[[What happens when people go on vacation? How can they prevent squatters from breaking into their temporaily unoccupied homes?]]
Dep3nds I think on how long the owner is absent from the home. I think some states require squatters to be in the home more than 30 days-
I would think though that the homeowners could hire so eone to check on their home, meaning the timeliness could be expanded indefinitely, as the 30 days would keep being reset. If someone is in the home before the 30 days is up, and a neighbor checks on the home, sees them there, they cou,d call the cops and have them evicted because the squatters didn’t meet the states asinine squatters rules.
What is all this “squatter’s rights”? There is “adverse possession” which usually takes about 20 continuous years of “possession”. Someone showing up in your house while you are away is trespassing.