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Couple should have tried their best (and I'm sure they probably didn't intend to fall that far behind) to keep up with their mortgage payments. However, the house wasn't foreclosed, they were not evicted, and so the house is theirs. What the squatters did wasn't right, either- if it were me I'd have to resist the urge to get a few buddies and evict them myself by placing all their belongings on the lawn and moving my stuff back in.
You'd be breaking the law. Why not just evict them legally??? The article states that they could do it in 2 weeks.
If you went into your basement and there were two people there, would you go to the courts to get them evicted?
If it was a property that I neglected for half the year and I found a couple living there, I'd call the cops. If the cops told me that I would have to evict them, I'd have no choice. I'm not into vigilantism.
Funny how the police can pick and choose when to act. They regularly get involved in civil matters all the time, depending on how much money is involved and a judge's orders. The judge ordered the squatters out and the police refuse to enforce the judge's decision. Time for that couple to gather a goon squad of friends and relatives to forcibly evict the vagrants from the home. If the vagrants call the police on them, the owners have the mortgage to the home and the judge's order for the squatters to vacate the property.
If it was a property that I neglected for half the year and I found a couple living there, I'd call the cops. If the cops told me that I would have to evict them, I'd have no choice. I'm not into vigilantism.
My inlaws don't live in their house for half a year. I imagine this doesn't happen very often because many people upon coming home finding someone in their house, they would shoot them.
More likely though, in the vast majority of places the police would indeed arrest them.
My inlaws don't live in their house for half a year. I imagine this doesn't happen very often because many people upon coming home finding someone in their house, they would shoot them.
More likely though, in the vast majority of places the police would indeed arrest them.
Did anyone bother reading the article? The squatters were scammed by a "real estate agent" who charged them $5,000. So you would shoot someone who was duped into thinking they bought a house?? Nice.
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When the couple called the police to check up on the home, the two occupiers showed paperwork from the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder with an affidavit of "adverse possession," their names and the Donovan's address written on it. The two said they bought the home from a real estate agent for $5,000.
Donovan said she suspects a real estate agent targeted her home because it was briefly on the market last year.
Did anyone bother reading the article? The squatters were scammed by a "real estate agent" who charged them $5,000. So you would shoot someone who was duped into thinking they bought a house?? Nice.
People generally will not sit down and discuss things with someone that has broken into their home. I really doubt that part of the story anyway.
People generally will not sit down and discuss things with someone that has broken into their home. I really doubt that part of the story anyway.
The people were mislead into thinking they bought the home, that's hardly an example of breaking into someones home.
They were swindled and you are more than happy to take a bat to their skulls for being gullible.
I've heard of this scam before, but more with renters. Am I landlord, and I've found squatters in my buildings when it was empty. I didn't go in with guns blazing, I firmly asked them to leave and they left promptly. Now if I came across a couple who told me they rented the building from an agent and showed me receipts, I'd feel sorry for them and tell them they'd have to leave, but I wouldn't hire a couple of thugs to break their arms.
The people were mislead into thinking they bought the home, that's hardly an example of breaking into someones home.
They were swindled and you are more than happy to take a bat to their skulls for being gullible.
As I said, I doubt that part of the story. Anyone that is savvy enough to understand squatter laws is smart enough to know that you aren't going to buy a house from a "real estate agent" for $5k.
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