How We Got Evicted! (Continued)
Suspect #4 Ray
Ray lived about 5 houses down the street from our rental lot where we were living in the camper. Ray put his house up for sale after the real estate market got soft. There is a private landfill right behind Ray's house that I'm sure wasn't helping Ray's house to sell. It seemed to me that Ray was asking quite a high price for his house so I wasn't surprised that it wasn't selling quickly, especially with the landfill behind it.
A few months before we got evicted, my wife and I took a walk down the street. We stopped at the border between Ray's house and his next door neighbor's house because something about his neighbor's mailbox struck our curiosity. I don't remember what interested us. After standing there a minute we continued our walk. Before we made our way a half block down the street, Ray comes zooming down his long gravel driveway in his Jeep and somewhat aggressively pulls around us on the street and stops. He interrogates us as to what we were doing. We explained that we were looking at the neighbor's mailbox and why. Keep in mind that we knew the neighbor, brought them food, helped their son move, and had performed other helps to the family.
Ray then tells us in a somewhat accusatory tone that he thought we were only going to live there in the camper for six months. Ray made no attempt to be congenial at all during this short exchange.
Suspect #5 George
George built a new house about 7 houses down from our camper. I only met George once. George lived in his new house less than a year before we were evicted. Being new in the neighborhood and living in a new house, I suppose it is possible that he wanted the neighborhood to "improve" and might have had something to do with our eviction. However, I don't have any real evidence that George had an issue with our living in the camper or had a part in our eviction.
Our area was definitely "in the country"; cows lived across the street from us. However, we were on the growing side of town and the subdivisions were springing up nearby. I can imagine that some of the city dwellers who had moved our direction wanted to make their new neighborhoods more like the city that they left.
