So, do you garage your Car? (apartments, crime, house)

[lostsoul359]

I keep hearing about more vehicle break-ins as well as stolen vehicles on the news

[saibot]

No, we have four cars and no garage space. Three live on the driveway and one on the street. Of course, during the day they are not all at home.

Believe me when I say that no one would want to steal our cars. As for break-ins...once someone opened the car door at night and stole a pair of sunglasses. So now we keep the doors locked.

[Mr5150]

Does keeping our cars in a carport count as “garaging”?

[Teckeeee]

Vehicle break ins have been on the rise since many crimes were reclassified under SB? to misdemeanors.

So be smart and don't leave anything in sight that would motivate someone to break into your car, leave it in the trunk or in your house.

Until recently I was parking in the garage but I now need the space for my elliptical trainer.

[ccm123]

Yes, it’s usually the safest place to park.

[wac_432]

Yes. We have a pair of crummy but reliable vehicles that we garage. Most people on our street have garages filled with junk so they park their Teslas, Beamers, Landrovers, and classic cars on the street or in their driveway. Then they get egged, hit-and-runs, and tons of theft/burglary.

I don't get the logic of filling your garage with $3000 of junk, that you never use, stacked in boxes and leaving your $80,000 Tesla sitting at the curb.

Edit: When we lived in apartments we had to park streetside. Never had a break-in in California, only in the Midwest.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by wac_432

Yes. We have a pair of crummy but reliable vehicles that we garage. Most people on our street have garages filled with junk so they park their Teslas, Beamers, Landrovers, and classic cars on the street or in their driveway. Then they get egged, hit-and-runs, and tons of theft/burglary.

Yikes. Where do you live?

[BeauCharles]

I always park my car in the garage. I'm a rare case in my neighborhood. Most people use their garages for a mini-storage. It seems rather stupid to keep a few hundred dollars worth of junk in a garage and your vehicle that's worth thousands (or tens of thousands) in the driveway or street with the sun beating on it all day every day.

[wac_432]

Originally Posted by saibot

Yikes. Where do you live?

In a fancy neighborhood near a high school in a coastal town full of drug-addicted vagrants.

-Egging/paintballing from highschoolers. NBD

-There's one house up the street with some drug-addicted/dealing trust-fund babies living in daddy's mansion who occasionally DUI crash their cars into people's parked vehicles or yards.

-Druggies coming to buy from the failure-to-launch druggie adult kids opportunistically theive.

-Occasionally rando vagrants wander up looking to steal or start ****. I've got a tactical baton near the door to help encourage them to move along.

I don't mind the property crime against cars (especially since I garage mine), so long as nobody gets violent. Even though it sounds bad, the neighborhood is pretty safe, due to everyone being neighborly.

Shouting, breaking glass, and other disruptions brings out the whole neighborhood. Three-quarters of my nearby neighbors have an adult (non-elderly) man in the household not afraid to come out and handle ****. I've called the police and chased prowlers out of my neighbor's yard, checked on what strangers are doing, and the like, and my neighbors do the same for me. Police true emergency response time is really fast.

But cars on the street get messed with. Fact of life.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by BeauCharles

I always park my car in the garage. I'm a rare case in my neighborhood. Most people use their garages for a mini-storage. It seems rather stupid to keep a few hundred dollars worth of junk in a garage and your vehicle that's worth thousands (or tens of thousands) in the driveway or street with the sun beating on it all day every day.

Well, uh. We have thousands of dollars worth of "stuff" in our garage, and our vehicles are all but worthless to anyone but us, so...

I'm not saying we are typical, but you don't necessary know what people are keeping in their garages.