Woman finds random family living in house that she is about to sell; squatters or scammed?

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After 11 years of living in the house on Condor Drive in Marietta, Ga., Everman was in the process of selling her home. She was supposed to close the sale on June 26. But the day before, Everman walked into a surprise.

“I went by the home on June 25 to say, ‘goodbye,’ to my home. When I drove up, there was a different car in the driveway and it looked like somebody was in my home.”

She had no idea who they were. She never gave them permission to be in there—but there they were.

The new residents were Tamera Pritchett, her fiancé and two children.

And it was a pretty big shock to her as well.

“Next thing we know, we’re being thrown out at 11:30 at night with two children,” Pritchett said.

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ut after signing e-documents and wiring money to someone, whom they believed to be the owner, they received keys to the home, and moved in.

“We’re not squatters. We have documents. We have keys,” said the mother of two.

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Under Georgia law, “squatters have the right to take possession of this property if they occupy it without permission for a specific period of time.”

According to Pritchett, the scammer, whom she paid $3,000 to, told her that he is in Garland, Texas, and owned the house with Everman. Pritchett said that she and her family had been in the house for two weeks when Everman showed up.

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“They tried to unlawfully throw us out by legally evicting us,” Pritchett said, who went on to say that Everman knew about the scam and still sold her house.

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