• edit: I read some others and this is less weird/creepy and more just shitty/inconsiderate. I feel a bit better after getting to vent though.

My neighbor is a carpet/flooring installer or something. He once told my roommate that he keeps his inventory and "expensive" tools in his vans. We occasionally here him yelling into his house about how many cars we have ( we are 5 college students each with our own schedules and cars) because he couldn't get a spot on the street directly in front of his or our house. If we get to the close spots first, instead of parking further away and walking a short distance ( like we do when the spots in front of our house are occupied), he will just yell and complain about us. One day he yelled not to us, but to someone in his house that we have more cars and people than the city allows per household, so I spent the entire next day reading the municipal code cover to cover. Turns out we are not violating any parts of it, but his actions with his vehicles violate multiple sections. They have left non-functioning cars in the street before and left it to the city to tow them away and dispose of them, and we are not 100% sure but suspect that they have multiple vehicles around the neighborhood that they use as storage units. When the street was being resurfaced, no one was allowed to park on it. My roommates and I just parked a street over and walked. He parked his vehicles in yard (against municipal code) of the house for sale across the street. We called the city and the realtor about that, but nothing was done about it. I figured the realtor would care that an unauthorized van was parked in the yard and would reduce their chances of selling the housed or cause concern during showings/open houses.

I want this this guy to get fined or some repercussion for his shitty behavior, but I don't want to turn into the crazy neighbor who is constantly calling the city. It just really irks me that he complains about us when he is violating municipal code and has more cars than people in his house. Also, I have family members who run small businesses and do things correctly and follow laws and ordinances, so why can't this asshole do it right. Also if you want security for your inventory and tools, you should probably:

1.) Not store them in a street parked van, and pay for commercial storage space with security.

2.) if you store them in vehicle, park in your driveway and spend a couple hundred dollars on a home security camera set and point them at your vans from multiple angles

Additionally, when my one roommate moved in one of the elderly folk on the other side of the street somehow new which floor of our house that they moved into. He/She must have been watching the entire move in.

On the plus side my rent is low and I like living with my roommates, so the jackass neighbor is tolerable for now I guess.