Back when portraying RADS as drooling monstrosities was okay, a developer purchased a defunct landfill, bribed the zoning commission, pushed some dirt around with a bulldozer, diverted drainage from the nearby Interstate into the gaping pit, and placed, Nessie, a cheap googly-eyed animatronic sea serpent salvaged from a defunct L.A. water park on an underwater track in the resulting brackish "lake".
Loch Ness Estates's developer then declared bankruptcy the week Frankie Stein outed herself and the RADs. Mr. Tepes, who enjoyed sharp deals, purchased the property with its mosquito buzzing lake for the cost of back taxes and handed the management to Dio – so what if "Nessie" was a vintage cookie jar in a racially insensitive shape?
It was all a matter of rebranding.
Dio, ever the loose cannon, proposed rebranding Loch Uisce Glan Estates as "Lake Agua Clara", an adults-only resort with a, ummmm, retrofitted Nessie that would be:
1.Pink,
2.Mushroom shaped, and
3.Squirty.
Tepes firmly rejected Dio's proposal. He had a teenage daughter.
And standards.
So, racially insensitive Nessie with her googly eyes, snaggle teeth, and rotting green vinyl scales was sent on a final lap of shame and now lay canceled on the muddy bottom of shallow, oily, and fetid "Lake Augua Clara", now zoned for upscale family dwellings, weird skin rashes and all.
Until now.