Potential Dispute With New Neighbour

lookstraightahead

Op, did you check all the other houses down the road as, at the moment, you own those as much as you own this one.

In the nicest way possible, it's none of your business. Relax and deal with any issues on completion. 

lookstraightahead

tooldle said:

Put your skip in front of the car, assuming it is still there when the house becomes yours. 
The vendor is responsible for ensuring any arrangements they have with neighbours to park on the drive, are concluded prior to the sale completing.
A similar scenario occurred to a friend. They had scaffolding going up which blocked the interloping car in for a considerable number of weeks. 
The problem with chancers being you give an inch and they take a mile. I'd only allow a neighbour to park on my drive if i was absolutely certain it would be a one off, and no possibility whatsoever of popping home randomly, to find their car on my drive. 

Please don't do this op! 

YoungBlueEyes

We've got a similar situation.  We're moving Tuesday.  We've had a few viewings, and on the day time ones the drive is clear.  On the weekend evening we went - dirty big van there!  We think possibly it's the neighbours (house is a semi), but - like you - we don't know that for sure.  So next week when we start moving in I'm gonna knock on the neighbour's door, to introduce ourselves and apologise in advance for the noise. Hopefully that will illicit a response of "ooh begger, I best move me van ha haa!"  Mystery solved.

Bear in mind it may not even be neighbour's....

Slinky

We bought our house ahead of being able to live in it ourselves. We tidied it up and invited a letting agent round so we could rent it out for a couple of years.  On speaking with our neighbour a few days later, it transpired the letting agent had started parking on our drive whilst she popped into town, avoiding paying to park. She wasn't showing potential tenants around as the house wasn't ready at that point and she didn't have keys. She just knew we lived 100 miles away and presumed we'd know nothing about it. She didn't know about 'neighbourhood twitch'.  We decided to use a different agent.

sidneyvic

It has absolutely nothing to do with you until you complete on the house and it becomes your property.
The chances of the neighbour continuing to park on "your" driveway once you move in are virtually zero...
Total non issue and definitely not an potential dispute unless you make it into one trying to interfer with anotherbowners property.

Francis63

You don't know whose car it is. You're only guessing.

If I were selling my property and it were empty for months I would be actively asking if someone would like to park there as it helps with security. 

The owner has probably come to an arrangement with someone or it may even be a theirs or a family member's car.
Or maybe they are letting their drive whilst they still own the house. 

If you start meddling and leaving notes you are overstepping. It is not your house and not your business yet.

The owner is probably aware, and obviously will know the completion date, so I suspect the car and everything else will be gone and you can look forward to a fine empty property.

Do not worry.