Video: Woman's home destroyed by squatters, belongings sold online | Vargas Reports 

This makes absolutely NO SENSE!!! This is Breaking and Entering! They BROKE In! WTF!!! How do "Squatters" have ANY Rights? Why did SHE have to produce ID yet the Squatter did not? This Judge needs to be Disbarred and someone needs to be sued! This is INSANE!!!

How do criminals have more rights than homeowners???

Judge needs to be disbarred

They didn’t just squat. They stole your property so that makes it criminal.

why dont people go to jail for this? just insane

Too many judges are not doing their jobs!

This is insane. I can’t fathom going through this. How awful for her.

How can this not be a criminal offense? This is insane that country wide squatters are protected by law. Texas above all should outlaw this. So sorry for this lady. I'm retired now and afraid to travel because squatters have all the rights.

This just happened with my neighbor. Old man who had dementia, just lost his wife and too nice of a heart. It killed him and in Kentucky, it's zero amount of days. If you invite someone to stay over, they can automatically claim residency. Not kidding. She took his car, wrecked it, abused him and had ppl constantly in and out. No car, no way to his cancer treatments and within a matter of months, I watched a man go from super self efficient and capable to a cowering emancipated old man that got to sit home alone, infested with bugs from her... While he waits on his car that hardly ever comes back. Police called tons of times. I eventually had to just whip the shit outta her and make her come through me after we put him in a hospice place. No way she was getting in there to take the few things he had left. Bye Felicia. It's crazy! And criminals are finding out and it's all over here. Can't even offer someone a bed for the night without having to worry that you're gonna have to evict them like what?

Give us the name of judge so everyone can call him out or send squatters to his house for Christmas this year.

This has got to be one of the stupidest "laws"! A homeowner has no right and must go through an idiotic process to get rid of a squatter?! This need to change nation wide NOW!

THAT JUDE WAS RIDICULOUS ‼️‼️

Squatters' rights are the most ridiculous subset of the legal system. How can this even exist?

and they are free to do it again... because our stupid ass laws, you can't even go on vacation without someone squatting

This is horrible!!! That is flat out breaking and entering on top of stealing!!!

Don’t allow anyone to stay with you and use your address. In Indiana, you’ll also have to evict them!! Even if they’re using drugs in your home.

Wow, squatters are a plague.

10-day is BS. It's trespassing.

Wow 8 months or more. Blame the courts who do not care. Send the squatters to the judge's house when he goes on vacation.

I don't believe she told them to "stop" working on the house cause "nobody is going to be there". I don't think its ok for those people to take advantage and feel entitled to move themselves in, let alone get rid of her belongings or trash the place! This is becoming the new norm these days. 😔

This woman should sue the Judge for her losses + punitive damages. The American people need to quit complying with the hired help and show them the door, preferably to GITMO, where the majority of them belong.

I hate when the newscaster ends the video with "we gotta go." Cutting off the guest is sooooo cringe.

That judge should have the favor repaid to his property.

A good alarm system with armed response will stop the squatters from becoming squatters. Set up cameras to monitor the property as added security. My friend's been doing this with her property when it's in-between renting.

Why is this happening in Texas?

Disgusting. Sold her property.

This is ridiculous!!!!!!!

Stupid voting has consequences.

trespassing is CRIMINAL, not CIVIL

This squatting business, them having more rights them the actual homeowner is a bunch of BS! THE LAW NEEDS TO CHANGE!!!!!

This is so disturbing

shameful

I would file a lawsuit against the police department.

This only emboldens criminals (and criminal organizations) to take over properties that don’t belong to them. Am I to understand that she was still living there in her house and someone broke in, stole her possessions and SHE was the one needing to produce proof of identity and ownership?? That is backwards!

Nightmare.

I love that breaking and entering is legal now in the United States. It's so f****** great to be a homeowner these days. Don't go on vacation people! Don't go out of town and take care of family members people!! You have no rights to your home when you leave it. And who goes out of town while you're having your home renovated? What? 😳 that blows my mind! When I had my home renovated I was here every day to check on the progress 👀

This is why I always have family stay at my home while I'm out of town.

10 days are you serious add poor boy better have a good insurance policy cuz he's going to be buried in the desert

WOW... "I don't want him to be homeless over the holidays"... Now that really takes the cake... For sure... The judge would rather a "CRIMINAL" not be homeless... And just F O to the leagal home owner... Judges like that need to be "FIRED"... PERIOD... Laws need to protect the INNOCENT... Not the CRIMINAL... DOH!!!

I wonder how much Meth & fentanyl was found in there😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

What is unbelievable to me is how unfazed and nonchalant some of these homeowners are about being robbed and forcefully evicted from their own homes by squatters, aka thieves. This isn't just a "crazy" situation, its an absolutely DEVASTATING situation. Most people cannot afford to pay a mortgage and rent somewhere else. They can't afford to become embroiled in the judicial nightmare necessary to fight this lawfare, nor do they have the time. It would be a total loss for most people. I find nothing remotely interesting or amusing about these scenarios but rather a sense of absolute outrage for the homeowner. The courts are facilitating theft and vandalisn. Thou shalt not steal.

Lawmakers needs to be held accountable. We pay taxes to protect us. They have failed miserably!!!! This woman should sue the useless idiots that sit in government. This is breaking and entering. Let this happen to lawmakers!!! The law will change pronto!

Texas needs Florida laws!

Wow...only in the US

Oh no! That's not good 😢

Unbelievable this allowed to happen.

This is why you always have somebody watching your home when you go out of town

This happened to an elderly woman I knew twenty years ago living alone in a three-bedroom house in a nice family neighborhood. A handyman who she hired for odd jobs took a room, moved in his girlfriend, and they were taking over her house like it was theirs. They were playing electric guitars and walking around naked. She called the police, and they told the police that they were helping her, and the police listened to them and wouldn't remove them. She wound up dying from the stress, and one of the neighbors said she was happy they finally got her out so a nice family could move in. That is how single women with property are treated by the corrupt police in the USA. I think certain people are just targeted by the police for mistreatment. It can't be a matter of you hire a neighbor to do odd jobs and suddenly he claims it is his house. The police are not enforcing burglary, breaking and entering, trespassing, and harassment laws.

Everybody needs to follow Florida

It’s the trashing of someone’s home, selling property… how is that not destruction of property and theft? People staying at a home is one thing. This is beyond that. I guess she can sue them in civil court.

Omg, so horrible!

We need to do something about this it's crazy

Would like to know if he has criminal charges for stealing her stuff though

wow...

Criminal friends of friends hide out this way. Know of a story.

The police need to make the squatters overtake the Judges, DA's and Politicians homes !! Then we will see how long it takes to get the laws changed. The appointed people are WORSE than the criminals and squatters.

Live and learn the hard way....sad.

Poor lady

Horrible… Only in this country!!!! And why are they becoming legit after only 10 days??? Just ridiculous!!!!

Terrible for home owners in America

Rule # 1 broken already…do not disclose to anyone, much less contractors who were hired to paint the house or anyone for that matter, that you will be gone from the home for an extended period of time. Scumbags will come back and rob you blind or destroy the house like what happened to this innocent homeowner 😢

Terrible tragedy for your own house, like being rob at gun point, you work so hard for it, just anyone took it.

No consequences means just what it states on the label. The laws favor squatters. Essentially, once they move in, they own the property. There's nothing you can do about it. Not unless you're super wealthy, powerful, influential, connected, etc.

For all of you asking why do squatters have rights, it's because the law gives them those rights. They are property rights granted by the state and not inalienable human rights. Back in the day, when people needed land to survive, the law allowed people to settle on unworked land (meaning the landowner couldn't work it himself) and if the squatter worked the land, they could keep it. These laws are archaic and were never meant to allow people to break into homes and instantly claim rights. The laws need to change to protect the property owners.

0:11 The way this white lady said trap house w her voice all high ☠️

This is awful!

This isn't squatters' rights either. Squatters used to take over abandoned buildings in the city, fix them up, and then would be evicted by the landlord for being SQUATTERS. Real squatters never had rights. ONLY THE THIEVES have rights.

i dont get how its legal to break in and allowed to stay just because you were there for 10 + days

Lesson: Don't tell strangers no one's home. It's ridiculous what the US has become... this is all caused by woke politicians and courts.

I know. Online sales... donations could always be sold online, too.

I really thought trespassing is against the law but now it proves nothing.

Does insurance cover that?

So wrong.. As soon as cops are called on squatters there should have only so many hours or a day for all parties to show up at the court house and show receipts. Witness etc. Eviction immediately.

You mean.. burglar? There are 50k names for them, anything but the truth.

Why not defund the police? Plenty of cops to write tickets to people trying to get to work. Useless cops everywhere.

OK I understand that it’s a simple matter for what they described but what about the theft? How is the theft of civil matter? That’s my question her dryer existed and then it doesn’t exist. How is that not a crime? How is there? No charges at all for like the damage to the property like if you go into a store and break things it’s criminal. I don’t understand what’s going on here like what legal system is this that’s allowing this level of destruction. And theft.

I think we are going to have to start suing the cities when this happens be cause its because of their ridiculous laws that caused this!

Just crazy

can she sued the state for that, she is a taxpayer its not?..😤😂

Her fault all of America knows about the squatter ordeals. Had she of taken responsibility over her obligations as a home owner, properly secured and managed her property while she was away, she would have been able to get them out by force... within 10 days.

Mistake number one.... never hire anyone to go to your house while you are away. Never tell anyone you are away. Adverse posession requires a lot of paperwork. Lastly texas has a stand your ground law... perso. Is in yout home.... officer... someone intruded, i flet thfeatened..... im sorry but i had to out two holes in thr perp

It's open season on America's borders, homes, streets, shops, and wallets. Get out while you can.

This is called male privilege. Period. She should sue the police for violating her civil rights.

Crazy

Thank you Gov DeSantis for making a squatters law!

a small price to pay when you live in a Self Proclaimed "the Greatest country in the world" greatest B S .. ever...

"Only in America"

What is the difference between breaking and entering, home invasion and squatting? They are all only equal to the first mentioned, “ breaking and entering “. What is the difference between your Credit Card being stolen, your drivers license being stolen and your property being stolen, only to be used in fraudulent use? It is called Identity Thieves, fraudulent. So why even here a reporter afraid to use the real terms of these “squatters”? As thieves, 1 identity thieves, 2 breaking and entering

Would have been better for them to hear BANG, BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG (Reload) BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG

I mean if you don't follow the law, then you don't follow the law.... The law allows her 10 days to get them out, and she didn't take precautions when she was leaving her home.

My sister in law

So insensitive the way the host ended the interview. WTF

Finders keepers.

It awful

WHo was the judge? Really need to know who that person is! My guess is he was elected.

Lovely

Did she fet references?

All of this squatters stories are so preventable if the homeowners had an alarm system and cameras at home

Sounds like the judge was a PC Democrat!!

Notice the donate button to Biden above this 😂😂😂😂