How To Protect Your Home From Being Stolen by Squatters
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2024
- Much in the news lately - houses overtaken by squatters, or stolen through title theft. Clark discusses which homes are most vulnerable and what to be aware of as a homeowner.
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It's ridiculous to me that legislation is needed to protect property owners from squatting, which is essentially an aggressive form of trespassing.
The Tik Tok influencer should be charged as an accomplice for encouraging another person to commit a crime like this!
Can no longer do this in FLORIDA. Gov. Desantis signed a new law 2/3 weeks ago preventing this & totally on the side of the HOMEOWNER !
Trump / DeSantis 2024!
A friend of mine had a friend move into a cottage on his property. He called the sheriff. A deputy came out and arrested the guy for trespassing. This was in California. BTW, it is a crime in California. The owner will likely have to file the trespassing charges but that takes an hour or so. When the deputy asks if you want to press charges you say YES.
Why can tenants who don't pay their rent be evicted, but squatters can't be removed? I don't understand why the same laws don't apply in both situations.
If the police can’t evict the squatters, they can’t evict the owners either. I can be a very annoying roommate.
How about a burglar alarm? Seems the police could arrest them for breaking and entering.
Great info. as always Clark
It’s very easy to interrupt utilities from outside.
Try it and you will regret it.
Thanks Clark
Thank you very much for sharing this information with us!
FL has passed a squatter law.
But it's not working.
@@Omar_Zazzle Are you in FL? Have you tried using the law? Also keep in mind the law is very new
@@Omar_Zazzle wth do you mean it's not working
The new Georgia law changes that. House Bill 1017, which passed with bipartisan support in the Georgia House and Senate, makes squatting punishable by criminal misdemeanor trespass charges and fines for back rent. The law also allows people to be evicted within three days of receiving notice from a law enforcement officer
Good morning Clark!
No one are addressing how homeowners can protect their title to their homes.
Anyone can use a fault ID and get a notary as part of the scam to take ownership of the homes as a financial fraud!
Especially now that there is so much scams now.
I’ve reached out to various titles companies and mortgages and UA-camr’s and know one has had a solution or pursue this hoop hole!!!
Any suggestions or recommendations homeowners and/or ways we can protect the elderly being target!!!!
Not in FLORIDA
I didn’t even watch this video because the answer is live in it, rent it out, or have someone going into the home to check on it, and have a fake t.v. on, and have lights that turn on and off automatically, have someone pick up the mail! 🤣😂
Florida legislature and Governor Desantis took action with new anti squatter law.
It's not working.
It will
Depends on the Circumstances and case law/admin law/color of law and how it's interpreted and applied
TN has now passed a swatter law. Oops! I meant squatter.
How about a squatter law?😂
AZ Governor just vetoed a new squatter law. :(
Isn’t trespassing illegal in each state?
Breaking an entering also which is much more serious.
All you did was tell us what we already know! People, I have security outside of my rehab homes. All it takes is one time and I promise you the squatters will never return! Once, I stayed at my property heavily armed - when they intrude, it is the make my day law - trust me, they're running like bandit! On other properties, aggressive dogs work like magic!
YEAH YOU TRY AND TAKE MY HOUSE YOU HAVE TWO WAYS YOU CAN LEAVE, ONE, WALK OUT THE DOOR IMMEDIATELY OR TWO, YOU WILL BE LEAVING IN A BODY BAG! YOUR CHOICE!
It's INSANE that we are even talking about this!!!! Our society is breaking down!! Welcome to the BANANA REPUBLIC of America!! (Thank you, DEMOCRATS!!)
This is happening primarily in republican states. texas, georgia, and florida are number one and two. It was such a problem in florida for so many years and the politicians did nothing about it. Not until a few weeks ago the politician in fl finally made squatting illegal. If those politicians are on your side then what took them so long?
@@pointreyes4272 It's happening in DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED places of Republican states.
@@mattm597 It's happening throughout the entire state of texas and florida. The entire state my friend. The law in texas is on the side of the squatters and needs to be changed.
@@pointreyes4272 It started in Democrat states. Yes, it has spread to a few red states (the Democrat-controlled areas of red states), but at least the red states are doing something to correct the problem.
@@mattm597 You are making that up. There is no problem whatsoever in Minnesota, Wis, Mich, etc. Zippo. This has been going on for decades in texas my friend. Decades.
All in democrat states off course
Yeah...Texas and Georgia!
You might want to actually LISTEN first before making an asinine comment.🙄
@@aao449 "Two of the most Blue states", said nobody in the past decades has ever said.
The hysteria is so over blown. Squatting laws only applies to vacant properties. Unless you leave your 10th property vacant for years while you wait for a more ideal rental market, this isnt affecting you
They went on vacation and it was squatted. Did you watch?
@@kpatrao6592 because of one obscure story, it means it’s call for mass panic?
@@jirehguy Do you ever google and check your facts? 10th property? Sounds like envy? Have you seen the break-ins, retail theft and business leaving do to crime? So sensationalized that Florida had to change the law against squatters.
@@jirehguyWhatever. There was a recent case where a Liet Colonel returned from reservist duty training and locked out of her nearly million dollar home by a squatter. I guess you would call that a vacant home too dumbnuts.
@@jirehguy Obscure story? Yeah right. Around 1,200 homes in metro Atlanta alone recently have had squatters, people occupying a property illegally without a landlord-tenant relationship, per the National Rental Home Council trade group. There are people actually instructing others online had to be a squatter in someone else's home and live rent-free along with subletting rooms in the same property to others for pocket money. Luckily the governor in Georgia just signed a new law against squatters.