Welp. Not sure how much help I'd be, but I remember when I was looking at apartments in a downtown area, one had a (limited spaces available) parking garage for which they charged an extra $40/month; I was kind of torn over whether I'd be willing to pay that, but then ended up not living there anyway.
To me, unless the driveway was offering something "valuable" like cover for the car (to protect from sun/inclement weather/bird poop -- or maybe there's a bunch of reckless drivers in the area and street parkers are very likely to get dinged?) I don't think I'd be inclined to pay much for "slightly closer, but my car's still out in the open being subject to damage". (The apartment's free-with-your-rent parking was in a gated lot, but it wasn't covered and did have trees around/over it -- so while it was more secure from human interference, falling branches, dripping sap, bird droppings etc. were all still a risk.)
But then, I'm a single person (and thus generally only carry a single person's worth of stuff from car to door) with healthy legs, who also works almost every day (so 24-hour parking isn't common for me) and I can't see your driveway :D or guess how much the neighbour might value reduced distance + no tickets! So I guess the moral here is that free advice is worth what you pay for it. :D
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Date: 2014-07-20 04:02 pm (UTC)To me, unless the driveway was offering something "valuable" like cover for the car (to protect from sun/inclement weather/bird poop -- or maybe there's a bunch of reckless drivers in the area and street parkers are very likely to get dinged?) I don't think I'd be inclined to pay much for "slightly closer, but my car's still out in the open being subject to damage". (The apartment's free-with-your-rent parking was in a gated lot, but it wasn't covered and did have trees around/over it -- so while it was more secure from human interference, falling branches, dripping sap, bird droppings etc. were all still a risk.)
But then, I'm a single person (and thus generally only carry a single person's worth of stuff from car to door) with healthy legs, who also works almost every day (so 24-hour parking isn't common for me) and I can't see your driveway :D or guess how much the neighbour might value reduced distance + no tickets! So I guess the moral here is that free advice is worth what you pay for it. :D