Adverse possession
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Already stated there are, and there are:
Signs of squatters previously.
Squatters trash in the house still.
The car.
OP has said they've scoped it out for a while and seen no activity.
And electricity is easy to hack, OP has not said they have checked. And OP said they have been there for a while?
All signs it's not currently in use, but that could mean anything like they're on holiday.
So it's clearly not abandoned, and it's clearly a bad idea to try to squat this.
Yet you have been advocating further research. This is a lost cause and foolish.
Which the posts you're currently replying to literally acknowledge.
If OP wants to continue, for whatever reason, they need to do more research. My advice would be to not go any further though, as explained.
The car means nothing. Granted, if you've never lived outside a city it might not make sense, but go anywhere semi-final and you'll find abandoned/decaying/project cars in front of homes.
And OP found a pile of cans, not signs of a previous squat. That could have easily just been lazy cleanup. Have you never put off cleaning up after a party?
You're reaching with all of your "signs."
No, when they all add up they are all signs it's not currently in use... but when considering all info so far, it's obvous this is not enough to call it abandoned and OP should stop trying to squat this.
"There are signs a place is abandoned, they don't appear when you go on vacation."
There are signs it's not in use currently, but it's clearly not abandoned so they may just be away temporarily.
I have made myself clear, I apologize if I was not clear before. At this point I see no value in repeating this.
I've been hacking meters for years in th UK for people in squats, it's very easy to do without detection. In the UK at least, may be different in the US.
You asked where you said it was abandoned I pointed it out to you.
I have explained what I meant and apologized if I was unclear. Not sure what you want next?
The idea that someone was previously squatting there and then just left is completely ludicrous. Why would a squatter leave a nice house? Why would they be absent the vast majority of the time? I mean the whole fucking point of squatting is you gotta make extra effort to be there for years and years and never leave in order to claim it.
The obvious explanation (well, obvious to everyone else here) is that the homeowner, a family member, or a friend is there occasionally to take care of the place. This isn't a rare situation.
The obvious explanation (well, obvious to everyone else here) is that the homeowner, a family member, or a friend is there occasionally to take care of the place. This isn't a rare situation.
I have enjoyed watching you gradually move the advice based on “research” after having not read the thread originally
Haunted. The house is haunted.
(Alternatively, squatter was inside the house as OP walked in, then ran away/hid somewhere because he assumed it was the legit owners showing up rather than a possible competitor).
...I feel bad in that reading this thread is super entertaining but I legit hope OP doesn't do this because this would probably end really, really poorly. Like "shotgun" poorly.
This thread is very entertaining, so thanks for that OP.
I say go for it, fortune favours the bold. At the very least you'll get a great story out of the experience.
I say go for it, fortune favours the bold. At the very least you'll get a great story out of the experience.
I have no idea what happend when I first posted. It was showing as the second page and I thought I'd read all of the first, then I refreshed and it was on page 7. I must have been confused between threads...I have enjoyed watching you gradually move the advice based on “research” after having not read the thread originally
You're right through, there is some irony there. :p
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OP, as someone who is working through a parents sudden and absolutely debilitating disability, causing me to spend the last 9 months attempting to settle her affairs: if a rando made my life more difficult due to some cutesy crap like this, I would absolutely fight it tooth and nail with zero sympathy. I’d be pissed as hell.
Leave these people alone. There is a very high likelihood that someone is hurting hard here, and struggling to keep up.
Leave these people alone. There is a very high likelihood that someone is hurting hard here, and struggling to keep up.
This. So much this. Incredibly rude, selfish, reckless, foolish, entitled, etc.
Had it been a house in a ghost town like the place that inspired Silent hill maybe. But I feel it might not be healthy and yo don't know if someone won't come back. It is not careful to do so, not respectful, and the sresscaused for people who might live and you is not worth it.
It's been a wild ride.I have enjoyed watching you gradually move the advice based on “research” after having not read the thread originally
Maybe they own that squat.net website and are just trying to get some SEO juice/clicks from posting it.
I agree. The only context in which “previous” goes before “squatter” is if they took a shit somewhere you were going to as well
No one has really mentioned it but the shrubbery is probably more damning than the grass. Those shrubs were cut at least sometime last summer, they're just now getting to the point of looking shabby.
What would be even funnier is if he does work to the house and they evict him and then sue for the cost to revert everything back to how it was.
He's hoping it just disappears lol. I have a feeling he already got his answer.
Idk. This sounds like the situation with my grandparents. We had to move them out of their house into retirement home and have been trying to sell the house for the past 2 years. So it sits pretty abandoned and is not maintained, but it still has power and obviously belongs to someone lol
Don't you wish you had people just busting in and leaving beer cans? It's the ethical thing ya know.
The law wisely provides for society to make the best use of land by leaving piles of beer cans in other people's property
Well those people really deserve it. How dare they leave property unused while they mourn their dead/sick parents while trying to balance their own lives and get their affairs sorted!
You might have to deal with other liens and/or an eviction. Tax sales do not guarantee clear title.
Just Google tax sale/auction for your local city. And have big pockets. These aren't loans. You pay cash upfront.
I was going to add this. Also, last I studied, in some jurisdictions, if you claim ownership in bad faith, adverse possession will NOT even apply.
I haven't seen anyone here in the last five months of driving by, time to adversely possess the thread
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