Trouble along wolf creek

Shame on the elitists of Wolf Creek!

My name is Alf Randell, and I have been working to revegitate and clean up the center of the valley where Wolf Creek meets the Methow river. Thus far, it has taken one and one half years.
From the moment that I arrived to start the work, I have been plagued by the exclusionary and elitist attitude of the less friendly members of the Wolf Creek Property Owners Association. It seems that these part-time residents despise and resent less affluent locals who would like to live near them. Part time residents tend to build huge foolish-looking fake mansions. To me, they look like shoddy double wide trailers, with nearly flat roofs. On the odd weekends that the fake mansions light up, many complaints are phoned in to the county.

In my own case, none of the complaints have produced any citations. Indeed, almost all of them were ridiculous and clearly fraudulent. They have cost the county, and the less affluent permanent residents, thousands of dollars, and heaps of misery. At the conclusion of last season, I received the planner and the building inspector at the same time. They had both wasted many hours of taxpayer fundeed time listening to overly empowered part-time residents cast these absurd allegations. By this point, however, they were simply collecting transcripts of the fraudulent calls, and providing the transcripts to the property owners who had been targeted. The two officials reassured me that they were not processing a single one of the fraudulent complaints. Indeed, they stated that neither of them had found anything actionable at 292 Wolf creek road, despite the barrages of memorial day and labor day phone calls. We walked around, and I showed them the tiny homes that I had been constructing to relieve the boredom of my sunset years.

You can see the documentary about me on the internet by searching for 'Alf Randell , A desert life'. Although I may look like a homeless person, my family owns a pretty nice printing company on 6th avenue in New York City. And, although I seem to be a mentally handicapped geezer, I am a fairly well recognized professional photographer, and a fully trained engineer and physicist. Now, I enjoy building tiny homes that are powered and heated by the sun, and operating heavy equipment.
I imaginemn thatn I see clearly what is going on at Wolf Creek. The area has a group whose main hobby is to gather evidence of wrongdoing on the part of their less affluent and more permanent neighbors, and to report these imagined crimes to the proper authorities. I was astounded to see such behavior flourishing in an otherwise perfect valley. I was reminded of a gang of bullies who like to find the most vulnerable victim, and then work in concert to harm them, and drive them from the area. Except for myself, the victims of the illegal surveillance, trespassing, and fraudulent complaints are families with young children. I can not figure out why these hate crimes are tolerated in a community that otherwise has a lot of cohesion and transparency. It is a case of the least polite individuals winning every single battle. The victims have failed to organize, being the sort of humans who shun legal battles and endless drama.
This came to a head for me on August 18, 2019, when a summer resident trespassed onto the property and conducted her own independent inspection. When I tried to get her to leave, so that I could get back to my work, she refused, and had to be driven [without harm to her] to the property line.
She had been infuriated when the health department would not immediately take action, and had been convinced by her fellow trolls to take matters into her own hands. Ironically, she gets her mail on the deeded land, and has built a long glass house along the edge of the property. Her knowledge of my comings and goings, guests, and habits was chilling, and I realized that she had been observing the property in a way that is not even remotely legal. She also made it very clear that there was a strong group of neighbors dedicated to my removal.
I am a sensitive person, I found it hard to sleep after the illegal search of the property. I began to hide behind my own buildings, aware that eyes were measuring my every move.
Members of the hate group approached me, making it clear that I lower the value of their properties, and am not a good enough person to live in such elite company. I was informed of the large membership and dedication of the hate group. From their point of view, they are doing a public service, and each poor family forced to move to Carlton makes the end of the valley more pleasant for Wealthy Seattle retirees.

To me this looks like a harassment law suit that is already won. The transcripts of the fraudulent calls are freely available, along with the results of each costly investigation. There is a signed letter drafted by the group, and submitted to the county to drive out a family that has lived here for decades. This family also found trespassers photographing their property when they were not there.

I have indications from the county that they recognize the methods of the hate group, and are waiting for someone to get fed up enough to start the court case. Because the hate group overlaps a lot with the Wolf Creek property owners Association, let us sue them until they are forced to disband. I believe that the group partakes in harassment, illegal surveillance, trespassing, and have organized a tightly knit  group with meetings and possibly employees. The attempt to drive out people due to their social class is very likely a federal crime, and the feds might wish to look into such a group. A family left last summer, and a second family is shopping for land down valley as this is written. There are not that many more local families to drive out, and then this end of the valley will contain nothing but empty mansions.

alf randell
292 Wolf creek road
alfrandell@gmail.com