I feel for you Ems, and totally understand what you're going through. I rented for a number of years in Vancouver and dealt with all sorts of landlord, tenant and parking issues. Parking is at such a premium, especially with so many people/families owning more than one car and such high density in the neighbourhoods...the streets and available parking weren't originally designed to accomodate so many people. Even in a lower density neighbourhood, the neighbours can get pretty uptight about who is parking where on the street...especially in front of their properties.