I couldn’t believe the cooa wouldn’t do anything but from the comments it appears that the house was a rental before this person purchased it and probably the previous renters let someone move in. The police are treating them like renters with a signed. Contract, which obviously they are not. I would break in a window and start moving their stuff onto the lawn. It wouldn’t be breaking and entering since it is my house.
The current “renters” or squatters, or whatever you want to call them, may well have a signed contract - the only problem being that it’s utterly bogus.
In the 90s, a friend of mine was the victim of a con like this up near Seattle - she rented a house from the ‘owner’ only to find out (far too late) that the ‘owner’ was actually a tenant, and the real owner had privately sold the house to another person. She was quite surprised when the new owner showed up one fine day to move in. And she was even more surprised, and horrified, to discover she’d been swindled.
I’d think that tracking down the previous tenants might be highly useful; most likely, they made off with the current occupants $$$. My friend got screwed out of first month, last month, and security deposit.
Now if these are just good old-fashioned squatters, then throw them out on their keesters. I admit to having a bit more sympathy towards their situation if they were indeed the victims of a con-artist.
But if not.....well, tough ****.
In some states possession is nine points of the law; a self-eviction (without a legal warrant) will send you to jail no matter how wrong the squatters are.