““Transient” actually means “crazy dude who should be in a mental hospital.””
And here in the Bay Area, they are all over the place. And thanks to relatively new CA law, the cops really can’t touch them. I am up at 2:30 a.m. because one of the security cameras we have at commercial building we own here, just alerted me to the presence of a bum on a bike who has decided to sleep in an outside hallway. Unfortunately, now, he left too quickly, so I won’t be able to send the police to “ask him to leave!”
We have put up speakers with some of our cameras at one commercial property. The homeless don’t like our comments while we watch them on camera. Great deterrent !
Also our zoning laws allowed us to add a caretaker quarters once the property had demonstrated the need for on site protection.
Trying to sell most of our California commercial properties but may be adding another caretaker quarters at another site soon. The care taker idea works well.
On another property (bare land) that was over run with homeless we worked a deal with the sheriff, health Dept and Fire Dept and now allow 2 homeless guys to stay on the property in exchange for keeping the others out.
At times we’d had 20-30 homeless at that property with many adjoining properties with buildings having break-ins on a regular basis. That has now stopped.
I visit the site regularly and provide trash pick up.
Not ideal way to live but an improvement from how it was on both properties.
My wife and I have worked with local homeless for years. Allowed us some insights on who to trust and what ideas to try.
Praying the properties we have on market will sell.
Sick of California but will not leave our farm.
Right now, Trying to get set up with a drone with thermal camera to observe the forested areas around our house. Hard to monitor homeless there who can escape confrontation through brush when being presumed.
Want to know who’s hiding around us. Fire is the biggest worry.
We have great law enforcement in our area but you know California laws.
Our other farm neighbors banding together to counter Sacramento idiocy.
We can’t vote this insanity out here but we are not helpless to take our own action
Hope these ideas are of help to you.