looks like he destroyed the house to try and make it unlivable so the occupants who owe taxes leave, and he can squat there and try to take the house by adverse possession, which is like, if your neighbor dies and you kind of just overtake his yard with your shit and make a garden there, then a few years later you can claim adverse possession saying you've already been using this property for years and nobody said or did shit and now it's yours. which is dumb. i can't believe this is a law. it's super hard to pull off in the court system but it still happens
Reminder: In Harris County, if you are delinquent on your property taxes, a person cannot claim deed to your home if they pay it for you. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING! In a court of law, they have to prove intent and if you did not ask them for help, they will lose bc they didn't have grounds to pay! Just happened with my Aunt. Keep vigilante on the property deed to make sure an illegal xfr has not taken place. Get a restraining order if necessary.
@ Adverse protection takes 8 to 20 years. Yes there’s definitely some issues. And it may not have any reasonable modern use anymore. but it has nothing to do with this.
Through adverse possession, you have to be living in the home you're claiming for years before you can try to claim ownership. So that guy completely misinterpreted that law, and he's a scammer.
Either a scammer or an idiot that listened to another idiot "explaining" how to get a house for free on TikTok. Doesn't really matter which, he's in the wrong and that's that. Trouble is I bet he doesn't have two dimes to rub together so the owners are going to be out the money for repairs. And sounds like they're about to lose the house due to taxes so they're not swimming in money for repairs either.
Do not open the door to any strangers!!! If need be, talk to them through a window only open an inch or two!! Too many freaks and crooks out there these days.
Don't have to open the door when you're a lying Crack head. They were not home. Hone was abandoned and windows broken with homeless people living in it.
@user-wf8ol5hv6k Property taxes started to fund world War 2 they were to be stopped after the war.. state and local taxes should be enough. if we didn't have corruption and funding illegal immigrants, we would have a surplus of money. Wake up you libtard.
I don't know what makes people think that removing property tax would remove schools and stuff. They can tax anything to pay for that. Its not the taxes people are having the issue with. Its the loss of property and ownership that can happen.
Sooooo they’re teaching people on social media how to do adverse possession. The guy is selling courses and everything. This is about to get really bad.
Just because he hasn’t been charged, doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be exposed. SHOW HIS FACE AND GIVE HIS NAME.. This is probably not his first time doing this, and I’m sure it won’t be his last u til he his exposed
SERIOUSLY SOMEBODY NEEDS TO MAKE ONE!! I’m barely getting by right now but this just hurts my heart. It would make me happy even just being able to help them with anything I could!!
The criminal probably knew all occupants of the house were disabled and he tried to scam them. Doesn't even look like an organized remodel. Just destroyed the main rooms. Show his face.
yeah hes shady asf we never see him like that before he show up like he own the place. we doing gig worker apps since we're only deaf and hoh that's why we just make money.
@@theluckyman Good luck to you. So many scammers these days. Hopefully, police can prosecute him for the property damage and you guys can be made whole.
Especially since he didn't pay the taxes. The property still shows that taxes are owed on it. He thought it was abandoned because the property taxes were delinquent. And none of that was renovations. Looked like he was just trying to scare people to leave by ripping up walls and stuff. He claims he was going to renovate the home in a week? Sure.
I first thought that the guy trying to take possession of the house was a scammer, but I think all this TikTok real estate bs has played a part of spreading false information.
What a crazy nightmare! With the deceased owners of record are still on the title this means a Will was never probated. The survivors couldn't pay the property tax and now will need an expensive lawyer.
Oh please! He knew people were living there, he told them to get out! They've been living there their entire lives! No attorney would tell him he has the "right" to take an occupied house! He's a liar anyway, he told them he won the rights to the house in a lawsuit against Hafiz, someone he doesn't even know, and I don't believe he lost anything in the hurricane. Even if he was awarded a house in a lawsuit he can't just burst in and tell people to leave!
So to recap. Parents own the home. They died. Kids have been staying there, not paying taxes. Some guy noticed this and tried to take over the home using "adverse possession", which apparently allows for someone to simply move into an unowned home that's behind on taxes. Interesting story, but doesn't seem to be illegal. Weird. Was succession done?
But it is illegal. Adverse possession is for abandoned properties. When he knocked and found someone there it is not abandoned legally even if the people were squatters. At that point you have to go through legal channels. This person also claimed to have paid the taxes which turned out to be a lie. Also, if there are people living in a home you believe you own there is an eviction process you have to follow in any case. You are not allowed to just show up and tell them to leave. Even landlords are not just allowed in someone's home necessarily.
It's important to get it on the record with the police, just don't expect them to do anything. They'll say it's a civil matter and leave. I suspect they may do something for the mayor or chief of police but if you're not them, forget it.
Some people think not paying taxes is okay, but it's not. I bought a property that's behind on taxes on many fronts. It could get sold through tax lien. Ultimately, county is the super landlord. You can own it in your lifetime, but county lives forever.
Why you Need ADT, A GUN!! THIS GUY KNEW THERE WERE TAXES OWED, A HANDICAPPED PERSON OR RESIDENTS INSIDE...IT'S HUSTLE. HE BUMRUSHED THEM THINKING THEY'D GET OUT. WELL HE WAS WRONG!😡
My dad found out he was paying for the neighbors property tax for 25 years. He never got a refund. Even when the property sold, my dad would clean it but never got paid for it. He did it so his house wouldn't look bad.
In America; you can pay a house in full, but you can lose it due to property taxes... basically a house is never 100% yours! You're still paying "rent"
The entire concept of adverse possession must be completely scrapped as the unjust and barbaric practice that it is. If you want a property so badly, find the owner and buy it.
This is awful! Please protect yourself with a legal firearm or some type of weapon and your property. Don't let anyone in your home period. Anyone who comes knocking don't open your door ever. Make sure it's locked up with cameras outside and inside. I believe that jerk was watching them and saw those people are blind and deaf and felt he could take advantage of them. Very disgusting that because someone owes back taxes a person looses their property without a plan to help low income people pay it. Praying for these people, there are evil people out there 🙏🏾
Hi there! I'm the reporter who has worked with the family on this story. There is a GoFundMe linked in our webstory (for some reason it won't let me leave the link here as well)
An x gf of mine owed property taxes, vultures would circle her house all the time.. Investors, people looking to buy, people demanding to view the inside of the home when it was never for sale. She got on a payment plan then legit sold it but the second you're behind the vultures will circle... Never let them in the house, they only have a right to see it from the street.
Bro, ur realtor just bankrupt the liability. The trade your agent or broker aren’t ground of trespassing. No material of TAX return or case loots. Those are client requests not countywide Cabinet Roosevelt placed prior to declaration of ownership. NOT smart hardware for property trade purposes (wrong Tesla model).
If it’s thousand of dollars behind… then it was quietly sold or auctioned off and these people have very little of a case against a landlord that couldn’t make the bills and now the taxes are paid by a new owner. BUT in NY these people would have had a notice 30 days before. These people are leaving a WHOLE lot of info out… They shouldn’t have touched their stuff… but I don’t know the laws there???
Wtf smh 🤦♀️ taxes ya can’t be never ever more than 1 year behind !!! Premise was pre foreclosure listed online to anyone. 😞 that’s low as low as low 🔫
Um you can only claim "adverse possession" of an UNOCCUPIED house and only AFTER you have been living in it for 10 years! You can't just bust into an occupied home and tell people to get out! 😩😩 What are you thinking? No, seriously. What?
You can only make a claim for adverse possession of an unoccupied, abandoned home after you have been living in it for many years. You cannot just take over somebody's house and claim adverse possession.
This is sad, but the brother and sister are in a property that they can not afford. They did not even know to change the deed after their parents passed. This does not make the person who says that he now owns the owner. As far as the taxes??
Classic example of a bunch of people who don't know shit from shinola crashing into each other and creating a huge mess. Here's a helpful hint if you're really stupid: If ANYONE other than a police officer or sheriff's deputy--in uniform--shows up at your door--telling you that they are "the new owner" and asking for entry or for you to vacate--tell them to go fvck themselves and shut the door and call 911 and report an attempted home invasion. ONLY a sheriff can evict someone from a home--even if they don't OWN the home (aka renter / squatter, etc). Now, Texas is a very pro-landlord and pro--property owner state. So having someone evicted for non-payment of rent is pretty easy. But a tax foreclosure is relatively difficult and lengthy... but certainly can be done--happens weekly in Houston / Harris County. Sounds like these fools are basically squatting in this house if their parents are both dead and they haven't probated the will to get the house into their names yet. But they definitely have the right off possession still.
That dude that destroyed their property should be arrested
Also paying repairs too so I totally agree with u
looks like he destroyed the house to try and make it unlivable so the occupants who owe taxes leave, and he can squat there and try to take the house by adverse possession, which is like, if your neighbor dies and you kind of just overtake his yard with your shit and make a garden there, then a few years later you can claim adverse possession saying you've already been using this property for years and nobody said or did shit and now it's yours. which is dumb. i can't believe this is a law. it's super hard to pull off in the court system but it still happens
No flowers......
He must have known they where blind and deaf and was trying to take advantage of them. So sad. Lord Jesus Christ have mercy.
Reminder: In Harris County, if you are delinquent on your property taxes, a person cannot claim deed to your home if they pay it for you. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING! In a court of law, they have to prove intent and if you did not ask them for help, they will lose bc they didn't have grounds to pay! Just happened with my Aunt. Keep vigilante on the property deed to make sure an illegal xfr has not taken place. Get a restraining order if necessary.
How did he believe it wasn’t occupied when there were literally people there? What a liar. He should get arrested.
Yeah before he doing it to somebody's home too.
Probably because they're lying and Crack heads.
He thought he could take advantage of disabled people & steal their home right out from under them.
Adverse possession needs to be OUTLAWED.
Agrees it should be abolished
Obsolete old laws.
So I you’re saying is you have no idea what adverse possession even means.
@@neilkurzman4907what makes you say that. That law needs to be abolished or revised so thieves can’t use it to their advantage.
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Adverse protection takes 8 to 20 years. Yes there’s definitely some issues. And it may not have any reasonable modern use anymore. but it has nothing to do with this.
Through adverse possession, you have to be living in the home you're claiming for years before you can try to claim ownership. So that guy completely misinterpreted that law, and he's a scammer.
That and there were people living there - he confronted them. So it wasn't abandoned.
I believe rhe scammer knew what he was doing. I find it no coincidence. that he pushed his way in while the deaf brother was out of town.
Either a scammer or an idiot that listened to another idiot "explaining" how to get a house for free on TikTok. Doesn't really matter which, he's in the wrong and that's that. Trouble is I bet he doesn't have two dimes to rub together so the owners are going to be out the money for repairs. And sounds like they're about to lose the house due to taxes so they're not swimming in money for repairs either.
I bet that man is damn foreign buying up America with blood money smh ..
Arrest him
That doesn't look like "renovations". "Adverse possession" - so he admits he was trying to be a squatter.
Half of the damage pictures are from deterioration not renovation demolition.
Do not open the door to any strangers!!! If need be, talk to them through a window only open an inch or two!! Too many freaks and crooks out there these days.
They were squatting you dumbass
Don't have to open the door when you're a lying Crack head. They were not home. Hone was abandoned and windows broken with homeless people living in it.
He's a wanna be squatter.
Unbelievable. God help these people and all others that may face these adversities I am saddened for the family..
ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES, THEY ARE A SCAM
No that dude lied he didn't pay no $19k it still there unpaid he lied
Then how do you propose city / county services be paid for?
Who pays for schools, etc?
Exactly!!!! I'm sure there is a lot of embezzlement going on also
Yea so are schools and police departments and water facilities. Who needs them.
I guess it’s a good thing that he didn’t bulldoze the home down. This is ridiculous.
Wow…! How is he not arrested yet? He should pay for the renovation of the house
That’s not fixing it that’s destroying it
This is so shady.
Adverse Posession should also be illegal..!
We shouldn't have property taxes..
You won't have schools fire dept or any type of emergency services. Good luck surviving in a world without them.
@user-wf8ol5hv6k Property taxes started to fund world War 2 they were to be stopped after the war.. state and local taxes should be enough. if we didn't have corruption and funding illegal immigrants, we would have a surplus of money. Wake up you libtard.
@@LiberalTears-q4x No roads and more, but it would be a quiet life.
@@LiberalTears-q4x YOu just have a different tax to pay for those instead of one that is tied to property ownership.
I don't know what makes people think that removing property tax would remove schools and stuff. They can tax anything to pay for that. Its not the taxes people are having the issue with. Its the loss of property and ownership that can happen.
Sooooo they’re teaching people on social media how to do adverse possession. The guy is selling courses and everything. This is about to get really bad.
What kind of an ignorant idiot does something like this to somebody’s house? This man just might be the stupidest person on the planet.😢
Yeah he was out of town when it happened he be like how that guy know he isn't home? I'm glad his sister and their roommate's home.
You’re naive to think he’s stupid rather than evil.
Post the address, and everyone can pay directly to the tax assesor to pay off the debt.
Just because he hasn’t been charged, doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be exposed. SHOW HIS FACE AND GIVE HIS NAME.. This is probably not his first time doing this, and I’m sure it won’t be his last u til he his exposed
The family needs to file probate
Soooo, any church or disability advocates going to check in and help these folks out?
he tried his resources its hard to be deaf to find resources to be honest.
This is me of house damaged I did ask for deaf service keep nothing for almost a year
is there a link to give to this family
SERIOUSLY SOMEBODY NEEDS TO MAKE ONE!! I’m barely getting by right now but this just hurts my heart. It would make me happy even just being able to help them with anything I could!!
Or we can make payment to the property account if they post the address.
I know him he's on Facebook and he does have gofundme page
How are they suing the dead smh
The criminal probably knew all occupants of the house were disabled and he tried to scam them. Doesn't even look like an organized remodel. Just destroyed the main rooms. Show his face.
No actually they're lying Crack heads and there was nobody in the home.
19 thousand isn't alot that dude is a scam artist
yeah hes shady asf we never see him like that before he show up like he own the place. we doing gig worker apps since we're only deaf and hoh that's why we just make money.
@@theluckymanpost the gofundme on a comment above this… someone was asking about how to help
@@theluckyman Good luck to you. So many scammers these days. Hopefully, police can prosecute him for the property damage and you guys can be made whole.
Especially since he didn't pay the taxes. The property still shows that taxes are owed on it. He thought it was abandoned because the property taxes were delinquent. And none of that was renovations. Looked like he was just trying to scare people to leave by ripping up walls and stuff. He claims he was going to renovate the home in a week? Sure.
I thought Texans were armed.
This is a shady shady mess
So he was gonna squat and take over and then flip it
How government creates homelessness
The people in the house were squatters
Some guy breaks into the house and destroys it, and you blame the government
Always pay-
Mortgage
Insurance
Taxes
In that order ALWAYS!!
If you neglect any, you CAN lose your home!❤
I first thought that the guy trying to take possession of the house was a scammer, but I think all this TikTok real estate bs has played a part of spreading false information.
He bullied a blind woman. Put him in jail
That is horrendous!!!
Getting to the real truth.
What a crazy nightmare! With the deceased owners of record are still on the title this means a Will was never probated. The survivors couldn't pay the property tax and now will need an expensive lawyer.
Remove property tax on your homestead home. People should own their homes. Extra homes should be taxed. Move to a state income tax instead.
If someone does not pay their income taxes, what sort of enforcement do you propose? Sending them to jail?
Give to Cesar what is Cesar's, give to God what is God's
This needs to stop or people are going to lose their homes.
You show up at my house and tell me to get out, you are in grave danger if they try to enter.
If the thief want the home then they should put him in jail.
I own guns, ain't nobody telling me they oen my house and proceeds to destroy my house, fk that!!!!
yupp
Get rid of property taxes oh my
Property tax needs to go bye bye. They need to do a new tax for the school system and get rid of property tax. If you own property you own it.
These wolves are sick and will get what they got coming
Oh please! He knew people were living there, he told them to get out! They've been living there their entire lives! No attorney would tell him he has the "right" to take an occupied house! He's a liar anyway, he told them he won the rights to the house in a lawsuit against Hafiz, someone he doesn't even know, and I don't believe he lost anything in the hurricane. Even if he was awarded a house in a lawsuit he can't just burst in and tell people to leave!
So to recap.
Parents own the home. They died.
Kids have been staying there, not paying taxes.
Some guy noticed this and tried to take over the home using "adverse possession", which apparently allows for someone to simply move into an unowned home that's behind on taxes.
Interesting story, but doesn't seem to be illegal.
Weird.
Was succession done?
But it is illegal. Adverse possession is for abandoned properties. When he knocked and found someone there it is not abandoned legally even if the people were squatters. At that point you have to go through legal channels. This person also claimed to have paid the taxes which turned out to be a lie.
Also, if there are people living in a home you believe you own there is an eviction process you have to follow in any case. You are not allowed to just show up and tell them to leave. Even landlords are not just allowed in someone's home necessarily.
That wild man needs to be in prison , him and his wife .
Sounds like one big scam. 😮
It's important to get it on the record with the police, just don't expect them to do anything. They'll say it's a civil matter and leave. I suspect they may do something for the mayor or chief of police but if you're not them, forget it.
Some people think not paying taxes is okay, but it's not. I bought a property that's behind on taxes on many fronts. It could get sold through tax lien. Ultimately, county is the super landlord. You can own it in your lifetime, but county lives forever.
It should be illegal for anyone trying to take over your home like this
What a Rat !!
What’s wrong with housing in USA? That never would happen in Portugal!
I bet you guy is Venezuelan.
Ugh, they never bothered to have property put in their names. Yikes!
What rights does they have to take someone’s house?
He hasn’t been charger wow. He destroyed there home he needs to be charged with trespassing and destruction from property and stole from them
Why you Need ADT, A GUN!! THIS GUY KNEW THERE WERE TAXES OWED, A HANDICAPPED PERSON OR RESIDENTS INSIDE...IT'S HUSTLE. HE BUMRUSHED THEM THINKING THEY'D GET OUT. WELL HE WAS WRONG!😡
My dad found out he was paying for the neighbors property tax for 25 years. He never got a refund. Even when the property sold, my dad would clean it but never got paid for it. He did it so his house wouldn't look bad.
In America; you can pay a house in full, but you can lose it due to property taxes... basically a house is never 100% yours! You're still paying "rent"
The entire concept of adverse possession must be completely scrapped as the unjust and barbaric practice that it is. If you want a property so badly, find the owner and buy it.
So much damage and outstanding debt the smart move would be to sell it.
The person who took their house should pay to fix or re-model the house. 😕
This is awful! Please protect yourself with a legal firearm or some type of weapon and your property. Don't let anyone in your home period. Anyone who comes knocking don't open your door ever. Make sure it's locked up with cameras outside and inside. I believe that jerk was watching them and saw those people are blind and deaf and felt he could take advantage of them. Very disgusting that because someone owes back taxes a person looses their property without a plan to help low income people pay it. Praying for these people, there are evil people out there 🙏🏾
Wtf smh 🤦♀️ taxes ya can’t be never ever more than 1 year behind !!!
Premise was pre foreclosure listed online to anyone. 😞
Jesus Christ !! Wtf is it in dead peoples name !! OMFG 🤬 SAD 😢
Never leave your home to a lunatic.
They didn't
Property test gonna be eliminated in the next few years
Is there a gofundme regarding this?
Hi there! I'm the reporter who has worked with the family on this story. There is a GoFundMe linked in our webstory (for some reason it won't let me leave the link here as well)
An x gf of mine owed property taxes, vultures would circle her house all the time.. Investors, people looking to buy, people demanding to view the inside of the home when it was never for sale. She got on a payment plan then legit sold it but the second you're behind the vultures will circle... Never let them in the house, they only have a right to see it from the street.
Pay your taxes, until the laws rightfully need stopped.
Bro, ur realtor just bankrupt the liability. The trade your agent or broker aren’t ground of trespassing. No material of TAX return or case loots.
Those are client requests not countywide Cabinet Roosevelt placed prior to declaration of ownership. NOT smart hardware for property trade purposes (wrong Tesla model).
Probably a wholesaler/ flipper
He would've caught these hands😮😢
If it’s thousand of dollars behind… then it was quietly sold or auctioned off and these people have very little of a case against a landlord that couldn’t make the bills and now the taxes are paid by a new owner. BUT in NY these people would have had a notice 30 days before. These people are leaving a WHOLE lot of info out… They shouldn’t have touched their stuff… but I don’t know the laws there???
No it's not
Why is KHOU protecting the suspect?
If a man walks into a home and destroys it, tell us his effing name.
Wtf smh 🤦♀️ taxes ya can’t be never ever more than 1 year behind !!!
Premise was pre foreclosure listed online to anyone. 😞 that’s low as low as low 🔫
Adverse possession, real scumbag shit
Scammer...arrest pending??
Everything has Changed but my address!!!!
Classic , guy in Houston thinks he’s police and just completely wrongs the home owner then continues to claim he is police .
Look people... it's called Adverse Ownership. He has every right to renovate his home.
Um you can only claim "adverse possession" of an UNOCCUPIED house and only AFTER you have been living in it for 10 years! You can't just bust into an occupied home and tell people to get out! 😩😩 What are you thinking? No, seriously. What?
You can only make a claim for adverse possession of an unoccupied, abandoned home after you have been living in it for many years. You cannot just take over somebody's house and claim adverse possession.
😂😂😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
He scammers call these people they are a gold mine 😂😂😂
Common how weak your system is it cant do anything about nothing? Its pathetic
Why would others pay for your house tax anyways though? 😅
Awful
All I’m Going to Say is NRA
This is sad, but the brother and sister are in a property that they can not afford. They did not even know to change the deed after their parents passed. This does not make the person who says that he now owns the owner. As far as the taxes??
Classic example of a bunch of people who don't know shit from shinola crashing into each other and creating a huge mess. Here's a helpful hint if you're really stupid: If ANYONE other than a police officer or sheriff's deputy--in uniform--shows up at your door--telling you that they are "the new owner" and asking for entry or for you to vacate--tell them to go fvck themselves and shut the door and call 911 and report an attempted home invasion. ONLY a sheriff can evict someone from a home--even if they don't OWN the home (aka renter / squatter, etc). Now, Texas is a very pro-landlord and pro--property owner state. So having someone evicted for non-payment of rent is pretty easy. But a tax foreclosure is relatively difficult and lengthy... but certainly can be done--happens weekly in Houston / Harris County. Sounds like these fools are basically squatting in this house if their parents are both dead and they haven't probated the will to get the house into their names yet. But they definitely have the right off possession still.
Those people are not stupid. Stop being rude. They just didn’t know the law.
Is he from Venezuela?
Kids need to do a squatters rights
Check your friends.
Probably one of those illegal migrants who watched too much of those Tik tok videos of one of his homies telling people how to steal someone’s home
Newcomers
Fk I need more alarms ⏰
Someone was looking for money
😂😂😂 stay around here laughing for some attention and it said
Tis is what happens when you don't pay attention to whats going on on your property