Posted on 04/22/2014 11:50:44 AM PDT by ronnyquest
NEW PORT RICHEY, FL (WFLA) -
When soldier Michael Sharkey was deployed to Afghanistan two years ago, he asked a friend to watch over his New Port Richey house. Sharkey and his wife are now living in Hawaii where he is currently stationed. They plan to move back into their New Port Richey home someday. But, right now they are fighting to get their house back.
They say strangers broke in, changed the locks, moved in and they refuse to leave.
"I want the people out," said Sharkey. "They're criminals living in my house."
Sharkey was shocked to find out that the Pasco County Sheriff's Office says it can't do anything about the squatters.
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“This is crazy. You can’t just move into someone’s home and claim it.”
Apparently you can. Welcome to Obama’s Amerika.
That’s “adverse possession”, and usually you have to pay taxes on it for it to be a valid claim.
It’s also a good way to pick up a piece of property that ends up being a super fund site of similar cleanup cluster f...
These thugs are not contributing to society. Any solution that solves the problem is a good solution, particularly if it involves a shovel and being quiet in steps 2 and 3.
I thought the same thing. He looks like a pogue. I know how an Infantryman would fix this situation.
“Isn’t a verbal contract, tenant at will, which means at both the will of the tenant and the will of the owner, and if either one says “Time to move.” the tenant has to move?”
And if they don’t you have to get a court ordered eviction.
“This is not a difficult issue........”
Lets say he kicks them out. Just kicks in the door, physically tosses the couple out, then locks the door. Illegal Ortiz calls the Sheriff, the Sheriff arrests the soldier. The soldier then gets in trouble with the Army for getting into trouble with civilian authorities... even though he did nothing wrong, and it’s his house. The military is as politically correct and bureaucratic and punitive as any federal civilian agency.
You: I am not understanding this “there isn’t anything we can do about it.”
That is because it isn’t in the article.
Either way, this guy shouldn't hold his breath if he expects the local LEO’s or the courts to help him out. Roust the squatters discretely, or make them homeless and file an insurance claim.
Hmmmmm.... Something tells me that a police search of the property(outside)would would turn up a ton of “stolen” property from the neighborhood. Get a few cooperative neighbors and this would be easy. There is a 99.9% probability that these career criminals have something to hide and could not pass the scrutiny of a search warranty.
Monitor the home for when they leave. Hire a couple triaxles trucks to dump a couple loads of 4” stone to block the driveway, garage door, and every other entrance.
I would torment them relentlessly.
Ah, obama’s much-vaunted “Shovel-ready jobs.”
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.
“Sharkey was shocked to find out that the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office says it can’t do anything about the squatters.”
The authorities don’t care. Remember, all “property is theft.” If you own property, you’re bad no matter what. You have to let the ‘poor’ ‘downtrodden’ ‘oppressed’ individuals go into your house and live there rent free. Of course, you still get to pay the taxes and insurance, and the intruders can sue you if they fall and slip in the bathtub.
Two dope addicts living there? The house is probably already trashed. Removed appliances and fixtures, stripped all copper pipes to support their habit. What is left hasn’t been taken care of or kept clean.
Burn it and start over.
But in at least some parts of the country they'd get a free lawyer,namely the city/town county attorney.And maybe the County Prosecutor might even take interest in the case...on behalf of the moochers.
Sounds like our country.
Throwing someone out is not a criminal matter what the soldier in question should do is file eviction proceedings in civil court against the occupant and eventually the judge will issue a writ of possession which the sheriff will execute. The problem is that if the sheriff threw anyone and everyone out on someone’s say so then a lot of people that pissed off their landlord would be tossed out on the street. This way there is an orderly process to follow and the judge makes the call on tossing them out.
The homeowner ought to get some friends and go clean house. The guy is supposed to be a warrior, stop complaining and take care of business.
this was at the height (depth) of the Real estate crash in FL, and there were a lot of houses open for occupation for anyone who had the lack of morals to just move in and keep quiet.
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