Private property towing ottawa is the work of clearing vehicles from lots where they should not be, and it is what Ottawa Parking Enforcement was built to do. We work directly with property managers, condo boards, and business owners across the greater Ottawa area to handle private property tow calls quickly and within Ontario's posted-signage rules. Call (613) 362-3362 to set up service.
This is not a roadside towing service. We do not do collisions, breakdowns, or stalls on the 417. Our ottawa towing service is private-lot only, and it covers three specific situations that property owners deal with all the time.
The first is towing on lots where the rules are posted and a driver is breaking them. The second is towing where a vehicle is parked in a clearly unauthorized spot, like a fire route, a reserved unit space, or a visitor pass area with no permit. The third is removing vehicles that have been sitting on a lot long enough to qualify as abandoned. Each one is a separate service page below.
Call (613) 362-3362For property owners across Ottawa, parking lot towing means a tow truck operator who actually understands private property work. The legal anchor for every removal is the signage on the lot. The signage has to meet Ontario's wording and placement rules. If the signs are wrong, the tow does not hold up. We supply and install the signage on every site we work, so that part is locked down.
From there, the three services break out like this. Read private property towing for the removal work that backs up our enforcement patrols. Read unauthorized parking towing for tows on fire routes, reserved spots, and unauthorized overnight parking. Read abandoned vehicle removal for vehicles that have been sitting on the lot for weeks or months.
Tow trucks dispatched to enforce posted rules on residential, retail, and commercial lots.
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Fire routes, reserved spots, accessible spaces, and overnight violations cleared the same day.
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Documented removal of long-parked, derelict, or unplated vehicles sitting on your lot.
Learn more →Most of the work comes from three places. Condo and townhouse boards dealing with visitor parking abuse or unit owners blocking shared spaces. Commercial property managers running plazas, office buildings, and medical complexes. And small business owners whose lots get used by people who are not customers.
What they all have in common is that the City of Ottawa cannot help them. Municipal bylaw officers do not enforce parking on private property. If the lot is private, towing is one of the only real tools the owner has. Our role is to handle it properly so the property is protected and the tow holds up if anyone disputes it.
Ottawa towing for property owners runs across the Ottawa-Gatineau area. Downtown high-rises, suburban plazas, mixed-use buildings, and lots around the airport. Every job starts with a written agreement and posted signage. No exceptions.
The honest answer is that nothing else works for very long. Notices under the wiper get ignored. Warnings emailed to the unit owner get ignored. Even municipal tickets do not apply because the lot is private. The only consequence that actually changes behaviour is the car being gone when the driver comes back to look for it.
That is why the towing piece sits next to the enforcement piece in our service. Tickets create the paper trail and the warning. Tows create the actual consequence. Once a chronic offender on Bank Street or Carling Avenue has their car towed once, the behaviour usually stops. Most do not come back.
It is not the city impounding a vehicle for unpaid tickets. It is not a roadside breakdown. It is not towing for accidents. It is not collision recovery. Every tow we do is initiated by the property owner or their representative, on a private lot, against a vehicle that is parked in violation of the posted rules or that meets abandonment criteria.
If your need is closer to enforcement before things get to towing, the security service page covers patrols and ticketing. If your need is closer to general lot operations, the property management service page covers signage installation and parking lot patrol.
For most private property tow calls the driver of the towed vehicle pays the tow and storage fees, not the property owner. The fees are set per tow and per day of storage. A site agreement covers any patrol or enforcement service that the property pays for directly. Towing itself is generally cost-neutral to the property.
Some property managers prefer a hybrid setup with a small monthly retainer and on-call enforcement. Others prefer a pure on-call model where there is no monthly cost and the tow fees fund the work. Both are fine. We will walk the lot and recommend what fits the situation.
Calls come in from across the greater Ottawa area. Downtown condo towers, plazas along Merivale, office complexes in Nepean, residential builds in Findlay Creek, retail near Bayshore, mixed-use in Orleans, and hotels around the airport. Each site has its own rhythm. Our patrol schedule and removal response time get tuned to that rhythm.
Ottawa parking lot towing as a category is fairly narrow, but the individual situations are not. A 600 space plaza, a 24 unit condo, and a single business with 12 customer spots all have different problems and different solutions. The site walk is where we figure that out.
Talk to Ottawa Parking Enforcement about a towing and enforcement plan for your lot.
(613) 362-3362Property managers, condo boards, and business owners across the Ottawa-Gatineau area.
