Sadly, in the UK squatters have enormous rights. Getting them evicted takes an eternity, and is very expensive. The squatters use utilities foc, and wreck the property, with NO comeback. Appalling.
don't care I care more about HUMAN RIGHTS than any so called "homeowner rights" which have caused untold suffering to others especially Children and Animals!!!!!!!!!! there needs to be SEVERE LIMITS on what so called "homeowners" can do with their so called "property" and not just do whatever they want to others who live in their so called "property" and ruin their RIGHTS such as what "parents" do ruining their Children turning them, into neurotic Adults who are programmed and enslaved doing what they've been told is "okay" or "right" which nowadays means nothing since all these rules and laws are completely arbitrary and many of them openly harm individuals and societies as a whole such as the whole "respect your elders" nonsense when respect is EARNED not simply given based on some made up "cultural" entitlement! what people do to Children causes them to grow up into Adults who affect the whole society for better or worse and it's obvious assaulting Children while protecting "powerful" people who don't deserve any protection is causing a lot of issues. "homeownership rights" are a MADE UP CONCEPT and have never truly existed even many so called laws don't care about them at ALL! owning your body even as a Child is actually important versus some dumb "homeowner" concept which doesn't work at all. everyone in a society should have a home or someplace to be it's a basic need after all.
doesnt work in Canada, we just shut everthing off and watch em try to live in misery.... well that and the fact the one who paid has the documents to have them arrested for trespassing too
In this instance because the property was not occupied and improved by them for a sufficient amount of time, no they do not have the right to the title. However adverse possession, pejoratively called squatter’s rights, is an important and necessary part of land law. Let’s say you bought a piece of land. There’s an existing fence line already along the border of what you believe is your land and you take that fence to be the property line. You build a house, raise a family, grandchildren, pay taxes, etc. A decade or so later is it revealed that you never owned up to that fence to begin with and the current titleholder is asserting their right to the land and demanding you vacate. By this point, you have lived in and improved this land for a generation or two. How is it fair that the titleholder now can tell you to pack up and leave? The short answer is it’s not, because he did nothing to assert his claim up until now, and he did not maintain the land. You did. The court would and should find you as the new titleholder of the property. I work in land surveying. I’ve seen a few adverse possession cases. Mostly just property line disputes. The law makes it all but impossible for a homeless person to take ownership of a vacant house unless they have been living under the nose of the property owner for years. It can happen. The owner is someone out in California but the vacant home is in Detroit, and so has not seen this man living on his property until it’s too late. The point of adverse possession is to prevent land from being fallow and to prevent an ancient title from getting in the way of modern occupations. I hope that explains things enough. Squatters do have rights, it’s just not what you think it is.
@@calvinsmith6681 Your example does not apply to any squatters in this day and age. Your example was about an honest mistake made BY THE NEXT DOOR OWNER. Squatters are neither owners nor are they making honest mistakes. They are knowingly invading private property that they know does not belong to them. Your example also had the owner completely neglecting the property for over a decade. When does that happen?
@@proggerjohn all I’m saying is that all these comments here are calling for an end to squatters rights/adverse possession but don’t actually seem to understand the laws surrounding it. I was not endorsing the actions of the people in the video nor any other person who knowingly trespasses on a property in an attempt to claim it as their own. The law does not protect them. All I’m doing is trying to explain what the laws surrounding adverse possession actually are As for an owner neglecting a property for over a decade, it can happen. In a suburban neighborhood, landscaping and a mow line is sufficient enough to claim adverse possession if the titleholder has not attempted to correct it. My father had to thwart an adverse possession claim on his property by our ritzy neighbor behind us after they installed a dog fence 30 feet into our property and claimed that it was where the property line was. He dug up the dog fence and installed a tasteful farm fence where the actual line is.
I dealt with squatters once. I waited till they left the house and I went right in and threw all their belongings outside to the sidewalk. They called the cops and the cops told them to pack up their belongings and leave. I was in the house and I changed the locks first. I am now the "squatter", they had nothing in the house to claim, I now had my house back. If you call the cops, they can not remove any one. Then you have to go though the fucked up system that allows this shit that will take a few moths to get done.
@@tinawindham6958 If they do a person can do exactly what they did. House owner can prove ownership, change utilities back into rightful name, wait a few days and strike.
We unknowingly rented an illegal home for 2 1/2 years. Didn't know it was illegal. Paid on time, mowed the lawn, kept it up, all the while looking for our perfect home to buy. One day there was a knock at the door. A lawyer who represented the "REAL" owner who was in a retirement home with Alzheimer's. I showed them the lease because I was sure we were okay. Turns out the guy who was renting us the property wasn't a relative of the owner, didn't have power of attorney, and we were there illegally. It took us a week to find a new house and we were gone. The attorney asked us to testify against the man who rented us the property, and we did. Thankfully we weren't charged. But the moron who rented us the home had the audacity to try and collect the last month's rent. Knocked on our new neighbors' doors in the new home and told them we were criminals. Some people.
How are people renting homes they do not own? What if there are damages? All of this sounds illegal. Or at least unethical. Especially if the real owners are unaware.
The owner's representative moved them into what turned out to be an unauthorized location. The tenants acted on good faith because they didn't know he was lying. What am I missing?
@IllHandleThis in maine we have squatters rights to protect abandoned property and eye sores to what you call properties that people own but don't ever take care of. Once you squat in someone's home and maintain everything from property to bills for 20 years the property is yours. That's just how it works in maine but you can still evict them within the first few years it just takes a lot of time money and courts to do so.
U don't know America then. It's a messed up place to own a property. This was in 2016, these days it's even worse. Squatters can come into your house and you can't evict them eventhough they never offered to rent that property to them at the first place. If you call the police, all the squatters need to do is to say I have a lease and the police cannot ask to have a look at the lease. It's illegal for the police to do that and they can lose their job.
@@joeym5243 you are ignorant! I bet you would change your opinion if you left your dwelling and came home realizing that squatters took over your home!
"Show me you paid the security deposit.....I don't have it"........JJ response is the sound of her scratching out the deposit notes..The defendant was hired to probably just maintain property but he lands up renting it to others.
he did say there at the end that he was "subletting". I bet he either got the unit to stay in as part of his payment OR he just decided he had all the keys, might as well make some $$$
The courts should do away with this squatters law. You should no rights stealing other people property when it not yours. Showing fake documents claiming is your property. You dam well it is not your property.
That’s not going to happen because a few bad apples does not mean we burn the whole orchard down. Even still, they did not occupy the land long enough to claim adverse possession. It’s all but impossible to claim adverse possession in the way most people think of it (ie a homeless person occupying an abandoned home they do not own). Most adverse possession claims are property line disputes or a failure of the titleholder to enforce their rights a generation ago before the “squatters” had occupied and improved the land.
I was laughing so hard. 😂 are they serious? They never paid him anything, and he didn't even own the place. I'm surprised case was longer than 2 minutes
I have the feeling here that the defendant wants the plaintifs to pay for 'damage to the property' because the actual owner of the property wants him to pay for it.
You know it’s going to be a messy judge Judy case when it’s only 4 minutes, 1 part and involves squatters 💁♀️ grab the popcorn,If you have time to make it before this case is over.🍿
Watching this I felt that Judge Judy must be having a blast doing these shows. I bet she has always wanted to say things to people in some her cases as a judge and now she gets to say whatever she wants because she's doing it for TV. Great!
I knew a guy that died. He had no family that I knew of. I did know he had 3 acres of property. This 3 acres of his was actually in the name of a company he had formed years ago and was now listed as inactive. I had another friend that was on the verge of homelessness. I told him about this land. My friend pays the tax on the land every year so it does not go into tax sale. It's been over 20 yrs now. That's how you squat if you you're going to squat. The name of the company was ****farms. My friend started a company with the same name as the one the property is in. Genius.
You sound like you're proud to have participated in this fiasco , and for 20. Years ???? That's very illegal , you both should be ashamed and sued . 🙄😬
This is right up there with the case about a stolen bag. The plaintiff was listing off items in the bag. The defendant actually tried denying one of the things she listed was in the bag.
For the first time, I did not even need to watch the entire case to know that Judge Judy was going to dismiss the plaintiff's case. The minute I saw the title read, "Squatters Say They Were Illegally Evicted", statistically speaking, no judge wants to help an individual who is considered a squatter because they are usually in violation of the law.
I lived for like 5 years without a lease on my first apartment after my original lease expired. That was STUPID - for both me and the landlord. We were just both lucky that were were decent people who treated each other well. He never even raised the rent by a dollar. I always paid on time and if I was a little late I'd always fulfill my promise to pay by the date I said I would pay. But if either one of us was unscrupulous- it would have been a massive headache. He was a great landlord though and he loved me as a tenant.
Um, what? The plaintiffs totally got screwed over. Month-to-month means 30 days' notice. They were moved into an illegal rental and were evicted by the police through no fault of their own, then forced to pay hotel rates. Why shouldn't they get punitive damages???
NEVER rent from someone who won't draw up a lease. It is for your protection as well as the landlord's protection. NEVER give someone cash for a security deposit/rent--EVER! Go to a bank or credit union or currency exchange and get a certified or cashier's check. Always pay with something that is traceable. Before signing your lease, read it and go over the terms and conditions of your lease with your landlord. You need to know what you're signing. If you're lease states, "NO PETS ALLOWED" that means, NO PETS. If the lease states, "NO SMOKING" that's exactly what it means. Don't think you can get away with it as long as you don't get caught. If you treat your rental like you'd treat your own home and pay your rent on time, unless you're doing something illegal or against your lease, a landlord will want to keep you as tenants for as long as possible.
