You’re reading it wrong. The people who moved in said they paid $3,000. I’ve read these things before. It’s a scam. And it will cost the home owner. If they had a paid lease, they would have gotten a key, and not smashed in a window for entrance. Who does that?
There is that. Smashing the windows is a little over the top. I expect you could reasonably charge the squatters with vandalism straight away, and get a conviction, since they admitted it.
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...