Video: Woman's home destroyed by squatters, belongings sold online | Vargas Reports
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2024
- Victim Terri Boyette joins NewsNations Elizabeth Vargas to discuss the damages done to her Texas home after squatters turned it into a "drug den" and sold her belongings.
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This makes absolutely NO SENSE!!! This is Breaking and Entering! They BROKE In! WTF!!! How do "Squatters" have ANY Rights? Why did SHE have to produce ID yet the Squatter did not? This Judge needs to be Disbarred and someone needs to be sued! This is INSANE!!!
all that energy to go on and on... it is. Unless you irresponsibly leave your property and neglect it, and they stay for more than 10 days. The owner has rights but she also has responsibilities. Her fault.
@TheNaturalwoman221 are ypu insane, so she can't visit her aging mother and help her, her fault. It is someone else's property it's that simple. What do you own, can we have it. I am sure there are things you have that the community needs, or do you just mooch on others
Squatters have rights because the law says they have rights. Change the law and the squatters no longer have those rights.
These are laws implemented by the lunatic Democrat party. - Nothing they EVER do makes any sense!
@@HollyFurgason It is not a law; It is something that goes back to the Homestead Act of 1862 regarding abandoned property. It's an arcane "act" that people try to use as a loop hole. The property has to Truly be abandoned. The "Squatters" also have to pay properties taxes if they want to live there. Someone cannot break into another person's house, move there things in and change the locks!
How do criminals have more rights than homeowners???
Democrats
Just as a convicted murderer in PRISON has more rights than THEIR VICTIM! Why do murderers ON DEATH ROW have the opportunity to legally fight to get off death row?? Meanwhile working tax payer dollars support that prison and their lawyer for YEARS before they are finally ended...if not die of old age IN PRISON WAITING for their own death. Just the same as a squatter having more rights than a homeowner! They don't get removed swiftly unless they murder the homeowner...THEN they removed by arrest. This world is SO BACKWARD globally. 🙄😔
You: LOSE your LIFE
Your killer: GET 10-15 years in prison.
do the Maths! This has been going on for 20+ years. You must've been in a coma or something, this whole time.. 🙄
Because the "justice system" is crafted that way. Crim crimz who know the way the merry-go-round works work the system, and when they do, with each and every pass, they come out wealthier and more powerful. Just look at Chump; he's the poster poser for the playbook on all things crooked, baby! 💪😎✌️ A literal GOD of greed, griftin', and grabbin', heheheh. Learn from the best!
With love from Russia 🇷🇺. Your u.s.a "Freedom " is working so well😂
They didn’t just squat. They stole your property so that makes it criminal.
I told a friend today I always carry but now to insure that I can get back in my home. If I can't live in my home then nobody's going to live there. It's legal in my state but that really doesn't matter to me. Don't start none if ya don't want some. USA. R"LEE
They also broke into a home which is burglary, even more serious than stealing.
Judge needs to be disbarred
He can't be disbarred for following the law. The law needs to change.
@@HollyFurgason I meant for him saying it’s the holidays don’t want to kick them out before that. What a Fing joke. If squatters were in the judges house he would think differently.
The judge can’t be “disbarred” he’s not a lawyer. Only lawyers get disbarred. 💀
@@adriananoelle4699 the majority of states require judges to have law license except in maybe probate. Judge shouldn’t be on the bench for that kind of commentary and doesn’t need a law license to fall back on. It’s careless and gross.
@@GalaxyFluke Disbarment still doesn’t apply to judges.
why dont people go to jail for this? just insane
massive debt and homelessness was caused by a worldwide epidemic --------------------------------
We have no leadership!
@@claudiabutts5301 We have an insanely corrupt leadership!
Laws favor squatters. If they're in there, it's theirs. Plain and simple.
Too many judges are not doing their jobs!
In this case, it's just the ways that laws favor the crim crimz! 💪😎✌️ It's Chump University 101 stuff, too: exploit the loopholes and get rich via robbery. It couldn't be any simpler nor more lucrative.
These judges are appointed by corrupt people
This has got to be one of the stupidest "laws"! A homeowner has no right and must go through an idiotic process to get rid of a squatter?! This need to change nation wide NOW!
All part of ruining AMERICA! A child would have better sense.
It won't.
Give us the name of judge so everyone can call him out or send squatters to his house for Christmas this year.
Yes absolutely
How can this not be a criminal offense? This is insane that country wide squatters are protected by law. Texas above all should outlaw this. So sorry for this lady. I'm retired now and afraid to travel because squatters have all the rights.
The combination of using drones and crews to case out a person's schedule and then exploit the loopholes is a K.O. punch, baby! 💪😎✌️ Boom! Instant profits. That's just how humanity rolls. Chump University 101 playbook item #1: exploit, expand, profit.
This is insane. I can’t fathom going through this. How awful for her.
This just happened with my neighbor. Old man who had dementia, just lost his wife and too nice of a heart. It killed him and in Kentucky, it's zero amount of days. If you invite someone to stay over, they can automatically claim residency. Not kidding. She took his car, wrecked it, abused him and had ppl constantly in and out. No car, no way to his cancer treatments and within a matter of months, I watched a man go from super self efficient and capable to a cowering emancipated old man that got to sit home alone, infested with bugs from her... While he waits on his car that hardly ever comes back. Police called tons of times. I eventually had to just whip the shit outta her and make her come through me after we put him in a hospice place. No way she was getting in there to take the few things he had left. Bye Felicia. It's crazy! And criminals are finding out and it's all over here. Can't even offer someone a bed for the night without having to worry that you're gonna have to evict them like what?
then you can't
How sad for this man..Thank GOD you looked after him! A person after my own heart!
I am dealing with the same issue with my father- woman moved in from El Salvador..’she is 30 my father 82- tried to marry him. I have durable power of attorney so I took his name off the deed… my father is brainwashed and withering away:( but his brain is still “in tact” so there isn’t much I can:(
Yup. Smart crim crimz take advantage of the loopholes. It's Chump University 101 stuff, first item in the playbook: exploit, expand, profit. 💪😎✌️ No consequences, no worries.
I know a woman from Ecuador, she married her employer for the documents at the end she fougth half of the house. Disgusting.
THAT JUDE WAS RIDICULOUS ‼️‼️
This is horrible!!! That is flat out breaking and entering on top of stealing!!!
Squatters' rights are the most ridiculous subset of the legal system. How can this even exist?
It never used to....
It's been around since the 1800's.
Don’t allow anyone to stay with you and use your address. In Indiana, you’ll also have to evict them!! Even if they’re using drugs in your home.
and they are free to do it again... because our stupid ass laws, you can't even go on vacation without someone squatting
Wow 8 months or more. Blame the courts who do not care. Send the squatters to the judge's house when he goes on vacation.
This woman should sue the Judge for her losses + punitive damages. The American people need to quit complying with the hired help and show them the door, preferably to GITMO, where the majority of them belong.
10-day is BS. It's trespassing.
Nope. It's ownership. That's just the way it is. Laws have loopholes, and smart crim crimz game the system for their own profit. Just like Chump! #genius #god #winning
Wow, squatters are a plague.
so was Covid where they came from, so you do not understand what a real depression looks like, WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your stock market survived but they did not. WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate when the newscaster ends the video with "we gotta go." Cutting off the guest is sooooo cringe.
I think she's being cued to cut her off so it's not her decision.
A good production team does not let this happen.
I don't believe she told them to "stop" working on the house cause "nobody is going to be there".
I don't think its ok for those people to take advantage and feel entitled to move themselves in, let alone get rid of her belongings or trash the place!
This is becoming the new norm these days. 😔
Now see, I DO believe she told them to stop working...she likely, without thinking, told them she'd be away for 3 weeks and to stop working while she was gone.....and they knew the laws well enough to know that as long as they were in there for 10 or more days, she'd be hooped and would have to go through the courts to have them evicted. They knew she'd be away and took complete advantage of it.
A good alarm system with armed response will stop the squatters from becoming squatters. Set up cameras to monitor the property as added security. My friend's been doing this with her property when it's in-between renting.
That judge should have the favor repaid to his property.
Disgusting. Sold her property.
Why is this happening in Texas?
It shouldn't not be happening ANYWHERE!
Stupid voting has consequences.
trespassing is CRIMINAL, not CIVIL
This is ridiculous!!!!!!!
This is so disturbing
shameful
I would file a lawsuit against the police department.
This squatting business, them having more rights them the actual homeowner is a bunch of BS! THE LAW NEEDS TO CHANGE!!!!!
Nightmare.
Can Ms Boyette sue the painting contractor?
This only emboldens criminals (and criminal organizations) to take over properties that don’t belong to them. Am I to understand that she was still living there in her house and someone broke in, stole her possessions and SHE was the one needing to produce proof of identity and ownership?? That is backwards!
No, that's probably her EXTRA real estate property. Most home got squatted becoz noone's been living in it for some time. Only in a few cases were they the only-property, and the owners were on vacation.
She said that she was out of town for 14 days to move her mother back to live with her. This was her primary residence. Thus, she was homeless for Christmas instead of the squatters.
I wonder how much Meth & fentanyl was found in there😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Alot
He had more rights than the Homeowner????? Never heard of such a thing!!!
WOW... "I don't want him to be homeless over the holidays"... Now that really takes the cake... For sure...
The judge would rather a "CRIMINAL" not be homeless... And just F O to the leagal home owner... Judges like that need to be "FIRED"... PERIOD... Laws need to protect the INNOCENT... Not the CRIMINAL...
DOH!!!
10 days are you serious add poor boy better have a good insurance policy cuz he's going to be buried in the desert
I love that breaking and entering is legal now in the United States. It's so f****** great to be a homeowner these days. Don't go on vacation people! Don't go out of town and take care of family members people!! You have no rights to your home when you leave it. And who goes out of town while you're having your home renovated? What? 😳 that blows my mind! When I had my home renovated I was here every day to check on the progress 👀
Texas needs Florida laws!
Oh no! That's not good 😢
Wow...only in the US
Sadly, it is happening in the u.K. as well.
@@marilynbrown5274 I am so sorry to hear that Marilyn. Are you living in the U.K.?
What is unbelievable to me is how unfazed and nonchalant some of these homeowners are about being robbed and forcefully evicted from their own homes by squatters, aka thieves. This isn't just a "crazy" situation, its an absolutely DEVASTATING situation. Most people cannot afford to pay a mortgage and rent somewhere else. They can't afford to become embroiled in the judicial nightmare necessary to fight this lawfare, nor do they have the time. It would be a total loss for most people. I find nothing remotely interesting or amusing about these scenarios but rather a sense of absolute outrage for the homeowner. The courts are facilitating theft and vandalisn. Thou shalt not steal.
You may not know but.. many people who have extra real estate properties are on WELFARE 🤣 they're afraid to be contacted by the IRS 🤣
This is why I always have family stay at my home while I'm out of town.
Lawmakers needs to be held accountable. We pay taxes to protect us. They have failed miserably!!!! This woman should sue the useless idiots that sit in government. This is breaking and entering. Let this happen to lawmakers!!! The law will change pronto!
Everybody needs to follow Florida
Unbelievable this allowed to happen.
This happened to an elderly woman I knew twenty years ago living alone in a three-bedroom house in a nice family neighborhood. A handyman who she hired for odd jobs took a room, moved in his girlfriend, and they were taking over her house like it was theirs. They were playing electric guitars and walking around naked.
She called the police, and they told the police that they were helping her, and the police listened to them and wouldn't remove them. She wound up dying from the stress, and one of the neighbors said she was happy they finally got her out so a nice family could move in. That is how single women with property are treated by the corrupt police in the USA.
I think certain people are just targeted by the police for mistreatment. It can't be a matter of you hire a neighbor to do odd jobs and suddenly he claims it is his house. The police are not enforcing burglary, breaking and entering, trespassing, and harassment laws.
wow...
This is why you always have somebody watching your home when you go out of town
Omg, so horrible!
We need to do something about this it's crazy
Poor lady
Live and learn the hard way....sad.
It’s the trashing of someone’s home, selling property… how is that not destruction of property and theft? People staying at a home is one thing. This is beyond that. I guess she can sue them in civil court.
For all of you asking why do squatters have rights, it's because the law gives them those rights. They are property rights granted by the state and not inalienable human rights.
Back in the day, when people needed land to survive, the law allowed people to settle on unworked land (meaning the landowner couldn't work it himself) and if the squatter worked the land, they could keep it. These laws are archaic and were never meant to allow people to break into homes and instantly claim rights. The laws need to change to protect the property owners.
Criminal friends of friends hide out this way. Know of a story.
Would like to know if he has criminal charges for stealing her stuff though
Terrible for home owners in America
Terrible tragedy for your own house, like being rob at gun point, you work so hard for it, just anyone took it.
This is awful!
I really thought trespassing is against the law but now it proves nothing.
I know. Online sales... donations could always be sold online, too.
Horrible…
Only in this country!!!!
And why are they becoming legit after only 10 days??? Just ridiculous!!!!
Does insurance cover that?
i dont get how its legal to break in and allowed to stay just because you were there for 10 + days
0:11 The way this white lady said trap house w her voice all high ☠️
This is called male privilege. Period. She should sue the police for violating her civil rights.
So wrong.. As soon as cops are called on squatters there should have only so many hours or a day for all parties to show up at the court house and show receipts. Witness etc. Eviction immediately.
This isn't squatters' rights either. Squatters used to take over abandoned buildings in the city, fix them up, and then would be evicted by the landlord for being SQUATTERS. Real squatters never had rights. ONLY THE THIEVES have rights.
Rule # 1 broken already…do not disclose to anyone, much less contractors who were hired to paint the house or anyone for that matter, that you will be gone from the home for an extended period of time. Scumbags will come back and rob you blind or destroy the house like what happened to this innocent homeowner 😢
No consequences means just what it states on the label. The laws favor squatters. Essentially, once they move in, they own the property. There's nothing you can do about it. Not unless you're super wealthy, powerful, influential, connected, etc.
Just crazy
The police need to make the squatters overtake the Judges, DA's and Politicians homes !! Then we will see how long it takes to get the laws changed. The appointed people are WORSE than the criminals and squatters.
Lesson: Don't tell strangers no one's home. It's ridiculous what the US has become... this is all caused by woke politicians and courts.
So insensitive the way the host ended the interview. WTF
You mean.. burglar? There are 50k names for them, anything but the truth.
Crazy
OK I understand that it’s a simple matter for what they described but what about the theft? How is the theft of civil matter? That’s my question her dryer existed and then it doesn’t exist. How is that not a crime? How is there? No charges at all for like the damage to the property like if you go into a store and break things it’s criminal. I don’t understand what’s going on here like what legal system is this that’s allowing this level of destruction. And theft.
Would have been better for them to hear BANG, BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG (Reload) BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG
Thank you Gov DeSantis for making a squatters law!
I think we are going to have to start suing the cities when this happens be cause its because of their ridiculous laws that caused this!
Why not defund the police? Plenty of cops to write tickets to people trying to get to work. Useless cops everywhere.
The police aren't the issue here, they are following the messed up laws passed by idiot politicians and given leniency by idiot judges that all have security and fences around their homes, ever notice how this doesn't happen to them or the really wealthy?
can she sued the state for that, she is a taxpayer its not?..😤😂
phew!!! English language lessions its not????
@@Applecider-Poetryphew, low.self esteem that needs to correct comments on internet.
@@Applecider-Poetry what is lessions? "Less ions" in your brain making you dumb and dumber?
It's open season on America's borders, homes, streets, shops, and wallets. Get out while you can.
a small price to pay when you live in a Self Proclaimed "the Greatest country in the world"
greatest B S .. ever...
"Only in America"
Mistake number one.... never hire anyone to go to your house while you are away. Never tell anyone you are away. Adverse posession requires a lot of paperwork. Lastly texas has a stand your ground law... perso. Is in yout home.... officer... someone intruded, i flet thfeatened..... im sorry but i had to out two holes in thr perp
Finders keepers.
My sister in law
Her fault all of America knows about the squatter ordeals. Had she of taken responsibility over her obligations as a home owner, properly secured and managed her property while she was away, she would have been able to get them out by force... within 10 days.
NO..not her fault. This asinine thing should not be period. Theft is not defendable..and those who do it are the responsible ones.
Are you deadly serious you're blaming her for being away 10 days have you never left your home for 2 days 10 days
What is the difference between breaking and entering, home invasion and squatting? They are all only equal to the first mentioned, “ breaking and entering “. What is the difference between your Credit Card being stolen, your drivers license being stolen and your property being stolen, only to be used in fraudulent use? It is called Identity Thieves, fraudulent. So why even here a reporter afraid to use the real terms of these “squatters”? As thieves, 1 identity thieves, 2 breaking and entering
WHo was the judge? Really need to know who that person is! My guess is he was elected.
It awful
Lovely
I mean if you don't follow the law, then you don't follow the law.... The law allows her 10 days to get them out, and she didn't take precautions when she was leaving her home.
Should to be a "law." It is idiotic.sweetie.
Don't ever go on vaca or help a person in another state natural woman or you may be prey to "The law" but maybe you're a squatter too that has no skills lazy and mooches off others, why would you defend this hmmm
Notice the donate button to Biden above this 😂😂😂😂
All of this squatters stories are so preventable if the homeowners had an alarm system and cameras at home
Did she fet references?
Why did the victim inform complete strangers that she would not be home for three entire weeks? I smell insurance fraud.
Most people are dumb when it comes to giving out information. Just look ans see what they post online....Then they wonder why
She hired them to fix her house, she gotta tell them when it should get done by OR she'd be back to pay them, you silly!