My husband is buying a 17' Mr. Pike boat/trailer today. We don't have
a large lot or pole building or anything. I've already lined up a guy
who will rent us space in his barn for winter storage from Oct/Nov.-
Apr/May, for $10/foot for the winter.

At the very least until my husband can get rid of an old car of his to
make more room on the side of our garage, I was thinking of asking my
neighbor(s) on either side of us if we could park the boat/trailer in
their yard during the summer/boating months. The one guy has a double-
lot, and the area closest to our house has an extra garage and he
usually always has SOMEthing parked over there - a boat that they then
sold, old cars of his sons', a VW van the one son bought to work on
(and hasn't touched yet), a pop-up camper. It's not like he's not used
to something being there, it's just that usually it's his own stuff,
not a neighbor's.

The other neighbor for the most part doesn't even live in his house
anymore. He moved over a year ago about 60 miles away to live with his
fiance (I think they're married now) for work. He does construction
and apparently that's where better jobs were. Anyway, he/they only
come up to this house once in a blue moon. He used to have a boat
himself, several years ago, and he parked it alongside his driveway in
mulch that's right on the other side of the split rail fence
separating our front yards. So there is room, and the driveway would
still be empty for when he does come up here occasionally.

I was going to ask one of them if we could park the boat/trailer in
one of their yards during the summer, but I don't expect to do it for
free. Would would you offer? The same $10/foot as we're going to pay
for the winter storage? Or less because the winter storage offers
protection from the elements, whereas the neighbor's yard it would be
exposed (altho with a boat cover on it when not in use). With the boat
and trailer, that'll probably come out to about 22' total (I'm
assuming the barn guy bases it on the total length, not just the lenth
of the boat itself), so it'll be around $220 for the winter storage.