Posted on 12/04/2017 1:59:29 PM PST by jeannineinsd
Rob looked around for something workable. A few dozen RV’s sat in the police impound lot, packed in so tight he had to slide sideways between vehicles to peer in the windows and check the undersides.
“A lot of junk,” he said. “Though somebody would probably love this junk.”
After all, it’s clear someone was living in each of these RV’s before it was towed. Clothes, blankets, and trinkets were scattered on the floors.
“I found one with the fridge still cold, there was food in it,” Rob said.
As homelessness has risen in Los Angeles, there are more and more of these barely working vehicles sitting on streets around the county, providing a semblance of shelter for thousands of men, women, and families. When those inhabitants rack up unpaid parking tickets, their vehicles end up on this tow lot in Wilmington. If they’re not claimed, they go up for auction.
And that’s where Rob comes in.
Spotting a relatively nice RV — smashed in back bumper, but clean and with no visible plumbing issues— he pulled himself in through the window and looked around.
“Now something like this, I would go for,” he said.
Rob would buy an RV like this for anywhere from $200 to $1,000. When he makes a purchase, he tows them out of the yard, plants them in South L.A., scrubs the insides with bleach, and then rents them out to homeless people.
“Usually, [for] like ten dollars a day,” he said. “Anyone can get ten dollars a day. Pump gas, sit outside the liquor store.”
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Yep! And then they dump their raw sewage right where there parked.
Just a matter of time until some noseybody complains and gets you towed from whatever parking spot you’ve occupied.
Go to the areas south of San Fransisco, especially Watsonville, or Salinas.
I was SHOCKED at the hundreds and hundreds of old RV’s lined along the road sides that people are living in because they can’t afford the incredible rents in San Jose, SFO, or Monterey Bay.
In Monterey, as long as they have a legal plate, and are moved under their own power every two days, it is LEGAL. Even if it only moves one parking space.
Pretty much OK, provided the sanitation and fire problems are solved.
In some of the tony coastal Calif surf towns the level of cop hostility to RV’s and even those high but small Dodge Sprinters is in outer orbit:
Starting 2 years ago many cities adopted new laws expelling them after sundown, etc.
Nearby they have even banished from residential streets after dark work trucks and taco trucks if they’re over a certain height.
News flash:
Not everyone can afford the housing costs that tech hipsters and overseas Chinese sweat-shop tyrants can.
Or live in a van down by the river.
Great movie.
Back before the mountains were formed (1972) I rented an older 2 bedroom house in Long Beach for $100 per month. It’s likely been demolished by now, I suppose.
Yes, one of his last, sadly..................
THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
It and likely the four houses that followed it.
One solution to sky high rents. Clever.
There’s a guy who works at and for Google, who bought a box truck, and lives in it.
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truck-in-parking-lot-2015-10
RVs in LA might get toasty during a heatwave.Living in an RV in the Dakotas or Buffalo might present a different problem.
LOL - and these liberals are the ones that call us deplorables “trailer trash”.
A few years ago I had to change jobs. I lived on my own for about 8 months till we sold our house. I gave some thought to borrowing my mother in laws
RV and doing some urban camping.
I don’t have any problems with this at all.
I saw a lot of this too. I was in the South Bay Area (Mtn. View/Palo Alto) back in October.
We sold our house and bought a sailboat.
When I retire (in less than 3 years), we’re taking off and visiting the world.
It’s not as big as the house, but, we’re doing ok, and, it is cheaper.
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