Big Ron squatters law in Florida first in the US outstanding .

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The move comes as a relief to Florida property owner Patti Peeples, who dealt with squatters last year.

“It gives me a real feeling of positive hope that we still have the ability to discuss challenges in our society and work with our legislatures in a bipartisan way,” she told WJXT.

Peeples shared her story during a state Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing in February.

“Imagine for a moment that you leave from your day of serving the citizens of Florida as a senator and you return to your home,” she said, according to Fox News. “But when you walk in, there are strangers sitting on your sofa, watching your TV, eating your food.”

“You ask who they are and what they are doing, and they tell you that they have rented this house and present you with a lease.”

It took Peeples over a month to get the law to evict the squatters, and in the meantime the crooks caused tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage to her home.

“At the crux of this issue is just basic unfairness,” she told WJXT. “If we don’t have the right to inhabit our own property, then what kind of world are we living in?”

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providing that sheriffs are entitled to a
specified fee for service of such notice; authorizing
the owner or agent to request that the sheriff stand
by while the owner or agent takes possession of the
property; authorizing the sheriff to charge a
reasonable hourly rate;

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