AITA for confronting my neighbor after I found out she was renting out my parking spot while I traveled for work
I travel for work pretty often, sometimes gone for a week or two at a time. My neighbor, I'll call her Diane (she's in her 40s), knew my schedule and would occasionally ask if she could use my spot for guests or whatever. I always said yes, no big deal.
Came back early from a trip last month and there's a random car in my spot. I brought it up to Diane and she said it was her cousin visiting. Fine whatever.
Then my other neighbor casually mentioned he'd seen different cars parked there pretty regularly while I was gone and joked that Diane must have a LOT of cousins. That stuck with me so I set up a small camera facing the lot.
Turns out she had been listing my spot on one of those parking apps the entire time. Like actively making money off it, we're talking $15 to $20 a day in a pretty busy area near downtown. I had some money put aside so it wasn't like I was hurting financially, but she was straight up running a side hustle on something that belongs to me without ever asking.
I confronted her and she got defensive immediately, said I "wasn't using it anyway" and acted like I was being unreasonable for even bringing it up. I asked her to stop and said I wanted some kind of compensation for however long she'd been doing this. She called me petty and now a couple neighbors think I overreacted because apparently she had been giving a cut to the building HOA??? Like that somehow makes it okay???
AITA for pushing back on this