Visitor Parking Rules in the GTA

[crystal8484]

Does anyone know if it is considered illegal to park in the visitors parking of an apartment unit for which you live - that you could get ticketed or towed? (day time hours only - night time you must have a permit after 2am at my place apparently) My building has turned into a nightmare lately with the new "security guards" they've hired that mainly just have potlucks in the lobby and do nothing else. I pay for underground parking but let's be honest, putting my car underground when I'm home for 20 minutes to let my dog out while on lunch is ridiculous. I've looked through my old lease agreement and couldn't find anything about visitors parking only that of my actual paid spot...

The landlord parks her car in the visitors spot sometimes, even the maintanence guys above ground in spots not alloted to them and they never get warnings/tickets that I've seen. Just looking for some info or anything in writing that I can take to them or the tenant board about being harrassed constantly (this is also not the first time I've been wrongly accused of something in this building)

Can't wait to get out of this place!!

[Maz3Dan]

My ex-gf used to always park her car in visitor parking whenever she was doing quick runs. She never got a ticket, or got bothered. I'm not sure about the law aspect, and maybe going over your lease agreement is a good idea, but I've never heard of there being any problem with this.

[mathew.poulos]

Can't say 100% but I used the visitors at my old building all the time, I even got permits for overnight when I was to lazy to walk downstairs in the morning.

I don't think they can say anything during Free Hours, and if they do, say u lent the car to a friend for the week and he's "visiting"

[Rob23]

Most places do not allow you to park in visitors parking if you are a residence. At my parents house (condo) they have 1 parking spot and are not allowed to park in the visitors parking.

[Mitchell3]

Most places do not allow you to park in visitors parking if you are a residence. At my parents house (condo) they have 1 parking spot and are not allowed to park in the visitors parking.

+1, What does your lease say about your paid spot? Is it not some how tied into that clause? Our leases say something along the lines of the tenant agrees to use the space provided to park motor vehicles and here by authorizes the landlord to tow any vehicles not in accordance.

Also, is your place a condo? It may be under the condo rules which is separate from the lease.

My two cents though is that regardless it isn't entirely fair to other tenants that want to invite legitimate guests. Even if others break the rules.

[slam525i]

I'm guessing you're renting a unit in a condo building since you mentioned a landlord.

Most condos have a rule that visitor's parking is for visitors only to prevent abuse by residents, making the visitor's spots run out. If you have issues with that, you can take it up with the condo board, but you'll seem like an idiot trying to argue that you're too lazy to park your car. The condo rules will over-ride any lease agreement you have with your individual landlord.

On the other hand, if it's a rental apartment, then the rules are entirely in the hands of the management. If the lease doesn't say anything specific about the visitor's parking, then it's pretty clear it's for visitor's and management has say on whether residents can park in the visitor's spot.

Regardless, I don't think you're being "wrongly accused" in this case.

[Tuscani01]

My condo rules specifically stated you could not park in visitor parking as a resident. Even on days when the garage was being pressure washed, you had to find alternate parking, and visitor spots would still be just for visitors.

[r4BBiT]

Same here, we used to rent a condo and they had the same rule. Some tenant would also get pissy about it. They however had an agreement with church across the street that allowed us to use their parking lot for our second car as we only had one designated spot.

[Metal Wing]

Just yesterday, for the first time in 11 years there was a notice posted downstairs in my apartment building that residents should not park in visitor spots otherwise vehicles will be towed. And I remember a year ago, a resident's car was towed for that specific reason.