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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone explain why there are “squatters rights”? Or for that matter why there should be tenant’s rights if tenants refuse to pay their rent? I don’t mean tenant’s rights with regards to protecting tenants from abuse, fraud, inhabitable conditions, etc.; I mean why are there rights when tenants simply refuse to pay their rent.[/quote]

A lot of these things have very long historical antecedents.  Imagine you’re a person in 16th century Europe and come upon an abandoned house.  So you move in and fix it up.  No one ever comes around to tell you it’s theirs and the original owner maybe died of plague or killed in battle or whatever.  That’s the concept behind eminent domain and it makes a lot of sense.

It looks to me like the blame here rests mostly on the bank which is an absentee landlord.  If the squatter is causing issues, th neighbors should threaten to sue the bank for creating a public nuisance by failing to maintain/secure th property.  [/quote]

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