Posted on 04/17/2024 12:17:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Every time I have a rented a property, paperwork was involved. It seems to me the government could require that. Not only that, they could pass a law that a tenant is not allowed to change the locks on a property they are renting.
Here is the really stupid thing. The owner could get someone to break into the house and act as a squatter. Then change the locks so the owner could get back in.
Some people think keeping things more casual won’t ever turn around and bite them in the split. I don’t know for sure but there probably are laws on the books already about who is allowed to change the locks of a residence.
“Do they simply gain these rights against a land owner because they assert they have a rental or other arrangement and that has to be disproved? “
No. In fact that would work against a claim of adverse possession. The key word being adverse. Asserting you are occupying the property with the owner’s consent means that the occupation is not adverse under that law. What you have in that situation is good old, down home fraud.
I actually read a story where the owner basically did just that. Got his mom to write a lease to him, and then moved in when the squatter left.
So by what means did these people from Texas just move their travel trailer on the guy’s place and he had to let them alone? Why did the sheriff threaten him and not them?
It’s a good thing that Florida passed that law rejecting squatting. There are so many snowbirds who own homes in Florida which they leave unoccupied for four to six months every year
It would be very interesting to see a list of the states that are tolerant of squatters taking over someone else’s property. I wonder if there is a correlation between how leftist the voting population is in that state with how lenient they are on what should be illegal behavior
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