Increased incidence of squatting in empty homes/rental homes

[Anonymous]

It’s an invasion!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13222453/moment-tiktokker-illegal-immigrants-invade-american-homes-invoke-squatter-rights.html

[Anonymous]

That guy in that video I've seen him before. He is very mad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s an invasion!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13222453/moment-tiktokker-illegal-immigrants-invade-american-homes-invoke-squatter-rights.html

This is a big reason why there's a migrant crisis at the border right now. Those who want to emigrate to the US are learning via TikTok how to claim asylum at the border or after crossing illegally onto US soil. US laws absolutely allow them to claim asylum and the laws have been this way for decades.

The difference? Previous undocumented immigrants simply did not have the knowledge about our asylum laws. They didn't have social media circulating this information giving them step-by-step instructions on what to say when they got over the border.

[Anonymous]

One of the reasons we moved from Clarendon was that either our back yard or front porch would accommodate squatters each weekend. Drunk kids from the suburbs would park in our neighborhoods, couldn't find their cars, and crash on our property. It was amusing the first time but not subsequent times after cleaning up vomit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are not breaking into your house when you go out to dinner.

If a network of people discover you will be out of time for an extended period, particularly if you don't have an alarm system, you are an appealing target. It's no different from burglaries that have taken place since forever.

Another opportunity is when elderly people pass away. A savvy caregiver has an opportunity to squat in that situation, especially if heirs are not on top of the estate.

If you own a vacation home, you have the dollars to get an alarm system, perhaps not the sense.

In this case, they killed a woman coming to clean out her deceased mother's apartment:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/two-squatters-who-took-over-nyc-home-of-woman-found-beaten-to-death-stuffed-in-duffel-bag-sought-for-murder-cops/ar-BB1kjqWo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somebody coming in when I’m out for dinner makes no sense. If I come into my house and there’s a stranger, I’m emptying my pistol’s magazine on them and asking questions later. I’ll just tell the cop I felt threatened for my life and claim self defense.

OP here. Ditto.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are confusing the 30 days. If someone comes into your house, they will lie and say they've been there for weeks/month. And in the moment it's hard to prove your word against theirs. They fake leases, rental agreements and bills. If you call the cops, it will EASILY be 30 days before the cops resolve it and by that time they're a tenant and you need to go through the courts.

This is 100% correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s an invasion!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13222453/moment-tiktokker-illegal-immigrants-invade-american-homes-invoke-squatter-rights.html

"Moreno, alleging he has friends who 'have already taken about seven homes', argued the only way for migrants to not live in the streets or be a 'public burden' is to 'seize' and 'invade' abandoned properties."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are not breaking into your house when you go out to dinner.

If a network of people discover you will be out of time for an extended period, particularly if you don't have an alarm system, you are an appealing target. It's no different from burglaries that have taken place since forever.

Another opportunity is when elderly people pass away. A savvy caregiver has an opportunity to squat in that situation, especially if heirs are not on top of the estate.

If you own a vacation home, you have the dollars to get an alarm system, perhaps not the sense.

In this case, they killed a woman coming to clean out her deceased mother's apartment:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/two-squatters-who-took-over-nyc-home-of-woman-found-beaten-to-death-stuffed-in-duffel-bag-sought-for-murder-cops/ar-BB1kjqWo

Oh my god that’s a horrible story

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are not breaking into your house when you go out to dinner.

If a network of people discover you will be out of time for an extended period, particularly if you don't have an alarm system, you are an appealing target. It's no different from burglaries that have taken place since forever.

Another opportunity is when elderly people pass away. A savvy caregiver has an opportunity to squat in that situation, especially if heirs are not on top of the estate.

If you own a vacation home, you have the dollars to get an alarm system, perhaps not the sense.

In this case, they killed a woman coming to clean out her deceased mother's apartment:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/two-squatters-who-took-over-nyc-home-of-woman-found-beaten-to-death-stuffed-in-duffel-bag-sought-for-murder-cops/ar-BB1kjqWo

That story is sad and horrific. People are unbelievably cruel and so selfish.

[Anonymous]

They're also scammers doing this in the hopes that homeowners just pay them to leave, a la "cash for keys".

Good on FL for reducing squatter rights recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're also scammers doing this in the hopes that homeowners just pay them to leave, a la "cash for keys".

Good on FL for reducing squatter rights recently.

What did they do? Any movement to do it here. In the DMV? I understand a tenant overstay could require eviction (though not sure why we make it so hard), but why can't we call a break in a break in and charge someone criminally? These stories are traumatic.

[Anonymous]

There are numerous Toc toc videos giving instructions how to do. A lot in Spanish and illegals go straight to your house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are numerous Toc toc videos giving instructions how to do. A lot in Spanish and illegals go straight to your house.

I think that was a hoax?

[Anonymous]

There are people who scam people looking for a place to rent by advertising vacant properties as their own or under their management. People who rent under those conditions don't know their landlord has no legal right to the property.