re: Homeowner arrested after tense standoff with squatters

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They produce a fake lease.

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Yea, that's the one part where it's tricky.

They're getting sophisticated with these schemes and many apparently have these fake leases, and I imagine makes it pretty tough for a street cop on the beat to try and discern what is what.

It would just be nice to have it fast tracked through the system.

Another thing I'd argue that could maybe at least help with this, why does the squatter get to keep living in the house? I mean, I get that the eviction thing and not being able to evict is the entire idea. But if I say I live in that house, and they say they live in that house, and it's specific to a squatter's right issue, it seems fair that both parties would need to vacate the property until the courts decide what is what. I imagine that can be a slippery slope for shitty renters to take advantage of too, but just a thought.

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"Hey if you vote me into office I will help pass laws that have zero effect on me but will let you live in someone else's home for virtually free"

What's so hard to understand here? It's a business transaction.

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Hard to understand how wrong you are while thinking you were right, that would be my answer to your question.


These are not new laws.

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God what absolutely moronic laws in place up there.

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I mean what is the plus to squatter's rights? Either you own it or you dont. Do renters have the same right in an apartment complex?

It makes ZERO sense to me why squatters were ever allowed to be a thing.

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Homeowner arrested

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squatters

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New York City

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A tale as old as time.

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“Squatters sometimes, in many cases, have a fake lease,” Shelton explained. “So the first thing I did was I had my mom write a lease in my name.”

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Liberals will change the law to make the fake lease real and the real lease is fake. Book it.

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In CA or NY you will be lucky to even get a hearing in less than 60 days and not at a huge financial cost.

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Meanwhile on Reddit they are whining about high rent costs in CA & NY

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In the old days when property records were incomplete or nonexistent, somebody could show up with a fraudulent deed and kick you off your land. Or you homesteaded a piece of land on the frontier, years later someone claims it belongs to them via a colonial land grant.

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And there’s the idea of “putting land into commerce” to avoid properties just sitting there falling apart and being unused by absentee faraway owners. Which I think is bullshite but that’s the reasoning.

could you just beat the sh!t out of them, and then say that you were there, at your own house, conducting maintenance, and they threatened you. self defense? seems easier and they probably would leave after an arse whooping

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As illegal squatters taking over homes across Southern California grow increasingly common, one man has dedicated his life to fighting those squatters and protecting homeowners.

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Probably less of a crusader and more of an aspiring reality show star.

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Just shoot the mfers in the face and be done with it. I would rather defend myself for protecting my property than argue with a bunch of democrats trying to protect burglars and con artists that burglarized and vandalized my property. You already know that I’m about to do something and probably to jail if the cops don’t do anything.

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Call me crazy but the hassle of a couple or few months of going through the eviction process sounds a bit more enticing than decades in jail, but that's just me.



It ain't right, but that's just the way it is.