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FirstComradeStalin
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In my apartment building we have a small gated parking lot that has three sliding overlapping gates that are locked individually by a regular lock (a big one with a key). Basically when you pull in, you have to get out, unlock the gate, slide it open, drive in, close the gate, then lock it again. My neighbor only locks his gate when leaving about half the time, though he closes the gate all the way every time. I talked to the landlord, I talked to the guy (who denies it), I even confronted him once when he was driving off right in front of me with it still unlocked. Still at least once a day it's left unlocked.
I live in a pretty low-income neighborhood in a very high-crime city, so I don't like taking any risks. What can I do to get this guy to lock his gate? I talked to the landlord, who has talked to him, but it doesn't seem like much is working. Just in case, what can I do to document the fact he's not locking the gate? Could I just take timestamped photos on my phone? Each gate covers 4 spots and he only parks in 2 (someone else parks in the other 2 while I'm parked behind the adjacent gate) but it's obviously this one guy who doesn't care about locking the gate. How can I prove it's him? What's even the possible motive behind closing the gate all the way but not locking it, isn't he right there anyway? I want something recorded in case of an incident, that's not like weird and obsessive right? Am I becoming an old man?
I live in a pretty low-income neighborhood in a very high-crime city, so I don't like taking any risks. What can I do to get this guy to lock his gate? I talked to the landlord, who has talked to him, but it doesn't seem like much is working. Just in case, what can I do to document the fact he's not locking the gate? Could I just take timestamped photos on my phone? Each gate covers 4 spots and he only parks in 2 (someone else parks in the other 2 while I'm parked behind the adjacent gate) but it's obviously this one guy who doesn't care about locking the gate. How can I prove it's him? What's even the possible motive behind closing the gate all the way but not locking it, isn't he right there anyway? I want something recorded in case of an incident, that's not like weird and obsessive right? Am I becoming an old man?
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Maybe talk to the other neighbors who rely on the same guy locking the gate? If enough of you talk to him about it, he might get his act together. Or he might be a passive aggressive ass and stop locking it altogether.
If that fails, is there any way you could talk to your landlord about getting a different parking spot where the other users remember to lock up?
I was considering recording the guy, I could even do it from my bedroom window since it's sitting right over the gate. Setting up a CC camera might be a bit more effort than I care to expend, but I get the idea. I might just try to get by taking photographs instead.
Also is the landlord the owner or an employee of a larger firm? How occupied is the apartment complex?
Would your landlord be willing to replace the gate with one that automatically locks? They aren't too expensive.
Does your lease mention secured parking as something that is included? If it does get what documentation you have together then talk with the landlord how they aren't providing it and this negligence leaves them open to liability if something were to happen. Make this their problem.
You have no leverage over your fellow tenant that you haven't already used.
I think this is the big problem. It's a shitty situation for you but there isn't anything further you can do directly to change things. Trying to get the landlord to lean on him is really the only remaining viable option but that may have negative repercussions if your neighbor is vindictive.
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As part of that, you can certainly start taking note of all the times you've found the gate unlocked, and any written correspondence you sent the landlord asking him to address the issue. (Make sure you have at least one piece of written correspondence.)
Past that, just let it drop in terms of communicating with everyone else about it. The motivation you've provided is that your landlord will have been negligent if something happens to your car. Past that, you'll just piss everyone off by being gate vigilante.
I agree. Take the photos and send them to your landlord so that he may be able to use them but also keep copies of everything yourself so that you can prove stuff. Once you've done that the responsibility is your landlord's so all you can do is hope it gets solved quickly.