In An Officer And A Gentleman, Gossett said "Oklahoma".
Posted on 04/04/2024 5:09:06 PM PDT by algore
An outraged Texas couple is pleading with lawmakers as their contractor turned squatter refuses to leave their property.
Yudith Matthews and Abram Mendez said they hired a contractor to complete tile work for their fixer-upper San Antonio property.
But after they fired him for not completing the work, the contractor refused to leave and is now reportedly living in the house.
The couple even filmed the unwanted guest climbing through their window despite being asked to leave.
'We don't have any protection. There's legislators that are out there, who are making headway, but we need more headway across America to protect us, the homeowners
The couple tried calling law enforcement to remove him from the property, but they said police refuse to get involved.
'It's really a gimmick, I think, for the municipalities across America to make money.'
The contractor originally asked the couple if he could stay on the property while he was completing the work because he had gout.
They agreed, drew up a contract, and Mendez filmed the squatter signing the paperwork.
But the squatter allegedly stole the phone with the footage and deleted the video evidence.
The job was only supposed to take a few weeks to complete, but the contractor kept delaying the job or making excuses as to why he couldn't work.
After the couple fired him, he still refused to leave.
'He must be homeless. He never, never even worked in the restroom,' Mendez said.
'The first few days, he was complaining of his gout. Then after I was trying to get a work schedule from him, he would just give me runarounds.'
'Little by little showing that… it was a room. It was the house that he wanted all along,' he continued. 'With our trust he abused us.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
SSS
“The couple even filmed the unwanted guest climbing through their window despite being asked to leave.”
What are they doing, filming him instead of beating him with a baseball bat?
Is Texas not a castle doctrine state?
I think if you call the cops to do something about the corpse hanging out of your window they be able to do something.
Lou Gossett?
When someone comes through any door or window of your private home you immediately end them.
Call the police. After the call to the police, contact your lawyer. Do not say anything to the police without your lawyer present.
Always!!
Probably because they didn't want to give the equity of their home to the high-priced contractor. I had plenty of properly licensed contractors give me quotes for renovating this 100-year-old, 8-bedroom house, and had I gone with them then all the resale profits would have gone to them.
And the few native Americans I did hire would disappear for months on end.
Thank gosh for the Mexican-Americans that came to my rescue. Their work, and their work-ethic, is top notch. This place is now good for another 100 years, and I haven't been driven into the poor house.
GMTA. Whenever I see an article about Texas, I know if it involves those three cities it won’t have a happy ending. By that I mean the crooks with extra holes in them and pats on the back for the homeowner like everywhere else in Texas.
Do you even know what a steer is? It’s a castrated male. So in humans that would kind-of be called a transgender.
So, unfortunately there are more human steers than ever. Among cattle, steers are more cooperative and less aggressive than bulls.
Oh and in some ways I agree, I never thought the double-backboned champion of freedom we were waiting for would be from New York. While Texas produced the Bushes.
SSS!
One pew pew and that problem is solved.
Five hundred bucks and a baseball bat. Get real, this is Texas. A bottle of cheap bourbon and a baseball bat. If it’s a Saturday night and they’re already likkered up you’ll probably only need a baseball bat.
My take would have been, “Mr. Squatter, meet Mr .44, an’ don’t you think of comin’ back.
And foolishly signed a contract with him allowing him to stay, and said they trusted him.
Idiots.
And the police are lying.
Any home invader can be removed.
Once the couple got the law involved, they lost. Squatters have more rights than homeowners.
One gentleman found a clever way to battle this. One partner should draw up a lease for the other partner and then proceed to occupy the house. Eat the squatter’s food, play loud music when he sleeps, be as obnoxious as possible.
The squatter has no skin in the game at that point. The police cannot help him. He will leave to his next mark.
EC
Sounded like a Full Metal Jacket reference to me.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.