Black Series RVs is well known in California. It’s a luxury RV company that offers various sorts of trailers, catered to those who may live a more rugged lifestyle (think overlanding to remote destinations). They’re advertised to be “the strongest and most durable trailer on the market.”

While they may be able to resist the elements, they’re not resistant to an army of squatters, as a dealers in Industry, California, discovered a few months ago. Over 50 of the company’s products on a storage lot near the showroom have been transformed into homes for squatters.

And while each RV ranges from $40,000 to $100,000, the squatters don’t seem to care.

“We’ve noticed that several of the trailers have been burning,” Marilyn Martinez, who works close to the site, told CBS. “There are homeless people here sometimes late at night. They’re coming in and out.”

The RVs are obviously in rough shape

CBS’s footage shows some of the RVs vandalized with graffiti, furniture ripped out of them to make room for other items, or turned into dumpsters for the community’s trash.

One was shown to have the top removed, overflowing with trash and debris. The company has tried to remove some of the RVs to clean and resell. Security teams recovered a few, but they could not be salvaged.

Efforts to remove the RVs from the lot have stopped, out of fear for the team’s safety. So, the company turned to the city for help. The city said they’d help, but only minimally, as they don’t own the property.

All the city could do was send outreach teams

“The City does not own the site,” the city’s assistant manager wrote in a statement. “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.”

County supervisors have sent outreach teams to the site, but nothing came of it. Team members handed members of the encampment a list of phone numbers for city-funded homeless shelters. Something that Raymond Henderson, one of the camp’s members, says isn’t helpful.

“They give you a piece of paper and tell you to call these numbers, but they already know that shelters are already full, he said. “Now, they are about to kick out a lot of people who don’t really have nowhere to go. So, you are going to be seeing them on every bus stop, every street corner. You are going to be seeing these people. It sucks.”

Now, the company is trying to legally acquire the lot

Corporate members are fighting in court to transfer ownership to the company. Once it’s in the company’s possession, they can legally remove the squatters.

The company says they’re working on building relationships with other companies who may be able to help salvage the damaged RVs for resale.