Did the soldier give power of attorney to his “friend”? Before deployment they warned us about how easily a general power of attorney can be abused.
Was his “friend” acting in his legal stead when he made the `contract’?
Anyway, extraction by bikers & guard dogs, with sheriff as witness, sounds like the best solution to a bad situation.
The friend says that while the owner was away she hired Ortiz to do work on the house.
Apparently part of the work he did was to change the locks.
Ortiz says that he had a verbal contract with the friend to live there as payment for the work he did.
The owner says he never asked to have work done.
Someone here is obviously lying.
It is clear that someone asked Ortiz to do work.
Why would the friend ask someone to do work on a home the friend did not own?
The question the reporter either failed to ask or did not get answer to was to ask the friend: "Did the owner ask you to have the work done?"
If so, the owner and the friend were really, really stupid.
The Sheriff won’t allow it.
He needs to be convinced that staying is a worse alternative to going.
If he can squat the property, so can someone else.