Real estate attorney here who has filed these kind of cases. One small correction is that not every state requires you to have a reasonable belief that you own the land. This is actually the biggest variation (aside from the time element that you mentioned) from state to state.
Also, many states have eviction procedures even for guests that you actually invite and allow to stay for extended periods of time. Some of these time frames are shockingly short....so they don't even need to squat without you knowing.
There are also other claims depending on state. Examples: you have to improve the property, or there can't be other squaters, or the occupation period can't be interrupted, or the squatter has to prove legal US residency first.
i was thinking about buying some land.. what is stopping someone from making fraudulent documents that say they own it and screw me out of the land.. also who am i buying from? someone owns this wild land?
if they tell the police that you told them they could live there than you have to go to court to prove that they are lying. the reality is that only a judge can make an eviction order.
We fixed this issue in Canada, squatters have no rights. We've moved to electronic land registry systems, deeds do not exist and the deadline to register old deeds has expired.
In Finland as well. Idea of "unclaimed" or completely unknown landowner is pretty foreign, because there's pretty solid archives of documents for ownership of every piece of land. 99,99 % of those are digitized in state land registry. It's not some specific system you can eally abuse. It's literal archive of scanned documents. Though most of it is also transfered to map systems, it's still those original documents that are legally binding.
@@BeHappyTo - Well, it depends on what they mean by “electronic.” In the US, most places have digital access and retrieval, but these are scans of the physical documents. Very convenient, but ultimately, there is the paper trail. I don’t know if they make redundant copies (e.g., microfilm) to archive in the event of database corruption…which they should. In an all electronic system…if paper copy is eliminated, it would be easy to alter land records and not be able to backtrack to the original owner. If the electronic system has safeguards against this being possible, I could understand people trusting it, but in the US, people get their land stolen all the time by fake deed filings where the clerk does nothing to verify the legitimacy of the document. It’s a crime, but good luck affording a lawyer to go to court and get your land back.
First you would have to find one of their properties unattended, unwatched and unmonitored. Monitored is the big one, they can afford an eye watching for legal documents filed on their properties. The moment someone puts it down as their address for an official purpose, such as an energy bill, these entities will notify the owner. Shortly after, Private Security will turn up to ponder what you are doing on a piece of land they are contracted to protect using force we wouldn't legally have access to ourselves. Given that all these claims require you to openly possess the land for a number of years before such a claim is valid.... Good luck, they know the law protects rich land-owners more then poor ones.
In the Netherlands it used to be legal to squat a building that was standing empty for over a year. This came from the post war period were there was a huge shortage in homes, but at the same time speculators let buildings stay empty for a long time in the hope to sell them for a higher price later on. However squatting didn't make you owner and if the original owner could make it plausible that they wanted to use the building again the squatters had to leave.
@@lyr1x833 The law has changed and now squatting has become completely illegal on the Netherlands. But I guess the squatters would have gotten a few weeks to move.
@@lyr1x833 If most asian countries, if you didn't spend any money to build a house or renovate then you automatically move out. But if you squat a land, build a house or any establishments, the owner have to bring it to court.
@@SimGunther , Short answer - Single Family Policies set in the 1980's are surprisingly hard to get overturned.... For the long answer I recommend Britmonkey's 'the Housing Crisis is the Everything Crisis.'
You can have vacation with your family for 3 weeks and come home to someone living in your house!? That's outrageous even for the third world country I live in! That's just trespassing ain't it?
It depends the state, but as a landowner my understanding is this: If someone is residing at your address for a period, usually a month, they are legally recognized as Tenants. As such they have Due Process rights that must be honored if they are to be evicted from that location. This process was designed to prevent terrible Lords throwing out good Peasants who honoured the contracts, just so they can invite in richer Nobles for personal gain... at it's core. Effectively, the landowner has to prove you are not a proper and contract abiding Tenant before they can gain permission to evict you. The whole 'month' time period is there to prevent disgusting landlords simply lying and saying no contract existed. If a month passes, again depends the State, then the courts have to entertain the possibility an agreement existed.... In a situation where someone does squat that person is still going to be evicted, the land owner doesn't lose the property that easily. Said landowner simply has to turn up in Court, inform the Judge there is no enforceable contract and they where given proper notice to vacate, and then request that the individual be removed by the Sheriff. That individual will have a chance to speak, if they even show up at all, to prove there is a contract and that they have been honouring it... usually by showing some sort of payments from Tenant to Landlord. The only two complaints landowners really have is that Due Process always takes time, even with emergency hearings that would be granted if someone overstayed their welcome and became belligerent towards after refusing to leave. Courts are backed up, people take time to be served papers, and there is dozens of little things that can push everything back by months at a time. One wrong move and the whole thing will also need to be started over, a mistake that doesn't even have to be done by your side.... The other is being 'insolvent' also is a problem, probably the real problem here as it does become a sort of ingrained mentality in some people. When these individuals don't have money to lose themselves, they don't care that the whole thing cost you a lot of it. What you going to do, sue them for it? They are insolvent and can't be touched by civil suits involving silly things like financial damages.... Not a lawyer, just have evicted a few people through the proper systems. One that was insolvent and tried some dirty crap in court, if you can't tell the bitterness there. The rest... departed after being given proper and legal notice that their contracts would be ending.
@@lostbutfreesoulyou make it sound like everyone is in the financial position to just let a squatter live in their home for 4 months. Not only are you paying the mortgage now you’re paying 4 months at a hotel. They clearly over corrected with these ridiculous squatter laws. If a family just got back from vacation and criminals are in their home their case should be heard immediately. Not treated like just some normal tenant landlord dispute. Come on this is ridiculous lol
@@lostbutfreesoulAlmost every squatter video i see it’s not some down on their luck family. It’s trashy folks trashing the place. bottles of urine everywhere god what a nightmare
Too bad non of the squatters ever end up squatting in a politicians house. Then we will see how fast the police will react and how fast the laws protecting squatting rights will change.
i have thought about this exact thing many times over. im not sure if the Squattee politicians ownership contract of their house is considered "special". like the same power as washington dc . on this land but not of this land kind of thing.
One question for me is why can’t people whose homes are taken over by squatters not just do the same to them? Wait for them to be gone, break in, change the locks, and if confronted just say you have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s a he said she said situation after all.
Some people are doing that. There's a guy on TH-cam doing that and looks like he's started a business to take back homes for the owners. I heard he's charging $5K to take back a home. But it's way less than court costs.
people can do that but it's dangerous. Imagine confronting people who don't have any sense of abiding to the law... (thats how they first broke in in the first place). However, you cannot be the homeowner; if you are the homeowner doing that, you will be arrested for trespassing.
"How would you be able to prove you own the place?" Well, every place I've ever lived in outside of my parents house, I either had a lease agreement or a mortgage contract...
My old man used to own quite a few rental properties. One time there was a tenant that just completely quit paying rent and was trying to claim squatters rights. My dad went to court to get them evicted but after about 6 months of still receiving no rent and the government dragging their feet on the eviction process, my dad gathered up a group of hard hitting motherf*ckers armed enough to supply a small army. They went over to the house and evicted the tenant themselves and took the rental back without incident. I guess sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands.
@@haykmelikyan7796 incriminating is suggesting you committed a crime . Not liking a law doesn’t make it any less a law, and the society overall decides the laws, but making statements that connect you to crimes is not wise, no matter your feelings about government. In this case connecting your dad to a crime, and then yourself as aiding and abetting a criminal. You could potentially add withholding evidence if you knew the people involved.
If you live in Australia you know how difficult it is to buy your first house. Yet some people thinking that they are somehow entitled to just move into someone else's house and there are laws to protect these criminals shows how broken the system is.
No that's called stealing and why don't you just stop being a busy body scavenger and stop looking at what other people are doing with their things and mind your own things or work so you can afford what ever you desire?
@@Grahamisthesword doesn't matter, it's my property, I can do whatever I want with it. There should be laws that force you to sell the property if it's vacant for over X amount of time. And if you don't sell it on the free market by then, the government will either buy it from you (for set price), or sell it for you at whatever price they will get. And limit how much property can an individual own, tax the said properties accordingly (so property hoarders/flippers will lose money), limit selling real estate to foreign nationals, these sort of things. Not allowing some randos to steal the land that you bought with your hard earned money.
In my third world corrupt country we have cases of people who rent an apartment and then stop paying after 3 months, and kicking them out is a hassle because the law protects them due to the right of having a living place or something like that. Likewise we have professional land stealers, they come at night, build a 3x3 (meter) room and place a family inside with a kid and an elderly adult, since the law protects the elderly and the children, the land owner cannot kick them out or demolish the "building", rinse and repeat and after 2 weeks your have a complete slum full of squatters, most of them paid by the land stealer, after a couple of years they can claim ownership over the land, which is then given to then land stealer who proceeds to relocate the occupants and demolish the poorly built houses and then builds more profitable houses.
From a developing country too, where the way to deal with these people or the homeless ones that want to take over is to hire someone to go toss some molotov coktails over them (thats the nice warning) or outright take them out by brutal force.
It might sound like something that could happen in the Philippines. But I haven't heard cases of that happening. or maybe I'm just ignorant to it. Either way I looked up for cases like this but I haven't found any.
@@gokiburi-chan4255 ye I doubt it happens like that. Just like the US there are people who live 100% of the taxes and assets of productive people through welfare
A dark side similar to this involve property disputes. Some states put the burden on whomever brings the case to court. So, if you own land and someone infringes, and the burden is such, you can’t bring the case because you then must prove YOU own the land to assert your case. This incentivizes using force to push the person off your property and make THEM bring the case so THEY must prove they own the land.
@@jeffbenton6183 - In Virginia, the person bringing the claim has to prove they own the property. I would presume the alternative is that if the defendant can’t offer proof, the plaintiff would win…assuming the plaintiff offered some kind of proof. If both offer proof or neither offers proof, the court would have to determine the boundaries of the disputed property. In a case I saw, the defendant was uprooting and moving survey markers and putting up a fence line. It nearly came to blows…and law enforcement wouldn’t do anything as it was a “civil matter” (odd, as I thought trespassing was a criminal matter). So, property owner had to sue…then get an updated survey. First surveyor refused to testify as to their work (again, odd as he knew what the survey was for when he took payment). So, the survey had to be redone. The defendant got a surveyor who came up with 4 possible boundary determinations…none of which he would testify were 100% certain. Plaintiff eventually won after years of litigation. A key thing to note is that places with varied terrain often use the metes and bounds method of surveying land….relying on physical landmarks and survey markers. The problem is that landmarks change and lan shifts over time. A LOT of landowners DO NOT get a current survey before buying land…they just copy the survey description from the prior deed. In as little as 50 years the survey description can be impossible to reproduce due to changes. So, always insist on a current survey of the property (especially rural) before buying…make sure you are getting what you bargained for.
I don't get it though. Surely it's easy to prove you own the land right? I mean I can't imagine buying propery for a couple hundred k and not having it in a registry somewhere?
@@Blackfatrat - These disputes often involve boundary lines. Most everywhere where the land isn’t flat uses metes and bounds deed plotting. These rely on landmarks that can shift over time. Surveyors will insert steel pins to mark things for future surveys, but the land shifts in as little as 5 years. Add in that many people are cheap and transfer land with no updated property survey, and “your property” might be relying on a survey from over 100 years ago. You can’t just argue the deed. You need a current professional survey to establish the property lines, and that can get messy if the old calls and distances don’t fit with how the land has changed. This can be particularly messy when a dispute involves a parcel with many acres…much of which is unimproved and had no definite property line marker like t-posts and barbed wire following the survey markers.
It does occur to the mind to break into your own home while the squatters are out, remove all their belongings to some remote area in the woods and change the locks and be on guard when they return. This might take a bit of surveillance over a period of time to learn their patterns. But once removed you’d simply claim they were never there, that you have no idea what they’re talking about. A smart squatter might take pics of themselves in your home. You may need to repaint when you take back over your home so that any pics they show don’t match your home’s interior. You may even need to swap out your own furniture, or at least remove it to a storage location until things blow over. Whew, I can certainly understand why a homeowner might just want to disappear the squatters. Not that I’m advocating that action.
In Germany we have something called "Grundbucheintrag". In english translated, I guess "land register entry" and the owner of the home can only be changed by an official notary. Maybe this is something for the land of freedom?
That's because Germany uses a land registration system while the U.S. (and many other jurisdictions) use a land recording system. In a land registration system, the government acts as a guarantor of title, so the government records on who owns a piece of land is considered legally definitive. In a land recording system, the government merely serves as a depository for records of land ownership but doesn't actually guarantee or determine who owns what. Instead, owners can buy title insurance that insures against losses caused by issues with their ownership of a piece of land, such as a claim that someone else actually owns it. Title insurance will also generally pay for legal fees associated with defending against such claims. The reason for not employing a land registration system is that it costs the government a lot of money when it needs to pay out claims since the government essentially acts as title insurance.
We do have this notary system in France too, but we still have squatter rights and acquisition by prescrption (usucapion) with almost the same conditions. Squatter rights because you can have the right to live there if you reasonnably think you rented it from the actual owner, or simply because you have the keys and it is clearly your residency. We can't kick you out like that without a judgement. And prescription of acquisition because even with the registry system, you want unused land to be exploited and you don't want lands that have been transmitted without passing in front of a notary being given back to the children of the 100 years ago owner. It would be a mess
Yes, when that part popped up "How would you legally show that you own or rented the place?" I was like WTF? I have a rental contract or in my case, now that I own a house, the record is with the government and can be pulled up at any time (and can't be easily changed). So I can prove this easily, oral contracts are non-binding when it comes to homes/land.
"If a police team busted into your home today and tried to kick you out, how would you definitely prove that you own the place and weren't just living in there as a squatter?" are you actually serious? how about SHOWING THEM A COPY OF THE RENTING AGREEMENT, SIGNED BY YOUR LANDLORD?!
They fake those now, it isn't the police departments job to detrmine if a contract is legally binding nor would I trust them to handel it comptently. Courts are where these disputes should be handled, and what if the landlord is lying? I have met some pretty scummy landlords, what is to stop a landlord lying about a tenat so they can raise the price on the next shmuck?
It's not that common, it is just everywhere in the media so you buy alarms and distract yourself from the fact that you are way more likely to lose your home because of your landlord/bank. If you have squatters in your first home you can call the police immediately, it is the houses owned by banks and the empty houses that are in risk, not your actual home. When I bought a flat the bank tried to push me to get their alarm company using this 'threat' of squatters.
@@gghhpuf I personally know of people who have had squatters in their home, they were fixing the place before moving in and squatters took the place. The police did nothing. We had to use “other methods” (we tricked them) to remove them from there. Squatting is a big problem in cities like Barcelona.
It happens in France too, they send to your adress mails with their name on it to proves that they where there even before that they actually breaked in your house. And if it's more than a arbitrary time you can't kick them out without going on through long procedures. They talked about changing the law but I don't know what it is now.
@@Thesavagesouls I'd simply "break" (Which in itself is impossible because it's your house) back into my house and drag those people out on the street and sue them for breaking and entering.
Yes since the pandemic it's been a growing trend. With all the smashing grabs and this eviction moratorium among other things only leaves this country vulnerable to criminals and cheap and worthless politicians and police
The argument that renters and owners shouldn't be kicked out just because people usually can't prove ownership is kinda ridiculous. It's like saying drivers shouldn't be fined for not having their driving license on them: as long as it's not punished, people won't do it. Legal famework for cars and driving is relatively new so you'll find lots of similar examples where change in behaviour is driven by legal requirements: no leaded fuel, relevant papers need to be on you, you have to wear a seatbelt etc. If people could be kicked out of their homes for not having the relevant documents, then they would just start having the documents.
That's what I thought. Why wouldn't you have legal documents you own the place stored away somewhere? And isn't there government agency in US who keeps records like land ownership? And if you're renting... Who rents a place without signing a contract of it?
I'm not an American, but I think you're expected to have your driver's license when you're driving. Not having it is an infraction in and of itself. I don't think there's a law that you need to have housing documents with you. There's also the issue of time and situation as well. Most driving laws can't be applied if you aren't driving; for example, you don't need to provide the police with your driver's license when you aren't driving. However, you're the owner or renter of a house 24/7, and so you'd need to have those documents ready with you 24/7. This gets even more ridiculous if you were in another country and suddenly the police goes to your house, you can't provide those on the fly because you aren't even there.
@@Vietcongster Why would you need to have those documents with you? If police comes knocking on your door, because someone claims you're unlawfully residing there sure you can just search the papers from your archives. If you're not home. What's the problem?
@@Vietcongster Just like storing your driver's license in the car or in your wallet, you can store the papers about renting or ownership in the house/apartment. Police could also give people a day to prepare. Most likely you won't be asked about the ownership our of nowhere if you're the rightful owner, and that applies to when you're abroad. If someone wants to illegally occupy your house then they clearly won't want the police to be involved. Meaning the legal owner will start the process which gives them as much time as they want to get the necessary papers. So the situations you described would only be a problem for the guilty party, and I don't see how that's a bad thing. Also, the way authorities handle people being abroad is a completely different question. That can come up in MANY different cases, not just regarding property ownership, so that's really not the scope of what we're talking about here.
Yeah I realized the importance of this when I purchased a house and the satellite survey and county records seem to disagree with the fence line. Possibly a tiny piece of land that appears on my side of the fence may belong to the neighbor. Not a big deal, except part of a shed exists on part of that property. It would be cost prohibitive to move it and likely has existed since the 90s, so if my neighbor suddenly had a problem it likely would belong to my property due to squatters rights. I can absolutely see after this experience why these laws are important. Exact property lines are not always well defined.
I'm a land surveyor, and never, never rely on county tax records or satellite "surveys" to determine where your property lines are. Most of these are based on overlaying a deed description on satellite imagery, and can be anywhere from a foot to more than 20 feet off, depending on the quality of the deed and the image. In fact, almost every county tax mapping system I've ever used has a disclaimer which say that the lines shown do not represent the actual property lines. The best and most accurate way to find out where your property lines are is to hire a local professional land surveyor to mark the corners and lines
When my wife was pregnant we bought a home but the guy living there refuses to move out and we had sold our old place and had only a week to move out of there. One of the most stressful things I had to deal with especially since the only family I had lived too far away for us to stay there and still be able to go to work. Going through the courts would take too long but we managed it even if we had to take things into our own hands since we didn’t get any help from the real estate agent. After that we had to take all his things out and clean the place and it took years to have him no longer listed as a resident in our home even if we never saw him after he left.
@@raphaelrodriguez1856 not in the US. I live in Sweden. To be clear we were very unlucky. It isn’t like that is a common thing to happen. Everyone we have told about it have never heard of anything like it before.
@@ha2kon539 if you don’t make enough to rent an apartment either get a higher salary rent smaller or buy lol. Just because minimum wage earners can’t live in city centers doesn’t mean most have a problem
@@ha2kon539 why should people that don’t work be given housing????? Contrary to Reddit belief housing is not a right houses don’t fall from the sky it takes a lot of work to build and maintain one why should people be allowed to appropriate other peoples work and property for their own benefit that’s how you tare a society down
I guess this is why my landlord has a part in the lease saying to let them know if we're going to be gone for an extended period of time. I guess so they can check for squatters.
Agree - I think it's reasonable to expect them to be binding, but to be on the exact same level as a proper written contact is silly - of course due to record & the scope being unclear (start of convo? 3 days worth of conversation?), but primarily because a written contract is a vastly different experience & you *will* know what you're signing up for, and the writing wasn't "in the moment", but actually thought through and redrafted multiple times.
@@delfinenteddyson9865 I mean, every corner shop I've been to has a receipt system. But on that note; not any used sales. However these are both relating to a transfer of physical goods, which is only really one type of agreement.
Let's say you took your dog to the vet and they told you it needs surgery. You ask how much is it gonna cost, they say 10000 $. You say ok, go ahead with the surgery. Dog is ok and you refuse to pay. Legally binding contract - vet told you how much it's gonna be, you said you were going to pay it after the surgery. If the contract wasnt legally binding, you would just get a surgery for free because the doctor can't like undo it (animal abuse), can't refuse to give the dog back (theft), they couldn't do anything.
@@luxurypetscz That's why any self employed person will always have his customers /clients sign something like a contract confirmation. A vet certainly would never do a surgery without any signed piece of paper. I usually don't have my customers sign anything if it's a small job. But I had one person say to me when I informed her about her unpaid invoice "I don't know you"...........
It's not a war crime to cook fish in the microwave, because it's not happening during a time of war. But, it is banned by the Geneva convention and is a crime against humanity
Spanish here. It has literally come to the point where the squatters are the ones calling the police because it is common for the rightfull owner to break into his own property (with a couple of bulky friends) and beat the s* out of the squatters
Not in a million years I thought Oral agreement would be as strong as a written one in US. In my place, written/recorded agreement is king, so thats why every agreement needed to be written/recorded just to stay safe.
thats why in Germany property sales have to be in written form…plus these sales have to be confirmed by a notary, havent heard about squatters here. Ppl who used to rent and not moving out yes but not squatters…🤔
Es gibt schon Landstreicher, die quartieren sich aber eher in einer Scheune auf dem Land ein und man kann sie leichter loswerden... In den Städten gibt es aktivistische Hausbesetzungen, die sind aber nochmal was anderes
The same in Mexico and then you have property stealers too. The difference is that here since people know the law is shit and corrupt, they will normally deal with it themselves by hiring someone to violently evict them
If the police busted into my house right now, I can prove it is mine by surfing over to the county tax appraiser's website, showing him the name of the property owner, and showing them my ID that demonstrates that it's me. That should be (and now kind of is) all that it takes and by-bye squatters, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! This is quite simply the easiest and best way to determine these things, and can be done in real time.
It's quite bold to try and steal a war veteran's home. If there is something that can push a hardened killer with potential PTSD over the edge I would imagine it would be having strangers invading and destroying his home. While the average guy might not be able to make a whole household disappear without a trace, I imagine a soldier would.
I doubt soldiers are trained in letting a lot of bodies disappear with no trace. That being said, if you're on the wrong side of that guy seeing red, whether the police will find evidence of you later isn't really the biggest of your issues.
There is a hee-uge difference between killing everyone in a house and "making a whole household disappear without a trace." They start the same but have very different, non-overlapping skills at the end.
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I had heard that part of the reason for this is related to human trafficking. Either way, I would make life hell for someone who dared to try this with me. Constant knocking on the door, setting off smoke bug bombs under and around the house. Install one small camera at the exits so that the moment the person walks out, I'm kicking the rest of their shit out. If I've just lost my house to someone on the other side of the door and all they had to do was say "Nuh-uh, this is my house!", I'm about to do the same to get it back. And I work from home, with the power of delivery for pretty much everything, I can remain indoors for months or even years if I truly wanted to, to ensure they get bored and don't try to play an Uno reverse card. These laws seriously need to go, though. If, with a police escort, I can enter my house to provide the documents that I own the home, the squatter needs to get the hell out that moment.
Once I read a good solution. Cancel water and sewage contracts. At least where I live the fresh water supply will be interrupted and workers from the municipality will come and remove the sewage output to the main pipe.
Then you wind up being charged with attempted murder, have your entire life destroyed, and spend the next 3 years in and out of court, even if they find you innocent.
@@quazy1328 I agree with you, but the state would still charge you and the process of proving your innocence still destroys people. And gods help you if the jury is led to care more about trespassers than property rights.
@@ColinTherac117 Do you understand the castle law. If you are trespassing on my property and I give you warning to leave the property and you refuse to leave my property and you deprive me of use of my property then I have the right to defend my use of my property with any force including deadly force. This has been done in Texas before and the people were cleared of all wrong doing.
for all of my 'adult' life, if the cops broke down my door and asked me to prove i have legal right to live there (or now, if i 'own' this house), it would have taken me about two minutes to prove that i do, probably less. *except for that one time in my 20's; but i still had legal documentation that i had 'bought' the land in good faith. it's just that the company selling it didn't actually own it.
If they damaged my door (there is no "breaking it down"), they would not be standing around talking to me. I respond to that kind of violence with cartoonish levels of retaliation. Act like a zombie, get treated like one. Then again, I'm pretty sure it's not even in their will to do something like that. They only do that, if you're doing something serious (like Breaking Bad).
This video barely covers how this is actually abused. What happens is someone buys a property with the intent of fixing it up and renting it out. Then one day the owner walks up to the property and finds people moved in. For the months or even years that it takes to get a court date, those people cannot be removed from your property and are actively damaging it. This bankrupts people who want to try and fix up their neighborhood and only ultra rich corporations with economies of scale that can afford security guards get to have their property protected. It is another way the law as it stands hurts the middle class who are the core of democracy.
I used to own a lease to an apartment in Brooklyn and I happen to end up with a squatter of a roommate. They abuse the eviction moratorium and didn’t pay their rent. I hired an attorney to kick them out but the laws in NYC are pretty much in the squatters favor. I ended up in financial troubles because of them, and they have the audacity to say I’m discriminating them because they are Muslim and Black, when race and religion have nothing to do with it. I made the apartment unlivable and I ended up confronting them. Eventually they move out. One thing I hate about this law is that it protects the wrong people. Their name is “Salma Sheila Jagur, Anthony Banks and Kim Tamer” don’t rent to them. I already know who to vote for this coming election.
All races do this including white. The best way is not to rent out your place unless you have a lawyer to write a strong contract . Due to cv it best not to rent at all until things get straight. I grab he moved out a lot don’t move out as easily one white fix was in a home for two years. It almost like a good scam to get free rent for a time imagine how much money you save by just not having to pay rent for a few months or years. You may end up with enough money to get your own home.
@@Pulapaws It blew my mind when they accused me of being Racist and Islamophobic because I’m asking them rent money!.!. It’s considered discrimination to ask for rent these days!.!.
Ok so all I’ve gathered is that the real issue is the laws surrounding oral contracts combined with people with low enough morals to break in to your house and claim it’s theirs, all I’m saying is stand your ground laws kinda solve this issue if actually used
Well where I live in Canada, my tax dollars are still to this day being spent on 100 Billion dollar land claims from hundreds of years ago that say the entire country is theirs because of their ancestral claims of ownership.
The problem is not that you have to go to court, the real problem is that the blood sucker lawyers, the squatters s and your own will delay the court hearing as long as possible and in some states can take from 30 days to more that 6 months for you to be able to kick them out.
We have a big problem with this in Spain It is such a complex topic, but no one really explains why the laws are protective and no one talks about real changes to improve the situation without breaking the system
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As someone from Germany I absolutely cannot understand how a stranger can just move into your house and claim that it's his own. Can someone please explain this to me? In Germany we have government offices where it is documented who the rightful owner is and we have written contracts between landlords and renters. Therefore you can always proof who is the owner or the renter of the house.
Know how I can tell a bunch of y'all haven't watched the video? He says actual Squatter's rights cases are very rare. Most of what you hear about are civil disputes investigating alleged oral agreements.
squatter's rights laws are incomplete... if i get my home invaded, i should be able to deduct from my taxes an amount equivalent to the market rent for my house... if them parasites won't pay rent, make everyone else pay for it...
@@crownking1703 the original commenter is saying that they should be paid equivalent rent for not being able to live in the house they own. By your definition, everyone who lives in a house they own is a parasite?
@@crownking1703 no, landlords worked to buy the asset... provide a service, incur expenses for it and file taxes... push economy forward... sqatters... just do that...
For those wondering, it’s called adverse possession and the 5 requirements are: 1) continuous use 2) hostile possession 3) open and notorious possession 4) actual possession 5) exclusive use Basically you need to continuously have possession of the property without permission, hold the land openly and not hidden away sneakily using it, pay taxes on the land, and not allow others to use it. Most states (as of 4 years ago when I took a class on zoning and adverse possession) were 20 years, but there was variation based on the state
This video is misleading. Yes, eviction is a major legal hassle, and yes, adverse possession is a thing, but to conflate the two or to imply that nothing can be done because nothing can be proven is really dumb.
I don't think he ever said that nothing can be done, rather that the process takes a little bit of time and the police are not going to throw someone out the same day
Three things: 1. We're in the 21st century now. There should be no reason why the home owner can't go to city hall and have them print out the paperwork showing they own the home so they can go across the street to court and quickly prove they own the house and get the squatters evicted that same day. People aren't going to bring their mortgage contract with them on vacation. There's no reason to drag it on for more than 24 hours of them getting back from vacation. 2. We would not even be talking about this if there was plenty of affordable housing for everyone. 3. Squatters are thieves and should be treated as such. After they get evicted, they should be jailed.
Should landlords who dont fix up their properties at the request of the renter be jailed for not doing so? (Broken Pipes, water heater replacement, holes in the cieling etc...)
This is far more complicated than it needs to be-upon challenge, a land/property owner ought to have a certain amount of time to obtain proof of ownership (deeds, electronic records, whatever), and if they cannot, the property moves to states' custody, and after a while the state can assign a new owner as a part of some welfare/social protection law. Let's say you have a month to obtain a proof, and a grace period of three years before the state can permanently reassign ownership. Squatters won't be able to prove something they've never had-ownership, so at most they'll be able to occupy someone else's' property for a month, and three years is plenty enough for the rightful owner to come up and prove their ownership before they permanently lose it.
The solution is to get the people put of the home the second you find out about them & say you thought it was a burglary in process. So kick down the door & get them out with force. Once they are out of the house, they cant use the courts to keep themselves in. So you kick them out right then & there on the spot & you use force if you have too, the second there is a record of you knowing their there then it become a pain to get them out legally.
Sounds like justice until the cops arrest you for threatening and/or using force on others or those living at the property use force back against you. Though I guess being the subject of a self-defense scenario means no long court sessions & that property no longer matters at all!
I usually like your videos but most of what you have said here is either wrong or confusing to the point of being wrong. You don’t use the term adverse possession, which is the correct term. I have litigated real estate disputes for over 10 years and not once did a party claiming adverse possession prevail. It is a nullity in the US. And no, you absolutely cannot effectively transfer land via oral contract (statute of frauds, which has been around since 17th century England).
All of this goes back to eviction laws. They need to be revamped. It’s taking 8/9 months in George to complete the eviction process because everything has to go before a judge and that takes time, a long time!
Non American here: What about going guns Blazing? I mean, the states in America that say that you can shoot somebody if they’re in your propriety could Give a Teoretical way o getting rid of the problem because a corpse technically can’t defend itself in court. I know. It’s obviously not practical to start shooting a Squatter in front of your family after going to the Grand Canyon but the Thought did make me curious about how the law in America would work if we add the “guns blazing” variable. I mean If I came home after being out of state for a week and somebody I’ve never seen in my life Is trying to use my microwave to cook Fish and doesn’t want to leave even after warning shots whadayougonnado you know?
IANAL & IANAA (not an American), but as far as I know you need to think you are in immediate danger. Otherwise you could shoot basically anyone on your property. And while squatters might be annoying, they are probably not an immediate danger worthy of opening fire. That being said, it would be very ironic if you tried to go in guns blazing, they shoot back and get off scot-free with the castle doctrine, since they claim ownership :-)
Well, you use the power of social media to report the presence of a well-known, Trump-supporting GOP politician being hosted by an influential podcaster at that address, and someone will SWAT them right out for you.
you'll probably wind up in prison because unless there are some niche circumstances I don't know about in order to legally shoot someone here you gotta have a reasonable fear for your life.
bro morocco is a third world country and we don't have this problem. here only papers and contracts matters. if you don't have a renting contract with the owner you will be dragged out by the police.
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I appreciate your explanation. I do not agree that it makes any sense at all in the USA. The examples you gave to justify the laws are rare compared to the number of times of illegal breaking and entry, and illegal possession of someone else’s property. At minimum squatters should be sentenced for the crimes they clearly committed. Even if after the eviction. But that never happens and that is why squatters do what they do.
@@abdullahsyed3470 Idk mate, your people's money is probably in our banks. Ever heared of this little country named Switzerland? Also, why do you feel offended? It IS an objective problem in the US. 🤷🏽♂️
Squatter’s rights are insane. It absolutely hurts the housing market and puts unnecessary risk on the landlord. I rent to university students and civil servants. I take a $5000 security deposit. I force them to sign a direct debit for rent (I get paid every 1st of the month. I rent on a month-to-month contract. I can’t trust tenants because of these insane laws.
do you visit at least once every 10 years? yes? then you dont need to worry about squatters' rights laws. (Disclaimer: States have different requirements ranging from 1 to 100 years for squatters' rights laws to apply, *as stated in the video*.)
It is so frustrating to be a home owner and have to get through all the stupid court drama just to get your own house back from some scumbags who thought it fun to occupy a property.... What a shame
Where I grew up, squatters weren’t an issue even though it was a rural town… let’s just say folks in that town were well armed and would only call the cops as a last resort 😉
We have that shit in Germany and Spain too and it's even more easy to pull off... At a certain point I stopped blaming the squatters because why wouldn't you do it? Especially with crazy renting/buying costs. They can, so they do. With little to no consequences and at the end of the day it will be always worth it. The law is at fault here.
I'm on track to paying my house off by the end of this year, I'm worried about someone forging documents then claiming they own my house. I've read that title insurances are a solution looking for a problem, though, and that it is actually difficult to steal someone's house in such a manner.
I learned about title insurance in a home buying seminar. I think these issues arise when the seller didn't own the home outright. (If there was a lien on the property.) Lenders and agents are supposed to look out for these issues, but their information isn't always up to date.
But a home owner would have piles of paperwork and receipts from the purchase of the house that the friends or people who are lying would not have. You have to have title searches and inspections and deposits placed by certain times, realtor contracts etc that all leave paper and credit card trails. The real home owners don’t just have a single piece of paper created in their garage to hand over to the police. I just don’t understand how this could be.
This is total bs. Just require people to have written documentation and file it with the county, there is 0 justification for squatters.If someone throws somebody out of the house illegally the squatter can due them and getting damages.It's just theft.
If someone was “squatting “ in your house couldn’t you just “acknowledge “ they are living there and then have them evicted? Just say they are now a tenant at will and you are now terminating the Tenancy?
No, because their claim isn't that they're a tenant, their claim is that they own it. If such were the case, anyone could come up to you, "acknowledge" your at-will tenancy in "their" home, and serve you a 30 days notice. And then it would be the exact same process more or less, with going to court and what not.
Squatting is just a holdover from the pioneer area where land speculators would buy a fuckton of land out west and then never do anything with it. The fact that it has continued for so long even into the modern era is crazy.
@@zwerkono, because they get harrassed and fucked up by law enforcement if they pitch their tent too. People look at the unhoused as pests, plain and simple. Many of them are vets btw. Shameful.
@@PearLock nah, many of them are alcholics or drug addicts that wouldnt work a job if you gave it to them. Stop making excuses for lazy people who drain a society.
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As far as I know all land is registered. When I bought my property it was registered at city hall. So how could someone else claim ownership? There would be no transactional record.
Meh. If I come back from out of town and someone is squatting in my home that I have been paying for years to own and the police will do nothing about it, I’ll forcefully remove them, either at gunpoint or in a tarp. I’ll worry about the judicial system afterwards.
This is a great video. There are reasons that you get to keep land that you occupy for a long time in certain cases. I own a home that was built around a century ago. I'd be shocked if my neighbors and I have our fences exactly on the original property lines. At this point, it's better for everybody that we just act like the fences are in the right place and have the law back it up.
I think "tenant's rights" is a better name for these cases. These people arent claiming the land is theirs, they're claiming tenancy in a property that they never had an agreement for. Eviction can be a bitch of a process, hence why these people basically get months of free rent without care for the place.
To me this sounds so wild! I literally could not believe that it works that way in America. In my country you just have ownership of the house/flat and if someone lives there, you either make vocal agreement or actual contract of living. If you have a contract you live by the contract, if you have vocal agreement the owner is free to kick you out, unless you prove that he breaks his agreement by doing that. Why is proving the ownership of the house is hard, you literally bought it, WTF?
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@@vinny-is-here nice
Real estate attorney here who has filed these kind of cases. One small correction is that not every state requires you to have a reasonable belief that you own the land. This is actually the biggest variation (aside from the time element that you mentioned) from state to state.
Ah. Thanks for that :)
And some have different timelines for adverse possession claims depending on whether or not you are doing so under color of title.
Also, many states have eviction procedures even for guests that you actually invite and allow to stay for extended periods of time. Some of these time frames are shockingly short....so they don't even need to squat without you knowing.
There are also other claims depending on state. Examples: you have to improve the property, or there can't be other squaters, or the occupation period can't be interrupted, or the squatter has to prove legal US residency first.
i was thinking about buying some land.. what is stopping someone from making fraudulent documents that say they own it and screw me out of the land.. also who am i buying from? someone owns this wild land?
What I want to know is how does someone breaking into my home while I'm away for a week, not breaking and entering?
if they tell the police that you told them they could live there than you have to go to court to prove that they are lying. the reality is that only a judge can make an eviction order.
@@chrisclassical7Wouldn't it befall on the squatter to show proof that they got permission?
@@Halcon_Sierreno You would think so.
@@KelliAnnWinkler The law is stupid. It just goes to show that sometimes methods "beyond" the law are necessary.
@@Halcon_SierrenoHe literally explains that in the video.
We fixed this issue in Canada, squatters have no rights. We've moved to electronic land registry systems, deeds do not exist and the deadline to register old deeds has expired.
Nice they tried to improve the system, but electronic land registry sounds like a system begging to be abused. 😕
In Finland as well. Idea of "unclaimed" or completely unknown landowner is pretty foreign, because there's pretty solid archives of documents for ownership of every piece of land. 99,99 % of those are digitized in state land registry.
It's not some specific system you can eally abuse. It's literal archive of scanned documents. Though most of it is also transfered to map systems, it's still those original documents that are legally binding.
@@qdllc how
@@BeHappyTo - Well, it depends on what they mean by “electronic.” In the US, most places have digital access and retrieval, but these are scans of the physical documents. Very convenient, but ultimately, there is the paper trail. I don’t know if they make redundant copies (e.g., microfilm) to archive in the event of database corruption…which they should. In an all electronic system…if paper copy is eliminated, it would be easy to alter land records and not be able to backtrack to the original owner. If the electronic system has safeguards against this being possible, I could understand people trusting it, but in the US, people get their land stolen all the time by fake deed filings where the clerk does nothing to verify the legitimacy of the document. It’s a crime, but good luck affording a lawyer to go to court and get your land back.
So if I can find an unoccupied piece of land that is not in the electronic land registry then does it mean I can claim it 🤔🧐
The best way to beat squatter's rights laws is to squat on the property of judges and law enforcement.
That is infact not. It is to squat politicians to get the laws off the books.
@@fusionxtras Both would be helpful
Very astute thinking I like it
First you would have to find one of their properties unattended, unwatched and unmonitored.
Monitored is the big one, they can afford an eye watching for legal documents filed on their properties. The moment someone puts it down as their address for an official purpose, such as an energy bill, these entities will notify the owner. Shortly after, Private Security will turn up to ponder what you are doing on a piece of land they are contracted to protect using force we wouldn't legally have access to ourselves. Given that all these claims require you to openly possess the land for a number of years before such a claim is valid....
Good luck, they know the law protects rich land-owners more then poor ones.
@@lostbutfreesoul Good points
In the Netherlands it used to be legal to squat a building that was standing empty for over a year. This came from the post war period were there was a huge shortage in homes, but at the same time speculators let buildings stay empty for a long time in the hope to sell them for a higher price later on.
However squatting didn't make you owner and if the original owner could make it plausible that they wanted to use the building again the squatters had to leave.
"Leave" immediately or after a certain period?
@@lyr1x833 The law has changed and now squatting has become completely illegal on the Netherlands. But I guess the squatters would have gotten a few weeks to move.
@@lyr1x833 If most asian countries, if you didn't spend any money to build a house or renovate then you automatically move out. But if you squat a land, build a house or any establishments, the owner have to bring it to court.
@@tamaralee457These laws apply to online activities, if some chinese steals your account and then buys stuff, the account is his...
They have to leave sure, right after they stole everything of value and destroyed the rest. Enjoy.
On the bright side, you don't have to deal with frustrating squatters in your house when you have no house!
They can still squat in a rental
There’s a silver lining to everything
Dane knows what’s up!
Is that why there aren't a LOT more homes? I thought it was because of the inefficient land use of North American suburbs and parking lots?
@@SimGunther ,
Short answer - Single Family Policies set in the 1980's are surprisingly hard to get overturned....
For the long answer I recommend Britmonkey's 'the Housing Crisis is the Everything Crisis.'
You can have vacation with your family for 3 weeks and come home to someone living in your house!? That's outrageous even for the third world country I live in! That's just trespassing ain't it?
It depends the state, but as a landowner my understanding is this:
If someone is residing at your address for a period, usually a month, they are legally recognized as Tenants. As such they have Due Process rights that must be honored if they are to be evicted from that location. This process was designed to prevent terrible Lords throwing out good Peasants who honoured the contracts, just so they can invite in richer Nobles for personal gain... at it's core. Effectively, the landowner has to prove you are not a proper and contract abiding Tenant before they can gain permission to evict you.
The whole 'month' time period is there to prevent disgusting landlords simply lying and saying no contract existed.
If a month passes, again depends the State, then the courts have to entertain the possibility an agreement existed....
In a situation where someone does squat that person is still going to be evicted, the land owner doesn't lose the property that easily. Said landowner simply has to turn up in Court, inform the Judge there is no enforceable contract and they where given proper notice to vacate, and then request that the individual be removed by the Sheriff. That individual will have a chance to speak, if they even show up at all, to prove there is a contract and that they have been honouring it... usually by showing some sort of payments from Tenant to Landlord.
The only two complaints landowners really have is that Due Process always takes time, even with emergency hearings that would be granted if someone overstayed their welcome and became belligerent towards after refusing to leave. Courts are backed up, people take time to be served papers, and there is dozens of little things that can push everything back by months at a time. One wrong move and the whole thing will also need to be started over, a mistake that doesn't even have to be done by your side....
The other is being 'insolvent' also is a problem, probably the real problem here as it does become a sort of ingrained mentality in some people. When these individuals don't have money to lose themselves, they don't care that the whole thing cost you a lot of it. What you going to do, sue them for it? They are insolvent and can't be touched by civil suits involving silly things like financial damages....
Not a lawyer, just have evicted a few people through the proper systems.
One that was insolvent and tried some dirty crap in court, if you can't tell the bitterness there.
The rest... departed after being given proper and legal notice that their contracts would be ending.
You are not from s 3rd world country. That's s concept created by eurocentric thinking!!!
Dead people can't be tenants.
@@lostbutfreesoulyou make it sound like everyone is in the financial position to just let a squatter live in their home for 4 months. Not only are you paying the mortgage now you’re paying 4 months at a hotel. They clearly over corrected with these ridiculous squatter laws. If a family just got back from vacation and criminals are in their home their case should be heard immediately. Not treated like just some normal tenant landlord dispute. Come on this is ridiculous lol
@@lostbutfreesoulAlmost every squatter video i see it’s not some down on their luck family. It’s trashy folks trashing the place. bottles of urine everywhere god what a nightmare
Too bad non of the squatters ever end up squatting in a politicians house. Then we will see how fast the police will react and how fast the laws protecting squatting rights will change.
You're right when it affects them they'll make it a constitutional amendment and maybe make it a 11th commandment
i have thought about this exact thing many times over. im not sure if the Squattee politicians ownership contract of their house is considered "special". like the same power as washington dc . on this land but not of this land kind of thing.
One question for me is why can’t people whose homes are taken over by squatters not just do the same to them? Wait for them to be gone, break in, change the locks, and if confronted just say you have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s a he said she said situation after all.
Great idea!
Some people are doing that. There's a guy on TH-cam doing that and looks like he's started a business to take back homes for the owners. I heard he's charging $5K to take back a home. But it's way less than court costs.
people can do that but it's dangerous. Imagine confronting people who don't have any sense of abiding to the law... (thats how they first broke in in the first place). However, you cannot be the homeowner; if you are the homeowner doing that, you will be arrested for trespassing.
@@Gloria-klimExactly, you just need a Family member to do it for you
You can do that, but the problem occurs when they have nothing to lose, but you do
"How would you be able to prove you own the place?"
Well, every place I've ever lived in outside of my parents house, I either had a lease agreement or a mortgage contract...
But would you be able to do it on the spot when a cop knocks on your door?
@@dannybeane2069 If you have some mail nearby, yes. Especially if it's an utility bill.
@@dannybeane2069 Yes, because I have printed and email version.
If you grow up in a corrupt country, you become a bit paranoid...
@@dannybeane2069 Yes, because I do this thing where i keep important documents in a specific, known location
My lease and bills are all digitized. This doesn't make sense in this day in age
My old man used to own quite a few rental properties. One time there was a tenant that just completely quit paying rent and was trying to claim squatters rights. My dad went to court to get them evicted but after about 6 months of still receiving no rent and the government dragging their feet on the eviction process, my dad gathered up a group of hard hitting motherf*ckers armed enough to supply a small army. They went over to the house and evicted the tenant themselves and took the rental back without incident. I guess sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands.
In the UK you would then be prosecuted 🙄
Ah, the wild west!
You shouldn’t write things like this. It’s incriminating, with suggestions of violence. Not smart.
@@OK-pi6fq incriminating is what the state does to its citizens. This comment is just a consequence.
@@haykmelikyan7796 incriminating is suggesting you committed a crime . Not liking a law doesn’t make it any less a law, and the society overall decides the laws, but making statements that connect you to crimes is not wise, no matter your feelings about government. In this case connecting your dad to a crime, and then yourself as aiding and abetting a criminal. You could potentially add withholding evidence if you knew the people involved.
If you live in Australia you know how difficult it is to buy your first house. Yet some people thinking that they are somehow entitled to just move into someone else's house and there are laws to protect these criminals shows how broken the system is.
Well if you are not living in a property and just leaving it empty to rot then yes. They do have a right.
No that's called stealing and why don't you just stop being a busy body scavenger and stop looking at what other people are doing with their things and mind your own things or work so you can afford what ever you desire?
this actually happens in AU?
@@paulcesargonzalez3331nope you don’t need multiple homes. Find another investment
@@Grahamisthesword doesn't matter, it's my property, I can do whatever I want with it.
There should be laws that force you to sell the property if it's vacant for over X amount of time. And if you don't sell it on the free market by then, the government will either buy it from you (for set price), or sell it for you at whatever price they will get.
And limit how much property can an individual own, tax the said properties accordingly (so property hoarders/flippers will lose money), limit selling real estate to foreign nationals, these sort of things.
Not allowing some randos to steal the land that you bought with your hard earned money.
In my third world corrupt country we have cases of people who rent an apartment and then stop paying after 3 months, and kicking them out is a hassle because the law protects them due to the right of having a living place or something like that. Likewise we have professional land stealers, they come at night, build a 3x3 (meter) room and place a family inside with a kid and an elderly adult, since the law protects the elderly and the children, the land owner cannot kick them out or demolish the "building", rinse and repeat and after 2 weeks your have a complete slum full of squatters, most of them paid by the land stealer, after a couple of years they can claim ownership over the land, which is then given to then land stealer who proceeds to relocate the occupants and demolish the poorly built houses and then builds more profitable houses.
From a developing country too, where the way to deal with these people or the homeless ones that want to take over is to hire someone to go toss some molotov coktails over them (thats the nice warning) or outright take them out by brutal force.
It would be fair atleast if those people were willing to work for you.
Yup. Philippines?
It might sound like something that could happen in the Philippines. But I haven't heard cases of that happening. or maybe I'm just ignorant to it. Either way I looked up for cases like this but I haven't found any.
@@gokiburi-chan4255 ye I doubt it happens like that. Just like the US there are people who live 100% of the taxes and assets of productive people through welfare
A dark side similar to this involve property disputes. Some states put the burden on whomever brings the case to court. So, if you own land and someone infringes, and the burden is such, you can’t bring the case because you then must prove YOU own the land to assert your case. This incentivizes using force to push the person off your property and make THEM bring the case so THEY must prove they own the land.
Now I'm curious: what's the alternative (that other states use), put the burden of proof on neither?
@@jeffbenton6183 - In Virginia, the person bringing the claim has to prove they own the property. I would presume the alternative is that if the defendant can’t offer proof, the plaintiff would win…assuming the plaintiff offered some kind of proof. If both offer proof or neither offers proof, the court would have to determine the boundaries of the disputed property.
In a case I saw, the defendant was uprooting and moving survey markers and putting up a fence line. It nearly came to blows…and law enforcement wouldn’t do anything as it was a “civil matter” (odd, as I thought trespassing was a criminal matter). So, property owner had to sue…then get an updated survey. First surveyor refused to testify as to their work (again, odd as he knew what the survey was for when he took payment). So, the survey had to be redone. The defendant got a surveyor who came up with 4 possible boundary determinations…none of which he would testify were 100% certain. Plaintiff eventually won after years of litigation. A key thing to note is that places with varied terrain often use the metes and bounds method of surveying land….relying on physical landmarks and survey markers. The problem is that landmarks change and lan shifts over time. A LOT of landowners DO NOT get a current survey before buying land…they just copy the survey description from the prior deed. In as little as 50 years the survey description can be impossible to reproduce due to changes. So, always insist on a current survey of the property (especially rural) before buying…make sure you are getting what you bargained for.
This was used by white people to steal land from Black farmers
I don't get it though. Surely it's easy to prove you own the land right? I mean I can't imagine buying propery for a couple hundred k and not having it in a registry somewhere?
@@Blackfatrat - These disputes often involve boundary lines. Most everywhere where the land isn’t flat uses metes and bounds deed plotting. These rely on landmarks that can shift over time. Surveyors will insert steel pins to mark things for future surveys, but the land shifts in as little as 5 years. Add in that many people are cheap and transfer land with no updated property survey, and “your property” might be relying on a survey from over 100 years ago. You can’t just argue the deed. You need a current professional survey to establish the property lines, and that can get messy if the old calls and distances don’t fit with how the land has changed. This can be particularly messy when a dispute involves a parcel with many acres…much of which is unimproved and had no definite property line marker like t-posts and barbed wire following the survey markers.
I'm from Texas. You're going to leave my house, or we're going to be on the news
I seriously hate guns...but this is one of the few times I would approve of deadly force.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley that the second edge to the sword, cs we have extreme cases rising up so much but then we also got ppl who need the safety
This is called premeditated murder
And in jail killing someone means you will be seen as a murderer
It does occur to the mind to break into your own home while the squatters are out, remove all their belongings to some remote area in the woods and change the locks and be on guard when they return. This might take a bit of surveillance over a period of time to learn their patterns. But once removed you’d simply claim they were never there, that you have no idea what they’re talking about.
A smart squatter might take pics of themselves in your home. You may need to repaint when you take back over your home so that any pics they show don’t match your home’s interior. You may even need to swap out your own furniture, or at least remove it to a storage location until things blow over. Whew, I can certainly understand why a homeowner might just want to disappear the squatters. Not that I’m advocating that action.
In Germany we have something called "Grundbucheintrag". In english translated, I guess "land register entry" and the owner of the home can only be changed by an official notary. Maybe this is something for the land of freedom?
That's because Germany uses a land registration system while the U.S. (and many other jurisdictions) use a land recording system. In a land registration system, the government acts as a guarantor of title, so the government records on who owns a piece of land is considered legally definitive. In a land recording system, the government merely serves as a depository for records of land ownership but doesn't actually guarantee or determine who owns what. Instead, owners can buy title insurance that insures against losses caused by issues with their ownership of a piece of land, such as a claim that someone else actually owns it. Title insurance will also generally pay for legal fees associated with defending against such claims. The reason for not employing a land registration system is that it costs the government a lot of money when it needs to pay out claims since the government essentially acts as title insurance.
@@jessebigfoot thank you for the explanation
We do have this notary system in France too, but we still have squatter rights and acquisition by prescrption (usucapion) with almost the same conditions. Squatter rights because you can have the right to live there if you reasonnably think you rented it from the actual owner, or simply because you have the keys and it is clearly your residency. We can't kick you out like that without a judgement. And prescription of acquisition because even with the registry system, you want unused land to be exploited and you don't want lands that have been transmitted without passing in front of a notary being given back to the children of the 100 years ago owner. It would be a mess
Yes, when that part popped up "How would you legally show that you own or rented the place?" I was like WTF? I have a rental contract or in my case, now that I own a house, the record is with the government and can be pulled up at any time (and can't be easily changed). So I can prove this easily, oral contracts are non-binding when it comes to homes/land.
"If a police team busted into your home today and tried to kick you out, how would you definitely prove that you own the place and weren't just living in there as a squatter?"
are you actually serious?
how about SHOWING THEM A COPY OF THE RENTING AGREEMENT, SIGNED BY YOUR LANDLORD?!
They fake those now, it isn't the police departments job to detrmine if a contract is legally binding nor would I trust them to handel it comptently. Courts are where these disputes should be handled, and what if the landlord is lying? I have met some pretty scummy landlords, what is to stop a landlord lying about a tenat so they can raise the price on the next shmuck?
Forgery exists.
In Spain this crap is so common and frustrating that I’ve designed “anti-squatters” lock doors.
It's not that common, it is just everywhere in the media so you buy alarms and distract yourself from the fact that you are way more likely to lose your home because of your landlord/bank. If you have squatters in your first home you can call the police immediately, it is the houses owned by banks and the empty houses that are in risk, not your actual home. When I bought a flat the bank tried to push me to get their alarm company using this 'threat' of squatters.
@@gghhpuf I personally know of people who have had squatters in their home, they were fixing the place before moving in and squatters took the place. The police did nothing.
We had to use “other methods” (we tricked them) to remove them from there. Squatting is a big problem in cities like Barcelona.
It happens in France too, they send to your adress mails with their name on it to proves that they where there even before that they actually breaked in your house. And if it's more than a arbitrary time you can't kick them out without going on through long procedures. They talked about changing the law but I don't know what it is now.
@@Thesavagesouls I'd simply "break" (Which in itself is impossible because it's your house) back into my house and drag those people out on the street and sue them for breaking and entering.
What do those doors look like
Some people like to take advantage of the law. Squatters these days are just scumbags...
Yes since the pandemic it's been a growing trend. With all the smashing grabs and this eviction moratorium among other things only leaves this country vulnerable to criminals and cheap and worthless politicians and police
The argument that renters and owners shouldn't be kicked out just because people usually can't prove ownership is kinda ridiculous.
It's like saying drivers shouldn't be fined for not having their driving license on them: as long as it's not punished, people won't do it.
Legal famework for cars and driving is relatively new so you'll find lots of similar examples where change in behaviour is driven by legal requirements: no leaded fuel, relevant papers need to be on you, you have to wear a seatbelt etc.
If people could be kicked out of their homes for not having the relevant documents, then they would just start having the documents.
That's what I thought. Why wouldn't you have legal documents you own the place stored away somewhere? And isn't there government agency in US who keeps records like land ownership?
And if you're renting... Who rents a place without signing a contract of it?
I'm not an American, but I think you're expected to have your driver's license when you're driving. Not having it is an infraction in and of itself. I don't think there's a law that you need to have housing documents with you.
There's also the issue of time and situation as well. Most driving laws can't be applied if you aren't driving; for example, you don't need to provide the police with your driver's license when you aren't driving. However, you're the owner or renter of a house 24/7, and so you'd need to have those documents ready with you 24/7. This gets even more ridiculous if you were in another country and suddenly the police goes to your house, you can't provide those on the fly because you aren't even there.
@@Vietcongster Why would you need to have those documents with you? If police comes knocking on your door, because someone claims you're unlawfully residing there sure you can just search the papers from your archives.
If you're not home. What's the problem?
@@Vietcongster Just like storing your driver's license in the car or in your wallet, you can store the papers about renting or ownership in the house/apartment. Police could also give people a day to prepare.
Most likely you won't be asked about the ownership our of nowhere if you're the rightful owner, and that applies to when you're abroad. If someone wants to illegally occupy your house then they clearly won't want the police to be involved. Meaning the legal owner will start the process which gives them as much time as they want to get the necessary papers. So the situations you described would only be a problem for the guilty party, and I don't see how that's a bad thing.
Also, the way authorities handle people being abroad is a completely different question. That can come up in MANY different cases, not just regarding property ownership, so that's really not the scope of what we're talking about here.
@@Marqan so if there's a flood in your house or you hire a clumsy cleaning service, you get to be kicked out?
Yeah I realized the importance of this when I purchased a house and the satellite survey and county records seem to disagree with the fence line. Possibly a tiny piece of land that appears on my side of the fence may belong to the neighbor. Not a big deal, except part of a shed exists on part of that property. It would be cost prohibitive to move it and likely has existed since the 90s, so if my neighbor suddenly had a problem it likely would belong to my property due to squatters rights.
I can absolutely see after this experience why these laws are important. Exact property lines are not always well defined.
I'm a land surveyor, and never, never rely on county tax records or satellite "surveys" to determine where your property lines are. Most of these are based on overlaying a deed description on satellite imagery, and can be anywhere from a foot to more than 20 feet off, depending on the quality of the deed and the image. In fact, almost every county tax mapping system I've ever used has a disclaimer which say that the lines shown do not represent the actual property lines. The best and most accurate way to find out where your property lines are is to hire a local professional land surveyor to mark the corners and lines
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@@DanPittel its my shed. Its possible part of it exists on my neighbor's property, so the title company exempted it from coverage.
This would be adverse possession, not squatters rights
This can be reformed, politicians just don't want to.
All politicians are corrupt and cowards
When my wife was pregnant we bought a home but the guy living there refuses to move out and we had sold our old place and had only a week to move out of there. One of the most stressful things I had to deal with especially since the only family I had lived too far away for us to stay there and still be able to go to work. Going through the courts would take too long but we managed it even if we had to take things into our own hands since we didn’t get any help from the real estate agent. After that we had to take all his things out and clean the place and it took years to have him no longer listed as a resident in our home even if we never saw him after he left.
What state was this in??
@@raphaelrodriguez1856 not in the US. I live in Sweden. To be clear we were very unlucky. It isn’t like that is a common thing to happen. Everyone we have told about it have never heard of anything like it before.
The police can't kick him out too in Sweden?
bold of you to imply our present housing system works.
It works for people who work
@@luisandrade2254 many jobs don't pay enough to rent an apartment, besides do you think that people who don't work deserve to live on the street?
@@ha2kon539 if you don’t make enough to rent an apartment either get a higher salary rent smaller or buy lol. Just because minimum wage earners can’t live in city centers doesn’t mean most have a problem
@@ha2kon539 i mean if you have no job with which to pay rent and arent getting welfare, then you dont deserve free housing. so, yes?
@@ha2kon539 why should people that don’t work be given housing????? Contrary to Reddit belief housing is not a right houses don’t fall from the sky it takes a lot of work to build and maintain one why should people be allowed to appropriate other peoples work and property for their own benefit that’s how you tare a society down
I guess this is why my landlord has a part in the lease saying to let them know if we're going to be gone for an extended period of time. I guess so they can check for squatters.
Oral agreements being just as legally binding as written seems insane to me. What am I missing?
Agree - I think it's reasonable to expect them to be binding, but to be on the exact same level as a proper written contact is silly - of course due to record & the scope being unclear (start of convo? 3 days worth of conversation?), but primarily because a written contract is a vastly different experience & you *will* know what you're signing up for, and the writing wasn't "in the moment", but actually thought through and redrafted multiple times.
if you buy something in a corner shop it's basically an oral agreement
@@delfinenteddyson9865 I mean, every corner shop I've been to has a receipt system. But on that note; not any used sales.
However these are both relating to a transfer of physical goods, which is only really one type of agreement.
Let's say you took your dog to the vet and they told you it needs surgery. You ask how much is it gonna cost, they say 10000 $. You say ok, go ahead with the surgery. Dog is ok and you refuse to pay. Legally binding contract - vet told you how much it's gonna be, you said you were going to pay it after the surgery. If the contract wasnt legally binding, you would just get a surgery for free because the doctor can't like undo it (animal abuse), can't refuse to give the dog back (theft), they couldn't do anything.
@@luxurypetscz That's why any self employed person will always have his customers /clients sign something like a contract confirmation. A vet certainly would never do a surgery without any signed piece of paper.
I usually don't have my customers sign anything if it's a small job. But I had one person say to me when I informed her about her unpaid invoice "I don't know you"...........
In Germany every part of Land in the country is registered with a court naming the complete history of owners (literally as far back as possible)
We have the same in Denmark - and we never really hear of squatters...
@@QP300because Denmark has a civilized bunch
“So why do you say you own this home?”
“We found it empty”
“Like a lot of things wrong with America, originated in England.” Literally spit out my tea XD
It's not a war crime to cook fish in the microwave, because it's not happening during a time of war. But, it is banned by the Geneva convention and is a crime against humanity
Squatter rights in Spain are out of control at the moment with cases of home owners obliged to pay the utilities of their squatters.
Spanish here. It has literally come to the point where the squatters are the ones calling the police because it is common for the rightfull owner to break into his own property (with a couple of bulky friends) and beat the s* out of the squatters
@@oscardelucas994 Pedro Sánchez dimisión!
Spain has gone to shit.
@@oscardelucas994 hahah serves you conquistadors right how you like them apples now.
@@oscardelucas994 There are even companies whose entiere prodcut is to go and beat them up
Not in a million years I thought Oral agreement would be as strong as a written one in US.
In my place, written/recorded agreement is king, so thats why every agreement needed to be written/recorded just to stay safe.
The trouble is in places like New York home owners can be in landlord tenant court for years while the squatter stays housed
thats why in Germany property sales have to be in written form…plus these sales have to be confirmed by a notary, havent heard about squatters here. Ppl who used to rent and not moving out yes but not squatters…🤔
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@@leoe.5046 yes sir
The same in Mexico and then you have property stealers too. The difference is that here since people know the law is shit and corrupt, they will normally deal with it themselves by hiring someone to violently evict them
@@leoe.5046 how are they different they are just squatting i know the sntifa yoused to squat in germany
@@jonaluedeke4318 yeah but they're squatting because they're activists. The houses they're in are literal shitholes
This is the dumbest law in America.
And uk
If the police busted into my house right now, I can prove it is mine by surfing over to the county tax appraiser's website, showing him the name of the property owner, and showing them my ID that demonstrates that it's me. That should be (and now kind of is) all that it takes and by-bye squatters, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! This is quite simply the easiest and best way to determine these things, and can be done in real time.
What if the county website is wrong? All I have to do is hack a county website to get a free house?
It's quite bold to try and steal a war veteran's home. If there is something that can push a hardened killer with potential PTSD over the edge I would imagine it would be having strangers invading and destroying his home.
While the average guy might not be able to make a whole household disappear without a trace, I imagine a soldier would.
I doubt soldiers are trained in letting a lot of bodies disappear with no trace. That being said, if you're on the wrong side of that guy seeing red, whether the police will find evidence of you later isn't really the biggest of your issues.
There is a hee-uge difference between killing everyone in a house and "making a whole household disappear without a trace." They start the same but have very different, non-overlapping skills at the end.
after only two days of beatings, the unknown victim(s), be they man or animal, were unfortunately reduced to bone shards
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I've heard about this, I still can't believe it. How absurd are some laws...
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I had heard that part of the reason for this is related to human trafficking.
Either way, I would make life hell for someone who dared to try this with me. Constant knocking on the door, setting off smoke bug bombs under and around the house. Install one small camera at the exits so that the moment the person walks out, I'm kicking the rest of their shit out. If I've just lost my house to someone on the other side of the door and all they had to do was say "Nuh-uh, this is my house!", I'm about to do the same to get it back. And I work from home, with the power of delivery for pretty much everything, I can remain indoors for months or even years if I truly wanted to, to ensure they get bored and don't try to play an Uno reverse card. These laws seriously need to go, though. If, with a police escort, I can enter my house to provide the documents that I own the home, the squatter needs to get the hell out that moment.
Once I read a good solution. Cancel water and sewage contracts. At least where I live the fresh water supply will be interrupted and workers from the municipality will come and remove the sewage output to the main pipe.
@@ProfesorMamelowsky Oohh, good one! It'll likely mean paying any deposits again once you move back, but that's worth it.
If they are in my house then they are trespassing. That means they get one warning and when I am done there will only be one story.
Then you wind up being charged with attempted murder, have your entire life destroyed, and spend the next 3 years in and out of court, even if they find you innocent.
@@ColinTherac117 How would it be attempted if they are dead, and how would it be murder if I am protecting my property from trespassers?
@@ColinTherac117 Also I have insurance for that.
@@quazy1328 I agree with you, but the state would still charge you and the process of proving your innocence still destroys people. And gods help you if the jury is led to care more about trespassers than property rights.
@@ColinTherac117 Do you understand the castle law. If you are trespassing on my property and I give you warning to leave the property and you refuse to leave my property and you deprive me of use of my property then I have the right to defend my use of my property with any force including deadly force. This has been done in Texas before and the people were cleared of all wrong doing.
for all of my 'adult' life, if the cops broke down my door and asked me to prove i have legal right to live there (or now, if i 'own' this house), it would have taken me about two minutes to prove that i do, probably less.
*except for that one time in my 20's; but i still had legal documentation that i had 'bought' the land in good faith. it's just that the company selling it didn't actually own it.
Did a company sell your property without your consent ._.
@@Ahmed_M7 i think he is saying that the people he bought it from didnt actually own it in the first place.
@@jeffhurtson5211 ohh, right. Sounds logical.
If they damaged my door (there is no "breaking it down"), they would not be standing around talking to me. I respond to that kind of violence with cartoonish levels of retaliation. Act like a zombie, get treated like one.
Then again, I'm pretty sure it's not even in their will to do something like that. They only do that, if you're doing something serious (like Breaking Bad).
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What about structures that have been abandoned by their owners, such as dilapidated former malls or the like? Plenty of those around....
You're only guilty when you get caught
This video barely covers how this is actually abused. What happens is someone buys a property with the intent of fixing it up and renting it out. Then one day the owner walks up to the property and finds people moved in. For the months or even years that it takes to get a court date, those people cannot be removed from your property and are actively damaging it. This bankrupts people who want to try and fix up their neighborhood and only ultra rich corporations with economies of scale that can afford security guards get to have their property protected.
It is another way the law as it stands hurts the middle class who are the core of democracy.
What states have these jacked up laws???
NEWSFLASH: There is no "middle class". Maybe a long time ago, but not today.
It's easy, a rental agreement or mortgage, or title/deed. If you don't have one, expect to move.
It's pretty crazy how laws vary so drastically from country to country.
It’s almost like laws are country specific
@@luisandrade2254 💀😂
maybe state to state?
it's almost like laws are entirely arbitrary
@@MarshallTheArtist it’s almost like laws being “arbitrary” doesn’t change their importance
In the UK that shit can't happened its a crime to squat in someone's house you have to pay a fine £5000
Its not about is it legal to squat. It’s about determining whether or not they are squatters, and then good luck getting them to pay the $5000.
Squatting is trespassing. Plain and simple. That being said I wouldnt abandon a home or leave it unattended for longer than a month. Let alone years.
Even if you leave it alone for years. It’s still your home. It doesn’t stop being so
I used to own a lease to an apartment in Brooklyn and I happen to end up with a squatter of a roommate. They abuse the eviction moratorium and didn’t pay their rent. I hired an attorney to kick them out but the laws in NYC are pretty much in the squatters favor.
I ended up in financial troubles because of them, and they have the audacity to say I’m discriminating them because they are Muslim and Black, when race and religion have nothing to do with it. I made the apartment unlivable and I ended up confronting them. Eventually they move out.
One thing I hate about this law is that it protects the wrong people. Their name is “Salma Sheila Jagur, Anthony Banks and Kim Tamer” don’t rent to them.
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why did you mention their race and religion?
@@professorprofessorson8795 Because that’s what they said!.!.
All races do this including white. The best way is not to rent out your place unless you have a lawyer to write a strong contract . Due to cv it best not to rent at all until things get straight. I grab he moved out a lot don’t move out as easily one white fix was in a home for two years. It almost like a good scam to get free rent for a time imagine how much money you save by just not having to pay rent for a few months or years. You may end up with enough money to get your own home.
@@Pulapaws It blew my mind when they accused me of being Racist and Islamophobic because I’m asking them rent money!.!. It’s considered discrimination to ask for rent these days!.!.
Ok so all I’ve gathered is that the real issue is the laws surrounding oral contracts combined with people with low enough morals to break in to your house and claim it’s theirs, all I’m saying is stand your ground laws kinda solve this issue if actually used
Well where I live in Canada, my tax dollars are still to this day being spent on 100 Billion dollar land claims from hundreds of years ago that say the entire country is theirs because of their ancestral claims of ownership.
We have the same problem in New Zealand.
Toxic asshats.
Tbf it would be theirs, no?
Poor soldier going to Afghanistan to fight
But when come home to fight a much bigger battle
The problem is not that you have to go to court, the real problem is that the blood sucker lawyers, the squatters s and your own will delay the court hearing as long as possible and in some states can take from 30 days to more that 6 months for you to be able to kick them out.
Try a year!!!!
We have a big problem with this in Spain
It is such a complex topic, but no one really explains why the laws are protective and no one talks about real changes to improve the situation without breaking the system
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As someone from Germany I absolutely cannot understand how a stranger can just move into your house and claim that it's his own. Can someone please explain this to me?
In Germany we have government offices where it is documented who the rightful owner is and we have written contracts between landlords and renters. Therefore you can always proof who is the owner or the renter of the house.
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Know how I can tell a bunch of y'all haven't watched the video? He says actual Squatter's rights cases are very rare. Most of what you hear about are civil disputes investigating alleged oral agreements.
squatter's rights laws are incomplete... if i get my home invaded, i should be able to deduct from my taxes an amount equivalent to the market rent for my house... if them parasites won't pay rent, make everyone else pay for it...
Damn landlords are truly unaware of themselves being parasites
@@crownking1703 how are landlords parasites? THEY OWN THE PROPERTY you smoothbrain
@@crownking1703 the original commenter is saying that they should be paid equivalent rent for not being able to live in the house they own. By your definition, everyone who lives in a house they own is a parasite?
@@crownking1703 no, landlords worked to buy the asset... provide a service, incur expenses for it and file taxes... push economy forward... sqatters... just do that...
@@iamstartower nah bro landlords literally just leech off the back of the working class
For those wondering, it’s called adverse possession and the 5 requirements are:
1) continuous use
2) hostile possession
3) open and notorious possession
4) actual possession
5) exclusive use
Basically you need to continuously have possession of the property without permission, hold the land openly and not hidden away sneakily using it, pay taxes on the land, and not allow others to use it. Most states (as of 4 years ago when I took a class on zoning and adverse possession) were 20 years, but there was variation based on the state
This video is misleading. Yes, eviction is a major legal hassle, and yes, adverse possession is a thing, but to conflate the two or to imply that nothing can be done because nothing can be proven is really dumb.
I don't think he ever said that nothing can be done, rather that the process takes a little bit of time and the police are not going to throw someone out the same day
Three things:
1. We're in the 21st century now. There should be no reason why the home owner can't go to city hall and have them print out the paperwork showing they own the home so they can go across the street to court and quickly prove they own the house and get the squatters evicted that same day. People aren't going to bring their mortgage contract with them on vacation. There's no reason to drag it on for more than 24 hours of them getting back from vacation.
2. We would not even be talking about this if there was plenty of affordable housing for everyone.
3. Squatters are thieves and should be treated as such. After they get evicted, they should be jailed.
Should landlords who dont fix up their properties at the request of the renter be jailed for not doing so?
(Broken Pipes, water heater replacement, holes in the cieling etc...)
This is far more complicated than it needs to be-upon challenge, a land/property owner ought to have a certain amount of time to obtain proof of ownership (deeds, electronic records, whatever), and if they cannot, the property moves to states' custody, and after a while the state can assign a new owner as a part of some welfare/social protection law. Let's say you have a month to obtain a proof, and a grace period of three years before the state can permanently reassign ownership. Squatters won't be able to prove something they've never had-ownership, so at most they'll be able to occupy someone else's' property for a month, and three years is plenty enough for the rightful owner to come up and prove their ownership before they permanently lose it.
Like they say, housing is a basic human right.
Sorry to say if someone is squatting in my house and can’t leave, they won’t be of this earth anymore
The solution is to get the people put of the home the second you find out about them & say you thought it was a burglary in process. So kick down the door & get them out with force. Once they are out of the house, they cant use the courts to keep themselves in.
So you kick them out right then & there on the spot & you use force if you have too, the second there is a record of you knowing their there then it become a pain to get them out legally.
Simple trick, they are committing a crime so can´t call the police so you don´t have to make it official.
Sounds like justice until the cops arrest you for threatening and/or using force on others or those living at the property use force back against you.
Though I guess being the subject of a self-defense scenario means no long court sessions & that property no longer matters at all!
Land taxes are not small, you pay the tax, it's your's
I usually like your videos but most of what you have said here is either wrong or confusing to the point of being wrong. You don’t use the term adverse possession, which is the correct term. I have litigated real estate disputes for over 10 years and not once did a party claiming adverse possession prevail. It is a nullity in the US. And no, you absolutely cannot effectively transfer land via oral contract (statute of frauds, which has been around since 17th century England).
All of this goes back to eviction laws. They need to be revamped. It’s taking 8/9 months in George to complete the eviction process because everything has to go before a judge and that takes time, a long time!
Non American here: What about going guns Blazing?
I mean, the states in America that say that you can shoot somebody if they’re in your propriety could Give a Teoretical way o getting rid of the problem because a corpse technically can’t defend itself in court. I know. It’s obviously not practical to start shooting a Squatter in front of your family after going to the Grand Canyon but the Thought did make me curious about how the law in America would work if we add the “guns blazing” variable. I mean If I came home after being out of state for a week and somebody I’ve never seen in my life Is trying to use my microwave to cook Fish and doesn’t want to leave even after warning shots whadayougonnado you know?
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@@raular5513 very thoughtful reply, amazing
IANAL & IANAA (not an American), but as far as I know you need to think you are in immediate danger. Otherwise you could shoot basically anyone on your property. And while squatters might be annoying, they are probably not an immediate danger worthy of opening fire.
That being said, it would be very ironic if you tried to go in guns blazing, they shoot back and get off scot-free with the castle doctrine, since they claim ownership :-)
Well, you use the power of social media to report the presence of a well-known, Trump-supporting GOP politician being hosted by an influential podcaster at that address, and someone will SWAT them right out for you.
you'll probably wind up in prison because unless there are some niche circumstances I don't know about in order to legally shoot someone here you gotta have a reasonable fear for your life.
bro morocco is a third world country and we don't have this problem. here only papers and contracts matters. if you don't have a renting contract with the owner you will be dragged out by the police.
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I appreciate your explanation. I do not agree that it makes any sense at all in the USA. The examples you gave to justify the laws are rare compared to the number of times of illegal breaking and entry, and illegal possession of someone else’s property. At minimum squatters should be sentenced for the crimes they clearly committed. Even if after the eviction. But that never happens and that is why squatters do what they do.
Wait, that's a real thing in the US? I thought this was a comedic trope. But then again, healthcare also is a joke there. lol
Awww someone’s from a country that doesn’t matter. Cute
The idea makes sense. The US simply doesn't understand how and why law works. Just look at their labour "laws"
@@abdullahsyed3470 Idk mate, your people's money is probably in our banks. Ever heared of this little country named Switzerland? Also, why do you feel offended? It IS an objective problem in the US. 🤷🏽♂️
@@hellfire6714 Yeah, labour laws are insane. There's just so much wrong.
Squatters rights exist in many countries, especially throughout Europe.
BS on cops not having the rights to determine who the legal resident is !!
Squatter’s rights are insane. It absolutely hurts the housing market and puts unnecessary risk on the landlord.
I rent to university students and civil servants.
I take a $5000 security deposit.
I force them to sign a direct debit for rent (I get paid every 1st of the month.
I rent on a month-to-month contract.
I can’t trust tenants because of these insane laws.
“Tell me you didn’t watch the video, without telling me you didn’t watch the video”
do you visit at least once every 10 years? yes? then you dont need to worry about squatters' rights laws.
(Disclaimer: States have different requirements ranging from 1 to 100 years for squatters' rights laws to apply, *as stated in the video*.)
@@dane1382
I visit regularly
@@johlhausen
I watched the video.
And I won’t rent to you
It is so frustrating to be a home owner and have to get through all the stupid court drama just to get your own house back from some scumbags who thought it fun to occupy a property.... What a shame
There should be a limit on corporations owning homes
Corporations shouldnt be able to own homes. Corporations arnt people that need housing.
Where I grew up, squatters weren’t an issue even though it was a rural town… let’s just say folks in that town were well armed and would only call the cops as a last resort 😉
We have that shit in Germany and Spain too and it's even more easy to pull off...
At a certain point I stopped blaming the squatters because why wouldn't you do it? Especially with crazy renting/buying costs. They can, so they do. With little to no consequences and at the end of the day it will be always worth it.
The law is at fault here.
I'm on track to paying my house off by the end of this year, I'm worried about someone forging documents then claiming they own my house. I've read that title insurances are a solution looking for a problem, though, and that it is actually difficult to steal someone's house in such a manner.
I learned about title insurance in a home buying seminar.
I think these issues arise when the seller didn't own the home outright. (If there was a lien on the property.)
Lenders and agents are supposed to look out for these issues, but their information isn't always up to date.
But a home owner would have piles of paperwork and receipts from the purchase of the house that the friends or people who are lying would not have. You have to have title searches and inspections and deposits placed by certain times, realtor contracts etc that all leave paper and credit card trails. The real home owners don’t just have a single piece of paper created in their garage to hand over to the police. I just don’t understand how this could be.
2:09 when did the US annex half of Western Canada?
it's a squatters right claim in progress.... plant your flag....
Squatters rights
Oral contracts in the US are almost always prohibited for transfer of real property.
How long do celebrities leave thier vacation homes for 🤔
This is total bs. Just require people to have written documentation and file it with the county, there is 0 justification for squatters.If someone throws somebody out of the house illegally the squatter can due them and getting damages.It's just theft.
If someone was “squatting “ in your house couldn’t you just “acknowledge “ they are living there and then have them evicted? Just say they are now a tenant at will and you are now terminating the Tenancy?
No, because their claim isn't that they're a tenant, their claim is that they own it.
If such were the case, anyone could come up to you, "acknowledge" your at-will tenancy in "their" home, and serve you a 30 days notice.
And then it would be the exact same process more or less, with going to court and what not.
Squatting is just a holdover from the pioneer area where land speculators would buy a fuckton of land out west and then never do anything with it. The fact that it has continued for so long even into the modern era is crazy.
Because people need to like live
They are free to live wherever they please, except in my property.
@@zwerkono, because they get harrassed and fucked up by law enforcement if they pitch their tent too. People look at the unhoused as pests, plain and simple. Many of them are vets btw. Shameful.
@@PearLock nah, many of them are alcholics or drug addicts that wouldnt work a job if you gave it to them. Stop making excuses for lazy people who drain a society.
Womp womp. Don't go live in other people's properties and expect them to respect you..
Verbal contracts being on par with written ones is probably the stupidest thing I've heard in a while
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As far as I know all land is registered. When I bought my property it was registered at city hall. So how could someone else claim ownership? There would be no transactional record.
Meh. If I come back from out of town and someone is squatting in my home that I have been paying for years to own and the police will do nothing about it, I’ll forcefully remove them, either at gunpoint or in a tarp.
I’ll worry about the judicial system afterwards.
You're going to have to worry a lot about the justice system afterwards if you go that route.
@@sanskaarkulkarni1036 only if you call the cops and they know about it
Laws are so dumb. Why can’t 1 person own all the real estate and then we’re all forced to be homeless and unproductive. That makes much more sense!
This video did not age well.
How so?
This is a great video. There are reasons that you get to keep land that you occupy for a long time in certain cases. I own a home that was built around a century ago. I'd be shocked if my neighbors and I have our fences exactly on the original property lines. At this point, it's better for everybody that we just act like the fences are in the right place and have the law back it up.
Great video - I could never understand how something like this could happen, and now it seems a bit more comprehensible.
I think "tenant's rights" is a better name for these cases. These people arent claiming the land is theirs, they're claiming tenancy in a property that they never had an agreement for. Eviction can be a bitch of a process, hence why these people basically get months of free rent without care for the place.
Thanks, you're always able to explain stuff I don't understand!
To me this sounds so wild!
I literally could not believe that it works that way in America.
In my country you just have ownership of the house/flat and if someone lives there, you either make vocal agreement or actual contract of living. If you have a contract you live by the contract, if you have vocal agreement the owner is free to kick you out, unless you prove that he breaks his agreement by doing that. Why is proving the ownership of the house is hard, you literally bought it, WTF?
that's a great deal of American flag covering Canada @ 02:09 - sign of something still to come?
How is it “not that easy” to prove you don’t own a property? Mortgage deeds are public information. The law needs to change, case closed.