Posted on 03/26/2025 10:09:25 AM PDT by lowbridge
A luxury RV company is trying to evict a group of squatters who took over a storage lot of campers in the city of Industry.
"We've noticed that several of the trailers have been burning," worker Marilyn Martinez said. "There's homeless here sometimes late at night. They're coming in and out."
Martinez, who works near the lot, said a city of squatters started taking over the overflow storage area months ago. Since then, they've piled up massive mounds of trash and debris. The company, Black Series RV, said trespassers are now living in at least 50 campers, which are worth anywhere between $40,000 and $100,000.
They tried using security teams to retrieve them but said the few they recovered were trashed. In other instances, they gave up after fearing for their safety.
Martinez said she and her coworkers walk in pairs to their cars when they're near the lot.
"Sometimes it is kind of dark, and we do have to cross over here," Martinez said. "It's like we have to be watching our back, especially us girls."
Industry's assistant city manager said they are working with the property owners to clean up the lot.
"The City does not own the site," the city said. "This is a private trespass dispute between the property owners and a private party. The city is working with the property owners in helping to coordinate clean-up efforts at the site."
Supervisor Hilda Solis also said that the county will help address concerns about the lot. Her office sent outreach workers, as well as alcohol and drug abuse teams, to the makeshift encampment.
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They’re protected by liberal judges.
Big Hungry Dogs
How,
It is illegal to live in a storage unit.
In many cities, it illegal to live in a RV if it’s not parked at a “campground”
Yet illegals can break both laws with the courts blessings.
Any business owner in SoCal should already have long been prepared for this or left after Rodney King.
City of Industry?
That’s a place that looks like Mexico that borders with Communist China. That place sucks bad! No surprise by this news.
> Her office sent outreach workers, as well as alcohol and drug abuse teams, to the makeshift encampment. <
Well, that should make the squatters behave. They might even leave after writing letters of apology.
What does it take to write and pass a bill that says SQUATTERS HAVE NO RIGHTS?
If you’ve got a dollar more than me it’s only fair that you should give me 50 cents.
Can you help a homeless person?
“In many cities, it illegal to live in a RV if it’s not parked at a “campground”
This is L.A.
Tear gas.
I know a place that stores boats and RVs and they always have someone walk the lot seven or eight times a day just to make sure nothing has happened. Yes, they have security cams but walking is better because there are things that the camera will miss.
That’s a real calorie burner of an RV.
EC
“What does it take to write and pass a bill that says SQUATTERS HAVE NO RIGHTS?”
A republican legislature.
Make America Florida.
How’d you like to go get your $100k RV out for a nice weekend trip and find it thoroughly destroyed and trashed by drugged-out bums? They might have to be totaled by insurance. And your insurance rates will jump with your claim.
What do you want to bet by "help" they mean a daily fine for the owner till it's cleaned up?
Sounds like the city managers are shrugging their shoulders. It is the property owner’s problem until the property owning infringes on the squatters’ rights.
A group of angry customers with baseball bats and bicycle chains, alongside police with tear gas and night sticks would put an end to this foolishness real quick.
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