Towing Issues: Towing trespassing cars from private property, inconsiderate neighbors, lame excuse

Question
I own a condo in Baltimore with two deeded parking spots.  There is no question which spots belong to which owners because the deeds explicitly state the numbered spots.  

I travel a great deal during which my spots are empty.  With increasing frequency, I come home from my travels to find that my neighbors have parked in my spots.  There is always some lame excuse about how they were not expecting me back which sends me into orbit because I have no obligation to divulge my whereabouts to my neighbors.  

I am sick and tired of being taken advantage of by my inconsiderate neighbors.  The real issue for them is that most units only have one parking spot but two residents with cars.  We were each offered the opportunity to purchase an extra parking spot for $35,000....and they simply did not want to pay.  In addition, there is no free off-street parking in the vicinity.  So....these neighbors routinely trespass on my spots.  

I have complained to the condo association, as others have too....but they are dragging their feet.  It appears that the ceilings are too low to permit a tow truck into the parking garage.  Would it be permissible to engage a private towing company to boot trespassers in my deeded parking spots?  If I can't rightfully park there, I feel the offenders should be penalized for stealing the use of the parking spot.  I am at wits end and think the only solution is to have the neighbors feel a little pain.  

Thank you very much.

Answer
I understand your problem and while you want to do something to "teach the neighbors", I highly doubt that you can do it yourself... Yes you bought the spaces and you have the rights to park there and the others are trespassing, but I believe that the Condo association has something, somewhere that says they can only be the ones who sign contracts for towing...


Now if they are not willing to honor the sales contract and the provisions in them, then they might be guilty of breach of contract...
Maryland has some strange laws regarding impounds, and I have a dickens of a time finding information on the laws of the area (I get most of my information on that area from the newspapers reporting the laws in stories)

I would talk to the condo association again and see what they want to do about the problem and the breach of contract...  It might take a letter from a lawyer to solve it but if you have that big of a problem then you might have to go that way...

Good luck