All Forum Posts by: Kaleigh Griffiths

Thank you James! It’s clearly stipulated in the lease that they do not have access to the garage, as they have never paid for it in the years that they’ve lived there, but they continue to give the bottom tenants a hard time for parking in the driveway. The driveway is so small that I considered it to be part of an extension of the garage. If the top tenants do not pay to park in the garage, then I believed that they did not have the rights to park in the driveway OR complain about people parking there. 

I have a multi-level building in SF with multiple units. It has a lower level two-car garage with a single-car driveway. The two bottom units pay for and have access to the garage in order to park. I did not give the top unit a key to the garage, nor do they have parking rights in the lease. However, the top unit claims that they have equal driveway access, and call the police on the bottom tenants whenever their cars are blocking the driveway. Do they have the right to do this even though they do not have garage access or permission to park there in their lease? I have received multiple complaints of this nature about the top tenants for the past couple years and because I rent in a student area, it is starting to deter people from renting my units.