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Originally Posted by BroadHopper
House for sale and the police did not kick squatters out.
http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywe...8_danny13.html
In this case a home owner cannot remove a squatter by force. The owner left the house because of a defective boiler. She was force to live with the squatter?????
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...170128148.html
I'm just saying cases are not hard to find. There was a 20/20 article about Mexican illegals squatting in the Southwest and because of legal complications they are not evicted very easily. If need be I can dig them up. |
Right. In both of these cases, the residence had been vacant for an extended period of time.
"The 8,000-square-foot mansion was dark and in foreclosure for years."
"Heidi Peterson could not believe what was in her Detroit home when she returned after being away for a year."
In the second case, the squatter had been a former tenant who still had personal belongings at the property.
This is not the same as squatters being "allowed" to "stay in homes they took over while the homeowners were away for business (or) vacation."
The point that I'm trying to make is that people hear these "stories" about squatting (which really isn't adverse possession), many of which are lacking important details, and they get spooled up. Yes, there's a legal process to evict squatters. Yes, it often takes time. But nobody should be concerned about going on a business trip or vacation for a week and then coming home to find squatters in their house, with the local police shrugging their shoulders and saying, "sorry, you need to file a lawsuit to get your house back."
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This is all the more reason why I strongly urge to hire a caretaker to check on your seasonal property often. It is common on the Lake to find someone living in a cabin during the winter months and move out before the home owner arrives in the spring.
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What do you mean by "common"? Once or twice a season? More often than that? Really?