Man Moves Into Home While Family Is Away And Claims He Now Owns It

cleveland.cbslocal.com ^ | December 2, 2013 4:38 PM | Staff

[WalterSobchak2012]

When my brother was a sheriff in Florida he would have to deal with at least a dozen of these "freeman" clowns late every fall as retirees made their way back to their winter homes.

The good news was in virtually every instance, and sometimes with some creativity (usually creative interpretations of "drug paraphernalia" or simply pre-existing warrants) there was something else the squatter could be arrested for ending the tenancy issue then and there.

The bigger issue though was never squatters but meth labs and the local white trash yutes having house trashing parties.

[Verginius Rufus]

I recall a case a while back from Boulder, Colorado. Someone started using part of his neighbor’s back yard (it was a large piece of property) and the property-owner didn’t notice. The intruder then got a judge to rule that that part of the property was now his because the property-owner had not done anything to prevent his use of it. I think the judge was a friend of his.

[HamiltonJay]

Don’t know the details of the case, but the only way to do this would be adverse possession which would could happen, as I state it requires the squatter to act as the owner of the land openly usually for an extended period of time (decades in most cases) and if the rightful owner does nothing to protest it, and the squatter can prove they had indeed taken care of the property etc etc etc over that time they could be granted the property via adverse possession.

The main reason for these laws is to deal with truly abandoned properties, IE owner died with no heir or heir didn’t want and abandoned, or the owner just up and left and didn’t care about the property and truly abandoned it. The laws themselves are useful in cases where they truly apply but that is very very rare in the modern world.

[MeganC]

Thank you for the update ping!

[cynwoody]

This calls for premeditated self-defense.

[cynwoody]

Links to paperwork for nine houses may be found here.

[cradle of freedom]

This has been going on in Britain for a few years, even Margaret Thatcher’s house was ocuupied by a squatter. Others have left their homes to go to work only to return and find a stranger living in their homes. Then the homeowners have to prove that they are the real owners. It smells of marxist b@st@rds encouraging these creatures while tying the hands of the police. Don’t be surprised in the SEIU types start this nonsense over here.