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I'm pretty sure nobody likes squatters lol. Your next video should be "This Video Will Make You Hate Illegal Migrants." since it seems to be a trend as of late.
@@tylerwebb2495 Yeah, I don't know why you should be expected to provide affordable housing either. That's the government's job, you are just some dude who thought that woman's comments were funny. That bit made me laugh too, but I am not buying her a house either.
My God.. Someone squatting in YOUR house is bad enough. Having them lie to police after they choked you, then putting all your animals in KILL SHELTERS while YOURE LOCKED UP over a LIE is just straight-up evil man.
I saw this comment before that section of the video and still knew who you meant, I saw him on Netflix and never forgot how much of a scumbag he was. The show was 'Worst Roommate Ever' and went into a lot of detail about just how bad things were for the people he victimized.
@@melonytoni9016 When she moved to evict him he found out and claimed she pulled a knife on him, the cops came and she was barred from entering her own home. That's when he took her animals to a kill shelter, there were two cats that survived and he refused to return them to her. Instead he brought them with him as he moved house to house.
As someone who lives around Vallejo, police don’t do anything there and citizens often have to do their own police work. I agree that this man should’ve sued the state for this incident or at least the city of Vallejo
I’m glad the Governor of Georgia just signed a new squatter bill to assure that your case is seen by a court and taken care of in less than a week now. Because this is ridiculous.
Like, I honestly don't care if it's some derelict building 20 years not in use. But it's ridiculous you can get squatter troubles with no contract from the squatters' side by just going on vacation for a month.
@@youtube-kit9450I'm baffled as to why people who respect the rule of law so much get so angry when a citizen uses the law to their advantage. Squatters never go in a home because the owner was on vacation for a week. That's what the media says, and clearly you believe the media. They go in houses that the bank owns and is doing nothing with. Then the bank sells the property with a squatter inside and you still see the bank as the innocent little angel, never did nuffin wrong to nobody
@@epstein_isnt_dead7726 That's why we have myriads of horror stories of squatters directly harrassing owners and not just owners surprised they got cheated by the bank sold them a property lived in by other people. Guess what, in that case people would cuss out banks, not squatters.
@@epstein_isnt_dead7726why not both the squatters who screw regular people over and banks who dont do sh1t to take care of the house, as well as the nonsensical law that allows people to move into peoples houses
Squatters can actually provide a somewhat valuable role if they are in a truly abandoned property and IF the squatters take care of it decently well (that's a big "if"). I had friends who did this for five years. When the true owner asked them to leave, they asked for a couple weeks to find a new place and then handed it over to him. The owner later thanked them for keeping it in good shape during the financial crisis!
See, you rarely hear about the stories where squatting works out, where someone just needs a place, the property owner doesn't care much for the property, and the squatters maintain it.
@@Blakbox92 Ehh, in the city of Amsterdam near which I live, there are actually a lot of stories of squatters taking abandoned buildings and turning them into great things! One of the coolest areas in Amsterdam-West (a part of the city I usually hate) is De Hallen, with so much stuff to do and a great cinema, and it used to be a squat.
I get it, homeless people need a place to stay so living in an abandoned property is one thing. On the other hand, if the owner of that property shows up and you refuse to leave all bets should be off
600 thousand homeless people and 15 million vacant homes in America. fucking disgusting that we’ve gotten to the point where some people make a profit off of a basic necessity of life when there are still people without shelter.
@@Morning4201 Who's going to maintain the homes for 600 thousand people? Who's gonna pay for the water & electric? The Taxpayers? At that point, you're just creating an indefinite Welfare State that'll completely bankrupt the Middle Class & create more homelessness. There are soooo many variables you're not considering. If you think it's as easy as this naive Leftist fallacy of "jUsT mOvE ThEm iNtO tHe EmPtY hOuSeS", then you're an idiot. I don't know what the best solution is, but we can start by stopping this hyper-partisan tribalist bullshit in voting for the same corrupt politicians who are causing these issues for decades.
@@Morning4201those people or people in their families busted their asses to build those homes. The overwhelming majority of homelessness in this country is related to drug use. Does it suck? Absolutely. But when is society’s debt to leeches and predators going to be “too much” for folks like you? When they move into your home (or your parents) and ruining their lives for no reason other than they made better choices???
@@Morning4201 People act like its so easy to get help and it's not. My mom had to give my sisters and I up to relatives when she was having money issues and was in danger of losing the trailer and not being able to afford her medication (mental health and newly acquired Lymes Disease) she was lucky she had family who would take us in.
No its not, educate yourself before stating something. yes the laws were inherited from uk law but the law was changed, a few years back. You can no longer squat any residential building. Other properties such as old factories etc or non residential properties have different rules.
Some of these squatters are just assholes but I also see just a lot of people who are desperate and who need help. The homeless and unemployed epidemics are absolutely insane
I was homeless but I didn’t break into other peoples property and claim it I beat the pavement and found a job there is no excuse to take what isn’t yours.
@@kthulhukifit wouldn’t take “hitting a limit” you have a right to protect you and your family. If you just sank the majority of your resources into buying a house, and someone tries to steal that from you, it falls well within your rights to defend your home, your life, and your families well being with lethal force. After all it’s YOUR home. There have been several home invaders (liberals labeled them squatters) shot and killed without the home owner facing repercussions. The biggest factor is if you have a legit government or are living under a new wave communist stronghold like cali…
@@nerdtanks1439Few states would allow you to execute someone just for being on your property, let’s be real here. You normally need to be in legit fear for your life before you can use deadly force. Your reckless macho nonsense would and has gotten people locked up for murder.
The issue is that without an eviction notice police can't remove people from a home. If they JUST broke into the home, then you can make the argument for breaking and entering, but if they've established themselves at the residence, then they have squatters' rights. At that point, it becomes civil. Of course, the time required before squatter rights kicks in varies by state.
@@Wisegorilla122 He's probably referring to the fact that people legitimately reported multiple actual crimes and threats and the police either didn't show up or did nothing to investigate them. Also a few of these stories WERE break ins and the police still did nothing.
It was a cover story for his revenge on the hygienist that repeatedly stabbed his gums and continuously insisted that he's bleeding because he doesn't floss enough
Sometimes, I do not think there is anything wrong with squatters. It just depends on the circumstances. I know of a case where an older man was squatting in an abandoned house. Both the home and the land were owned by the government and had been left unused for years. One day, the older man just moved into that home and started fixing it up the best he could. Eventually, the press found out, and people got upset because he was living there for free! That is what appeared to bother everyone: that he was living somewhere for free. The government did kick him out and bulldozed the home. Now the place is just unused land. The man could have been left there, and it would not have bothered or cost anyone a cent. No, people got upset that someone was living for free (that's why they wanted him out).
@@spookieboogi6161 well it was government land. So technically it belongs to everyone. This guy was just looking for a roof over his head but again people are getting but hurt because he was staying there for free. He wasn't costing anyone anything.
@@spookieboogi6161womp womp Yk ppl kinda have no other choice right? Shelter shud b a basic human right. I’m assuming that ur lucky enuf 2 have a home, not every1 is as lucky as u and I
Adverse possession plays an important policy role in common law-it incentivizes property owners to check if their property is or is not being used. Adverse possession in English Common Law is older than the US itself. The abhors a waste of land regardless of who is in possession of it.
@@Syclone0044because it can be an issue for everyone else, having an unmaintained house can be a refuge for criminals, be a breeding ground for pests, a magnet for vandalism, and become an eyesore. If you're not exercising any real ownership over something for years, and it's something out in the open and unguarded, then people and laws aren't going to care much if someone actually starts using what you're wasting. If you had a bicycle sitting in a public alleyway and didn't ride it for years, and someone took off with it, the cops would just shrug if someone "stole" it, because it might as well just be a free bike.
Should probably mention that in order for adverse possession to be claimed, the claimant must have been using or living on the property for many years (depending on the state)
@stevenharbinger2427 Steven, we all want afforable housing. We all know half these people probably wouldn't be arrested if they could actually get a home. But come on, you're replying to like every comment with the same thing. You sound like a bot.
My aunt had claimed a house in her name that she was squatting in. Apparently when she had first started squatting she happened to stumble upon the owner in the kitchen, but he was dead on the floor. So they barricaded the door to the kitchen and she squatted upstairs. Then some 6 to 9 months later when the body was finally recovered, my aunt decided to do her research, and thanks to her knowledge of the system, she was able to dig up all the information she could on the owner and property and took it to the courts. Shortly after she not only gained the property of the owner, but some excess land that he had owned in another state as well. It's crazy how many loopholes are in this system.
@SuperRat420 what a stupid thing to say. Without landlords, a large portion of the population wouldn't have a place to live. Home ownership is at an all time low.
@@ZazooEel57 actually without you cooking the housing market books, we would. Without paying your mortages for you, we would. We have more empty homes than homeless in this country. It's directly in part your fault. Own it, don't, don't care. No one with a functioning moral compass becomes a leechlord
@@ZazooEel57 tenants rights only go so far as your ability to pay and your ability to miss work. Since leechlords get free money and don't have a job, you can clearly see who the law is in favor of. For instance you can only legally pick two of first, last, and security here legally as a leech, but good luck as a tenant taking that to court when you don't even live there yet. Many folks are intentionally trapped because, while they may be able to comfortably move to say a $900/mo apartment and pay that, $2700 outta nowhere ain't it. This is all purposeful so leeches don't have to work labor.
Here’s a bit of a complex story but it’s relevant to the video I grew up in an old house with lots of family. The house belonged to my great grandparents and they passed it down to my mentally challenged aunt. She passed in 2020 and because she was mentally challenged she could not legally pass the house down, we had to move since it now was in nobody’s name Went to visit the old place a year ago, just to at least see the outside of the place I grew up in for 10 years. I saw someone’s face in the window and they peeked away, makes me sick that we couldn’t keep the house but some random squatter can wander about as they please
That's kind of what adverse possession is for. You just don't leave then after awhile you can file for ownership, which will be granted because nobody exists to oppose you
@@TheShitSmith unfortunately the state got involved due to some rogue family members that hate the rest of the family so it’s too late. This was years and years ago and things are already settled (as in my grandparents got a new house)
I know you explained there's outside reasons why nobody could stay, but ironically enough that's the exact reason squatters rights exist. It's just now with the prevalence of the internet and people learning they can get away with this, that the system gets abused to the point of it being useless. Sorry for you and your family's loss no matter how long ago it was.
It's impossible for a house to not be in anyone's name. In the US, land cannot be unowned. If she died, it's still in her name, and owned by her estate until the estate is probated, at which point the home will become the property of the heir (if no will) or the beneficiary (if a will).
If he paid back taxes on the property couldn't he have went about it legally to actually aquire it. Why hadn't the bank been paying the taxes, it doesn't sound like they were doing things correctly either.
Best he could have gotten was his tax money back plus interest if he had filed a lien on the property. In order to take possession (depending on the state) it has to be put up for a tax sale by the county or you have to have lived there and paid for X amount of years. I think it's at least 5 years, could be 10, but don't quote me on that.
And really bad police, that’s a huge fact in these stories. If you want any sort of accountability, going to media and exposing their incompetence seems to be the only way.
@stevenharbinger2427 1)Grow the fuck-up and stop replying to provide affordable housing. 2) Are you really naive enough to believe this happens because the government doesn't provide you with affordable housing? Are you really so beta, that YOU can't provide for yourself? The govt doesn't have to provide you with shit. They give us roads, a post office, fire Department, Some EMTs (Not all EMTs are paid by the Gov) police department, and some other things your taxes cover. That's all they need to give you. 3) Are you really STUPID enough to not understand how easy it is to not be homeless? The opportunity for housing is provided. Cash and Food stamps are provided, you can rent a fucking bedroom for less than a hundred dollars a week I get $120 in EBT cash every two weeks, along with $294 in EBT food stamps. I'm a single male, 29 years old. I run my own company, building and selling computers. The money I get from that VERY SMALL company, plus the money I get from the government, is MORE THAN ENOUGH to make sure I'm not homeless. Furthermore, renting a room like that is if you are at your absolute lowest. Homeless shelters do exist, people just have to follow rules and can't drink or show up drunk, so many homeless people don't stay in them. I lived in a shelter and worked myself up to where I am now, which is splitting a 3-bedroom apartment with a family member. All with the help of our "evil capitalist government" Why the fuck should anyone else but YOU have to provide for yourself. 4) GET A FUCKING JOB - they exist, if you actually even attempt to get a job you WILL find one, and you WILL make enough to live, not just survive, but LIVE and enjoy yourself, and go to your BLM rallies or whatever it is you guys do. But you probably haven't even looked for a job ever in your life. You are probably a young kid who hasn't lived and inkling yet, and watch how shit changes when you realize how the world really works. 5) Making comments on youtube telling people to "provide affordable housing" for you, is doing nothing. Do you really have nothing better to do, but to whine about housing? If you put that effort into getting a job, you would be able to provide housing for yourself. 6) Check yourself before you say stupid shit, because you commies can't ever argue with facts. Go watch the young turks and hyperventilate when they bring up Trump. 7) You are 100% a squatter.
Lawyer here. Adverse possession and "squatters rights" are not the same thing. Adverse possession actually makes a bit of sense. It's meant to encourage land development, discourage land waste, and prevent pseudo-feudalism. Back during westward expansion, you had land barons gobbling up tens of thousands of acres of land just to let it sit there, undeveloped. Most of em had never even been within a thousand miles of the land they owned. Homesteaders moving out there to stake their claim would find a piece of undeveloped land, with no way to know it was owned, and build a home, farm, and family there. Then, 15 years later, land baron sends someone to go inspect the land and sees the family, and the family gets evicted. This is the kind of thing it was meant for. It happens rarely today because most land *is* developed at this point. Still, it prevents someone from buying a plot and then letting it sit there for 80 years without maintaining it. Encourages big landowners to at least come by and do maintenance every once in a while.
THANK YOU. Every time Adverse Possession comes up people are always assuming it means someone who moves in for a month against your will can steal your house legally, but it requires SO MUCH TIME to Adverse Possess a house.
My father lived in Florida when he was alive, while I lived in Wisconsin only 5 miles away from his cabin in the woods. Some meth head couple moved in to our cabin without our knowledge. The bf already worked at my work and his gf was just hired at my job. I find out they took over my dads cabin and refused to leave. I called police on behalf of my dad and they did absolutely nothing. Their excuse was that my dad was not physically there even though he didn't want them there. Not only was this happening, the meth boyfriend was actively beating his gf and we saw the evidence all over her face when she showed up to work. Still with the evidence of abuse and clear drug using in our cabin it wasn't enough for police to want to help us.
Adverse possession isn't stupid it's just that people use it to excuse stupid shit. It's supposed to be for if a homeless person finds a quite obviously abandoned house(broken windows, overgrown grass, unlocked/missing doors etc, they can live it in and start fixing it up so as to one day claim it as theres and grab it from either underneath the city or the previous owner who has abandoned it. Also it usually takes years sometimes even decades for it to actually go through and for that person to take full possession of the property. I honestly think it's pretty fair. If someone over the course of many years can not only live in your property but also spend their own money to make it better than what it was without any kind of intervention I say they should get that, I mean the law was literally put into place to make use of vacant properties.
We have an affordable housing crisis in the United States. Like in my town many low income apartment buildings have been bought up and everyone was evicted. I heard that they are being turned into high priced luxury apartments.
In my city, they are buying up apartments and using them to house so called "migrants" (IE: Illegals really, since an actual migrant would obey the law to come into the country) and unsurprisingly, crime in those areas has been going up.
Don't blame America for adverse possession law. We inherited it from the English common law, and it actually made historical sense. Back in the olden days, large land owners frequently abandoned low value properties. The abandoned farm down the road could bring down property values and attract highwaymen, so laws were developed to allow someone to move into an abandoned property, and ultimately obtain ownership after living there for 21 years. And the possession had to be open, notorious and adverse (exclusive to anyone else's interest.) If you allow me to occupy your property, I can not claim adverse possession because my possession is not adverse to you. A few states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, still use the 21 year rule. A couple have raised it to 27 or 30 years, and many have reduced it to 10 years. I read California now uses a 5 year rule, which sounds insane. But I haven't really research it. Bottom line - the squatter problem really has nothing to do with real state adverse possession laws.
@@kthulhukif you will naturally only hear about negative outcomes. No one is going to go around making a big deal about a truly abandoned property that they've gotten adverse possession of
@@kthulhukif why would you fix something thats only going to be taken from your for profit from someone else? Every repair I would have done in my own home was left to rot in my rental least I increase the value and be passed on for a tennant who will now pay more, or I will be expected to pay more. Almost like when you treat people like less than adult, they start to act like it
@@samaeltheundying Adverse possession has been a thing for hundreds of years. I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it would not allow sharecroppers to claim ownership of property. The sharecroppers had the owners' permission to be on their property, so they could not claim adverse possession.
It's stories like these that make me question what the police actually DO when they're on duty supposedly earning their paychecks. They claim they're keepers of the peace but don't seem to actually care unless the case is high enough profile or a rich person's involved.
Their job is 100% to show up after the crime has already been committed and take notes of the incident and sit on the side of the road waiting for people speeding. Legit that’s 90% of their job is talking to people
If it’s Vallejo, there are only like 200 units for the entire city. So as in the case with my bestie, if you call the cops and you aren’t actively being killed, wait time is 7 hours or “just file it online or go down to the station yourself”. Truly a shithole yet sadly, it is far from the only one like that. That’s why in Vallejo, they often just chalk up obvious cases of murder to suicide then move on since they are woefully understaffed and incompetent. I wish it were not so.
Are you shitting me? When they show up and do something, y'all bitch and want them defunded!! Then bitch when they can't show up because someone stole your Amazon package of bubbles because THEY'RE UNDERFUNDED AND UNDERSTAFFED.
It's hilarious when the pigs say "thanks to some good police work we solved the murder." But the only work they did was answer the phone when someone called and ratted out the murderer.
Now that 20 years have passed since the incident, I think it might be interesting to talk about the Killdozer incident, and more importantly, why on earth a false narrative about the guy being the Protagonist became so widespread.
They spread a false narrative so it didn't hurt their egos or make them the bad guys, they LITERALLY stole his property and his entire life from under him and then wondered why he went on a rampage
Its crazy that the cops cant seem to do anything about the squatting (indicating theres a lack of enforceable law), but squatting does seem to be illegal enough to violate parole... If its an obvious parole violation, why isnt it a crime that cops can enforce outside of a parole/probation situation?
They can, in the majority of the country. It’s considered a home invasion. Try this crap in the south and you’ll be remembered fondly in the police report as a “justified shooting” 😂😂😂 This is mainly rampant in cali and other communist controlled areas.
I do junk removal and demolition for Jiffy Junk. We cleared a hoarder house, while the guy was out of state some folks broke in and started squating. Destroyed the house so much it was like we were never there. Stole all the copper pipes, And shit. On the fucking floor. Twice. Also shat in the crock pot. Hell
Hey I actually live just down the road from the cabin in the first story, I remember the 2017 video first coming out and it scaring me and my friends when we were younger. The home looks pretty different nowadays and you can tell its been taken cared of more. Much love from your fans in Mt Juliet, TN!
Adverse Possession is a pretty important law. Because it forces property owners to maintain their lots instead of hoarding land and letting it stagnate. It keeps housing in active circulation and helps make sure that big plots of land are at least properly monitored. Obviously it can be taken advantage of by some less than reputable people. But it keeps land and property owners active in maintaining their stakes. And it deters would-be market manipulators by making property buy-ups a very costly endeavor in the long term.
The first guy is obviously a piece of shit, but I'm not necessarily opposed to adverse possession. If the owner of a property isn't maintaining it or paying taxes, and someone else starts maintaining it, paying the taxes, and manages to openly live there for several years without the owner noticing, it's better for everyone if the guy that's actually willing to take care of the property owns it, and I struggle to feel sympathy for whoever (or, more realistically, whatever company) owns it, considering they couldn't even be bothered to occasionally stop by and check on the property.
Already hated squatters before this video. Stealing people's houses is not okay. Homelessness isn't a crime necessarily but stealing people's houses are
@@XxProGamerUSAxX It's not IS in this case, but ARE. You are TALKING ABOUT A PLURAL SUBJECT, therefore you use ARE, IS for subjects. ARE isn't that hard to remember.
Banks also steal properties and homes just being unhoused for years while sitting at insane prices is a crime against the poor. I'd just rather squatters not be violent assholes about the fact they're sitting on a house, most of these people are desperate or homeless though. Like would most of us honestly just sit on an unoccupied property we don't own if we didn't have to?
Quick note on adverse possession: it arose as a legal concept primarily in the era of American expansionism a couple of hundred years ago. The idea behind it was that the state would prefer to have someone farming and utilizing arable land, regardless of whether or not they’re the owner. That being said, the legal standard for adpos is pretty high, and it’s unlikely someone who’s squatting will meet it.
@@ebofthechill8008yes, back in the day you had land barons gobbling up tens of thousands of acres of wild land they've never even visited, and when a settler would come and build a homestead on it with his family (having no way to know it was owned), him and his family would get kicked off by the land owner 15 years later when the owner finally sends someone over to look at the land. Really meant to prevent shit like that, and encourage active land development.
Honestly one of the few ways squatting makes sense. If some moron is gonna own property and not care for MONTHS or even YEARS to check on it... f them. Let someone live there if they aren't damaging it or the neighborhood in general
It's a bit unrelated, but I basically consider my ex psycho flatmate to be a legal squatter. Yes she paid her room like everyone else, but after almost physically assaulting me and yelling so loud in an argument (the flat was disgusting after I came back from travelling for 2 weeks, and she couldn't take accountability), that the apartment complex thought I was assaulting a child. The landlord couldn't kick her out because in France you can't force someone to leave from December - March. So I was stuck living with an insane person who refused to leave despite the whole flat share wanting her out. These people who abuse the law and cause suffering to others are the worst.
Good luck kicking anyone out in France anyway. Once you stay for over 24h, you need court order to be kicked out. Additionally, getting mail delivered to your place is a proof of residency as you don't need to register to your address in France unlike in many other countries (which might be where the first woman got her idea from?).
@stevenharbinger2427 This is posted under every comment (so prob a bot).. but it's just too funny - randomly ordering French people to resolve USA issues, lmao
Squatting: Awful if it takes place on a person's property. A way of taking back what we are owed if it is against banks that have for closed or large companies that have come in to buy up and inflate property values.
No need. We had squatters once, called up the boys from our baseball league, grabbed five 30 packs of Miller Lite, decided we were going to do practice at OUR house.
While I also can't wrap my head around someone having committed such crimes and getting bail set, I find it more mindblowing that his brother bails him out TWICE. And at the top of my list of thing I do not understand about this part of this case is why someone who was bailed out twice decides to kill the person who bailed him out and is clearly a sucker for you to some extent.
Adverse Possession isn't unique to the US, and it isn't quite the same as squatting. You have to be openly living in the home, usually for 10+ years, and make improvements on it. It depends on the state too. Some states it is 20 years. Then you have to file to have it signed over to you. During all those years, all the owner has to do is simply realize that you are staying there, and you don't belong. All they have to do is drive by their second property once every five years to make sure a family hasn't just moved in.
Squater laws suck! I had a boyfriend living with me who was emotionally and verbally abusive to me and my son. He was disabled and didn’t bring in any money. He wasn’t on the lease but the cops couldn’t kick him out because he had lived there for so long and had mail sent to the apartment. Took me forever to finally get him out of my place.
If it's a vacant lot owned by a bank, I'm fully in support. How the hell are we supposed to afford houses as younger generations when every single house is an investment property? Obviously if it's a private owner and they're trying to live there or rent it out even just seasonally, that shouldn't be allowed but if you're not using the house, why hog it?
So… because a bank owns something, people should get it for free? Wow… the IQ just keeps dropping with every generation. This whole world is truly doomed.
When my dad passed away, his girlfriend at the time (they had been dating when I was a lot younger then got back together) refused to leave the house preventing probate and me being able to sell it and get his belongings. This lasted for like, 9 months. We eventually stopped paying the power bill and had the water shut off and she still wouldn't leave. She started selling his belongings since she didn't have a job and even sold his nice truck. She changed the locks obviously too. It was a nightmare and ended up losing close to 20k over it. She even had the audacity to tell me that she was the only woman my dad had ever loved which was bs because I am his only daughter and she wasn't my mom. She had a pattern of being a mooch her whole life and leeched off my dad for years and years prior to and after his passing. Oh and she also tried to get his pension from his job and started draining his bank account immediately as well. Truly an awful person.
We had cousins that we helped live in our house because they had family problems and the children had nowhere to go. My mom let them live with us but for only one condition. Help with chores. That's it. But 2 months later idk what happened, maybe they got too comfortable or something but they made the house look more like a pig sty, they didn't help clean and when they do it's because my mom came down the stairs to check on them. And then one day one of them stole from my mom's purse. And then rumors started circulating that we're treating them like slaves so our other relatives got mad at us on something we didn't do. My mother caught wind of all of this and rightly evicted them, they have another house that they live in on their mother's side. But I hate that they acted more like squatters than cousins. Hope they do well, but I don't want to see them again.
Were these minors? Because taking in minors *on one condition* is a shitty thing to do. You either take them in out of the goodness of your heart and help raise them, or you say you can't. You don't take in children or teens and tell them they can only stay if they help you keep your house clean. That's fucked up.
@@taylorbug9 I didn't really need to mention if they were minors or not but since you brought it up, there are four of them total and only one of them was a minor (probably an adult now) and the other three are adults maybe 20 to 24. I can safely say that we didn't force minors to become maids at our house. We just wanted them to help because I had work and had to leave my sister to take care of everything until I can get home. Can't really help with the house chores when I'm not there. They get all the privileges of owning a house and all of its amenities while we get extra help in the house. Two birds with one stone. I was wrong. P.s. There were actually five of them, they had a step brother hence why I said "children", Idk about his whereabouts.
Wayne shouldn't have ever even had charges pressed against him. Good on the jury for the not guilty verdict. If you break into someone's house its your fault if you get shot. He doesnt know the intent of the person who broke into their property. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
I really feel for the lady who died without anyone caring, the old man who had his life torn apart and the kids who have to put up with such an unstable home life. It's sad really
Lived nextdoor to a squatter that was a veteran but had mental illnesses and was always drug induced. He’d have a many disputes with his gf. Was a nightmare living next to him. He set up surveillance in front of his apt and all. Made people very uncomfortable. He also had this little dog that he’d let poop everywhere. One day a sheriff came with some guys and set all his stuff out. I was beyond happy. Squatters are such a pain.
The problem seems to be that all squatters are kinda like this; they destroy everything and cause all kinds of trouble for the neighbors, probably because of mental illness in all it's form.
Jeffrey Allen Manchester sounds like a British name you come up with if you've never been to Britain. -We need a name for this fictional British character! -Uh... Jeffrey Allen Manchester? -Perfect!
The only time squatters rights is right is if someone guy holds on in an empty house for market speculation and doesn’t sell it and is never used while some guy lives inside of it and takes care of it more than the property owner. This is called adverse possession and it’s justifiable since it’ll stop people from buying houses and not selling it which raises housing prices since there’s less houses to be sold.
Squating laws was always meant to only take effect after years, where someone finds seemingly unoccupied land and improves it, only to later find out some laid a claim to it 5 years ago, sometimes as far back as decades ago, and left. It was entirely to stop frivolous land grabs by claiming to have once held ownership. The fact that the laws now take effect after weeks, often longer than it would take to evict an illegal squater, is insane.
I love the dude that squatted in her moms squatted house to drive them out and since then started a service helping people remove squatters by squatting.
I'm not going to go back to see if we are talking about the same photo, but the house pictured in the newspaper article he showed is 100% a Las Vegas house.
7:00 It's not actually stupid if used properly. It's mainly for abandoned property. if a landlord has forgotten about it, moved away without selling it, or died without any next of kin, it's actually a really weird gray area in the law for what is to be done with that property. Eventually, the city or county will repossess it, but that can take a long time, and in the meantime the property goes unused and falls into disrepair. In this case, it's not actually very useful to anyone due to the effort and cost involved in rebuilding the property, so anyone can pretty much just claim it, and if you live there for long enough without the landlord laying claim to it and evicting you (it's some years, maybe 4) you can become the legal owner of the property. However, if the legal owner is currently trying to sell the house it doesn't really count anymore, although it seems a major oversight to knowingly have this guy living in your house and trying to sell it without evicting him first.
Squatters are one of my biggest fears as a potential future homeowner. It’s why I’m planning on moving to a state, where it allows you to defend your home, if squatters decide to take advantage.
I get that there’s a massive housing crisis and I understand why homeless people would take up residence in unused places (can’t blame them really), but to take advantage of other people’s kindness so they never have to try and at least attempt finding ways to get back on their feet? Breaking into already occupied homes and deciding “ok I live here now”? Treating the owners like dirt and even stealing from neighbors? There’s no excusing that kind of behavior. It only further harms those around them and actual homeless people who don’t act like jerks. Idk really frustrating to me and it’s only going to become more common at this rate :/
Absolutely. I will never be on the side of landlords, but it’s unacceptable that these crackheads are stealing homes from people who work hard, who have families and children, because they can’t be bothered to do anything but crack 😭 and they’re being protected by law. Unfortunately it’s just more proof of how this country hates the homeless. The government would rather shill the responsibility of providing for the unhoused onto its poorest citizens
U have to realise that some of those people are going through tough times or have had such a rough life that this is what they’ve grown to believe how to act or behave. Most of which is out of their control, theres only so much u can blame before u realise it is the fault of the system that fails these people
@stevenharbinger2427bro you’ve been in every comment saying the same thing whether or not it’s relevant… how bout YOU provide some affordable housing instead of of serial commenting nonsense.
Back in the 70s in the UK I was part of the squatters movement. We only ever moved into comdemned council properties, NEVER private owned. Got the utilities connected, paid the bills, made it nice and moved on if the property was ever reclaimed. My brother lived quietly for 12 years in a house due for demolition and was able to claim it. When he moved he just handed over to a young family. No money changed hands. This was all a political act. What we see here is a vastly different thing and the people deserve any shit that comes their way. Different times. Different motives.
This is currently happening to us right now, here in Los Angeles. They haven't paid over a year. It's really distressing how the local authorities, the county and the government allow this. Very lax laws for these thieves known as squatters.
these are bad cases of squatting but the fact I will never be able to own a home in this economy, I cant help but identify. Would I ever defile a corpse for a house? no. But please provide affordable housing.
My aunt had 3 acres in so cal with a main house and guest house. She moved out to help my grandma so she rented the main house out while me my mom and sister lived in the guest house. The renter stopped paying rent for 5 months before he was evicted - and left everything in the house including his meth. My family had to solely move all their stuff out by the sidewalk. the hole Time the renter was telling people how he was being evicted. Doing a really good sob act. Dude was a prick. And ruined the house.
Absolutely crazy. I heard about one where a guy shot at the police then killed himself because he was being evicted from his house. Kinda sad but just insane escalation
I know who you're talking about, the car salesman right? He was already mentally out of it well before then, trying to write his manifesto before shooting at the cops, crazy guy.
I don't know why squatters can't just be charged with breaking and entering. Just because you broke in to a property and have been there a period of time doesn't make you a tenant.
I was in a VA rehab for 28 days and homeless people decided to squat in my apartment. Only found out because I’m very quiet and when my downstairs neighbors heard a lot of noise and called me asking if everything was OK
Boy, do I have a squatter story for you. I dumped my ex in October and told him to move out of my apartment. He wasn't on the lease and never paid a dime towards rent or utilities despite making more than me. (We are both travel healthcare workers) I was going to be traveling to a new city for work in the coming weeks, and sure enough, he was gone. I came back to town around January, and when I got to my apartment, he had completely made himself at home! His dog was there too! He had copied the key and had been. Squatting at my place without my knowledge for 3 MONTHS! Obviously, I immediately confronted him, and he claimed squatter rights. He was an ex cop of 10 years and knew his rights. This is in Georgia, and squatters have more rights than the tenants or owners. Things got really ugly, and he threatened to destroy the place if I called the police or filed a court order. I ended up breaking my lease early and moved EVERYTHING out into a storage unit while he was gone for the day. I handed in my keys and let the complex deal with him. He made my life a living hell after that. Threatening my new relationship, stalking me, sending me really creepy veiled threats.... He still finds ways to message me and believe it or not.... he thinks he has a chance to get back with me! I wish I could attach the text convoy we had they are truly crazy!
Be scarier, and I promise it'll stop. Don't break the law, though. Shit if you have a little extra money, pay some big burly dudes to follow him around for a week
I have one story. Which is before I had gotten married to my first wife. It was nuts. Dude threatened to burn down my trailer with her in it. She was pregnant with my first child. He tried to get her to miscarry intentionally.
so many homeless people, so many empty homes - squatting in itself is morally neutral. but if you behave like a dick to neighbors, you're crossing a line.
@@Grimnir_xhome, or investment property/rental? If the owner struggles financially if squatters take over their rental, maybe they should make coffee at home and cancel their Netflix to budget better.
I work in property management and have to deal with this a lot. One day, I walk up to what is supposed to be a vacant apartment. The door is wide open, there is a man and w😅laid out on a couch in awkward position, drugs and needles laying next to them. I call 911. 911 operator asks if they’re breathing, I don’t know. Operator asks me to check for a pulse, LOL I’m not touching these mofos. Long story short, police arrive, they’re unfortunately alive. Cops didn’t arrest or even make them leave. Took 3 months to get them evicted and the place was trashed by then. Most often the police just make them leave. I successfully got 2 arrested at once, only because they had warrants. And this was after the police kicked them out of the same property literally the day before. 90% of the time the squatters run off before the police show up. I’ve learned to be sneaky and get the cops there before they realize they’re found out. The police in one particular area know me pretty well. I’ve got so many stories, I need to start a RUclips channel 😂
How desperate do you have to be to resort to killing someone in order to illegally stay where you are staying? I guess a lot of us take for granted simple things such as having a roof over our heads.
Heck yes to the Charlie LeDuff mention!! He is an AMAZING journalist. I urge anyone to check out his current stuff, he truly deserves a lot more eyes on his stuff.
"This video will make you hate Squatters" Me: Dude, I'm from Spain, the international capitol of the Squatters. They are more protected by the law here than a normal civil man.
Wow $230K for that MASSIVE house and garden?! Here in the UK, you would get a rundown one-bedroom apartment, obviously with no garden and for thrice that price. God bless America.
I know I'm going to get hate for this but I technically squatted for 3 months with my wife and kid. We were renting an apartment from this guy who seemed like a good guy during the house tour. He seemed very attentive he made sure that if he let us live in that house that he would take care of anything that we needed. A few weeks after we started living in the apartment the paint that he said he just redid started chipping revealing lead paint underneath. We did not have the means to repair it ourselves neither the money the time or the know how to properly do it. My son had severe lead poisoning and he would not do anything about it. Because he stated that there was lead paint present we couldn't do anything about it legally. However the hospital that we took our son to got the state to look into the house and almost got it condemned. At the last second he swooped in and said oh I'll make sure that gets fixed very soon which it did not. We were in a battle that we couldn't legally take into the court. We were stuck.we were trying desperately to find another house but every place that we found had led present and because of what we went through we refused to take that because there's no way that we would ever knowingly put my son through this again. I made the decision to essentially squat specifically out of spite. He started complaining about the state of the house despite the fact that we told him every time something happened every time something happens we told him and he refused to do anything about it and then when we left he sent multiple texts complaining about the state of the house. It was to the point of almost harassment. I basically told him that I don't care how he feels or what he wanted us to do because the damage that he caused my son by not doing his job as a landlord far outweighs the few hundred dollars of damage that he would have to repair that he should have repaired from day f****** one. I'm talking leaky pipes that we had nothing to do with the chipped paint that mind you was chipping because he didn't f****** do the job right. I don't care that that man lost out on 4 months rent because my son had high lead in his blood that is something that can kill a child that was as young as he was. We are lucky that we got out of there before my son died because that's where it was going and that is no exaggeration. The only way that we got him to stop harassing us and to keep him from performing legal action against us in any way was by threatening to send screenshots of our texts telling him that there were issues that he wasn't taken care of and pictures of everything of the whole house to a group chat that he had of all of his tenants that lived on that road. He knew that if we did that he wouldn't have any tenants anymore. That asshole slightly spruced up another unit that was exactly like ours that we were paying $950 for a month all he did was put fake marble countertops in and a new grill in the back and started charging 2,500 for the unit. Would you ever be okay paying rent like that that's that expensive knowing full well that the man that you're giving that money to doesn't give a s*** about you and will never ever do anything to help you despite the fact that it's literally his f****** job when it comes to the house? I used to think that people squatting was always always 100% not okay and I can understand why people might think that way but I don't think like that anymore because I know that there are some people out there that are in situations that they can do nothing about and that is their only option left.
That's far different that b/e onto a property you had no business going on I support that notion of not paying rent if your rental property isn't being maintained like landlords need to
@@littlegiantj8761 the main thing that bugged me was that wavy said "of course he was a piece of shit, he was squatting" or something along those lines. The general nature of the statement hit me as inconsiderate. Granted yes everyone in this specific video was either shitty or mentally fucked, but that's beside the point
hearing about these cases makes me me think that the US needs to remake a show we have in the UK called Nightmare Tennants Slum Landlords which often shows troublesome squatters I think it would be a surefire TV hit in the ratings.
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Great video
I'm pretty sure nobody likes squatters lol. Your next video should be "This Video Will Make You Hate Illegal Migrants." since it seems to be a trend as of late.
I love you wavy you’re the best bruh
“You’re stealing their power”
“I am… blessed”
Truly a gift 😂
@stevenharbinger2427 lol, what? What did I do?
@stevenharbinger2427 agree 👍 housing is too much.
@@tylerwebb2495 Yeah, I don't know why you should be expected to provide affordable housing either. That's the government's job, you are just some dude who thought that woman's comments were funny. That bit made me laugh too, but I am not buying her a house either.
@stevenharbinger2427 Biden's fault. MAGA 2024
@stevenharbinger2427Stealing from people is wrong 💯
My God.. Someone squatting in YOUR house is bad enough.
Having them lie to police after they choked you, then putting all your animals in KILL SHELTERS while YOURE LOCKED UP over a LIE is just straight-up evil man.
Jesus commits felonies in the lords name. lovin thy neighbor & there power supply lolz
I saw this comment before that section of the video and still knew who you meant, I saw him on Netflix and never forgot how much of a scumbag he was. The show was 'Worst Roommate Ever' and went into a lot of detail about just how bad things were for the people he victimized.
@@GirlVersusGameI was just watching that show.
@@GirlVersusGame did the pets actually die? Or did she get them back in time?
@@melonytoni9016 When she moved to evict him he found out and claimed she pulled a knife on him, the cops came and she was barred from entering her own home. That's when he took her animals to a kill shelter, there were two cats that survived and he refused to return them to her. Instead he brought them with him as he moved house to house.
“I don’t like dogs” “well we don’t like squatters but you’re still here” 😂
she got his ass with that one
I loved her comebacks 😭
She's blessed and her neighbors are cursed 😭
@@littlebighead4482 yeah I'd assume Stan Edgar was selling a course in devasting roasts
40:31 why lie? it says $392.97.. gonzo journalism to say the least brotha
“We don’t like squatters, but you’re still here” damn sis go off, good on you
Timestamp?
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@@AmberF-ly5bn 22:30 here ya go
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‘I don’t like dogs.’
‘I don’t like squatters, but you’re still here!’
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Vallejo guy should have sued the state to pay for his medical bills. Ignoring a freaking 911 call and dude gets stabbed by a sword. Smh
It's California. He's lucky he's not in jail for not dying and defending himself
As someone who lives around Vallejo, police don’t do anything there and citizens often have to do their own police work. I agree that this man should’ve sued the state for this incident or at least the city of Vallejo
@@isaacfreeman8860😂😂😂😂 painfully accurate
As someone who’s lived in vallejo for most of their life, the police do not care at all
@@ProdStzStzBig Facts.
Reporter:"You're stealing electricity" Squatter: "I'm blessed"
@stevenharbinger2427 Dude stop spamming comments!
@stevenharbinger2427 Ur probably a squatter urself 😂
@stevenharbinger2427 Tell that to the people you voted for instead of spamming on RUclips like a broken record.
@stevenharbinger2427 ok how about you get a job how about that that the first step learn to mange your money it call being an adult 101
@stevenharbinger2427 found the squatter.
I’m glad the Governor of Georgia just signed a new squatter bill to assure that your case is seen by a court and taken care of in less than a week now. Because this is ridiculous.
Like, I honestly don't care if it's some derelict building 20 years not in use.
But it's ridiculous you can get squatter troubles with no contract from the squatters' side by just going on vacation for a month.
@@youtube-kit9450I'm baffled as to why people who respect the rule of law so much get so angry when a citizen uses the law to their advantage.
Squatters never go in a home because the owner was on vacation for a week. That's what the media says, and clearly you believe the media.
They go in houses that the bank owns and is doing nothing with. Then the bank sells the property with a squatter inside and you still see the bank as the innocent little angel, never did nuffin wrong to nobody
@@epstein_isnt_dead7726 That's why we have myriads of horror stories of squatters directly harrassing owners and not just owners surprised they got cheated by the bank sold them a property lived in by other people. Guess what, in that case people would cuss out banks, not squatters.
@@epstein_isnt_dead7726why not both the squatters who screw regular people over and banks who dont do sh1t to take care of the house, as well as the nonsensical law that allows people to move into peoples houses
wish tennants had the same rights and freedom to excercise
Squatters can actually provide a somewhat valuable role if they are in a truly abandoned property and IF the squatters take care of it decently well (that's a big "if"). I had friends who did this for five years. When the true owner asked them to leave, they asked for a couple weeks to find a new place and then handed it over to him. The owner later thanked them for keeping it in good shape during the financial crisis!
See, you rarely hear about the stories where squatting works out, where someone just needs a place, the property owner doesn't care much for the property, and the squatters maintain it.
@@Blakbox92 Sadly, I suspect such cases are comparatively rare. But they exist!
@@Blakbox92 Ehh, in the city of Amsterdam near which I live, there are actually a lot of stories of squatters taking abandoned buildings and turning them into great things! One of the coolest areas in Amsterdam-West (a part of the city I usually hate) is De Hallen, with so much stuff to do and a great cinema, and it used to be a squat.
I have a real hard time feeling bad for landlords but these stories are wild
Love how the police only help when it’ll look bad if they don’t.
Common mann.. let them live there,,i my self squatted white house for quite a while..
if god gift you a free house then god may got you thee, no joke
even in cali, they never show unless it's too late 😡
@@informalnarwhals cali is a shithole
Your pretty
Only when forced to 😂
I get it, homeless people need a place to stay so living in an abandoned property is one thing. On the other hand, if the owner of that property shows up and you refuse to leave all bets should be off
Yeah just move on. Don’t be an asshole.
600 thousand homeless people and 15 million vacant homes in America.
fucking disgusting that we’ve gotten to the point where some people make a profit off of a basic necessity of life when there are still people without shelter.
@@Morning4201 Who's going to maintain the homes for 600 thousand people? Who's gonna pay for the water & electric? The Taxpayers? At that point, you're just creating an indefinite Welfare State that'll completely bankrupt the Middle Class & create more homelessness. There are soooo many variables you're not considering. If you think it's as easy as this naive Leftist fallacy of "jUsT mOvE ThEm iNtO tHe EmPtY hOuSeS", then you're an idiot.
I don't know what the best solution is, but we can start by stopping this hyper-partisan tribalist bullshit in voting for the same corrupt politicians who are causing these issues for decades.
@@Morning4201those people or people in their families busted their asses to build those homes. The overwhelming majority of homelessness in this country is related to drug use. Does it suck? Absolutely. But when is society’s debt to leeches and predators going to be “too much” for folks like you? When they move into your home (or your parents) and ruining their lives for no reason other than they made better choices???
@@Morning4201 People act like its so easy to get help and it's not. My mom had to give my sisters and I up to relatives when she was having money issues and was in danger of losing the trailer and not being able to afford her medication (mental health and newly acquired Lymes Disease) she was lucky she had family who would take us in.
When I get caught stealing I'll use the excuse "I'm blessed" 😂😂😂😂
JoEBi: You ain't Black !
I got caught stealin', once when I was 5.
I enjoy stealin', it's just as simple as that.
@@TechGorilla1987 they keep importing stealers
He said "when"... Respect for knowing it's coming I guess lol
I came here to write almost exactly this comment. That’s the craziest thing I’ve heard on the internet all day so far.
7:15 you don't have to blame America for that one. Squatters rights are inherited from British law and it is still protected in the UK
Oof 🤦♀️
I am all for adverse posession, and 100% against absentee ownership.
No its not, educate yourself before stating something. yes the laws were inherited from uk law but the law was changed, a few years back. You can no longer squat any residential building. Other properties such as old factories etc or non residential properties have different rules.
Some of these squatters are just assholes but I also see just a lot of people who are desperate and who need help. The homeless and unemployed epidemics are absolutely insane
I was homeless but I didn’t break into other peoples property and claim it I beat the pavement and found a job there is no excuse to take what isn’t yours.
I used to think the same thing until homeless stole from the store I worked at till it was shut down as a result
I cannot imagine having the courage to just roll into a house and claim it as mine. I would be shitting my pants.
Yup. I'd be terrified I hit someone's last nerve and they come back with a firearm.
Drugs tend to give a huge confidence boost
@@smolexfundie6458 Drugs, and disastrous Democrat policies that have destroyed people's property rights.
@@kthulhukifit wouldn’t take “hitting a limit” you have a right to protect you and your family. If you just sank the majority of your resources into buying a house, and someone tries to steal that from you, it falls well within your rights to defend your home, your life, and your families well being with lethal force. After all it’s YOUR home. There have been several home invaders (liberals labeled them squatters) shot and killed without the home owner facing repercussions. The biggest factor is if you have a legit government or are living under a new wave communist stronghold like cali…
@@nerdtanks1439Few states would allow you to execute someone just for being on your property, let’s be real here. You normally need to be in legit fear for your life before you can use deadly force. Your reckless macho nonsense would and has gotten people locked up for murder.
The police in this stories sound like they are made of gelatine and air.
Well from my experience the fastest way to motivate the police to do literally nothing is to call them and tell them you need their help.
The issue is that without an eviction notice police can't remove people from a home. If they JUST broke into the home, then you can make the argument for breaking and entering, but if they've established themselves at the residence, then they have squatters' rights. At that point, it becomes civil. Of course, the time required before squatter rights kicks in varies by state.
@@Wisegorilla122 He's probably referring to the fact that people legitimately reported multiple actual crimes and threats and the police either didn't show up or did nothing to investigate them.
Also a few of these stories WERE break ins and the police still did nothing.
Cops are made of bacon and vitriol.
@@Wisegorilla122 ^ this.
I love that the guy who destroyed his dental records obviously didn’t think it through that they only really look for those if YOU die
It really feels like something out of Always Sunny. In the best way possible.
It was a cover story for his revenge on the hygienist that repeatedly stabbed his gums and continuously insisted that he's bleeding because he doesn't floss enough
@stevenharbinger2427what is the correlation between affordable housing and some moron burning down a dentist office? Serious question.
@stevenharbinger2427 Silence bot
@@juniorsoto7703how do you know they are a bot? Their comment didn't make much sense but people are stupid.
Sometimes, I do not think there is anything wrong with squatters. It just depends on the circumstances. I know of a case where an older man was squatting in an abandoned house. Both the home and the land were owned by the government and had been left unused for years. One day, the older man just moved into that home and started fixing it up the best he could. Eventually, the press found out, and people got upset because he was living there for free! That is what appeared to bother everyone: that he was living somewhere for free. The government did kick him out and bulldozed the home. Now the place is just unused land. The man could have been left there, and it would not have bothered or cost anyone a cent. No, people got upset that someone was living for free (that's why they wanted him out).
No just no it’s not your property your not paying for it squatters are leeches
@@spookieboogi6161 well it was government land. So technically it belongs to everyone. This guy was just looking for a roof over his head but again people are getting but hurt because he was staying there for free. He wasn't costing anyone anything.
@@carmattvidz4426 government land paid for by tax payers not that person if he could afford to do repair he could have afforded to pay rent.
Every1 shud b able 2 live in a house 4 free
@@spookieboogi6161womp womp
Yk ppl kinda have no other choice right? Shelter shud b a basic human right. I’m assuming that ur lucky enuf 2 have a home, not every1 is as lucky as u and I
Recently here in Alabama, the government passed a law that allows the home owner (s) to do whatever they see fit to take of the squatter (s).
Adverse possession plays an important policy role in common law-it incentivizes property owners to check if their property is or is not being used. Adverse possession in English Common Law is older than the US itself. The abhors a waste of land regardless of who is in possession of it.
How is that legitimate?? What’s wrong with someone choosing to do whatever they want with THEIR land, including nothing at all?
@@Syclone0044because it can be an issue for everyone else, having an unmaintained house can be a refuge for criminals, be a breeding ground for pests, a magnet for vandalism, and become an eyesore.
If you're not exercising any real ownership over something for years, and it's something out in the open and unguarded, then people and laws aren't going to care much if someone actually starts using what you're wasting.
If you had a bicycle sitting in a public alleyway and didn't ride it for years, and someone took off with it, the cops would just shrug if someone "stole" it, because it might as well just be a free bike.
Needs to be tweaked a bit for the modern age. I get it entirely but it's often abused by bad actors
@@Syclone0044They can leave it empty, they just have to maintain it
Should probably mention that in order for adverse possession to be claimed, the claimant must have been using or living on the property for many years (depending on the state)
10:33 “Uhm my powerr isss-“
“Thats not legit.”
“-is not legit.”
“Nah yu-you’re stealing the power.”
“I ammm…. Blessed…”
@stevenharbinger2427 Steven, we all want afforable housing. We all know half these people probably wouldn't be arrested if they could actually get a home. But come on, you're replying to like every comment with the same thing. You sound like a bot.
@stevenharbinger2427 CommieBot
@stevenharbinger2427 not an excuse to steal power, you buffoon.
@@RickJamesEstatethe exact and total opposite of Liberty Prime, an incredibly incompetent, communist-loving robot.
@stevenharbinger2427 homie, I'm a leftist but you're making me become a conservative, you f**k
As someone who was homeless at one point, squatters suck!
Even I had standards back then!
Congratulations on getting out of homelessness 🎉❤
Same. I knew better.
@@johnnyblues777 yeah doing shit like that just makes people hate the homeless even more!
Kind of funny how squatters get so upset when people intrude on them... the irony is truly lost on them 😏
My aunt had claimed a house in her name that she was squatting in. Apparently when she had first started squatting she happened to stumble upon the owner in the kitchen, but he was dead on the floor. So they barricaded the door to the kitchen and she squatted upstairs. Then some 6 to 9 months later when the body was finally recovered, my aunt decided to do her research, and thanks to her knowledge of the system, she was able to dig up all the information she could on the owner and property and took it to the courts. Shortly after she not only gained the property of the owner, but some excess land that he had owned in another state as well. It's crazy how many loopholes are in this system.
Wtf so she just lived there with a dead guy lol
The unfortunate thing is that this is only going to get worse as the housing crisis gets worse and people get more desperate
Homeowners will get desperate too and deal with the squatters themselves.
sounds like a leechlord problem. You wouldn't sink so morally low as to have to worry about that, would you?
@SuperRat420 what a stupid thing to say. Without landlords, a large portion of the population wouldn't have a place to live. Home ownership is at an all time low.
@@ZazooEel57 actually without you cooking the housing market books, we would. Without paying your mortages for you, we would. We have more empty homes than homeless in this country. It's directly in part your fault. Own it, don't, don't care. No one with a functioning moral compass becomes a leechlord
@@ZazooEel57 tenants rights only go so far as your ability to pay and your ability to miss work. Since leechlords get free money and don't have a job, you can clearly see who the law is in favor of. For instance you can only legally pick two of first, last, and security here legally as a leech, but good luck as a tenant taking that to court when you don't even live there yet. Many folks are intentionally trapped because, while they may be able to comfortably move to say a $900/mo apartment and pay that, $2700 outta nowhere ain't it. This is all purposeful so leeches don't have to work labor.
Here’s a bit of a complex story but it’s relevant to the video
I grew up in an old house with lots of family. The house belonged to my great grandparents and they passed it down to my mentally challenged aunt. She passed in 2020 and because she was mentally challenged she could not legally pass the house down, we had to move since it now was in nobody’s name
Went to visit the old place a year ago, just to at least see the outside of the place I grew up in for 10 years. I saw someone’s face in the window and they peeked away, makes me sick that we couldn’t keep the house but some random squatter can wander about as they please
That's kind of what adverse possession is for. You just don't leave then after awhile you can file for ownership, which will be granted because nobody exists to oppose you
If it ever becomes empty again, take it back. What are they gonna do? Nothing.
@@TheShitSmith unfortunately the state got involved due to some rogue family members that hate the rest of the family so it’s too late. This was years and years ago and things are already settled (as in my grandparents got a new house)
I know you explained there's outside reasons why nobody could stay, but ironically enough that's the exact reason squatters rights exist. It's just now with the prevalence of the internet and people learning they can get away with this, that the system gets abused to the point of it being useless. Sorry for you and your family's loss no matter how long ago it was.
It's impossible for a house to not be in anyone's name. In the US, land cannot be unowned. If she died, it's still in her name, and owned by her estate until the estate is probated, at which point the home will become the property of the heir (if no will) or the beneficiary (if a will).
If he paid back taxes on the property couldn't he have went about it legally to actually aquire it. Why hadn't the bank been paying the taxes, it doesn't sound like they were doing things correctly either.
Best he could have gotten was his tax money back plus interest if he had filed a lien on the property. In order to take possession (depending on the state) it has to be put up for a tax sale by the county or you have to have lived there and paid for X amount of years. I think it's at least 5 years, could be 10, but don't quote me on that.
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agreed. The bank blew it big time. I don't understand why wavy feels bad for them
America sure has a lot of homeless people, a lot of empty homes, and a lot of landlords. Weird.
Americans also don't have enough money to afford houses
@@thepinapple8829 yes. none of the homes in america are actually inhabited.
And really bad police, that’s a huge fact in these stories. If you want any sort of accountability, going to media and exposing their incompetence seems to be the only way.
Yes somehow we're not able to help homeless people, but politicians are able to find money to put illegal aliens in hotel rooms.
And a lot of people excusing theft as social justice
“Crackheadery” is now in my vocabulary permanently. Thanks Wavy! ❤
That’s a new one for me. I always use Cracktivities in my area.
I've changed Thomfoolery to Thomfuckery. 😂
He always has the best Oscar Wilde-like wordplay.
Right lol.
@stevenharbinger2427 1)Grow the fuck-up and stop replying to provide affordable housing.
2) Are you really naive enough to believe this happens because the government doesn't provide you with affordable housing? Are you really so beta, that YOU can't provide for yourself? The govt doesn't have to provide you with shit. They give us roads, a post office, fire Department, Some EMTs (Not all EMTs are paid by the Gov) police department, and some other things your taxes cover. That's all they need to give you.
3) Are you really STUPID enough to not understand how easy it is to not be homeless? The opportunity for housing is provided. Cash and Food stamps are provided, you can rent a fucking bedroom for less than a hundred dollars a week I get $120 in EBT cash every two weeks, along with $294 in EBT food stamps. I'm a single male, 29 years old. I run my own company, building and selling computers. The money I get from that VERY SMALL company, plus the money I get from the government, is MORE THAN ENOUGH to make sure I'm not homeless. Furthermore, renting a room like that is if you are at your absolute lowest. Homeless shelters do exist, people just have to follow rules and can't drink or show up drunk, so many homeless people don't stay in them. I lived in a shelter and worked myself up to where I am now, which is splitting a 3-bedroom apartment with a family member. All with the help of our "evil capitalist government" Why the fuck should anyone else but YOU have to provide for yourself.
4) GET A FUCKING JOB - they exist, if you actually even attempt to get a job you WILL find one, and you WILL make enough to live, not just survive, but LIVE and enjoy yourself, and go to your BLM rallies or whatever it is you guys do. But you probably haven't even looked for a job ever in your life. You are probably a young kid who hasn't lived and inkling yet, and watch how shit changes when you realize how the world really works.
5) Making comments on youtube telling people to "provide affordable housing" for you, is doing nothing. Do you really have nothing better to do, but to whine about housing? If you put that effort into getting a job, you would be able to provide housing for yourself.
6) Check yourself before you say stupid shit, because you commies can't ever argue with facts. Go watch the young turks and hyperventilate when they bring up Trump.
7) You are 100% a squatter.
Lawyer here. Adverse possession and "squatters rights" are not the same thing. Adverse possession actually makes a bit of sense. It's meant to encourage land development, discourage land waste, and prevent pseudo-feudalism. Back during westward expansion, you had land barons gobbling up tens of thousands of acres of land just to let it sit there, undeveloped. Most of em had never even been within a thousand miles of the land they owned. Homesteaders moving out there to stake their claim would find a piece of undeveloped land, with no way to know it was owned, and build a home, farm, and family there. Then, 15 years later, land baron sends someone to go inspect the land and sees the family, and the family gets evicted. This is the kind of thing it was meant for. It happens rarely today because most land *is* developed at this point. Still, it prevents someone from buying a plot and then letting it sit there for 80 years without maintaining it. Encourages big landowners to at least come by and do maintenance every once in a while.
THANK YOU. Every time Adverse Possession comes up people are always assuming it means someone who moves in for a month against your will can steal your house legally, but it requires SO MUCH TIME to Adverse Possess a house.
My father lived in Florida when he was alive, while I lived in Wisconsin only 5 miles away from his cabin in the woods. Some meth head couple moved in to our cabin without our knowledge. The bf already worked at my work and his gf was just hired at my job. I find out they took over my dads cabin and refused to leave. I called police on behalf of my dad and they did absolutely nothing. Their excuse was that my dad was not physically there even though he didn't want them there. Not only was this happening, the meth boyfriend was actively beating his gf and we saw the evidence all over her face when she showed up to work. Still with the evidence of abuse and clear drug using in our cabin it wasn't enough for police to want to help us.
@stevenharbinger2427 yeah my bad, I forgot I was the government.
@stevenharbinger2427 Why the fuck are you saying this to some rando in RUclips comments as if we can do anything about it? Shut the fuck up
@@Krexel
He's posted that under every comment. I think bot
@@A_Ducky There's no way it's a bot. Who would make a bot to spread such an asinine statement?
@@Krexel
Ngl, it is oddly specific. I'm just thinking bot because it's being spammed under every comment (as ragebait).
Adverse possession isn't stupid it's just that people use it to excuse stupid shit. It's supposed to be for if a homeless person finds a quite obviously abandoned house(broken windows, overgrown grass, unlocked/missing doors etc, they can live it in and start fixing it up so as to one day claim it as theres and grab it from either underneath the city or the previous owner who has abandoned it. Also it usually takes years sometimes even decades for it to actually go through and for that person to take full possession of the property. I honestly think it's pretty fair. If someone over the course of many years can not only live in your property but also spend their own money to make it better than what it was without any kind of intervention I say they should get that, I mean the law was literally put into place to make use of vacant properties.
We have an affordable housing crisis in the United States.
Like in my town many low income apartment buildings have been bought up and everyone was evicted.
I heard that they are being turned into high priced luxury apartments.
In my city, they are buying up apartments and using them to house so called "migrants" (IE: Illegals really, since an actual migrant would obey the law to come into the country) and unsurprisingly, crime in those areas has been going up.
Don't blame America for adverse possession law. We inherited it from the English common law, and it actually made historical sense. Back in the olden days, large land owners frequently abandoned low value properties. The abandoned farm down the road could bring down property values and attract highwaymen, so laws were developed to allow someone to move into an abandoned property, and ultimately obtain ownership after living there for 21 years. And the possession had to be open, notorious and adverse (exclusive to anyone else's interest.) If you allow me to occupy your property, I can not claim adverse possession because my possession is not adverse to you. A few states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, still use the 21 year rule. A couple have raised it to 27 or 30 years, and many have reduced it to 10 years. I read California now uses a 5 year rule, which sounds insane. But I haven't really research it.
Bottom line - the squatter problem really has nothing to do with real state adverse possession laws.
Sadly, none of these people squat on a property and fix it up. Every single time they just destroy it.
@@kthulhukif you will naturally only hear about negative outcomes. No one is going to go around making a big deal about a truly abandoned property that they've gotten adverse possession of
@@kthulhukif why would you fix something thats only going to be taken from your for profit from someone else? Every repair I would have done in my own home was left to rot in my rental least I increase the value and be passed on for a tennant who will now pay more, or I will be expected to pay more. Almost like when you treat people like less than adult, they start to act like it
It was also done to reduce instances of share cropping in the 20s and 30s.
@@samaeltheundying Adverse possession has been a thing for hundreds of years. I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it would not allow sharecroppers to claim ownership of property. The sharecroppers had the owners' permission to be on their property, so they could not claim adverse possession.
“Burrowed into an abandoned Circuit City”… yea that checks out
It's stories like these that make me question what the police actually DO when they're on duty supposedly earning their paychecks. They claim they're keepers of the peace but don't seem to actually care unless the case is high enough profile or a rich person's involved.
Their job is 100% to show up after the crime has already been committed and take notes of the incident and sit on the side of the road waiting for people speeding. Legit that’s 90% of their job is talking to people
If it’s Vallejo, there are only like 200 units for the entire city. So as in the case with my bestie, if you call the cops and you aren’t actively being killed, wait time is 7 hours or “just file it online or go down to the station yourself”. Truly a shithole yet sadly, it is far from the only one like that. That’s why in Vallejo, they often just chalk up obvious cases of murder to suicide then move on since they are woefully understaffed and incompetent. I wish it were not so.
Are you shitting me? When they show up and do something, y'all bitch and want them defunded!! Then bitch when they can't show up because someone stole your Amazon package of bubbles because THEY'RE UNDERFUNDED AND UNDERSTAFFED.
It's hilarious when the pigs say "thanks to some good police work we solved the murder." But the only work they did was answer the phone when someone called and ratted out the murderer.
Now that 20 years have passed since the incident, I think it might be interesting to talk about the Killdozer incident, and more importantly, why on earth a false narrative about the guy being the Protagonist became so widespread.
They spread a false narrative so it didn't hurt their egos or make them the bad guys, they LITERALLY stole his property and his entire life from under him and then wondered why he went on a rampage
Its crazy that the cops cant seem to do anything about the squatting (indicating theres a lack of enforceable law), but squatting does seem to be illegal enough to violate parole...
If its an obvious parole violation, why isnt it a crime that cops can enforce outside of a parole/probation situation?
They can, in the majority of the country. It’s considered a home invasion. Try this crap in the south and you’ll be remembered fondly in the police report as a “justified shooting” 😂😂😂
This is mainly rampant in cali and other communist controlled areas.
I do junk removal and demolition for Jiffy Junk.
We cleared a hoarder house, while the guy was out of state some folks broke in and started squating.
Destroyed the house so much it was like we were never there.
Stole all the copper pipes,
And shit. On the fucking floor. Twice.
Also shat in the crock pot.
Hell
They popped a squat, while they squat!
Hey I actually live just down the road from the cabin in the first story, I remember the 2017 video first coming out and it scaring me and my friends when we were younger. The home looks pretty different nowadays and you can tell its been taken cared of more. Much love from your fans in Mt Juliet, TN!
Adverse Possession is a pretty important law. Because it forces property owners to maintain their lots instead of hoarding land and letting it stagnate. It keeps housing in active circulation and helps make sure that big plots of land are at least properly monitored.
Obviously it can be taken advantage of by some less than reputable people. But it keeps land and property owners active in maintaining their stakes. And it deters would-be market manipulators by making property buy-ups a very costly endeavor in the long term.
The first guy is obviously a piece of shit, but I'm not necessarily opposed to adverse possession. If the owner of a property isn't maintaining it or paying taxes, and someone else starts maintaining it, paying the taxes, and manages to openly live there for several years without the owner noticing, it's better for everyone if the guy that's actually willing to take care of the property owns it, and I struggle to feel sympathy for whoever (or, more realistically, whatever company) owns it, considering they couldn't even be bothered to occasionally stop by and check on the property.
Already hated squatters before this video. Stealing people's houses is not okay. Homelessness isn't a crime necessarily but stealing people's houses are
what the hell is squatters
@@XxProGamerUSAxXlook it up
@@XxProGamerUSAxX It's not IS in this case, but ARE. You are TALKING ABOUT A PLURAL SUBJECT, therefore you use ARE, IS for subjects. ARE isn't that hard to remember.
Unless they own a bunch of houses they don't actually need, then you're filling wasted space, honestly.
Banks also steal properties and homes just being unhoused for years while sitting at insane prices is a crime against the poor. I'd just rather squatters not be violent assholes about the fact they're sitting on a house, most of these people are desperate or homeless though. Like would most of us honestly just sit on an unoccupied property we don't own if we didn't have to?
Quick note on adverse possession: it arose as a legal concept primarily in the era of American expansionism a couple of hundred years ago. The idea behind it was that the state would prefer to have someone farming and utilizing arable land, regardless of whether or not they’re the owner. That being said, the legal standard for adpos is pretty high, and it’s unlikely someone who’s squatting will meet it.
I had no idea the concept went that far back. Certainly makes a lot of sense in that context.
@@ebofthechill8008yes, back in the day you had land barons gobbling up tens of thousands of acres of wild land they've never even visited, and when a settler would come and build a homestead on it with his family (having no way to know it was owned), him and his family would get kicked off by the land owner 15 years later when the owner finally sends someone over to look at the land. Really meant to prevent shit like that, and encourage active land development.
This is should is a fair system since this would stop corperation from hording land
Honestly one of the few ways squatting makes sense. If some moron is gonna own property and not care for MONTHS or even YEARS to check on it... f them. Let someone live there if they aren't damaging it or the neighborhood in general
@@ebofthechill8008it actually goes further back ti europe
It's a bit unrelated, but I basically consider my ex psycho flatmate to be a legal squatter. Yes she paid her room like everyone else, but after almost physically assaulting me and yelling so loud in an argument (the flat was disgusting after I came back from travelling for 2 weeks, and she couldn't take accountability), that the apartment complex thought I was assaulting a child. The landlord couldn't kick her out because in France you can't force someone to leave from December - March. So I was stuck living with an insane person who refused to leave despite the whole flat share wanting her out. These people who abuse the law and cause suffering to others are the worst.
Good luck kicking anyone out in France anyway. Once you stay for over 24h, you need court order to be kicked out. Additionally, getting mail delivered to your place is a proof of residency as you don't need to register to your address in France unlike in many other countries (which might be where the first woman got her idea from?).
@stevenharbinger2427 Okay, stop spamming this response underneath every comment.
@stevenharbinger2427
This is posted under every comment (so prob a bot).. but it's just too funny - randomly ordering French people to resolve USA issues, lmao
@@A_Ducky lol, right? what kind of weirdo makes a bot to do that, posting this message under every other comment?
"this isn't your property?"
"Is it yours?"
Full grown man unironically using a child's argument
Squatting: Awful if it takes place on a person's property. A way of taking back what we are owed if it is against banks that have for closed or large companies that have come in to buy up and inflate property values.
29:17 "you better lock your fucking doors" had me in stitches.
The presentation in this video was great
No need. We had squatters once, called up the boys from our baseball league, grabbed five 30 packs of Miller Lite, decided we were going to do practice at OUR house.
Hey, maybe bail shouldn't be an option in cases of violent crimes and threats. But, what do I know? I'm not a lawyer.
@stevenharbinger2427 Steven what does Firroth providing affordable housing or not have to do with being able to bail out for violent crimes?
@stevenharbinger2427 i mean i agree with you there but providing affordable housing isn't going to end violent crime?
A lawyer doesn't dictate policy
While I also can't wrap my head around someone having committed such crimes and getting bail set, I find it more mindblowing that his brother bails him out TWICE. And at the top of my list of thing I do not understand about this part of this case is why someone who was bailed out twice decides to kill the person who bailed him out and is clearly a sucker for you to some extent.
Adverse Possession isn't unique to the US, and it isn't quite the same as squatting. You have to be openly living in the home, usually for 10+ years, and make improvements on it. It depends on the state too. Some states it is 20 years. Then you have to file to have it signed over to you. During all those years, all the owner has to do is simply realize that you are staying there, and you don't belong. All they have to do is drive by their second property once every five years to make sure a family hasn't just moved in.
Squater laws suck! I had a boyfriend living with me who was emotionally and verbally abusive to me and my son. He was disabled and didn’t bring in any money. He wasn’t on the lease but the cops couldn’t kick him out because he had lived there for so long and had mail sent to the apartment. Took me forever to finally get him out of my place.
thats not related to Squatter's Laws
If it's a vacant lot owned by a bank, I'm fully in support. How the hell are we supposed to afford houses as younger generations when every single house is an investment property? Obviously if it's a private owner and they're trying to live there or rent it out even just seasonally, that shouldn't be allowed but if you're not using the house, why hog it?
So… because a bank owns something, people should get it for free? Wow… the IQ just keeps dropping with every generation. This whole world is truly doomed.
Just don't support it, man. It's a slippery slope
So the bank can screw over the people that are actually making payments? That’s not how the world works. Get a job.
When my dad passed away, his girlfriend at the time (they had been dating when I was a lot younger then got back together) refused to leave the house preventing probate and me being able to sell it and get his belongings. This lasted for like, 9 months. We eventually stopped paying the power bill and had the water shut off and she still wouldn't leave. She started selling his belongings since she didn't have a job and even sold his nice truck. She changed the locks obviously too. It was a nightmare and ended up losing close to 20k over it. She even had the audacity to tell me that she was the only woman my dad had ever loved which was bs because I am his only daughter and she wasn't my mom. She had a pattern of being a mooch her whole life and leeched off my dad for years and years prior to and after his passing. Oh and she also tried to get his pension from his job and started draining his bank account immediately as well. Truly an awful person.
Omg that sounds like an absolute nightmare, I’m so sorry you had to endure that nonsense
Make me hate them? I’ve always hated them
I was about say the same 🤣
I do too
Well, unfortunately, it's not all about you, and this video wasn't to just convince you. Jesus, a bit self-centered, aren't you David?
@@XxTaterxSnipexXyou’re such a virgin
@@XxTaterxSnipexXyou’re 100% a redditor
We had cousins that we helped live in our house because they had family problems and the children had nowhere to go. My mom let them live with us but for only one condition. Help with chores. That's it. But 2 months later idk what happened, maybe they got too comfortable or something but they made the house look more like a pig sty, they didn't help clean and when they do it's because my mom came down the stairs to check on them. And then one day one of them stole from my mom's purse. And then rumors started circulating that we're treating them like slaves so our other relatives got mad at us on something we didn't do. My mother caught wind of all of this and rightly evicted them, they have another house that they live in on their mother's side. But I hate that they acted more like squatters than cousins.
Hope they do well, but I don't want to see them again.
Were these minors? Because taking in minors *on one condition* is a shitty thing to do. You either take them in out of the goodness of your heart and help raise them, or you say you can't. You don't take in children or teens and tell them they can only stay if they help you keep your house clean. That's fucked up.
@@taylorbug9i think it’s more messed up that they were presented with a good deal but couldn’t even do the bare minimum of CLEANING AFTER YOURSELF
@@taylorbug9 I didn't really need to mention if they were minors or not but since you brought it up, there are four of them total and only one of them was a minor (probably an adult now) and the other three are adults maybe 20 to 24. I can safely say that we didn't force minors to become maids at our house. We just wanted them to help because I had work and had to leave my sister to take care of everything until I can get home. Can't really help with the house chores when I'm not there. They get all the privileges of owning a house and all of its amenities while we get extra help in the house. Two birds with one stone. I was wrong.
P.s. There were actually five of them, they had a step brother hence why I said "children", Idk about his whereabouts.
Banks are thieves and crooks.
Wayne shouldn't have ever even had charges pressed against him. Good on the jury for the not guilty verdict. If you break into someone's house its your fault if you get shot. He doesnt know the intent of the person who broke into their property. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
I really feel for the lady who died without anyone caring, the old man who had his life torn apart and the kids who have to put up with such an unstable home life. It's sad really
I love seeing you move around more and just have fun with the narration
Lived nextdoor to a squatter that was a veteran but had mental illnesses and was always drug induced. He’d have a many disputes with his gf. Was a nightmare living next to him. He set up surveillance in front of his apt and all. Made people very uncomfortable. He also had this little dog that he’d let poop everywhere. One day a sheriff came with some guys and set all his stuff out. I was beyond happy. Squatters are such a pain.
The problem seems to be that all squatters are kinda like this; they destroy everything and cause all kinds of trouble for the neighbors, probably because of mental illness in all it's form.
@kthulhukif this is what happens when asylums are all shut down. So many crazy people out there terrorizing the mass populace.
I'm totally gonna use "I am blessed" as a counter to stealing from now on lol
Jeffrey Allen Manchester sounds like a British name you come up with if you've never been to Britain.
-We need a name for this fictional British character!
-Uh... Jeffrey Allen Manchester?
-Perfect!
The only time squatters rights is right is if someone guy holds on in an empty house for market speculation and doesn’t sell it and is never used while some guy lives inside of it and takes care of it more than the property owner. This is called adverse possession and it’s justifiable since it’ll stop people from buying houses and not selling it which raises housing prices since there’s less houses to be sold.
There are so many empty houses in my area that aren't on the market. They're just getting worse every year.
Squating laws was always meant to only take effect after years, where someone finds seemingly unoccupied land and improves it, only to later find out some laid a claim to it 5 years ago, sometimes as far back as decades ago, and left. It was entirely to stop frivolous land grabs by claiming to have once held ownership.
The fact that the laws now take effect after weeks, often longer than it would take to evict an illegal squater, is insane.
"Crackheadery"
Never change lmao
The reporter roasting the people for squatting was hilarious 😂😂
Absolute worst thing you can do when dealing with squatters is getting the police involved, just deal with it yourself
I love the dude that squatted in her moms squatted house to drive them out and since then started a service helping people remove squatters by squatting.
*talks about grave squatter in Las Vegas*
*shows the absolute least Las Vegas looking stock footage of a home in the Midwest plains*
I'm not going to go back to see if we are talking about the same photo, but the house pictured in the newspaper article he showed is 100% a Las Vegas house.
@lobotomyscam1051 It's not that one. The other one is a stock photo I've seen used in other YT videos that most definitely isn't in Vegas.
Thank god Florida recently passed a law to were police can arrest squatters when called
7:00 It's not actually stupid if used properly. It's mainly for abandoned property. if a landlord has forgotten about it, moved away without selling it, or died without any next of kin, it's actually a really weird gray area in the law for what is to be done with that property. Eventually, the city or county will repossess it, but that can take a long time, and in the meantime the property goes unused and falls into disrepair. In this case, it's not actually very useful to anyone due to the effort and cost involved in rebuilding the property, so anyone can pretty much just claim it, and if you live there for long enough without the landlord laying claim to it and evicting you (it's some years, maybe 4) you can become the legal owner of the property.
However, if the legal owner is currently trying to sell the house it doesn't really count anymore, although it seems a major oversight to knowingly have this guy living in your house and trying to sell it without evicting him first.
If you aren't paying property rates, taxes or even maintaining the home, then you don't really have any right to be angry about the squatters.
Squatters are one of my biggest fears as a potential future homeowner. It’s why I’m planning on moving to a state, where it allows you to defend your home, if squatters decide to take advantage.
I get that there’s a massive housing crisis and I understand why homeless people would take up residence in unused places (can’t blame them really), but to take advantage of other people’s kindness so they never have to try and at least attempt finding ways to get back on their feet? Breaking into already occupied homes and deciding “ok I live here now”? Treating the owners like dirt and even stealing from neighbors? There’s no excusing that kind of behavior. It only further harms those around them and actual homeless people who don’t act like jerks. Idk really frustrating to me and it’s only going to become more common at this rate :/
Absolutely. I will never be on the side of landlords, but it’s unacceptable that these crackheads are stealing homes from people who work hard, who have families and children, because they can’t be bothered to do anything but crack 😭 and they’re being protected by law. Unfortunately it’s just more proof of how this country hates the homeless. The government would rather shill the responsibility of providing for the unhoused onto its poorest citizens
U have to realise that some of those people are going through tough times or have had such a rough life that this is what they’ve grown to believe how to act or behave. Most of which is out of their control, theres only so much u can blame before u realise it is the fault of the system that fails these people
@stevenharbinger2427bro you’ve been in every comment saying the same thing whether or not it’s relevant… how bout YOU provide some affordable housing instead of of serial commenting nonsense.
@stevenharbinger2427 fr like the landlords can’t be mad someone is using the house
@@lildarling1221You can’t be serious. Even if I own 50 empty homes, you have zero right to enter any of them. Period.
Back in the 70s in the UK I was part of the squatters movement. We only ever moved into comdemned council properties, NEVER private owned. Got the utilities connected, paid the bills, made it nice and moved on if the property was ever reclaimed. My brother lived quietly for 12 years in a house due for demolition and was able to claim it. When he moved he just handed over to a young family. No money changed hands. This was all a political act. What we see here is a vastly different thing and the people deserve any shit that comes their way. Different times. Different motives.
This is currently happening to us right now, here in Los Angeles. They haven't paid over a year. It's really distressing how the local authorities, the county and the government allow this. Very lax laws for these thieves known as squatters.
these are bad cases of squatting but the fact I will never be able to own a home in this economy, I cant help but identify. Would I ever defile a corpse for a house? no. But please provide affordable housing.
adverse possession is typically for abandoned property with owed taxes not bank owned homes for sale
My aunt had 3 acres in so cal with a main house and guest house. She moved out to help my grandma so she rented the main house out while me my mom and sister lived in the guest house. The renter stopped paying rent for 5 months before he was evicted - and left everything in the house including his meth. My family had to solely move all their stuff out by the sidewalk. the hole
Time the renter was telling people how he was being evicted. Doing a really good sob act. Dude was a prick. And ruined the house.
at least they left the meth to help with the moving process.
Absolutely crazy. I heard about one where a guy shot at the police then killed himself because he was being evicted from his house. Kinda sad but just insane escalation
I know who you're talking about, the car salesman right? He was already mentally out of it well before then, trying to write his manifesto before shooting at the cops, crazy guy.
Yup that would be him!
Evicted from his house or somebody else’s house he was trespassing upon?
I don't know why squatters can't just be charged with breaking and entering. Just because you broke in to a property and have been there a period of time doesn't make you a tenant.
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"I don't like dogs"
"Well we don't like squatters but you're still here"
💀 well said.
I was in a VA rehab for 28 days and homeless people decided to squat in my apartment. Only found out because I’m very quiet and when my downstairs neighbors heard a lot of noise and called me asking if everything was OK
idgaf if people squat properties owned by a BANK
It's too bad these squatters (that actually go to prison) don't squat in prison when their sentences are up.
Boy, do I have a squatter story for you. I dumped my ex in October and told him to move out of my apartment. He wasn't on the lease and never paid a dime towards rent or utilities despite making more than me. (We are both travel healthcare workers)
I was going to be traveling to a new city for work in the coming weeks, and sure enough, he was gone. I came back to town around January, and when I got to my apartment, he had completely made himself at home! His dog was there too! He had copied the key and had been. Squatting at my place without my knowledge for 3 MONTHS!
Obviously, I immediately confronted him, and he claimed squatter rights. He was an ex cop of 10 years and knew his rights. This is in Georgia, and squatters have more rights than the tenants or owners.
Things got really ugly, and he threatened to destroy the place if I called the police or filed a court order.
I ended up breaking my lease early and moved EVERYTHING out into a storage unit while he was gone for the day. I handed in my keys and let the complex deal with him.
He made my life a living hell after that. Threatening my new relationship, stalking me, sending me really creepy veiled threats....
He still finds ways to message me and believe it or not.... he thinks he has a chance to get back with me!
I wish I could attach the text convoy we had they are truly crazy!
Be scarier, and I promise it'll stop. Don't break the law, though. Shit if you have a little extra money, pay some big burly dudes to follow him around for a week
And you say this is because he's a squatter, and not because he's an ex-pig? You knew that right?
People really out here wondering why squatting is becoming an issue when we have more forever vacant houses than homeless people.
I have one story. Which is before I had gotten married to my first wife. It was nuts. Dude threatened to burn down my trailer with her in it. She was pregnant with my first child. He tried to get her to miscarry intentionally.
so many homeless people, so many empty homes - squatting in itself is morally neutral. but if you behave like a dick to neighbors, you're crossing a line.
I'd love to hear your opinion if it was your home that was essentially stolen by criminals
@@Grimnir_xmajority of squatters use uninhabited properties.
@@Grimnir_xhome, or investment property/rental?
If the owner struggles financially if squatters take over their rental, maybe they should make coffee at home and cancel their Netflix to budget better.
@@Grimnir_x bootlicker
Excellent and well thought out per usual. Love your video man they're not some 11 minute cash grab bullshit. Keep it up brotha man 🤙
I work in property management and have to deal with this a lot. One day, I walk up to what is supposed to be a vacant apartment. The door is wide open, there is a man and w😅laid out on a couch in awkward position, drugs and needles laying next to them. I call 911.
911 operator asks if they’re breathing, I don’t know. Operator asks me to check for a pulse, LOL I’m not touching these mofos. Long story short, police arrive, they’re unfortunately alive. Cops didn’t arrest or even make them leave. Took 3 months to get them evicted and the place was trashed by then.
Most often the police just make them leave. I successfully got 2 arrested at once, only because they had warrants. And this was after the police kicked them out of the same property literally the day before. 90% of the time the squatters run off before the police show up. I’ve learned to be sneaky and get the cops there before they realize they’re found out. The police in one particular area know me pretty well. I’ve got so many stories, I need to start a RUclips channel 😂
This man has such a calming voice. It really helps my anxiety.
How desperate do you have to be to resort to killing someone in order to illegally stay where you are staying? I guess a lot of us take for granted simple things such as having a roof over our heads.
Heck yes to the Charlie LeDuff mention!! He is an AMAZING journalist. I urge anyone to check out his current stuff, he truly deserves a lot more eyes on his stuff.
"This video will make you hate Squatters"
Me: Dude, I'm from Spain, the international capitol of the Squatters. They are more protected by the law here than a normal civil man.
Love how that dude just walked up and was like "You my wife now. What's for dinner?" lol
Wow $230K for that MASSIVE house and garden?! Here in the UK, you would get a rundown one-bedroom apartment, obviously with no garden and for thrice that price. God bless America.
I know I'm going to get hate for this but I technically squatted for 3 months with my wife and kid. We were renting an apartment from this guy who seemed like a good guy during the house tour. He seemed very attentive he made sure that if he let us live in that house that he would take care of anything that we needed. A few weeks after we started living in the apartment the paint that he said he just redid started chipping revealing lead paint underneath. We did not have the means to repair it ourselves neither the money the time or the know how to properly do it. My son had severe lead poisoning and he would not do anything about it. Because he stated that there was lead paint present we couldn't do anything about it legally. However the hospital that we took our son to got the state to look into the house and almost got it condemned. At the last second he swooped in and said oh I'll make sure that gets fixed very soon which it did not. We were in a battle that we couldn't legally take into the court. We were stuck.we were trying desperately to find another house but every place that we found had led present and because of what we went through we refused to take that because there's no way that we would ever knowingly put my son through this again. I made the decision to essentially squat specifically out of spite. He started complaining about the state of the house despite the fact that we told him every time something happened every time something happens we told him and he refused to do anything about it and then when we left he sent multiple texts complaining about the state of the house. It was to the point of almost harassment. I basically told him that I don't care how he feels or what he wanted us to do because the damage that he caused my son by not doing his job as a landlord far outweighs the few hundred dollars of damage that he would have to repair that he should have repaired from day f****** one. I'm talking leaky pipes that we had nothing to do with the chipped paint that mind you was chipping because he didn't f****** do the job right. I don't care that that man lost out on 4 months rent because my son had high lead in his blood that is something that can kill a child that was as young as he was. We are lucky that we got out of there before my son died because that's where it was going and that is no exaggeration. The only way that we got him to stop harassing us and to keep him from performing legal action against us in any way was by threatening to send screenshots of our texts telling him that there were issues that he wasn't taken care of and pictures of everything of the whole house to a group chat that he had of all of his tenants that lived on that road. He knew that if we did that he wouldn't have any tenants anymore. That asshole slightly spruced up another unit that was exactly like ours that we were paying $950 for a month all he did was put fake marble countertops in and a new grill in the back and started charging 2,500 for the unit. Would you ever be okay paying rent like that that's that expensive knowing full well that the man that you're giving that money to doesn't give a s*** about you and will never ever do anything to help you despite the fact that it's literally his f****** job when it comes to the house?
I used to think that people squatting was always always 100% not okay and I can understand why people might think that way but I don't think like that anymore because I know that there are some people out there that are in situations that they can do nothing about and that is their only option left.
That's far different that b/e onto a property you had no business going on
I support that notion of not paying rent if your rental property isn't being maintained like landlords need to
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@@GreatRaijin cool
@@littlegiantj8761 the main thing that bugged me was that wavy said "of course he was a piece of shit, he was squatting" or something along those lines. The general nature of the statement hit me as inconsiderate. Granted yes everyone in this specific video was either shitty or mentally fucked, but that's beside the point
hearing about these cases makes me me think that the US needs to remake a show we have in the UK called Nightmare Tennants Slum Landlords which often shows troublesome squatters I think it would be a surefire TV hit in the ratings.
As an American, I love that show. Episodes are on RUclips.