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[quote=Anonymous]I lived next to a house with a story like this back in grad school. The circumstances are often quite complicated. In that case, the woman had lived there for many years and claimed (rightly or wrongly I do not know) that they had been told that they would inherit the property. Unlike in this case, the owner was no longer living, and did not leave a will, so the property dispute was as to whether the current occupant was the rightful inheritor of the property or if the owner's adult children were. The resident was certainly not what I would think of as a scammer; she was illiterate, had a mental disability, and did some things that made her an annoying neighbor, but she was very kind. As best I could tell, she didn't even want to live in the property anymore, and was trying to leave the area, but if she ceased to occupy the house she worried that it would damage her legal case to own and thus get the proceeds from selling the property. Last I heard, she had left for awhile and the property went up for sale, but then she mysteriously reappeared living there one day.

In this case, it does sound like the power of attorney gives a lot more leverage to the adult children of the owner. It's certainly very likely that the existing squatter is a deliberate scammer, but I would not assume that it's the only possibility. I also wouldn't assume that it will be a straightforward eviction case for the person who buys the property.[/quote]

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