It's 3:00 pm and just barely got home. The plant kept me waiting 2 hours before they got to me. It was the new kid loading and so I kind of give him a break, but once it gets past my appointment time I'm starting to get a bit antsy.  Like, get to me, please and get with it.  A crew of people showed up after I got in there and almost blocked access to our loading bay. Same problem, different day: contamination in the lines and they were pumping the lines out, dumping the product onto the ground.  However, that didn't affect loading me for whatever reason so I was very glad about that, at least.  

However.  Having to wait to load was the least of my problems today.  The new people at lot 1 called and said they were leaving and cited the dogs from next door as the issue.  Well, didn't they stop letting them out?  No, they were out this morning!  I immediately texted the people in the other lot, I had had enough.  

Get those dogs out of my park, immediately, I don't want them in there, you let them wander around again this morning. This lady - she's actually a very young girl in my view, maybe 20 years old - went into meltdown mode yet again.  At this point, it was time for the whole lot of them to go.  I kept my cool, but she was calling me a liar and I was not backing down. 

So, her husband or boyfriend - that story keeps changing so I don't know which - called me, started yelling at me on the phone.  He cussed me out and challenged me to "come say that to my face", an obvious threat of fist fighting.  I am not going to get into fistfights with tenants, I will call the Sheriff out there and they can discuss with him the idea of threatening people when someone is saying something to him or them that they don't want to hear or deal with. 

After that, he texted me about talking to his lady and blah blah blah.  I simply typed back: I am calling the Sheriff. 

Oh yes, I called the Sheriff.  They started arguing - not in a brash way but still arguing the point that I would have to go through the courts.  No, they separated mobile home park rules with RV's that used to be lumped in with them long ago. They are treated as a hotel guest, basically, you can get rid of them at will.  Their transient, they are on wheels, they can leave at will.  

They sergeant toned down and said he would just have to start making calls and finding out if what I am saying is correct. Yes, please do that.  He called back 40 minutes later, saying the rules are clear as mud.  I simply reiterated - very respectfully, he wasn't being rude to me and I wasn't going to be rude to him - that the situation is treated as a temporary guest.  

I was getting more texts from these dog people and I was ignoring most of it excepting to reiterate that I am calling the Sheriff.  Sometimes, maybe many times, people don't want to deal with law enforcement, I texted back and said you threatened me and that is the end of the line.  If you are out of my park by the end of the day, I'll let it go and that will be that.  He sent back a thumbs up, she started texting again.  I'm going to contact my friend at the Sheriff's office and blah blah blah.  I didn't care at that point, I informed her this conversation is over, please stop texting me and amazingly, she did.  

Well, the Sheriff didn't call back any time soon and after another hour and a half or so, I checked the cameras.  They went into the shed for some reason, I didn't see anything in their hands so I'm hoping that means they didn't steal anything.   But that was recorded stuff, so I looked through the live camera. It appeared that their trailer was gone.  So, I pulled up a pic with their trailer in the lot and realized that yes, indeed they had left.  

Then, the Sergeant called back and said after everything, he called the district judge that your property is under and he said yes, it's an at-will situation because there is no contract.  I don't do contracts for that purpose, You have a contract and you have a landlord-tenant relationship, I don't want that with anyone.  It's not how many RV parks are run, tho some do, indeed, have contracts. That's their deal, not mine.  I've done my research. The judge was still wrong, tho, telling him the situation is at-will but I would still have to give a 3 day notice.  After he was done, I politely told him that I am very appreciative of all the work you have done in looking this up - instead of arguing that they are wrong, if they think they are right there isn't much I can say to change their tune without getting on the wrong side of them - but this problem has been resolved. Apparently my saying  I am calling the Sheriff lit a fire under their feet and they are gone.

Oh great, he says, do you know what kind of vehicle they are driving? Yes, described that to them and the trailer.  Well, we do patrol your area we could start coming in there at night to check on things. Please do. I don't want cops in there all the time but at night? Who is going to complain? Maybe some, but I doubt they would start trouble with anyone, just let their presence be known. 

This situation went on all morning long. Meanwhile....the new "Park Host" contacted me. I have some things to tell you when you get back.  Ok.  He then went on to say something about the workamper dude and the lady with the dogs. 

When I got back, they were coming down the driveway so I stopped and we had a long conversation.  Robert, the workamper, had done the mowing on the other side today.  This after I told him the new people will be taking care of everything.  And after he's basically done nothing beyond mowing the dog park once in the last 8 days, I think it is and 8 days ago, it was mowing the dog park lawn.  So, that dude had gotten pissed at the new park host because the new park host bluntly informed him he was taking over robert's duties. 

So, their conversation went back and forth between robert asking why I (me) wanted them to take over? Well, Robert, because frankly?  You aren't doing jack shit in here.  

Then, the girl/lady with the dogs went over there last night, cussing him out and demanding to know why he "told on us" to (me) about the dogs barking last night? The park host dude frankly told her: Because I walked down the driveway last night and your dogs were barking. I could hear them down to where i was helping some people out and then I walked back and your dogs were still barking.  She, of course, called him a liar.  She has been calling everyone a liar (these are the people that are now gone).

Now, let's move on to right now.  The park host lost his wallet yesterday.  He didn't know where he lost it and asked me to look at my camera, stating he had been in the shed at such and such a time and thought he had left it in the bathroom,  had anyone else been in there between the time I left and the time I returned?  I looked and saw him leave and return, no one in between.  I'm going to recheck that now that this new situation has arisen. 

You see, not only did his wallet go missing, his wife's phone also disappeared today.  The phone is dead, he said, but it can still be tracked and guess whose trailer it is at? Robert's of course.  They were asking me what to do, I immediately told them to call the police. Don't mess with them, you can show proof of where the phone is at, that may (or may not, I dunno) give the cops an "exigent circumstance" situation to go in and search the trailer.  I'm guessing they will, but I told them that them trying to do anything is not going to end well, just get the sheriff out there.  

I can just about guarantee you that that call they are making right now? Is going to have Sheriff deputies out there quickly.  I want the park cleaned up of the riff raff, if Robert is a thief, he can leave as well.  I won't press charges, they may or may not. He said he had a large amount of cash in his wallet, he had my lot rent and apparently even more than that beyond the missing phone.  I mean, in my mind? The park host who will now be called Allen probably left it in his pickup and forgot about it, Robert probably took it.  Can't guarantee that, but it seems obvious that he has stolen their phone.  

As you can see, I have quite the day, 2 people cleared their lots, the people threatening and yelling at everyone and their used-to-be new neighbors that couldn't deal with the dogs anymore, they told the Park Host - Allen that they are going to Victoria.  Victoria is a town well down south, used to travel through it frequently going to Brownsville.  It's near the ocean I guess, otherwise it's just as hot down there as it is here.  The thing is, the "bad" people left before they left but that didn't sway them.

I can't blame them, they liked the park, they said, but for the dogs.  They had just made their mind up: time to leave and that was that.  

So now I have 3 lots open when I was down to 1.  I like having 1 open, I do not like having 3.  Money down the drain, others have called I hope they come.  But, I will have to just go ahead and do another Facebook boost ad.   

My electric bill, due on the 10th of next month, is $1,600.  It will go up to around $2,100 and then around $2,500 if last year was any measure of what will happen this year in the summer time.  

I'm just at shrugs shoulders point.  I need money, not for electric bills, I have that, but to expand.  

Whatever the case, I'm looking through the camera to see if the Sheriff shows up or what they are going to do about it.  

I'm looking for negative reviews on my Google business account from the ousted people.  So far, nothing. I fully intend on responding to it if they do post some nonsense.  Oh, did I say my dumpster is already half filled and it's only Friday? Lol.  One thing after another...

The real deal today? It's miserably hot out there.  After 4:00 pm, 94 degrees, feels like 108.  I was feeling that in the truck today when the AC isn't working.  Wayyyy tooooooo much humidity in the air. 

I'm done with this. I'm going to go lay down, relax, empty my mind of all of this stuff and just watch a movie or something.