Crazy Squatter Story

[amity]

Um. This is the strangest story ever.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215721/Detroit-homeowner-child-forced-live-roof-squatter.html

You have to watch the video at the bottom- the live interview with the squatter/write in presidential candidate is awesome.

While this is probably the strangest story I have heard, squatter laws in general are pretty much horrifying.

[pitterwoo]

that story is so weird. It doesn't really make sense that the owner wasn't there for an entire year and had no idea this was happening.

[ellipses84]

Doesn't the lady ever leave? I wonder if the homeowner could just change the locks on her. Crazy story!

[honey987]

Squatter laws are insane. My family purchased some land in the middle of nowhere in hopes of building there when my parents retire. They didnt plan on building or doing anything to the lot for another 10 years or so. The land was 5 hours away from their hometown and they didn't visit. There was a broken down shack on the property. After some time they decided to build and found people living in this broken down shack. In the end, they ended up losing the property to the squatters. It was horrifying.

[luvmagoldn]

Honey - how did your parents lose their property? These laws make no sense to me.

Edited for spelling.

[imojoebunny]

The saddest part about this is that the woman who owns the house will have to spend thousands of dollars to get out a woman who should be in a mental hospital or jail. The owner cannot even sell the house because she cannot get clear title. Her only options are to walk away or spend $5-10K she doesn't have to get rid of the woman and her lien.

Georgia has different laws, I am glad to say. I have a friend who has 10 or 12 rentals. She had someone do this at one house after the tenants moved out. She was waiting to remodel the house before she rented it out and it was vacant for 2 or 3 months, while she got the money together to do it She came over with a contractor and found a family living there, using the stove to make dinner(hot dogs). Clothes, beds, ect. They ran out of the house and she put all the stuff on the street. Place was totally trashed.

I hope an attorney helps the owner. The other woman needs help too, but the mental health kind.

[definitelyO]

I would not be living in that house with my baby with that crazy lady there. I'd change the locks back when the woman left and put her stuff out on the street. then say that *I* was squatting there and she was trying to break in. take that.

[shortstax]

I find this all interesting and surreal. What is the justification of squatter protection? How is it different than long-term breaking and entering?

[mbcdefg]

How is that possible? Doesn't the original owner have the deed to the house to prove that it's hers?