I had a chance to look at your saves. You went from $150 and unboxing the camera's on day 1 on your sixth save to $1950 only 2 ingame hours later on your seventh save. You thus played a modded game, and that threw off your ingame timer, causing Eric to show up earlier. Yeah, it's a bug in your mod, which is not something the dev of the base game is responsible for. Mod at your own risk.
Also, again, everything you posted of what was "in the game" before Eric showed up, is NOT IN THIS GAME and has never been. Again, you were playing the wrong game. I'd suggest you try out these other games because it's obvious you did play one of these: