Finding parking anywhere close to The All England Club during The Championships is not possible and due to the unavailability of commercial car parks the driveway economy thrives during this fortnight.

I spent most of Monday in the SW19 area talking to home owners, handing out leaflets and talking to current ParkatmyHouse.com customers to find out a bit more about how long they have been renting out their drive, how much money they normally make and what problems they have experienced over the last few years.

Some home owners were parking 15 cars in their front driveway at £20 per car which over the two weeks should generate over £3,000. Not bad for a few hours work before you leave for the office in the morning.

I was also pleased to see that a number of homes were using the huge parking demand to raise money for their chosen charity (see picture on right).

The Wimbledon Tennis Championships was one of the first examples in the UK where the true value of an empty driveway became apparent. This is set to continue for many years to come and during my walk in the surrounding roads, I noticed that there are many of you that are not taking full advantage of your under utilised real estate.

We have many parking spaces available close to the tennis. Here are just a few:

10 Minutes From Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club, LONDON, SW19
Private, quiet site with evening lighting provided. On site security/caretaker in attendance.

5 Minutes From Southfields Tube Station, LONDON, SW19
2 spaces available for off street car parking in a quiet, safe, well lit area.

15 Mins From Wimbledon Tennis, London, SW19
Off street site with evening lighting provided. There is a 15 minute walk down hill to Wimbledon Tennis

To see more private parking spaces around Wimbledon - please visit our Wimbledon Parking page.

We like technology! We like it a lot and therefore it is probably no surprise to you that some of our team have the `must have gadget of last year`, the iPhone.

An iPhone allows a much richer user experience on a handheld device and has truly allowed the web to go mobile. I won’t go in to the nitty gritty of why it is a great phone and how much time it has saved me looking for restaurants, finding directions, looking up the football scores etc.

Instead I am pleased to announce that you can now look for parking and read your ParkatmyHouse.com messages wherever you are in the world on that little device in your pocket.

Simply visit http://www.parkatmyhouse.com/iphone/ from your iPhone to see the site work in much the same way you are used to. Our iPhone version of the site is still in Beta, but it is a step in the right direction.

The next feature we will be adding is the ability to send and reply to new enquiries as we have had quite a few requests for it.

In the mean time, we will concentrate on improving the product further and continue trying to rent out all your parking spaces!

Thanks for reading.
Your iParkatmyHouse.com Team

Parking spaces are strange beings. They are either available or unavailable, available from 9am but only until 6pm and some are only available on the 3rd Monday of every month. Designing an interface that supports all these variables is time consuming, brain draining and ultimately rather confusing.

Users of the website are already familiar with our parking space availability calendars which show a visual representation of the availability of a parking space at a given period of time and will be pleased to know that we have just updated our calendar so that it not only takes in to account successful bookings and the number of spaces you have still available, but also indicates the times at which a space will become available.

e.g. If George has a parking space which is booked from Monday 9am until Friday 5pm, using the old system, the parking space would be marked as unavailable from Mon until Fri. Now, instead of one of our `unavailable red cars`, a yellow `limited availability car` will be shown instead. Users will then be able to see that the space is only available after 5pm on the Friday.

We have done a few more tweaks here and there and have also improved out reliability ratings algorithm to properly reward our trusted users and to give a slap on the wrist to anyone that ignores enquiries sent by those needing somewhere to park.

More updates to follow….
Your currently unavailable ParkatmyHouse.com Team

From 23rd - 24th April ParkatmyHouse.com exhibited at ParkEx, Europe’s largest dedicated parking event.

Now let me just say that this was a new experience for us! We were not there to discuss the differences between Pay and Display machines in Newcastle and London or the material used for penalty charge notices. Nor were we there to get excited about the new techniques parking enforcement agencies were using to make us pay up and although a rather more exciting conference was going on next door (an event planning conference with champagne fountains, celebrity look-a-likes, model agencies and sushi tasting experiences) our aim was to increase awareness of ParkatmyHouse and overall the two days were a big success.

We talked to a number of interesting companies, both large and small and we look forward to working with a number of them in the future. If you were one of the unlucky ones and didn’t attend ParkEx and would like to talk to us about potential partnership opportunities please get in touch.

The well informed folks at Startups.co.uk have put together a list of “the UK’s most innovative, inspiring and ground-breaking new companies” and ParkatmyHouse.com has been included alongside BeatthatQuote, Yotel, Trusted Places and other up and coming new businesses.

Have a quick look at the ParkatmyHouse.com entry.

Thanks again for all your support.

The proud ParkatmyHouse.com Team

Firstly let me apologise to all the Clint Eastwood fans who are reading this post thinking I was going to share some secret plots or start rumours about potential sequels. For those that are die hard Clint Eastwood fans please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly for all there is to know about this great film and the great man himself.

Dealing with strangers can as the title suggests end in one of three ways:

1. The Good - Everything goes swimmingly well and you can’t wait to see each other again in the future.
2. The Bad - Road closures, delayed payments and minor earthquakes can all lead to frustrating experiences.
3. The Ugly - Scratches, bumps, fisticuffs and crying babies can all lead to one of those days in which you wonder why you got out of bed.

Since the very beginning, ParkatmyHouse.com has had a feedback system in place so you can tell the rest of the ParkatmyHouse community what your experience was like with each individual or comapny you have had a booking with.

Until now, no matter what feedback you received (positive, neutral or negative), there was no way to bat your own corner and explain why a problem may have occurred.

Not anymore!

When you are looking through your feedback (by clicking on the `Feedback Received` link in your account navigation menu), you will see a small reply button . Simply click on it to respond to any feedback previously given to you.

More improvements are on the way!

Your ultra-busy ParkatmyHouse.com Team

We have been listening to your comments and have implemented the following improvements:

1. Printable booking confirmations are now e-mailed to renters once a booking has been confirmed.
2. Parking space owners will now receive an e-mail detailing all the bookings due to start on the following day.
3. When completing a booking, you can now specify number of spaces to be rented.
4. We have added a new left hand side navigation menu for registered users - all the information and links you could possibly need are now much easier to find. Checking your messages, previous bookings and even signing up to free text message alerts are now only one click away.
5. The bottom navigation menu has been expanded to include all the major sections of the website.

As always, we would love to know what you think about these improvements and how we could make things even better. Please contact us with any new suggestions.

Happy Parking!
The ParkatmyHouse.com Team

Google is a mystery to most and a saviour to others. Thankfully, all of us at ParkatmyHouse know quite a bit about getting our listings as high up the rankings as possible.

As you can imagine, everyone wants to be top… including us! We therefore spend hours and hours every week tweaking the site a little bit to make it more Google (and Yahoo, MSN etc.) friendly.

Although we are working hard, we could also do with some help.

If you or any of your close friends or family own websites or blogs, a quick mention of ParkatmyHouse.com, a link to our site and a link directly to your parking space listing or search results page will really help move your listing up the search engine ladder and help increase awareness of our funky (and very useful) service.

As an added bonus, if we really like what you’ve written, we will link to your masterpiece from the articles section of our site.

If you have any questions about linking to us, writing about us or any other aspect of our service then please contact us.

Your search engine friendly ParkatmyHouse.com Team

I can’t believe we are in March already, this time last year we had just over 1,000 people using the site, needless to say we have grown significantly since then and to our knowledge can be proud of having the largest parking space community on the internet.

With big events taking place at Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Rugby Ground in London over the next few weeks we expect to receive countless enquiries for that much sought after driveway. If you have a spare space, please add it now!

On a completely different note, I noticed yesterday that we have a parking space for rent near the airport at the North pole in Alaska.

Thankfully, the space isn’t within the confines of an igloo and from what I can tell by the picture, is safely away from the local and apparently soon to be extinct Polar Bear population.

ParkatmyHouse is really spreading to the different corners of the world. All we need now is someone in Antarctica to post a spot and we can claim complete global coverage!

A few days ago we quietly added support for all our users who have a parking space or parking lot they wish to sell. Selling is a completely different kettle of fish from renting and our site works a bit differently in how we connect buyers to you.

Once an enquiry is made, we will pass it on to one of our real estate partners who will arrange all the relevant viewings and act as a mediator to allow the transaction go through as smoothly as possible.

ParkatmyHouse.com charges a 5% success fee which includes all the listing, marketing and real estate agent fees. Please note that this fee is only payable once the transaction has been completed, so as usual, if you don’t make money, we don’t make money.