Just not nice!

I have a lot to update on, last week was crazy, but this is what's on my mind at the moment because it's just irritating me!

Our house is a quadraplex, which means there are four apartments in one house. Our neighbors to the right are the Oakhurst Baptist Recovery House (like a halfway house-- the residents don't own cars, but do have some office staff and visitors now and again), to the left of us are four more houses that are anywhere from duplexes to quadraplexes and NONE of us have off street parking. For the last week, some guy whose mother is visiting has been having her park square in front of our house instead of in the three car garage behind his. It's not unheard of for us to come home and walk halfway up the street from where we've had to park for cars that leave after two hours. I don't want to be un-neighborly, but I find that to be distinctly rude and is something that never would have happened in the neighborhood in which I grew up.

I decided to e-mail the Oakhurst neighborhood group just in case folks didn't realize that we don't have off street parking and that it's a major inconvenience for us, not to mention there are several side streets that are actually better for guests to park on because if you're not used to the traffic, it could be dangerous. Almost immediately, someone e-mails me directly asking if I feel like I'm entitled to a reserved parking spot on a public street!

I told him, nicely, that I was just asking for the same courtesy that I extend my neighbours-- when we have guests, they park in the lot that AT&T holds at the end of the street so as not to clog up the parking. The only people who park in front of houses are people with infants in carriers.

Two words: How Rude!

Am I wrong here? I'm not being rude, I'm not being demanding, and my e-mail was really just an FYI kind of thing. I live here, am I less entitled to park remotely near my home just because I rent? And does this guy realize that probably half the houses in Oakhurst are rentals? Yeah, it's probably not something I should get so bent out of shape about, but it just sends me through. the. roof. when people are rude about common courtesy sort of stuff!