I-Team: Georgia Squatter Reform Act passes, awaits governor's signature 

Trespassing, breaking and entering, illegal entry, burglary. They are not squatters, they are criminals, let them squat in prison for a while.

Don't call them tenants! They are criminals, plain and simple.

Florida law kicks out squatters IMMEDIATELY !!!!

Florida's version is better making it a Felony to write a fake lease or try to sell someone else's property.

They should be arrested immediately and put in jail.

Good. Every State needs to get rid of squatters.

Florida's Squatter law is even better. The squatters can be removed immediately while it goes through the courts.

It's absolutely ridiculous that they even have to pass a law to protect homeowners from people breaking into their house and staying

Florida Desantis already signed a bill to protect homeowners from these criminals. There should be no laws FOR squatting. Desantis gave police the right to immediately arrest. Not 3 days or 7

It should be a felony for someone to falsely claim they have a lease just to be a squatter, or to present a false lease in court.

GOING NATIONWIDE!

This bill is nonsense. It still requires the owner to take the squatters to court. The bill just speeds up the COURT process while the squatter stays on the property. This bill does not allow for immediate removal of the squatter. Pure nonsense bill.

People in NYC hire security to watch their homes when they go on vacation. Laws like this need to be passed all over the country, this is ridiculous.

Here in Florida it takes 1 day.

About time! This needs to be enacted in all 50 states!

Every State need to follow Florida

It’s about damn time!👏 Imagine paying a mortgage, utilities abs taxes on a property that you legally don’t have access to… All while a low-life without a care in the world is protected by the same law you’re to abide by. Then when the criminals finally move out, You’re stuck with repairs of your home. They walk away Scott free.🤦‍♂️

Why they give rights to criminals

Good. No more moving into someone else's property. Get a job and buy your own.

Every single state needs to put this law into effect immediately

Following Governor Desantis lead in Florida. Good for you Georgia. I didn’t think you had it in you.

To all homeowners, be sure to put up “NO TRESPASSING” signs all around your home if you’re going away. It can help your case if you get squatters invading your house.

The President should be signing this into law for the whole country instead of waiting for every state to do this by themselves.

im from the Philippines and im closely following this development. please be safe homeowners and petition a mental asylum for your lawmakers for letting it go this far.

About time sign the bill

There should be a line in the bill that says in the end that if they are found without a legal lease then they should be charged with a felony and hauled to prison and not simply removed from property only to for another home to owner to have to go through the same thing.

I’m glad to hear it. Now only 48 more states to go!

Every state in the country need this!!!!

Why does there need to be a law. If you broke in and or trespassing you are breaking the law!!!!!!! They should be immediately removed, not have to go to court to get them out of your home!!!! This is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard!

EVERY STATE needs reform on squatter laws.

the man is threatening people and the police can't arrested him because he's a squatter?? this new law will do NOTHING if the responding officers refuse to enforce it

Create a temp lease for a close friend, what until squatter leaves, you and friend go inside. Wait for squatter to return, call police and report squatter trying to break in. Show police the temp lease. Just a suggestion.

We need that in California

The SQUATERS LAWS IN THE CITY OF DETROIT NEED TO CHANGE TOO. I HOPE OTHER 48 remaining states change their squatters laws as well

Hopefully this law passes in every state. It makes no sense for someone to take over your home, but the county still wants you to pay your taxes to a home you don't have anymore

This needs to be countrywide.

It should be a federal law to not have squatters rights and a felony for property destruction and breaking and entering. Being able to get them out immediately to under a week is way better than 2 years

these squatters make me feel terrified to buy a home in the future.... these laws need to be passed nationwide

Yay!!! It's about time!!! First Florida now Georgia! Let's go states!!! You all need to follow. WE ALL KNOW it's wrong and so do the criminal squatters!!

I've been waiting for this! Now, I can list my house for rent with a little less fear of squatters.

Finally!!

I hope that North Carolina will change the law too. Now I am afraid to go anywhere on vacation and leave my home alone.

Awesome! esteemed Gov. Kemp, please sign this bill.

That's Florida and Georgia now. In Florida its a bit worse for squatters. In Florida its no longer a misdemeanor, It will be a hard FELONY. You WILL go to prison in Florida. And police has direct authority to evict anyone that does not show a legal lease documentation. And the landlord has to be called to verify the lease agreement. In NYC, 2 republican Senators are passing a bill that would clearly describe "What Is A Legal Tenant" to counteract the squatter scam. You have to have legal papers and have a lease and have permission by the landlord to be on the property. But of course, the democrats are trying to stop that bill from being passed. Which is making New Yorker's really angry, to the point that they are now saying they will vote out any Senator or NY Counsel member from office that hinders this bill. Texas is also working on a new squatters prevention bill, and so is Washington State. Time will only tell who else will follow Florida. Florida is the most strictest state, as in that state, you will be charged will a hard felony. Idaho is another state working on a squatters scam prevention bill. Idaho is also working on a second bill at the same time, which is a illegal migrant bill. A law that would give Idaho police the right to evict migrants from the state and send them back to the migrants original country. The reason for this is, Idaho is experiencing a enormous spike in crimes and squatter problem from migrants. They are getting hostile towards American citizens and assaults are skyrocketing in Idaho. So now several senators are pushing a few bills to deal with these problems. Currently there are a bunch of TikTok videos from Venezuelan migrants telling other migrants to go to the USA and over take peoples houses by force. The CBP Homeland Security federal police officers have sent out an emergency notice to ALL law enforcement agencies across the United States informing them that migrants are getting extremely violent and aggressive. 27 police officers and National Guard have been severely injured at the border. NewsNation channel just did a news piece and they have video showing how aggressive migrants are becoming. They are being told to act this way by other migrants on TikTok . The day that happened, Florida Senators immediately passed a squatters law. Which was already signed by the Florida governor and the new law its effective immediately.

They need to do this nationwide. The squatters should not have rights to live in someone else house living for free.

It's about time. Everyone should follow suit!

Come on Michigan Ya'll got to do this. Detroit is squatting central.

The Georgia bill still makes it too difficult to get people out ! If the owner says they don't have a lease and the squatters can't produce a lease with the owners signature they should be out immediately !! Waiting a week for a court process is still ridiculous. The squatters should be charged with breaking and entering and thrown in jail !

I would think in the case of the man openly displaying a machete as recorded and reported to police was and is at the very least disturbing the peace, a nuisance, and such behavior should be included in GA MENACE law. He clearly could care less about obeying any law. What is really sad is apparently the Atlanta police don't have the backbone the Sheriffs and police forces in FL have to use some common sense. I always wonder if a police officer or an immediate family member owned that business or maybe even lived on that street, if machete man would have been treated differently?

it is illegal to own and carry any knife, open or concealed, with a blade longer than 12-inches in Georgia .That machete he's wielding is longer than 12 inches. Why didn't the police arrest him?

We have squatters. Called the police and the police never arrested them.

About time,how dare they move into your house without your permission 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏼

Good. Hopefully this catches on with other states. Hopefully there is a federal law that stops this also

take squatters to properties of the governors' and other empowered , house them in their properties, when they delay to make and sign such important laws ! the honest and hardworking innocents become the victims of the either corrupt or braindead individuals who made it to the power

Thank you Georgia for passing this law 🎉👏

Every state needs to follow Florida.

Could you imagine if the residents of Georgia voted Stacy Adams in for Governor. It would had been hell.

I can’t wait until it’s signed into law

IT's another half-assed law. The police STILL can't just kick them out of the house, you have to go and file paperwork, which means hiring an attorney, then wait another week after that, then there's another whole process that can take days longer to actually remove them. And that assumes the court actually sides correctly. If they make a mistake, it'll be months longer. Georgia couldn't just do like Florida did and empower the police to remove squatters ON THE SPOT, based on neighborhood interviews and the owner's statements?

Thank you Governor Desantis for protecting us in Florida God bless you 🙏 and your beautiful family

This should be a NATIONAL law ... period

3.4 years late.

When did Trespassing, and breaking & entering become legal?

Come on, NY!!!!!!!!! Get on board🧐🧐

This needs to be nation wide 👏👏👏

It's about time they put laws such as this in place. NOW... how to protect legitimate renters from suddenly being called 'squatters' because the landlord wants to get rid of them to increase rates.

why do you need a law for this? isn't the concept of private property enough? that's like passing a law that requires you turn your headlights on at night. duh.

This new bill needs to pass as a Federal law. No excuses for this to happen in any state.

Thank you for developing this reform. It is ridiculous that this has to happen, but glad that you started the ball rolling. I pray it gets passed soon.

It's about damn time!

2nd state to get it right. im not holding my breath about california passing a similar law. smh and of course its a bandit smh

FL's got it done. Come on, GA. What's the hold up on this sig with ya'lls Gov.? Sign it!

Very good , thank you god helping the right full people

what are TRESPASSING laws for ?

Great news to hear. We need this in Washington, D.C., New York, and in Maryland.

Take care of home owner's.home owner should have all the Rights

Now bring this to Michigan

Southeast setting the example.

So its okay to identify as a ninja 😅

I am clapping. Thank you, Georgia! We need a national law.

Back in 2000, I was going to buy a home near downtown Atlanta. It was in the hood but I did not care because i was not yet 21 years old at the time. The home had people who had broken in, stole electricity and were living it. I asked what would I need to do and they told me, i would have to evict them even though they had no rights there. I gave up that dream for 20 years

The real winners here are the lawyers. The lawyers don't care if the bill passes. Or not. They get paid when the clients come to them. So it's a win-win for lawyers to sit back and do nothing themselves and wait for the homeowners to come in and pay them top dollar for their services.

You see all of these red states updating the law, what about blue states?

Way too little, way too late. Protection of property is in the Bill of Rights.

They need this in every state!

Should have this law passed in ALL STATES plus punishment!

How could this ever happen? Why would a tenant ever have more rights than the owner?

forget the "law," handle matters yourself....................while armed

This only moves the case to a different court, so it does nothing to prosecute squatters.

Every state needs to do this.

The law should be no different, just because someone use the worf squatters, is called breaking and entering, traspassing, damage to property, ilegal misappropriation and is a criminal offense, they dont have to do additional laws for it

At one time in California, a property available for 'adverse posession' had to be in arrears of taxes for a proscribed period (5 years?) and the prospective occupant was required to make all unpaid taxes paid and current and pay taxes going forward as required by law. The occupying party had to maintain the property and make such repairs and improvements as necessary to make the property safe and habitable. The lawful owner (deed holder) had 5 years from the first occupancy by the adversee to reclaim the property, had to reimburse the occupant for taxes paid and in some cases reimburse the cost of repairs or improvements which were necessary for safe habitation. It took the Nazis in Sacramento and their 'brownshirts' in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco to tilt the court system in favor of 'squatters' who rarely maintain or repair property they take, and never pay taxes. SQUATTERS BY DEFINITION ARE INDIGENT WITHOUT RESOURCES OR FUNDS NECESSARY TO AFFECT SAFE AND PROPER OCCUPANCY OF A PROPERTY BUT THE GODDAM DEMOCRATS WANT THEM TO HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE IN SQUALID LUXURY FOR AS LONG AS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.

3-7 days? Screw that BUT it’s a step in the right direction. We shouldn’t be at this point anyway. Legitimate, tax paying property owners should have priority. PERIOD!

This needs to be Federal and in every state! Period

It is wrong but crazy when Caucasians was doing it no problem everyone else catch on they criminals 😂😂😂 just crazy

We need to change the laws in South Carolina right now.I hope our Attorney General Alan Wilson will spearhead this immediately.

I had a friend in Delaware that had this problem. He called me. I went up and squatted on the squatters and took the doors off the house they left.

they've let this go on for over 50 years cause the courts, attorneys, judges, court removal, everyone makes a fortune off this, they loved every bit of it

Need to make this bill nationwide

Good to see some truly good bipartisan work is still possible.