Apartment Building Discriminatory Motorcycle Parking Policy

[Evil_Weasel]

shoot at my new place they have a clause right in the lease " no motorcycles on or near property"

i'm not sure how legal it is, but i don't care. bike stays at my parents in the nice safe garage anyway.

[Eddie]

BTW next time they want you to renew the lease throw it in the trash. They won't do a thing about it if you just keep mailing the checks. Think about it. Are they gonna cash the checks or throw you out.

That's right. I am already in the market for a house. Trying to close by Nov 30 when the first time home buyer credit expires.

[Eddie]

Sent management an e-mail a few days ago. I guess this is the best I can do:


I am in receipt of your memo dated October 21, 2009 concerning the new parking policy. While I admire your continuous pursuit to accommodate the tenants’ needs I disagree with the new policy as far as motorcycle parking is concerned.

You have always treated me and my family fairly as far as our maintenance requests are concerned and we thank you for that. I would like to ask you to treat me fairly as far as the parking for my motorcycle is concerned as well. Let me please outline my concerns:

1. When I first moved in I explicitly inquired about motorcycle parking, and was assured by Management that there wasn’t any issues concerning parking my motorcycle in the lot. In fact I even registered my motorcycle with management in order to ensure management had record of it;

2. I reviewed my lease contract and the residents’ manual that was handed to me when we moved in. Both of these documents do not have any clauses that states that motorcycles must be parked in a designated area;

3. The suggested motorcycle designated parking area sits in the other end of the condominium complex. In light of the fact that there has been a motorcycle theft in the apartment building parking lot in the past 3 months, this is of a large concern to me as my motorcycle cannot be under my supervision if parked in the suggested motorcycle parking area;

4. Motorcycles and vehicles like any other. They are required by be registered with the RMV and have to abide by the same traffic laws as any other vehicle in the road. Likewise, according to the RMV’s owners manual they should occupy the same amount of space as any other vehicle.


I drove around the complex this morning and I did not observe any other motorcycles parked in the designated parking area for motorcycles or any other area. Judging by our previous interactions, my intuition tell me that the new policy issued by management is non-discriminatory, however, I could not help to notice that my motorcycle was the only motorcycle parked in the parking lot.

Furthermore, while we currently rent a 2 bedroom apartment at Granada Georgetown I note that we only have two vehicles, a motorcycle and a car: both registered with management.

I have also observed that there have not been any parking issues at the Granada Georgetown parking lot. Every night I come in from work, there are plenty of spaces to choose from and at least 30 to 40 percent of the parking spaces are available. So I am a bit confused that one of my two vehicles would cause a parking concern.

I understand that your objective is to ensure that every resident is treated fairly and I ask you to do the same concerning the motorcycle parking policy. As stated earlier, you have treated me and my family with fairness thus far, and I would appreciate it if were to review the facts and circumstances concerning this matter.

Best regards,

[ZoomSplat]

How do you think I should approach management about this?

With a blazing torch.

It sounds like you've been pretty polite and level headed about it so far; but at the same time if you rent a 2 bedroom and are entitled to two parking spaces, use the two of them.

When I lived out in Cali I had the end parking space which just happened to be right on the other side of my back patio fence. I pulled my truck as far to the side as I could and parked my bike between the truck and my neighbor's car. She was cool with it because I hardly ever actually crossed the white line, and usually had the side stand right ON the line. My truck is too long to park the bike parallel to the curb and fit the truck in the same space. During the rainy season I pulled it up onto my front patio, put a tarp under it, put it up on stands, chained the wheels together, covered it, and hugged it on my way in and out of the front door. Management tried to say something about it to me once, but I pointed out all the other ugly ass junk that people had polluting the "picturesque scenery" and they let it go. But then again, they didn't really have a leg to stand on because one call to immigration and 2/3 of their tenants would have been deported and they would have gone bankrupt