Full question:
I live on a city street with parking on one side of a two way street (the side I live on) and room for only one car to be traveling at a time. There are children, around 11 years old, that live across the street from me and also a few houses down from me who have races on their bikes between and around the cars parked on my side of the street, and using the sidewalk on the other side of the street for the bike ramp they jump off. They have repeatedly banged into the cars of my neighbor and myself. We have tried asking the boys to stop doing that but five minutes later they are back at it. I just asked the father of the the boy across the street to please have them stop racing around my car, he said sure, and five to ten minutes later they were at it again, with the father and mother sitting out there watching them. What can I do to stop this? I am tired of all the scratches and dings on my car, and so is my neighbor.
- Category: Real Property
- Subcategory: Neighbor Relations
- Date:
- State: Pennsylvania
Answer:
The parents may be held liable foe damages to your vehicles. Perhaps if you get an estimate for repairs and attach it to a letter, indicating your hope not to have to take legal action to recover damages, it may motivate the parents to take a harder stance. If you have a homeowner's association, it is possible that the activity violates a restrictive covenant.
Some of the actions that can be taken to deal with offending neighbors include:
-Discussing the problem with or writing a letter to the offending neighbor
-Calling the police/sheriff's office to file a complaint
-Asking the landlord or neighborhood body to remedy the situation
-Filing a lawsuit for, nuisance, harassment, etc.
-Talk to a councilperson about passing a local ordinance
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