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(America First Report)—Every now and then, I hear ideas or come across stories that I don’t want to put in writing. These usually surround information that I do not want out there because I don’t want to give anybody ideas. The article below is one of those cases; I didn’t want illegal aliens to figure out how they can further exploit one of the most ludicrous types of laws on the books in many major cities and leftist states. With Fox News covering it and other outlets picking it up, it’s time to warn Americans about a huge potential problem:...

Squatters are ruining entire neighborhoods in Atlanta and police response to evict is so slow, some homeowners have resorted to paying nuisances to leave. Brazen squatters even opened an illegal strip club on a property they had taken over — one of the 1,200 homes which has been squatted in the city, according to the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) trade group. “I’d be terrified in Atlanta to lease out one of my properties,” Matt Urbanski, who manages a local home-cleaning company, told Bloomberg. Urbanski’s company cleans out homes for corporate landlords, and in some cases has to remove squatters’...

Squatters are ruining entire neighborhoods in Atlanta and police response to evict is so slow, some homeowners have resorted to paying nuisances to leave. Brazen squatters even opened an illegal strip club on a property they had taken over — one of the 1,200 homes which has been squatted in the city according to the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) trade group. “I’d be terrified in Atlanta to lease out one of my properties,” Matt Urbanski, who manages a local home-cleaning company, told Bloomberg. Urbanski’s company cleans out homes for corporate landlords, and in some cases has to remove squatter’s...

Atlanta is battling a squatting crisis as 1,200 homes have been overtaken and landlords have to clear the unwanted residents themselves or wait months for police. The situation has become so dire that some homeowners offer to pay off squatters to get them out of their homes - rather than risk losing months of rent. One squat in the Georgia city was even being run as illegal secret strip club and had to be cleared out by an entire FBI swat team.

A dramatic police raid descended on a raucous Beverly Hills 'squatting' mansion that has been plaguing its celebrity neighborhood with nightly rave parties. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of a home invasion shortly after 3pm Friday at the $4.3 million mansion, the site of a number of out-of-control parties that began in October. Despite counting Lebron James and Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane as neighbors, police had been seemingly powerless to stop the continuing raves - until Friday's incident reportedly included several suspects armed with a knife. It appeared that one of the all-day parties was going...

House Bill 621, sponsored by Republican Florida state Rep. Kevin Steele, was put forward in response to Jacksonville resident Patti Peeples, who made national headlines earlier this year when several squatters moved into her Jacksonville property and caused nearly $40,000 in damages. Peeples first discovered that two female squatters broke into a rental property she owned after she sent a handyman to make repairs in anticipation of a home inspection after she showed an interested buyer the home 48 hours before.

A “shrewd and devious” Long Island couple failed to pay their mortgage for at least 14 years, dragged out their foreclosure for more than a decade, and refused to leave after a new family bought the house from the bank, court records show. To make matters worse, one of the alleged interlopers was caught on video telling the legal owner to “go back to Pakistan.” The frustrated owners of the Jericho home claim they’ve shelled out $85,000 and counting to keep up with taxes, mortgage payments, and other bills, while alleged squatters Barry J. Pollack and his wife, Barbara, live...

A new government report detailed the dire living conditions some military members face in their barracks across the country, highlighting a problem military leaders have so far struggled to fix. A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that young troops living in barracks on military installations have been forced to confront everything from pests such as roaches and bed bugs to toxic waste and even squatters, potentially putting the health and safety of members at risk while damaging morale. The 118-page report, which was published Monday by the GAO, concluded that military leaders at the Pentagon have not...

This story started all the way back in February. A homeowner in DeKalb County, Georgia had been leasing his house to a tenant who had just moved out. A few days later he stopped by to check the condition of the property but when he pulled into the driveway he found someone else had already moved in.Tim Arko said just days after his tenants moved out of his East Lake rental home, he showed up to find someone had broken in.He said as soon as he pulled into the driveway, someone pointed a gun at him.“I just jumped the fence...

After squatters took over his mother's home, one handyman took the law into his own hands and uncovered a clever way to force them out. United Handyman Association founder Flash Shelton became the squatter himself. "I dissected the laws over a weekend. I basically figured out that until there's civil action, the squatters didn't have any rights. So if I could switch places with them, become the squatter myself, I would assume those squatter rights," Shelton said Thursday on "Varney & Co." After his father died, the family was trying to sell the home but learned squatters had taken over...

* 10 vacant homes in Jeanette, PA, have been deemed public nuisances * Officials want to use funds from the American Rescue Plan to demolish them ********************************************************** Vacant homes in Pennsylvania have been turned into drug dens by squatters who have even set indoor campfires to cook their meals. State officials are ringing the alarm as they hope to demolish 10 empty homes that have been overtaken in the town of Jeanette, about 30 miles from Pittsburgh. The 10 homes were declared public nuisances earlier this month; they all have had years of code violations property maintenance issues. In one...

HOLLYWOOD HILLS, Calif. (KCBS/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - A multimillion-dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills was vandalized Thursday by what police said was a group of squatters. Los Angeles Police Department officers were called to the mansion Thursday afternoon after receiving a report of a screaming woman and when they arrived, they discovered squatters at the residence. According to the New York Post, the squatters filled the property with garbage, feces and graffiti, one message of which allegedly read, “f–k rich people.” Officers could not make any arrests because police were not able to locate the owner of the property and no...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- Jim Johnson and his wife, Lark, knew something was amiss when a family moved into their Texas cul-de-sac seemingly overnight last week. "When they show up and immediately rip down the sign of the leasing company or owner company, it's like, that raises a concern," Jim Johnson, who, like most of his neighbors, is an original owner of his home for more than 20 years, said. "And the next move is a locksmith shows up, and that's a concern." The Johnsons and their neighbors are tight-knit. They knew the management company of the rental home in...

Ten squatters have been removed after illegally taking over a $1million home in Florida, leaving it damaged and infested with bugs. The ringleader, Tyrone Jones, was also accused of creating a fake identity to become an executor of the property in Fort Lauderdale – and has allegedly carried out 14 similar crimes and fraudulently acquired properties worth more than $12 million. Broward County Sheriff’s Office removed seven men, two women and a child last Tuesday from the stolen home. The locks were changed to stop them returning. The $1million home on Seabreeze Boulevard had its walls, windows, and flooring completely...

A homeowner stopped by to check on his suburban Atlanta property — only to be arrested for trespassing. Days after the departure of a previous tenant, Tim Arko pulled into the driveway of his house in desirable Decatur, where he suddenly encountered a stranger waving a gun in his face. “I just jumped the fence and ran. I didn’t know what else to do,” Arko told local channel WSB-TV. “I didn’t walk in on a family eating dinner. I walked in on weapons, a prostitute, a bunch of dogs in the back, my fence broken down,” he told a reporter....

The scenes of asylum-seekers living on the streets of New York City are without parallel in America since the Great Depression. The migrant crisis in New York City is nearing a breaking point with shelters at capacity and asylum seekers now being forced to sleep on the street. pic.twitter.com/DHNUCKnMyU— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 2, 2023'Migrant crisis in New York City worsens as asylum seekers are forced to sleep on sidewalks.' From @CBSNews: https://t.co/YNOBVgs3uB— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 3, 2023Thousands of people who crossed the border have come to New York looking for the city to fulfill its promise of...

There have been a lot of stories in the news lately around squatters moving into vacant homes and refusing to leave. These stories show, time and again, that the police refuse to take action and instead say it’s a civil matter. So why aren’t these “trespassers” arrested? Is trespassing still against the law? Per ipropertymanagement, a squatter in California, “is someone who takes up residence in an abandoned, unoccupied or foreclosed building or area of land...without lawful permission…Despite this, it’s common and legal to squat in the United States.” Unlike trespassing, per the law, “While trespassing is a criminal offense,...

Dozens of Portland firefighters battled a blaze at a former tavern that neighbors say had been taken over by squatters for more than a year. "It was clearly a time bomb waiting to go off, and our concerns fell through the cracks," Dusty McCord, who lives near the former Farmer's Barn Tavern, told The Oregonian. "The level of negligence is breathtaking."

Florida retiree says lesbian squatters with '15' pit bulls trashed rental property she owns to tune of $38,000 after lying to cops they'd paid deposit and showing fake receipt Patti Peeples and her co-owner Dawn Tiura discovered they had two people illegally living in their Jacksonville rental home more than 40 days ago A Florida retiree said lesbian squatters, who own up to 15 pit bulls, caused $38,000 worth of damages at her rental property after lying to police saying they paid a deposit and had been scammed by the landlord. Patti Peeples and her co-owner Dawn Tiura discovered they...

A Las Vegas man is calling for squatters rights to be updated after several squatters moved into his mother’s California home. Flash Shelton, founder of the United Handyman Association, said he was staked outside of his mother's home waiting to see when the squatters would leave before taking action. Shelton explained that as soon as he saw the squatters pull out of the driveway, he entered the residence and began installing security cameras. He told the two women who returned to get their stuff out of the home or he would take it out himself.