Condominium owners, have you ever found it frustrating when there is an un-authorized vehicle parked in your stall? Or, worse yet, an unregistered vehicle that someone has left in you or your tenants parking stall and wondered what to do about it?

As a condo owner and landlord, I have frequently found that former tenants (or the room-mates of current tenants) will either leave an unregistered vehicle in their parking stall. Or, someone else in the development will park in the stall leaving the intended resident without a place to park.

Luckily, the City of Edmonton protects property owners by dictating what tenants may or many not do with their vehicles, and allows landlords to have a By-Law Officer rectify the situation by tagging the vehicle for towing. Rules stipulate that inoperable, unregistered, and/or unlicensed vehicles are not permitted on common property (ie condo development grounds). Vehicles with flat tires, broken windows, mirrors, or lights, leaking fluids, detached or hanging bumpers, or any damage that is deemed dangerous, is not permitted. If the tenant does not rectify the problem, or does not remove such a vehicle, the vehicle will be towed at the owner’s expense. Therefore, it is best to keep an eye on what vehicles are being parked in your or your tenants stalls, and serve them with notice if an inoperable or unregistered vehicle is occupying the parking stall assigned to the unit.

Vehicles that weigh more than one ton are usually not permitted (i.e. campers and trailers, large trucks, school buses.) and tenants may not do repairs or maintenance to vehicles in their parking stall or anywhere on the landlord’s property.

If you need to have a vehicle removed from the parking stall of a unit you own, call the City of Edmonton by-law department at (780) 423-4567 and request that an officer be dispatched to meet you or the tenant at the parking stall. After identifying the vehicle for the officer, they will tag the vehicle to be towed and kept in an impound yard for the vehicle owner to claim.

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