Below are the main reasons that former members preferred to exit Fantasy Island. One interesting this is that many of these issues could/should have been brought up at the weekly meeting.
Temperature
One former resident liked the mobile home significantly colder than me. I like the temperature around 78-80 during the day and much cooler at night. The battle over the thermometer was a constant source of discomfort for both of us.
Electromagnetic interference
At least 2 residents were highly sensitive to wifi signals or large computer screen radiation or other electrical devices. The residents attempted to use Faraday cages and other things to block electromagnetic radiation
Bumping noises
On occasion, I have done vigorous morning exercise routines. One member mentioned that theyheard it. But I want to actually witness it. Another member was concerned about a number of bumping noises, such doors closing and more. Ideally, feedback would occur as soon as these issues happened so they could be addressed. Instead, I learned about this problem when the person announced they were leaving.
Eviction, Mental Illness, Lack of Cooperation and Extensive Criminal Background
I did choose to evict one tenant. The person quit paying rent. That, in and of itself, was not a reason to evict the person. Because this is a cooperative, the idea is to cooperate with people. But this person’s behavior became very uncooperative in addition to not paying. Reflecting on the issues with this person was instructive:
- one night a conflict occurred that triggered former trauma in the member. Instead of engaging in conflict resolution, the person began to act haughty and high-strung (e.g. slamming doors in people’s faces, no longer attending weekly meetings). Understandably, during the conflict, the person was quite uncooperative, even to the point of throwing things in the direction of the other party. But after the trauma, the person continued to carry a grudge and behave in a resentful fashion instead of engaging in conflict resolution and trauma healing. The lack of cooperation violates the central tenet of Fantasy Island as a cooperative.
- Uncooperative behavior as mentioned above. In addition verbal threats of getting a restraining order on the owner led to the weekly meeting minutes requiring sign-off by all members. This way, we are all admitting that there are no other issues and that we have brought everything to the table that is a source of conflict.
- Ducking the weekly meeting. This person started using evasive tactics to avoid the weekly meeting, leading to me changing it several times and this person not showing up each time it was changed.
- Losing money – the eviction took 60-75 days, meaning no revenue during that time + paying for eviction service by a skilled professional. This is why people take deposits.
- Mental illness and vandalism.. The person in discussion in this topic was objectively mentally ill. This led to this person being arrested on the Baker act… something that would’ve happened much sooner had I known about the Baker act. This occurred after she did something on-site as a neighbors house that involved going onto their property without their permission (something I had received multiple reports about).
- Extensive criminal background. This person had a long record of misdemeanors to her name. A background check would’ve eliminated her from consideration.
- But more importantly, some of my spiritual coaches would’ve detected some non-physical reasons for this person to not stay here permanently but leave when the Airbnb tenure was up.
