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GARAGE SPOT NIGHTMARE
An assigned garage space spirals from a simple lease detail into a safety nightmare, as notes, a police report, and management's actions unfold around a terrified tenant.
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A woman's assigned garage spot came with her new apartment on March 1. By the next morning, someone else was already using it.
The poster had barely settled in when the first problem showed up: the space listed for her car was occupied on the very first night. She emailed the office right away. Management said they would contact the person and, if they did not hear back, a tow would be initiated. Then came another promise: the tow would happen on a certain day.
It did not.
So she emailed management again.
By Tuesday night, the spot was finally empty. She parked there that night, then again the next evening, relieved to have the space she had been assigned. But the relief did not last until morning.
The next day, she found a note taped to her car with duct tape.
The message itself was not shared, but the tape was. She later wrote, "The duct tape on that note was in a million tiny pieces and it took me 30 minutes to finish getting it off." That morning, the garage problem had turned into something else entirely.
She said she felt unsafe and contacted management again. She planned to file a police report and asked others, "how would you handle this?" In her post, she added, "I am a single woman with a daughter who ran from a domestic situation." She also said, "I take our safety incredibly seriously."
Management responded with a quick escalation. In the first update, they said, "this person's lease will be terminated immediately." They also offered her another open parking spot and said garage camera footage would be made available to police. The poster said she would file a report and believed she might need a protection order.
Then came the second update: she filed the police report. But police told her no charges could really be pressed, since there was no "real" damage to the car and no threats of physical harm. The poster called the situation "unhinged" and followed up with management again, asking for notice when the person no longer had access to the building. She also requested permission to park in a different building until then.
What began as a bad parking assignment turned into an apartment safety issue, with emails, a taped note, a police report, and a lease termination all following the same garage spot.