Have you ever painted a vehicle that appeared to be abandon?
The other residents know that truck is never driven. Sometimes the hood is up, are people stealing parts?
I would expect apartment communities to have restrictions against auto repairs in the parking lot, seems to be quite lenient at his residence.
How do you paint the vehicle, are you using a paintbrush? Probably not, but rather with cans of spray paint, a process that is prone for overspray to that does not land on the intended surface. It drifts until it lands; where, onto adjacent vehicles or onto the garage floor. The adjacent vehicles now all have a fine film of paint dust that may or may not wash off so easily. The Paint that drift onto the garage floor, now gets tracked onto the carpet in the vehicles or onto the floors where the parking facility is located, the apartment building?
Somehow, I have a faint memory that he said he used a roller brush to paint the truck, not sure about the bumpers…
Is the pickup covered with enough dust that others complain it appears abandoned or not driveable?
First I would clean all windows so that it appears ready to go.
To avoid starting a cold engine just to turn it off, I would push it straight across to another space.
Then leave a note: “[License plate number] is driven as needed. Name and telephone number.”
(This brings their attention to current license plate and month tag.)
Then cell phone pho.to document date and time including posted note.
Yes. I ride my bike to stores, the gym, Auto Zone… if I don’t need to carry a load larger than it can carry. I’ve carried a microwave oven and a garbage disposal home on it.
The condominium where I live. I have a valid sticker.
They gave me a warning, I took the masking off the license plate. That was okay. I was recommending alternatives. Had they required me to drive it to their lot to show that it worked that’d have been okay. I think you can spot a guy a day when he’s painting his bumper.
That would have been okay.
I should be.
That’s a common shortcoming, not inoperability. I started it with my jumper pack. It has been stolen out of the lot. I keep a part out, on a shelf inside, to make that more difficult.
They don’t know that.
Isn’t that a service? It’s that much less traffic, less gasoline used, less pollution. Don’t you want fewer people on the road, less gas purchased, cleaner air?
There’s no rule against it.
A brush.
I keep it clean. (There are pine trees that drop needles.) I air the tires.
Welcome, Random, to the century of vanity and entitlement.
Truly sorry people have enough spare time to make other’s lives miserable.
Well so far you have an excuse for every reason given, but yet you refuse to except any fault of your own… hummmm
You specifically asked how they would know your car had been sitting there without being driven. All I did was show you how they could determine that. What does any rule have to do with it?
So they put a locking wheel boot on a vehicle to make it immobile or inoperable, and the reason for doing this is that the vehicle is immobile or inoperable? Does that make any sense?
If the police suspect the vehicle IS immobile or inoperable they’ll HAVE IT TOWED. They only put a boot on a vehicle that they think might be abandoned.
Parking lots on private property have arrangements with towing agencies to remove vehicle that are not in compliance with tenant or visitor rules. This was not a police matter.
It depends on the state. Several states I lived in - the police MUST be notified before you call a tow truck. If someone I don’t know parks in my driveway blocking me, I can NOT call a tow truck. I have to call the police, and they call the tow truck.
The same is true in Virginia, before I can have a vehicle towed off my property, I am directed to call the “non-emergency” phone number of the police who can arrange for the removal under the authority of Virginia Code § 46.2-1211, which will result in the vehicle being towed and the owner being responsible for all associated costs.
If I call and have it towed without following the above steps, I could be responsible for the towing charges and the resulting damage to the vehicle (and you know that old hoopie was a “classic” automobile in perfect shape…) and the owner could then sue me for all costs, damages, inconvenience, pain and suffering… (just like they do on “Judy Judy…” 
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You are conflating illegal parking and trespassing with tenant parking. If you file a trespass complaint and the vehicle registration address matches the property address, will the police remove the vehicle?
Ask the police. I do know that here in NH that if I can’t call a tow truck. The driver won’t tow the vehicle without the police being there or a police order.
In Virginia, if the vehicle is properly registered and the vehicle is on the property with that address on the registration, the police will not generally arrange to have it towed. They consider the compliant a domestic dispute and will not interfere in that instance. If the vehicle is the property of a tenant and the land/home owner has been granted an eviction order and the various dates have expired (Pay or Quit, Curable, Non-Curable, Service Date, Final Notice, etc…), the police would probably have the vehicle towed as the legal right to be on the property had expired.
Sadly, in this vain era we live in, where looks and appearances “Gawhhd Forbid, Ohhh Moyy!” top other concerns, apartment 4C’s 30 year old Ford Taurus or Nissan Altima might get towed because the tenant in 3E doesn’t want that “unsightly heap” parked next to their later model whatever they drive..!
That mentality right there makes me sick to my stomach.
I have, in TN, many many times had customer vehicles that a customer would not pick up towed to the tow company’s storage lot and never involved the police..
I had a guy (don’t remember if customer or not) pull up to our front door and park and then get arrested (don’t remember why, warrant and they pulled him over in our lot or something, happened a lot), I asked the cop what was I supposed to do with the vehicle, he said he didn’t care, it was not involved in the arrest and was not needed for any investigation (or whatever), so I called the tow company and said come and get it, it was up to the owner of the vehicle to pay for any and all storage and tow fees…
So at least for a business in TN, you do NOT have to involve the police to have a vehicle towed off your lot no matter the condition of the vehicle…
I would say that you have been very, very lucky so far concerning having cars towed off your property. Tennessee does have very specific laws governing having vehicles towed… You might want to check them out, it only takes one person who knows the law to ruin your day… And as for what a policeman says, he is not qualified or legally allowed to advise you of the law any more than I am… (and I’m not… 
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There’s no rule about a car not being driven.
I’ve seen warning signs on vehicles that give the owner time to move it.
I was in compliance.