My Neighbor Bought Every Parking Spot, So I Built My Own Lot

Caroline Swanson moves into a new complex only to discover that her neighbor, Lucius Armstrong, has bought up every parking space in the building. The only way to park is to rent one of his spots for five thousand dollars a month. She refuses, so she parks on the empty lot outside—and wakes to find him slapping a ticket on her car, taunting her that anyone who won't rent will pay five hundred dollars a day in fines.

Lucius moonlights with the traffic enforcement unit and claims every public space for ten miles around is contracted to his management company. When Caroline complains, the property manager, Clark Perry, brushes her off. As tickets pile up on residents' cars, she proposes pooling money to build their own parking lot.

With her neighbor Alison Ball and the other frustrated residents behind her, Caroline refuses to be bullied—and now it is a question of who will outlast whom.