Towing Issues: Apartment Towing, apartment manager, condo complexes

Question
My sister-in-law watches my daughter. They live in an apartment complex with garages in Clute, TX (Brazoria County). The only parking near her door is a handicapped space (in which my sister-in-law parks in because she lives in a handicapped apt and is entitled to the space per the old apt. manager), so I just drop my daughter off, I mean walk in and walk right back out. Well when I was picking my daughter up today, we started talking longer than I had expected and her neighbor across the road came and knocked on her door and very rudely told me to get my car out of the way or she was going to tow it. Well I gathered my daughters items and was about to walk out of the apt. and here comes her neighbor again and says she is going to call the tow truck because she couldn't get out of her garage. Mind you I was parked in front her the neighboring garage of hers and she has a two door small car. I was parked right on the curb and the roadway is wide enough for 3 cars to go by side-by-side. She was just causing a fight in my opinion! My question is does she have the right to have my car towed if there is NO tow sign? And can the apartment manager have it towed, mind you there was a car parked on the other side of the road and the manager didn't make them move their car???

Answer
" my sister-in-law parks in because she lives in a handicapped apt and is entitled to the space per the old apt. manager"


I hope that she has a handicapped permit and the new manager is aware of the old agreement to start with...


Now as to the neighbor, I can not say for certain, but it sounds like she has either been towed or really had some bad luck driving... BUT THEN AGAIN, parking at the curb in the apartment complex even though its a "wide road" is still parking at the curb and not in a parking space.  And most curbs are considered fire lanes in apartment and condo complexes and as such are tow away zones...

And if you are having a problem with her now, she will try to make things worse it sounds like... But as to "her" calling for the tow, that is not allowed under the law, as it has to be the "property owner or property manager or their designated agent (think security or maintenance) who can authorize the tow by signing the tow authorization form before the tow company  does the tow....

It sounds as if she is just one of those people who want everything just right and their way. We all know one or 2 of them in life...


PS  Texas just changed all the rules regarding the removal of vehicles from private property and I am still updating my information and making sure of some things in order to provide people with correct infomation....

(the rules I have are 72 pages long and full of legal double talk so its a fun and hard process to read it all)