Topic: What would you do?

[Libertas]

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014/07/22/man-arrives-to-find-family-living-in-his-home/

Obviously it appears the squaters were scammed but really they don't appear to be too damned concerned the legitimate occupant of that home is locked out and denied used of his home or the use of his personal belongings...so...

Get a bunch of buddies together, call the cops and tell them I reclaiming what is mine and you can either help or get the frick out of the way (I have successfully used a similar tactic in the past, sans buddies) and take care of business.

[Weisshaupt]

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014/07/22/man-arrives-to-find-family-living-in-his-home/

Obviously it appears the squaters were scammed but really they don't appear to be too damned concerned the legitimate occupant of that home is locked out and denied used of his home or the use of his personal belongings...so...

Get a bunch of buddies together, call the cops and tell them I reclaiming what is mine and you can either help or get the frick out of the way (I have successfully used a similar tactic in the past, sans buddies) and take care of business.

If you have a lease agreement for the property - regardless of its being sold, for sale, etc,  You have legal rights.
This should be a simple matter of calling the cops and having them evicted. Your legal lease should have the name of the owner as filed with the county.  The bogus lease won't have that, and even if it did yours would predate theirs.

In any case, if the cops refused to do it, then yes, you go over there, bust your way in and start taking your things, and Kill the mother f**kers if they try to stop you.  You think you rented the house huh?  Fine. You didn't rent my stuff. Don't like it? here is my new address, and I will see you in court.
 

[BigAlSouth]

The quick legal means to evict is summary ejectment IF you have a lease, oral or written. God corbid, if they are truly squatters, your remedies will take months. (Non-judicial remedies, much less.

[richb]

Generally police are useless when it comes to squatters.   Its a civil matter,  so they won't do anything.   Never figured why general trespassing laws cannot be used against those people.   But they can't when someone manages to set up housekeeping.   

As long as the "lease" or lack of lease is there and the landowner wants someone gone it should be,  but the law today doesn't see it that way.

Laws favor tenants over landlords just about everywhere today,  even if they are illegally there.   You as the landlord would get arrested if you do something like cut utilities or do other things to "encourage" leaving.   

Oh,  guess what.   Good luck selling a property with a squatter in it.   The title won't clear due to that problem.........and you would need the dumbest buyer on the planet too.

[AlanS]

Laws favor tenants over landlords just about everywhere today,  even if they are illegally there.   You as the landlord would get arrested if you do something like cut utilities or do other things to "encourage" leaving.

As f*&^ed up as that is, it's a true story. A property owner has little rights on his own property. Just one of many reasons the wife and I haven't jumped on the rental bandwagon.

[Weisshaupt]

Laws favor tenants over landlords just about everywhere today,  even if they are illegally there.   You as the landlord would get arrested if you do something like cut utilities or do other things to "encourage" leaving.

As f*&^ed up as that is, it's a true story. A property owner has little rights on his own property. Just one of many reasons the wife and I haven't jumped on the rental bandwagon.

My Stepdad rents and in Leftist controlled Boulder County  no less.  He has never hada problem securing an eviction. He goes down to the court,  tells the judge they are behind on the rent, and the judge orders an officer to post a notice and a "be out by" time. The renter can then protest the eviction and a court date will be set.. .  He has never had one do so--

 The officer then shows up at that time and my stepdad hires some guys from Craiglist to carry their crap out to the street and change the locks under supervision of the officer.   He hasn't had to do this often, but often enough he knows the process well and he has never had an issue with this series of events.. again, in a Libtard haven.  Not that this won't change.. it just hasn't changed yet.

[IronDioPriest]

I would think that if you came home to find your home occupied, shooting first would be your best bet if reclaiming your property was the highest goal. Once you get the authorities involved, you lose any self-defense claim. You can't say you feel threatened in your home if you've called the police and they've opened up a file.

If you shoot and then call the police, you can say you returned home to find invaders, felt threatened in your home, and shot them in self defense. If there are women and children remaining, it's your word against theirs, and their last act before you shot their menfolk was to be in your home when you arrived to an ambush.

It would be an interesting national spectacle, with Left/Right lining up to choose sides, just like in the Zimmerman case. Hell, why not, at this point. I hope it happens.