98 sats \ 4 replies \ @justanumber 26 Mar \ parent \ on: Squatters Rights? libertarian
I'm sure this will live you both forever! We also had a crazy experience renting a house. The guy turned out to be a con artist. In the end the police did evict him but not for us, because they wanted him for offences. They were going to bail him back to our home and told us we weren't allowed to change the locks whilst they had him in custody. I begged them not to bail him back to the address. He was very posh and well-to-do as well! It's a loooong story, as I'm sure yours is! We were only in our 20s at the time (kids really) but it's affected a lot of our decisions and we probably could've made money on renting properties since then but just couldn't entertain the thought!
I'm also suspicious about the media coverage. Perhaps they want to put people off owning property. I heard some of the big asset managers have been buying-up-big single family homes. And maybe they want to frame it that we don't have property ownership rights. Who knows?? 🤷🏼♀️
Also in Spain the squatters are gaming the system in a similar way to your tenants but basically extorting money from people. They know that, rather than spend 5 years (which it can take!) trying to evict them, the owners pay them a few thousand to leave. Of course, they then go do the same thing to someone else and on it goes... These people are claiming poverty. They must be freakin rolling in the wonga 🤑💰
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That's it, you have to start finding ways to fuck with them. But with squatters or non-paying tenants you are often screwed over to a point you can hardly go near the house. Or they have big dogs or big men or whatever... Some of them are really dangerous fuckers!