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So she's a former tenant who got evicted ? Obviously the owner did not follow up on the eviction or change the locks before she left for a year. And you don't leave your home for a year and not have someone check on it or take care of what needs to be taken care of.
Sounds like there's more to this story than what they are telling us.
Blair was supposedly evicted, but all her furniture was still there? That ain't how I evict tenants! I'd call it the ultimate sloppiness in being a landlord.
If you have a tenant living in a property you own, have not legally removed them AND their belongings using established court procedures, disappear for a year, come back and find the tenant there, you have only yourself to blame. Did Peterson have a property manager checking on the property who could have reported a squatter to her so she could have taken action much sooner? If not, why not?
Something does not sound right about this story and I'll be curious if there are more details.
Unbelievable. Whatever happened to Breaking and Entering laws???? I find this ludicrous. I hope this lady and her baby remain safe, otherwise I predict a huge lawsuit against some agency.
This squatter sensed she was dealing with the dimmest bulb on the string so she took advantage of that and moved on in.
Here's this woman who bought a house for $23K and was not prepared to repair or bring it up to acceptable codes? Dumb. So move out for a year and what; expect that it will fix itself up to comply with municipal codes while she's gone; magic Mike Holmes fairy gonna come around and make repairs?
She realized the house was now livable through the mod's made by the squatter so she moves on back in and starts her "Poor Me" theatrics. Why'd she wait a year? Why'd she just leave the place unattended without making any effort to secure it? Why'd she think it acceptable to now move on back into the place when it was "condemnd" before? Who paid to have the place modified, inspected and the condemnation order lifted? Ditzy behaviour should call for a question or two from the court I'm sure.
Some court is gonna have a field day with these two.
It sounds like the owner left the house vacant and the roommate is one of those Detroit squatters who finds a vacant house to live in -- but it seems they were roommates previously too so there is more to this story.
While I'd still like to move back there some day because the homes are absolutely well built and most are custom, there is a totally different culture in the Big D. That's why we left.
Right is wrong and wrong is right to many residents. Getting what's coming, deserved or not is life there. Knew several "slumlords" who never repaired or visited their properties because they were too afraid to go back.
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