re: Squatting in Louisiana in empty house - how to prevent this

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Use link to find owner. Call them. Have them call cops. You call cops.

Find out if the neighbor's been paying property taxes

If not, pay the taxes

If it's 3 years worth, you can start a process to seize ownership of the house

Once you own the house call the police and tell them to get those frickers out of your new house

Its a longer process but you get a new house

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This is in Texas, but this has happened to me. I tried to get an ex to leave my house which the deed was in my name, and the cops said I had to evict him even though he didn't have a lease or any written agreement. As long as he had clothing there or any possessions it was his home. It was total BS.

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That is an entirely different situation since he was invited by you and legally lived there.

Squatters weren’t invited and are trespassing.

Once the squatters change the locks and fraudulently get a utility bill put in their name, you're in a tough situation.

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It's around Head of Island

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so I understand why it is desireable to live in.

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Does not compute.

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Once the squatters change the locks and fraudulently get a utility bill put in their name, you're in a tough situation.

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Oddly the house is using our legal address so I am not sure how that would work since that is also the address our elec bill is in.

Call the police and report break in trasspasing as soon as you see them on theproprty

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This was on Live PD a while back. Florida snowbirds showed up at their winter home to find someone was living there and had changed the locks. Police couldn't do anything, advised the owner to take them to court.

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There was a rash of similar situations in New Orleans a few years ago. People were squatting in post Katrina gutted or partially renovated houses. They were claiming they were descendants of the “Washita Tribe” (pronounced like Ouachita, but spelled as shown) who originally settled “these lands”.

Anyhow, five Rastafarian looking assholes set up camp in a home that was owned by a guy who moved to CA after Katrina. He would come in a couple of times a year to work on the house. One day he arrives to find his locks changed. He called NOPD, who responded but couldn’t do anything because he didn’t have proof with him that he owned the home. Rather than flying back to CA to root through his filing cabinet, he called one of the local news stations. A day or two later, they arrested the whole bunch for trespassing. A couple gave obviously made up names to the cops and refused to produce any ID. They got to stay a few days longer at OPP until they remembered what their mothers called them.