in your spot and then park a car there. If hes says something show him your deed. If he persists then get a lawyer. Kicking his ass would be fun but counterproductive.
 

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: ZowieHowie
There is an issue at the condo owned by my grandparents. Basically, the condo president is a jerk, and just does what he wants. He will be impeached once all the snowbirds come down over the winter, and we will have over 50% of the residents wanting him out. The guy basically does stuff for people on his board, and craps on everyone else.

This issue has come up, and I believe we have legal recourse.

-When the condo was purchased, we purchased its assigned parking spot, which is an extra large spot, capable of holding two vehicles. The spot is actually enclosed with a wall on each side. A few years ago, the president told the maintenence man to split our assigned parking spot in half (since it was a large spot), so he can sell the other half to someone who wanted another spot. When this was discovered, my grandfather told him absolutely not. Reluctantly, the president painted back over the line that had been painted down the middle of the spot.

-Fast forward to this week: No one has been at the condo for a few weeks (because my grandmother was ill), and we come back to see that he painted lines in our spot, so that it has shrunk about 6-7 feet on one side. Basically, he painted a yellow line 6 feet away from and parallel with the wall. There are then diagonal lines between the wall and the newly painted line. It seems that he conveniently waited for no cars to be in the spot for a week or so before doing this.

Do we have any legal recourse?
As someone who lives in a condo, yes you have legal recourse. But there are alternatives:

Talk to him and tell him to put it back the way it was
Go above him to the actual property owners.
get your camera and take pics.
get your agreement and read it carefully.
study the condo rules carefully.
check for local bylaws and other legal aspects of owning a condo.

 

OutHouse

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since your grandfather bought the spots he owns them. read the contract there should be measurements indicating how big his spots are.
 

Kelvrick

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Sigh. Condos... Get the deed and look at the legal description, and then get the condominium plan filed with the county recorder's office (all public information). If you parking spot was included in the same, it'll say something like

An exclusive easement something something parking spot labeled P 1 or something or other as said on said Condominium Plan.

If thats on there, basically the parking lot is yours and you can hit him with trespassing, defacement of property and stuff like that. I wouldn't go that far though, just talk to em, get em to paint it back, then wait till you guys can oust him. The trouble isn't worth the results in this case is my opinion.

EDIT: If he sold it already, find out who he sold it to and ask to see the paperwork he used to transfer ownership to them. It'd be interesting how he sold something that doesn't belong to him.