Squatters move into empty homes amid Sacramento's booming housing market | California Housing Crisis
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มี.ค. 2022
- Squatting in California: "I had one case recently (that) took over a year to get these individuals out of the home."
According to Redfin, investment buyers bought 56.3% more homes in Sacramento in 2021 than in 2020, creating a lot of empty residences. Because of that, people shopping for a home or looking to rent should be aware of squatters.
Story at: www.abc10.com/article/news/lo...
Get more from the Originals Team at www.abc10.com/abc10-originals
Photo credit: Storyblocks
Subscribe at: goo.gl/vai8Eu
Find ABC10 online: www.abc10.com/
Sign up for our newsletter: www.abc10.com/email
Stream ABC10 on Roku: channelstore.roku.com/details...
Stream ABC10 on Amazon Fire: www.amazon.com/Gannett-Broadc...
Stream ABC10 on AppleTV: itunes.apple.com/us/app/abc10...
Like ABC10 on Facebook: / abc10tv
Like ABC10 on Instagram: / abc10tv
Follow ABC10 on Twitter: / abc10
App download Android: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
App download iPhone: apps.apple.com/us/app/abc10-n...
This happened to me on two properties I renovated. It's been over a year now, and I still cant get them out. Squatters literally have more rights than the actual owners. One of them is even suing me for "harrasment" This country is so gone anymore, its so sickening
Did you have motion sensor cameras up on the property? Also an alarm system you can trigger remotely, alerting you on your phone. If you catch them immediately on camera you have proof they're trespassing & you call the cops immediately even if you're away!!!
@@pearlperlitavenegas2023 Cameras and alarm in the middle of a rehab? Your obviously not in construction and this has mever happened in 20 years of business
Sorry this is happening to you. This truly sucks.
@@dlowlow72 thanks i appreciate that very much. It seems to be the world we live in today. Society is definitely falling.
I would buy a shotgun and a backhoe to bury the bodies. Problem solved
Had this happen to me on a property I owned quite a few years back.
I showed up with a gun at my side, walked in and told them to get out.
They tried the "you can't do this we have rights"
Put my hand on my gun and said "you know what happens to trespassers that threaten my life"
They cleared out very fast
I would’ve told them “in a moment, the only rights you will have are your last rites”
Squatters = Criminals
Governments handling of policing, and helping victims of trauma, and mental abuse = criminals
exactly, criminals should not have any rights to someone's property
Agreed stealing people's homes literally
squatters = capitalists
I started a side business here in Sacramento where I move in my ex and her cat to squat along side these criminals. Nobody has lasted more than 18 hours so far.
lol
We pulled the windows out of a house in middle of winter. Told cops n judge that we expected delivery but company got sizes wrong. They eere gona in a few hours
nice! how much do I need to pay you to take my live-in girlfriend? and her ferret?
I need a one-year guarantee she won't be back IN WRITING
"They aren't stupid .. they know what they are doing" ... BECAUSE THE LAW ALLOWS IT .... Plain and simple .. Squatters have so many rights to something that absolutely doesn't belong to them.
so who owns the land? the colonizers? hhahahah
@@vnessa33 that's on another level... As a person of color . I get it ... but on the topic at hand, and my experience, ... the law has never been on my side ... still ... carry on
I think that after awhile people can get desperate and just decide that they've had enough. They just can't go another day, angry, and depressed they just open fire on these these sleep bags because they don't care what happens to them anymore.
So I'd say that these people aren't really very smart at all when they chose to take someone's hope as theirs. The could end up very dead or hurt very badly. They are
Playing the game of Russian roulette with their lives. Karma waiting for them.
Dont call the cops, instead call some family over, tie them up and move them out. If they show up again call the cops and say you have no idea who they are and have them removed for trespassing.
💯
A good Italian family, always helps their members, no questions
Don't tie anyone up. It's a felony. Wait till there off property at liquor store or gone to cop drugs. Make it look like random act of violence. You beat them on your property tgey will sue you.
@@stephaniea7586 I always loved Bette Midler's character's Uncle in that 90s film "The First Wives Club". Schmucky Danny DeVito was doing the nasty, so Uncle ____? grabbed Danny's character off the street for a good talking to 😉
@@glengarbera7367 come in at night, hit them over there head, tie them up, put them in the truck... take them to an orchard middle of nowhere... one 9mm in each skull.
No legit proof they lived in your home, no problem.. no sympathy for criminals
Wow, I didn't realize "Finders Keepers" applies to housing.
why not? it appears to have applied to whole continents. How many forests, and rivers, and villages, tribes,a nd families have been destroyed by the european conquest of the Americas. how did the u.s. become so bast in territory? hmm?
Im bouta go find a house to chill in for a couple of months
It's the Christopher Columbus way!
@@InTheMannerOfLove Well, we bought a lot of it off of Russia, Spain and others. The current "native Americans" killed off the 1st people who found it, but 1st made sl*aves of some of them and each other while they fought over rights amongst the various tribes....
@@julien.4617 many seek to justify their complicity in corruption and crimes.
If you own a vacant home immediately get an alarm, door bell camera or cameras.
Easy solution - have the squatters move into the Mayor's house or the police chief's house, maybe then the law would be changed.
This is happening all over Oregon. Portland neighbors had this happen to 10 houses near me.
How is this not home invasion?
An empty house isn't the owner's home. Unfortunately, it sort of becomes the squatters "home" since they have no other residence.
It's California
it is before 30 days are up.
@@tawrus80 only in lawless states
because exploitation is a lot worse and all land owners do it
The worst part is that it is in california. Governor Gavin newsom made laws to protect the squatters
awwww if only the greed could persist huh???
To be fair californians had the chance to vote newsom out on the recall election and refused to do so, so its hard to feel sorry for them at this point.
@@vnessa33 I hope for your sake nobody ever breaks into or lives in your house without your consent. The feeling of violation is immense
This law needs to be changed immediately. The owners are the victims and are being screwed by this derelicts and our system.
boohoo like were supposed to shed a tear for "owners" that exploit people for rent yeah right
@@vnessa33 bro they are trespassing and not paying rent and damaging the house
@@vnessa33 says Section 8 and EBT have been good to her..
This is happening all over Oregon. Portland neighbors had this happen to 10 houses near me.
@@vnessa33 has nothing to do with rent
How do you have rights when you’re trespassing?
easy its called colonization.....
@@vnessa33 bro shut up you have commented on every comment in support of squatters
It's the new USA
I know! If it were a car ( something far less valuable) you'd have no trouble claiming it was stolen! But an entire house???
That man who owns 2,000 properties brought the squatting problem on himself!
Lawmakers should make legal actions against squatters occupying other people's property and revoke their so called rights, because they dont have rights to the property on other's people expense
that would make sense.
But our laws and politicians are idiotic
@StarBlitz I'm interested to know the origins of Squatters Rights To Inhabit Property in the Law. It exists in other countries too - so I'm wondering if it originates in British Law. And Why ?!! Because I am NOT legally able to take possession of your car, or your seat at a concert, and claim rights to occupy. It all sounds SO wrong, and utterly devastating for the legal owners. I've heard of cases where the owner loses their health trying to fight their way through the system, AND find the money to keep up their mortgage payments and pay for legal action.
We as citizens need to demand our legislators change the laws and make squatting a criminal act.
Owners need to follow the law and evict them. It's not difficult at all.
This is happening all over Oregon. Portland neighbors had this happen to 10 houses near me.
Forget about calling the police. Either go in with friends and kick them out, or wait till they leave for the day and put their stuff on the curb and change the locks while they're gone.
This seems like the only way.
I just love how it says “it’s become known as squatting”….it’s not a new term. But past that, this is a great piece. I’m glad that these two were able to get the squatters out quickly. But just terrible this happens. Burning a bike??? What?? Just crazy.
Some people have never heard of cameras & security systems that alert you to your phone. Yes you should spend $500 to protect your property & monitor it remotely. You can even trigger an alarm right from your phone & call the cops as soon as you see trespassing trash tryingto move in. Also you have evidence
How do you put cameras on a property that you are purchasing but don't own yet and find out while closing a squatter moved in and took possession?
The laws should be changed. Squatters should not have any rights or protections and should be considered Breaking & Entering at the least ...
Kill all squaters. They have not rights. Not even to live
@@CexiLexi1 stop voting democrat
@@philobetto5106 you don't know how I vote!!! Troll
@@CexiLexi1 why u getting so upset?
if you were confident in the democratic party
you wouldn't be mad, you would laugh and
feel sorry for me like republicans do to liberal democrats. Have A Nice Day
"2000+ properties" Well there's part of the housing problem right there. Individuals and corporations should not be able to own nearly that many properties. If they own enough properties locally, they can easily influence the cost of rent in a given area.
Tbh amidst California's current hounsing and homeless crisis, especially for non-tech and blue-collar workers, it's understandable that some people would grow so desperate as to resort to squatting. It's not just addicts and homeless people that do the squatting, lower-middle class families, some of actually renovate the abandoned property, start doing this as well. In my opinion more housing projects, permitting the construction of duplexes and multi-family home should be started. And the local residents of suburbs should show more solidarity and support those housing projects, because these would help working and middle class families find a stable home.
Anyone tries this to our home it will not end well for the squatters, the law doesn’t want to help or do the right thing then I will do it myself
When you buy a home and want to remodel it before you move in have 24 hour armed security on the property. Another tactic is putting bars and locks on all your windows and doors with security monitors all over the property so you can get alerts if someone hits the sensors. Finally, keep not one, but two big dogs on the property and keep the lights on at all times.
Most properties with an HOA won't let you put bars on the windows.
And do not feed the dogs😁
@@rcdrum29 cruel landlord behavior
@@izzieclark725 Landlord? Homeowner.
Well, break in and tie them up, and load them in the back of pickup and unload them from the pickup 10 miles from where you live! Get a group of family members to come in and do the job Cops won't do.
they will sue you.... and get away with it. This is the sick twisted world we live in. Do not touch them.
Yup . Do something
@@ShiningSakura and how are they going to prove it? Get them out with physical force. Period end of discussion. And don’t just drop them off, beat them senseless and take all their clothes.
If Castle doctrine applies, they can shoot you AND get away with it!
@@ShiningSakura how will they sue, they can’t even pay rent
In nevada it takes 10 days to evict we have a low squatter and homeless situation in comparison
apparently not in Vegas or Reno, homelessness is absolutely horrific and so is the squatting situation
I don't know why these squatters have so much leniency towards them. They are there illegally. They shouldn't have to be evicted. They should be chased out by the police.
Guess who else came to this land illegally?
@@vnessa33 back before immigration.....all of us except for the native Americans that owned and lived on the land first. And I'm talking about a house......not immigration and nationalization.
What’s the point of burning a bike??
They probably couldn't get the utilities in their name. So no a/c and no heat. They might have been cold. OR they might have used the fire for cooking.
heat....genius
@@jonahart8095 That doesn't explain burning a bike.
I know a guy who owns a home in Sacramento. He was special forces in Afghanistan, wound pretty tight from the experience came back to find squatters in his house, called the sheriff, they said give them 2 month notice, call us again we’ll get them out. He said it’s my house, I’m moving in with them now and they cause me any trouble in the house, someone is going out on a stretcher, the sheriffs got them out.
Why do swatters have any rights to someone else's home? That's just abominable. We work so hard to get our homes and these "lawbreakers just move in and have the right to do that"?
How low down and dirty can
People who do things to others like this go.
i took high-resolution pictures of my exterior door and of the brick wall next to it
had it scaled to size on a sheet of vinyl, and put the door where the wall is then coming into the entryway I cut a 4x4 square access panel to the crawlspace and left 3in jagged
pieces of oxidized saline solution-coated sheet metal at the bottom and a vinyl photo of the floor over the hole 🤨😳😮🤕😵🚑🩸🩸⚰
Libtards
One of the drawbacks to the internet. A few google searches and Joe squatter can learn how to occupy an empty home.
Please share. Portland Oregon literally taken over by squatters.
Thing is not to leave your property sitting empty. It's all too obvious when you see curtains open or no window coverings at all, no lights on, no cars in the driveway, grass and bushes overgrown and not trimmed. It's obvious nobody is living there so the squatters say, why don't I move in? The house is abandoned.
Also banks foreclose on properties and throw the previous owners out. Then the banks do nothing, let the properties sit and rot. Squatters are out there watching and that's when they move in. Can you blame them? Yes it's illegal, but houses are literally sitting empty all across the USA. Property owners need to follow the law to get them evicted. It's not difficult or lengthy at all.
This is where realistic robots would really come in handy to occupy the house for you.
You say it’s not difficult or lengthy at all, clearly you have no idea. The squatters literally have rights to the house after they’ve lived there more than 30 days.
If they do that In Texas those bums would be chased out with guns
for real?
@@tommyv4980 Only in Texas
I miss TX ♥️
except its happening in TX just as often in the Western states
Thanks gavin
Awww, still crying. Good.
@@Mt-ue9qz liberals don't have a monopoly on tears? Wow
@@Mt-ue9qz sure is funny, California has been having a mass Exodus of people, the homeless crisis there keeps getting worse and worse, regardless of commifornias extreme gun laws they still have one of the highest crime rates in the entire country.
If you live in commifornia please do us a massive favor and just vote for secession, I really don't like you people even slightly and I honestly couldn't care less if you were nuked.
I call them trespassing and Chicago police took them to jail and their dogs to animal shelter and put their property on street everything was done in less than 2 hours. And then prosecutor prosecuted them according to law.
Yeah but what happens if it continues to happen repeatedly? They will eventually come a point when this happens because they have no other recourse.
@@crystalpoindex they belong to jail.
way to go FOB
Ok this is how you get rid of them.
1. Shut doors and windows
2. Seal them
3. Gas
Im bouta find a house to chill in for a couple of months
what happens when someone squats in one of bernie sanders houses?
How much are the legal fees to remove the squatters?
*_”It’s become known as squatting”_*
Let’s call it what it is…. Thievery
Why is it not considered breaking and entering?
Scary 😱
They ought to go to jail for it.
good solution shannon
You sue these people when you take them to court to get out of your house from squatters, the squatters should have to pay for the damages. I don't know about others but I would break the glass of my house if someone squatted in my house and fill it with tear gas until peoe flooded out and or I has to frag bodies out. Just saying drastic measures call for drastic actions
You take them to housing court to get them evicted. Housing court doesn't handle property damage. For that you can file a lawsuit but most of the time these squatters are bums with nothing to their name. You can't get blood out of a stone.
you're hired!! love it
This so strange. In my bldg, all sudden they put rent sign in front of the bldg. Because previous owners did not put rent sign. I guess the current owner is desperate, or having difficult to rent because of high rent, or is not aware of squatter mission
YOU CAN REMOVE THE ROOF. you are allowed to work on it so remove the roof . replace sheet rock. make noise paint early. many things can be done. change locks or have your cousin move in.
fr
Actually in North Carolina you are not allowed to change the locks or shut utilities off on Squatters. It is a unfair law honestly.
@@widebroadcast6812 but you're not required to pay either. Let squatter pay for their own useage
That's not a solution🤣🤣🤣, it's illegal in most cases too, and horribly expensive. The best thing you can do is have a security system in a vacant house, the system will alert the police of trespassers once the would be squatters fail to verify themselves, most security companies are vetted by law enforcement so even if the police take half a day to respond and the squatters produce paperwork they should still be arrested. If the home has no electrical service idk what to tell you, the bank or landlord obviously doesn't care about their property enough to take care of it the right way. Of course the best thing you can do is just unalive the squatters, less people trespassing, less people on benefits, less criminals breaking the law, but I reckon someone like you doesn't have the guts for it, even if you are completely justified.
Please share. Portland Oregon literally taken over by squatters.
I’d throw like 50 bug bombs in there
What is bug bombs?
Why aren't officials doing something about this?? Squatters get a pet on the cheek and home owners are punished?!
How can this be ALLOWED?
A sign of the times how sad sad indeed...that folk think they should have the right to do this to someone else.....especially if that person is the home owner...SHAME SHAME SHAME these squatters have more rights than the land owner.!
Don't deal w/private owners. They're not all bad, but going thru Mgmt companies will save you the grief. Protect yourselves.
Really horrible situation for everyone. How do people know when a lease is real?
If I were a homeowner and had squatters invade my home, and I had no rights, I would make up a fake lease and as soon as anyone in the city gov left for vacation, I would be in their house in 2 seconds with a bunch of friends. If no one is there, it is vacant, right?
Stop calling these people squatters! They are NOT squatters according to the definition of the law, they are burglars who break and enter and steal!
Please share. Portland Oregon literally taken over by squatters.
They have to buy food? Why not exchange locks then.
These squatters should be put in Jail!
So should the people charging over 2 grand a month for rent and the bankers setting up mortgages for higher than 500k in a middle class neighborhood, but they're the good guys to you.
They need to start making a national law regarding squatters this is getting out of hand
My lawyers work every time..... Smith & Wesson........
squatters should have no rights whatsoever
How can this be? Squatters? It’s your home. What rules allow them to take your place?
It only takes a year if you are being billed by an attorney. It's your house. Throw them out. It isn't civil no matter what the worthless cop says. Squatters don't have a right to move into your home. Otherwise any burglar could carry a fake lease and never get arrested.
Stupid laws,no contract no money police have to take them out,period!
The term "squatters rights" is an oxymoron
I don't agree with squatters. But if keeps increasing the rent, and salaries don't pay enough, the caos will be worse.
I had a 17year squatter, this is nothing!!
Someone breaking into your home and trespassing is never “a civil problem”. It is an Against the Law problem.
Families are having trouble affording homes as investors outbid most buyers.
When I 1st tried to buy a home, interest was 16%. Finally found a home I could get a land contract in. You have to be willing sometimes to think outside the box, and start with less than your ideal. You don't get to start at the top. You also have to work hard and be frugal to get your dream sometimes. Not having something doesn't give you the right to take (or use without permission) other people's property.
Right stop discrimination against the formerly incarcerated and the evicted and this will stop going on. Taking away freedom and human rights is the issue.
that doesn't give them the right to take other peoples property
This system has dynamic potential to put many honest Americans on the streets, is this how we treat our own people?
If you own a peice of property....if someone's there, you tell them to leave and they dont.....you should have the right to remove them by whatever means necessary. WHATEVER means necessary.
I wonder if a squatter took over a judge's or DA's house, I wonder how long it would take to get them out 🤔
heard of a person who hired some big dudes to remove the front door and move in with their squatters..... squatting with the squatters....i guess the original squatters could call the police on the "new" hired squatters...lol.....
Maybe they shouldn't have waited for authorities to arrive before taking action?
"booming housing market" ...but thousands of homes are empty?
America and it's rights... so many stupid laws, making things harder for normal good people
Never post a for sale sign in a sketch area.
Can someone explain to me in laymen terms, why do squatters have more rights than homeowners?
SHOULD not take a year . just getttt them out . and then figure it alllll out
Why don't these states like homeowners? The ones who actually pay property taxes?
Note that this is California...squatters don't have these rights in the Midwest or South. Look up Arkansas landlord rights. Its like a 4 hour turnaround on kicking out not just squatters, but renters who won't pay
My great uncle and his son live in Arkansas. My uncle has seen squatters not get any consequences in Arkansas.
False. It's a huge problem in Detroit.
@@athens31415 You are correct. I should have excluded the highly failed major cities like Chicago and Detroit.
@@xwrtk I dont believe that they followed up then. I have seen squatters removed in Blytheville the day of.
@@ethanku No, you should have revised your false claim from "Midwest" to specific states, cities or towns you know where squatters do not have these rights. Given that squatters rights are globally universal, it's likely your claim is false.
Go up in there with some bear mace and tell them you're spraying for rodents...🤣🤣🤣
Or you could just get someone you know to claim it as their residence.So if someone comes in and squats you can have them arrested for burglary. 🤨
That wouldnt happen in my house i can guarantee it
What is the point of owing your own property these day's? Wow
De funding police.
High rent
No mental health
Tax payers, ppl with a job get SCREWED
If someone breaks into my home, im not going to the court to reach for documents. Im pulling out my 9 and get rid of the pests myself
Not crafty just corrupt..greedy and destructive.
i agree the exploitation these landlords have over renters
"Has become known as squatting" as if it were some kind of novel crime.
In that case I see there's a system is stupid
Breaking and entering is legal in Commiefornia?
yeah highest housing market as well too genius
Next thing they’ll be moving in while you’re at work or the store and claiming all of your stuff is theirs.
Squatters::::: SHOULD NOT HAVE RIGHTS COPS SHOULD JUST GO GET EM they also should be forced to PAY UP .!!!!!!
If this happens let’s say a squatter goes to a mayor’s mansion the cops aren’t going to wait they are arresting you then. More squatters need to be arrested immediately!!!
Cant you just move in with them and make it unbearable
But lets take away gun? Imagine not being able to defend our own property
is it really yours? or can I make it my own
Adding a gun to this already difficult situation is going to add a whole new level of issues for the property owner. Sadly these squatters have the civil law situation all figured out. Sure you can shoot and kill them but now you are looking at a Criminal charge against you. Spending time in prison just isn't worth it. Evictions are a long drawn out process but you get your property back and keep a clean record.
@@elviscobb5922 What police department has the time and resources to investigate missing transients?
Odds are nobody will miss most squatters enough to file a missing person's report. People will just assume these people overdosed.
Keep the "eviction" quiet so nobody calls the cops, ditch the evidence and put up security cameras.
It wouldn’t happen if the media wouldn’t be airing showing bums this
Anybody ever seen Judge Dredd? Remember the Peach Tree Tower? Yeah, that's what they're making. Except it'll be entire neighborhoods instead of one giant apartment complex.
Get the bug spray when cockroaches enter your home.
This is so wrong!!!!
There should be a Law all 50th States , Squatting is Trespassing and gets U a year in prison with bail.👋🏾👋🏾💯
So your going to lock up ALL the poor squatters? Good luck with that.
@@crystalpoindex they shouldn't argue, they will be getting free housing after all.
@@No.One.30 🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💯
@@crystalpoindex They shouldn't be poor with free housing.
there should be a law where you keep paying rent more and more every year because itll be fun to see you throw all your money away and be completely fine with it
😔
0:12 I'm sorry, but why is that guys hairline in the middle of his forehead??
Squammy everywhere in the area.