Wanted to ask if people here think it’s legal at all. I own an apartment in an apartment building of around 90 units. I have a scooter and i was paying 500 yen per month. The parking spot isn’t really an organized parking, it’s just some tiny area within the compound and i have to move a couple of bicycles each time i need to get access to the scooter.
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Last year, the management association decided to raise the monthly price to 7,500 yen – 15 times the current price. The reasons are:
* Parking for a scooter requires around 1/4th of the area that a car requires and a parking spot for a car is around 30,000 per month
* This is the monthly price for scooter parking in the buildings in the area. I asked “which buildings”, but they said that they can’t provide this information
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My question is if it’s even legal to jack up prices like this without any data to support it. Or even with data.
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I have never owned an apartment but aren’t price hikes like that subject to committee approval? Was there some vote? Are there other scooter owners you could rally with?
500 yen is ridiculously cheap for moped parking. It should cost about 6000 yen.
All they did is correct the price to reflect the market
That sucks. That really really sucks. In my manshon it costs 500yen for a year per bike (scooter or big motorcycle is same price) in covered parking. 7500yen is a joke.
I doubt there is a legal route for you to take. Maybe you can appeal to the board to consider a grandfather clause?
>Last year, the management association decided to raise the monthly price to 7,500 yen – 15 times the current price. The reasons are:
Congratulations on living with a shared ownership situation. You are going to be paying 7500/month.
Is the parking near any apartment? In my building they threatened to set the motorcycle parking fee at triple that of cars because of noise complaints, effectively banning motorcycles (which they couldn’t do directly).
I would then want (ask for) a dedicated parking spot, with lines showing the specified parking spot being rented, perhaps your apt# on it, something like that. I guess it should be about a quarter the size of a car parking spot, since that’s what they’re going by.
Also their assurance that if someone else parked there, they’d be fined, etc.
I’ve seen quite a few spots like this at apartments in central tokyo, even bicycle-specific spots rented to a specific person/bike (and no randos allowed).