Posted on 07/06/2017 2:38:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Cobb County woman is filled with frustration after she says strangers moved into the vacant house she was selling without her knowledge.
Getting them out is tougher than you might think.
Channel 2's Ross Cavitt talked to both sides of this problem and found out important information for homeowners.
Dena Everman couldn't believe it and can't believe the situation she is in.
After finding someone living in her home, and a broken window in the back, she assumed a quick call to the police would clear out the trespassers.
"I found out in the past week there is some archaic law that says if someone sets up residence in your home, it doesn't matter how they get in there they have rights until we evict them,” Everman said.
She says the family found it listed for rent on Craigslist, they signed a lease by fax, paid their rent via money order, never saw the ad poster and only learned there was a problem when Everman called the police.
The next day she went to the courthouse where she says deputies told her she could stay.
"And they told us until these people come and forcibly evict us they can't force us out on our rights," Pritchett said.
Pritchett says the family is looking for another place to move, but admits for now they're staying.
"We're not just trying to stay in your home and hold you up on your sale. But at the same time, we just spent $3,000 -- that's not something we can just pull out and immediately move somewhere else, you know,” Pritchett said.
Everman is mad, she may lose the pending sale on her house, and tells me her posts on her situation have generated anger.
"Outrage. Everybody doesn't understand why someone who has no legal right to be in my home can stay in my home and I'm the one who has to evict them,” Everman said.
A lawyer who handles these cases told Cavitt that in real estate, possession really is nine-tenths of the law and the homeowner will have to go through the painful eviction process, which could take four to six weeks.
What are the laws if you squat on government property?
If you do any of those things during an eviction you will go to jail.
My mom had a tenant who stopped paying rent and eviction took months. She turned off the electricity and water and she got a visit from the sheriff. Eventually got the property, which the deadbeat had trashed, thousands in damages.
Lots of Law, very little Justice.
LOL. “I am not sure just WHO asked me to come here...”. That’s gonna go down like a turd in the punch bowl.
Isn’t there some paper trail that this poor woman can follow to get the Craig’s List poster?
I guess one now has to post an armed guard if he owns a house he is not living in. Disgusting.
That is my conclusion.
They broke into the house and now have come up with this cock and bull story to keep victimizing the owner.
This is why a house sitter is a good idea for empty property you are trying to sell.
Bttt.
5.56mm
They moved in without her knowledge! Not the house was selling without her knowledge.
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Of course, that is the reality of the situation. But the idiot who wrote the piece is the one who produced that horrendous sentence.
Something's fishy here...
If it was a vacant house for sale, there might have been a lockbox outside that would be accessible to real estate people. So a dishonest realtor or someone who got a lockbox key from a realtor would be able to get the house key.
There are a number of anomalies in this piece. I would withhold judgment on just who are the bad guys until further information.
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I would not count on getting much information from anything written by the moron who penned this story.
I would deal with them on MY level, probably even lower than theirs....they would be out by now.....
this happened in California a few years ago...
the old mother died and the son/daughter flew out the next month to California to arrange to sell her house...
Some people had broken a window and moved in...they wouldnt move and had changed the locks or bolted the door etc...he couldn’t enter the house..
an eviction notice was useless...
As the electric was still on he got it cut off...
they took HIM to court for cutting off the electric and a judge ordered HIM to get it turned back on immediately...but didn’t order them to leave...they were the injured party etc...
I didn’t follow the story further than that but it was almost a real live Michael Keaton movie...
Pacific Heights is an incredible movie! I was in high school when it came out and I was DUMBFOUNDED that such a situation could occur.
I’ve never looked at Michael Keaton the same way, lol.
If there really was a Craig’s List scammer involved.I am beginning to wonder....
Yeah, to a scam artist, not to the owner....
See #68.
Raucous round of applause for correct use of "cock and bull story." It's a shame more journalists don't have your language skills!
Oh man, I live in Cobb County. I got to go knock on these peoples door. I wonder if there will be a old Ossoff sign on the lawn.
3k rent? If that is one month rent around here, that must be 3-4 bedroom house, 4 baths, pool etc.....are we talking East Cobb or Fair Oaks near Dobbins. East Cobb homes (not town homes) are all about 2,800sqft to 15,000. Fair Oaks.....um, trailer parks, sears kit homes and little home built by Lockheed 60 years ago.
Maybe the 3k includes deposit.
If they give me 200 bucks, I will have them out by sunrise....
Put a add on Craigs List .....free stuff at xyz address....
The natives will show up.
It doesn’t say who broke the window...
easy enough to break a window and get in and then call a locksmith to come and change all the locks and presto you have a set of keys., rent the house, give a set of the keys to the new tenants, explain about the broke window ( last tenants, some kids ball etc) and you’ll sent someone to fix it etc...
Sorry, your correction is also not correct.
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A Cobb County woman is filled with frustration after she says strangers moved into the vacant house she was selling without her knowledge.
>>>>> A Cobb County woman is filled with frustration, she says, after strangers, without her knowledge, moved into the vacant house she was selling.
(I would have worded it differently to begin with if I were writing the story, but I wanted my correction to contain all of the same words as the idiot “journalist’s”.
Ha! Good one!
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