David Sloan

They'll bring their own mowers.

They'll tend the graves.

They'll make everything happen.

And so that happens.

And that's happened quite a lot.

But the most prominent is that the state is told the cemetery is no longer functioning and that the certificate by which they are a commercial business or a nonprofit should no longer be held up because they have no money.

So it becomes a word of the state.

Yes, but the states are really bad at it.

Oh.

So what happens typically is the states say, okay, we'll take it.

We'll do what we can.

But we're busy.

We don't have that much money.

And so we'll get to it when we can get to it.

And so people will complain every three months or six months or nine months, and the state will send in a set of mowers and leaf blowers and et cetera.

They'll clean it up.

Then they'll come back nine months later or six months later.

I mean, there's some places that are very good about it, and they're very careful with the ones that they take over, but many are derelict.

They do minimal amounts of work, yes.

And this is a big problem because once a cemetery has grass that's three feet tall