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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs law squashing squatters' rights
WPTV ^ | March 27, 2024 | Forrest Saunders

Posted on 03/29/2024 10:59:02 AM PDT by Mafe

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Squatters beware. Florida's latest law makes it easier to remove those illegally staying on private property.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 621 into law Wednesday, eliminating squatters' rights in the state.

"We are putting an end to the squatters scam in Florida," DeSantis said. "While other states are siding with the squatters, we are protecting property owners and punishing criminals looking to game the system."

DeSantis said the law provides homeowners with remedies against squatting and increases penalties for squatters.

(Excerpt) Read more at wptv.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 00000001desantis2028; 01desantis4president; breaking; caseydesantis; desantis; desantis2024; desantis2028; florida; housing; squatter; squatters
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The title of the article says it all. "Squatter's rights" 🙄
1 posted on 03/29/2024 10:59:02 AM PDT by Mafe
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To: Mafe

When I see the word Squatter it makes me think of Vietnam


2 posted on 03/29/2024 11:00:33 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mafe

What are squatter’s rights?


3 posted on 03/29/2024 11:02:16 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Good question.


4 posted on 03/29/2024 11:03:42 AM PDT by Mafe
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To: Mafe

Shouldn’t the word be quashing...?


5 posted on 03/29/2024 11:07:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Mafe
Desantis rocks, as far as I'm concerned.

I wish he hadn't gotten over his skis and ran for president. His time will come, later.

Now it's Trump's time, like it or not.

6 posted on 03/29/2024 11:08:07 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: mewzilla

Boy, they don’t make presstitutes, or editors, like they used to...


7 posted on 03/29/2024 11:08:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Lizavetta

He hasn’t secured Florida’s elections.

Or protected the state’s budget from Deep State.

DeSantis can keep waiting.


8 posted on 03/29/2024 11:09:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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“ Shouldn’t the word be quashing...?”
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Well, I do like the imagined IMAGE of SQUATTERS GETTING SQUASHED.


9 posted on 03/29/2024 11:11:41 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Mafe

DeSantis is the very best we have. Republican voters are stuck on ..... Trump.


10 posted on 03/29/2024 11:11:43 AM PDT by devere
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49 other states should be listening and following VERY fast. And New Yorkers should pummel their state legislators to enact this right the hell now. Let’s see if Kathy Hochul considers squatters to be criminals or constituents.


11 posted on 03/29/2024 11:15:40 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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I would potentially support “squatters rights” if it was very precisely and narrowly crafted law.

Basically allowing one to obtain legal title to a property that was truly and legally abandoned.

It would be a potentially powerful force in reversing urban decay and squalor.

It would require the “squatter” to make significant improvements to the property and assume and pay off any and all back taxes and liens. Not by just simple “occupying” property legally owned by others.

Corporations, realtors and other types of professional invest firms would be prohibited from using that legal device.

12 posted on 03/29/2024 11:17:21 AM PDT by sjmjax
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“squatters’ rights” caught my eye and enraged me, too.

WTH? What “rights” do squatters have other than the right to be shot dead right on the spot?


13 posted on 03/29/2024 11:17:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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As if “squatters” have “rights”.

What’s next? Rapist’s rights? Carjacker’s rights? Imbezzler’s rights?

14 posted on 03/29/2024 11:19:12 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: VideoPaul

Watch, the ACLU will oppose this as a civil right violation...


15 posted on 03/29/2024 11:20:52 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: devere

nevertrumping desantis supporters are still all infatuated with propping up desanctimonious as the best governor of florida....

ignoring the fact that while desanctus was doing his grassley 99, desantis didn’t do anything for florida because he thought he wouldn’t have to worry about florida ever again after becoming president


16 posted on 03/29/2024 11:24:08 AM PDT by backpacker_c (`)
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To: backpacker_c

I knew you show up here cuck


17 posted on 03/29/2024 11:27:43 AM PDT by Dartoid
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To: Mafe

“Don’t say squat.” law.


18 posted on 03/29/2024 11:30:52 AM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: Mafe

DeSantis made a huge mistake running for president this time around. Running when Trump was/is the ideal candidate was wrong, and we need Trump to bring us back from the Biden cliff.

I always felt he was/is the right candidate for the 2028 presidential cycle. Keep doing a great job in Florida and nobody can beat him in 2028. After the next 4 years of Trump, DeSantis can keep the presidency in republican hands for the following 8, a total of 12.


19 posted on 03/29/2024 11:32:54 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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20 posted on 03/29/2024 11:46:01 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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