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Bay Area homeowners are hiring a sword-wielding man to help them kick squatters out of empty properties: ‘The average squatter has no melee experience’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

If you were a tenant and you are getting kicked out you should have different rights like a proper eviction and a court date.

If you just broke in you should simply be removed by the cops on penalty of law if the landlord lies and you are actually a tenant who was illegally evicted.

This is what the law in liberal wa state is.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    In theory yeah, but squatters rights do exist for a purpose of keeping abandoned buildings from just decaying if you can show you've been maintaining it in the owners absence. Now I'm not saying that they're used like that now but that is their actual purpose.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I wish to God squatters would quietly drill out the locks on an old abandoned property, occupy it and slowly fix it up and just go over to whatever agency 5 years later with the documentation to show it and say "by right of labor and occupancy this house is mine."

    I just doesn't seem to be how it works in places with tolerant squatting laws. The way it seems to go is some enterprising criminals will run off some fake leases, gain entry to a home that's only temporarily unoccupied, and then when the owners come back they ask them for money to leave. And then the owners give them money, and the squatters either leave or they don't.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    It takes a long time up to 20 years in some places and it's normal if the situation is legally unclear to make a court handle it.

    At that point after a court finds the lease fabricated it is up to the law to punish people if they don't they are as much at fault as the bad guys

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    They aren't used at all anywhere for the most part because it takes up to 20 years.

    When morons say it half of them mean needing to evict someone who sets up shop illegally without a lease and half of them mean needing to go to court instead of being free to put tenants shit on the street for non-payment.

    Squatters rights also called Aversive possession have to do with neither.

    Squatters of the kind almost anyone encounters in real life don't have squatters rights at most they have the leverage provided by cops being unwilling to handle the situation. If you break into a property you don't live in you can absolutely simply be arrested. In fact WA codified in law that if you aren't a tenant and haven't been recently you can be removed on the owners say so without a formal eviction.

    Tenants who don't pay still aren't squatters and their right to a formal eviction is a tenant's right.

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