While police investigate reports of conflicts between campers and neighbours, the property’s manager says the trespassers have gone so far as to change the locks on the entrance gate
VANCOUVER — For nearly a year, campers have set up a makeshift shelter on one of Vancouver’s most expensive pieces of real estate, leading to friction with the owner and neighbours, and prompting calls to police.
The properties are owned by B.C. numbered companies with a sole director, Edison Washington, who lists a West Vancouver residential address. A 2016 story by former Province reporter Sam Cooper reported that Edison Washington is also known as Qiang Wang and that he and his wife had purchased $152 million worth of Vancouver property since 2011, including the Belmont Avenue properties and parcels on Cambie Street that have since been redeveloped.
On a recent weekday morning, Postmedia News found a small shelter made of wooden planks and blue tarp. Gardening tools, a rake and some shovels hung neatly from the shelter. Some plastic pails and a watering can sat on the ground nearby. A toilet sat out in the open not far away amid low-lying vegetation and piles of branches.The listings for the properties were originally held by real estate agent Danny Deng, who didn’t return Postmedia’s calls.
He doesn’t think the situation with the campers is impacting the marketing of the property because “it’s bare land covered in forest.”
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