No parking in complex

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mercurial

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Hi guys

So a friend of mine is moving to town but the complex he will be staying in does not offer any parking. This has to be rented or bought separately but the issue is that there is no parking available at the complex at all and I'm told the agency handling the parking is absolutely useless, rude and unprofessional. Allowing the car to park in the street is not an option, as cars are regularly burgled. Where could he park? Are there any places in town that offers secure parking? He will be staying close to CPUT.

Thanks
 
Cape Town is notorious for not having enough parking. Street parking is the norm there or rent at another place.

It's like complaining about buying a house without a garage or off street parking.
 
how do you build a complex where there aren't enough bays for the number of apartments you have? or are people there renting more than their allocation?
 
akescpt said:
how do you build a complex where there aren't enough bays for the number of apartments you have? or are people there renting more than their allocation?
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In the complex where I stay, there is not a single visitors parking bay. There used to be, but they have all been rented out to tenants by the body corporate :rolleyes: I have a parking spot by my front door, which I have to rent. :rolleyes: Yet my garage is mine.
 
Meh when I stayed in Gardens during my studies I lived in a place where there was 1 parking bay for the owner, none for any of the people living there. If I was lucky I could find a spot in my street each day. If not, I had to go park down the road. It was crappy.
 
Should've checked this before signing/moving in TBH...

/MINI RANT: this whole parking situation is ridiculous these days, the worst is malls destroying parking to build more shops(I'm looking at you Menlyn)... They seem to have forgotten why we go to malls instead of town centers to shop, because they're easy to get to and there's ****ing parking!
 
OrbitalDawn said:
Crappy situation.

Didn't he inquire about this before deciding to move there? Would be a dealbreaker for me.
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He did but they did not mention to him that there is an availability issue with parking. If they had told him that from the start, he would have had several months notice to make alternative arrangements.

akescpt said:
how do you build a complex where there aren't enough bays for the number of apartments you have? or are people there renting more than their allocation?
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God knows. It's really stupid. Every complex I've stayed in and/or been to offers one parking bay. I would hazard a guess that there is one parking bay per unit but they don't even give you one parking bay. You have to rent it or buy but the problem is they are owned by other tenants and they can charge whatever the hell they want. Right now, all he wants is a parking but this is not guaranteed. There are definitely more people than the "allocation" but the problem is that no allocation takes place. It's basically, first come, first served and the rest must find another parking space on the road or wherever else they can.
 
He better tell his insurer the car will be parked in the street, else they may repudiate a claim, watch the premiums go through the roof, better hope it's not a Vw or a Toyota.

Honestly the guy must be new to renting though , you sort out the parking before you sign the lease, ie the parking situation is resolved at that point, whether it's included or an optional extra that needs to be added(ie you add it and pay for it at that junction) if it's an issue that is the time to deal with it.

Capetown is one of the few major cities these days where people commonly leave their cars parked in the road overnight. Doesn't mean they don't get stolen or broken into(too a lesser degree to other cities perhaps) but it is done.

In the one city where I lived at one time eventually virtually not a single car would be parked overnight in the street because it would be gone by the morning or have a window smashed to allow the theieves to rummage. 2 different friends visited and chanced it, one broken window and radio half ripped out, other had the door lock broken, R5000 to repair and that was in an exclusive suburb with a dedicated ADT guy on a bicycle just patrolling one stretch of around 100m.
 
airborne said:
He better tell his insurer the car will be parked in the street, else they may repudiate a claim, watch the premiums go through the roof, better hope it's not a Vw or a Toyota.

Honestly the guy must be new to renting though , you sort out the parking before you sign the lease, ie the parking situation is resolved at that point, whether it's included or an optional extra that needs to be added(ie you add it and pay for it at that junction) if it's an issue that is the time to deal with it.

Capetown is one of the few major cities these days where people commonly leave their cars parked in the road overnight. Doesn't mean they don't get stolen or broken into(too a lesser degree to other cities perhaps) but it is done.

In the one city where I lived at one time eventually virtually not a single car would be parked overnight in the street because it would be gone by the morning or have a window smashed to allow the theieves to rummage. 2 different friends visited and chanced it, one broken window and radio half ripped out, other had the door lock broken, R5000 to repair and that was in an exclusive suburb with a dedicated ADT guy on a bicycle just patrolling one stretch of around 100m.
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The parking could not be sorted out at the complex, even if they had told him from the beginning. There is no availability for the year, so basically anyone who rents or owns (my friend owns this flat) would not have parking. That's why I said they should have told him from the start that there is an issue with availability. He obviously assumed that it was no different than other complexes; that renting would be a quick thing to do.
 
Wow, that is all kinds of special.
There is no way I would park my car in a street.
Its way worse when you actually own the flat and you cant even get parking. There should be a rule that states maximum number of bays that can be rented and that each unit should have at least one bay available to it.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Wow, that is all kinds of special.
There is no way I would park my car in a street.
Its way worse when you actually own the flat and you cant even get parking. There should be a rule that states maximum number of bays that can be rented and that each unit should have at least one bay available to it.
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Exactly.
 
The limited parking bays, is the legacy of older buildings.

Totally agree, you make sure that you have a secure parking bay, before anything else. Hunting for side street parking, everyday...madness...!! not to mention your insurance going sky high.
 
mercurial said:
The parking could not be sorted out at the complex, even if they had told him from the beginning. There is no availability for the year, so basically anyone who rents or owns (my friend owns this flat) would not have parking. That's why I said they should have told him from the start that there is an issue with availability. He obviously assumed that it was no different than other complexes; that renting would be a quick thing to do.
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You never mentioned he owned the unit but the same applies when buying as when renting. The one thrifty guy in the block where I stayed decided he didn't want to pay for a lockup garage when the complex decided to build them on available land. When the crime soared there was his Toyota Cressida parked outside every night, they broken in to it about once a month and eventually it was stolen.
 
This is pretty standard for Cape Town.

Everyone who moves here is like "OMG you have to park in the street, what world is this!?".

Parking in the street is such a standard thing here that you'll struggle to find parking in the street.

It has minimal impact on your insurance because truthfully, there are so many cars that park on the street here, you are not likely to have a break in unless you leave things visible in your car.

Complexes are incredible rare in Cape Town. I'm surprised he/she found one.

If you can't deal with parking in the street, Cape Town isn't for you.

You literally cannot go out or visit friends here and not expect to park in the street.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, when you do get parking bays they can easily cost R1k per month and parking in a shopping center is easily R10 per hour here.
The street is comparatively awesome, it is free!
 
my bay is currently available for R1000pm, undercover parking with a security camera directly over the bay

but its in Adderley street, a bit far from CPUT
 
I know you get some of these storage locations where, if you rent a large enough storage bay, you can park a car in it. Usually those cost R1k or so a month too, whether they allow you to use it like a garage every day is another story. I know in europe, i.e. amsterdam they do this , because there's no parking there either, so people store their cars outside of the city in parking garage/storage , and use a train to get to it.
 
My complex has very little parking (The square, Cape Town) so I own a parking bay in the opposite complex. I have two separate bills per month.
 
Aqua_lung said:
My complex has very little parking (The square, Cape Town) so I own a parking bay in the opposite complex. I have two separate bills per month.
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Do you live at The Square? That was a very dodgy complex about five years ago.
 
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