Posted on 03/29/2024 2:37:45 AM PDT by Libloather
A local New York ABC News affiliate reported on the threat squatters are posing to residents and offered tips on how they can protect their homes from unwelcome guests, including putting up "No trespassing" signs.
ABC 7 Eyewitness News investigative reporters Dan Krauth and Nina Pineda detailed the threat that squatters can pose under New York law, where a person can claim squatters' rights if they have lived in a home for more than 30 days.
Efforts to change this law have gained serious traction in recent days after video of New York City property owner Adele Andeloro getting arrested for confronting squatters at what she claimed to be her residence went viral.
Andaloro was arrested at her property for changing the locks on the home, which police at the scene claimed was her illegally evicting several people at her home. Referring to one of the residents – who claimed without proof that he was on the lease – police told Andeloro "he can't be kicked out, you have to go to court."
As the local reporters noted Wednesday, Andeloro’s charges have since been dropped, "but strangers are still living inside her home." They reported that in the wake Andeloro’s story – and those of other families embroiled in months-long legal battles with unwanted squatters – they’ve received "dozens of messages from homeowners in the same situation."
"And it took another family 25 months to get the squatters out," Krauth reported. He added that this problem won’t be easily solved until there are changes to state law. Until that change occurs, "it makes it difficult for police to intervene, and requires homeowners to take squatters to court."
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If they aren't into snowmobiling or ATVs, they often shut down any trails going through their property.
They basically ruin a way of life for the locals who used to hunt, fish, and use OHRVs on the land.
Now they have to post their property, no matter how tiny it is in NY to try and keep it.
I love that!
The signs will be every bit as effective a covid masks.
“This is a house where a gun lives. For more information, crawl through a window after dark.”
Yep, double “00” buck in a 10 round AR-12 mag would do wonders on clearing squatters.
This website is a company that sells various types of signage; the listing is No trespassing laws and signage for each state.
https://www.mysecuritysign.com/no-trespassing-all-state-laws-and-sign-requirements
Forget about the “No Trespassing” sign … and go right to the “Home for Sale” sign.
Demonicrats are squatters in the United States.
Hey, I live in Florida.
Should we tell those snowbirds to hurry back home to protect their houses from squatters?
It’d be great if they could leave so the traffic around here can be a bit better. Thanks to DeSantis’s Anti-Squatter bill, our homes in Florida are protected.
Most of these snowbirds come from the blue states up north. A lot of them have even moved here permanently from those blue states to Florida, Texas, and other red states, leaving their homes back there empty. If squatters take over those homes, it’ll make it easier for people to vote illegally. Plus, it’ll affect the next census.
That’s fine. But are you prepared to pony up 20% more in taxes to make up for the lost revenue? I hear ya; I lived there for a few years. Snowbirds can be annoying but they sure do subsidize the economy.
I’ve been teaching computer secruity since the 1990s.
One of the major early issues of hacking involved the legal term “trespass”. In olden times, before cars and highways, people walked or road a horse to get from one place to another. If you had a wagon and wanted to take a nice road, well, some people put up toll roads. You could still walk on the traditional paths and trails that cut through various lands, farms, etc. So they made trespass laws that required the land owner to post on signs that you couldn’t go through a particular area or trail any longer. In other words, you had to post (put on a stick) a sign that said “No Trespassing” or similar message. Otherwise, the person walking through would just be following precedent from those days. In fact, you’ll find the legal requirement to post no trespassing laws mostly in the East, where people have walked around for a long time before modern transportation, and the West, which is newer and was less thickly settled.
When computers came out, some smart lawyers argued that you couldn’t say a hacker was “trespassing” your system unless you posted it. This let off many hackers from charges back then (late 80s/early 90s). To that end, industry associations and then the government made it mandatory to login; have computer warning/trespassing notices at login; and post policies about the same.
So the requirement to post No Trespassing is indeed the law or policy in many places.
Keep voting Democrat NY.
In Illinois. There is basically no such thing as trespassing.
Cops can’t or won’t do anything.
A family member came home to find underage friends of his son drinking his booze and smoking pot.
Called the cops, cops would do anything and almost got arrested himself when arguing to the cops to kick the underage kids out of his house.
And yes, he had No Trespassing signs up.
the homeowners need to sue the squatters for millions
Ha! Great question. If they’re there for more than 30 days, tell them all bets are off, on their NY properties.
Texas squatter laws are 10 years, before adverse possession claims can be made, by the invaders, er, squatters.
Things will likely happen, before then, though.
We have had no trespassing signs on our house front and back for years and we have them all over our rural property.
Bkmrk.
Property owners should be familiar with their state’s trespassing laws and No Trespassing sign requirements.
This website is a company that sells various types of signage; the listing is No trespassing laws and signage for each state.
https://www.mysecuritysign.com/no-trespassing-all-state-laws-and-sign-requirements
And NY City officials will ignore the laws they create, and tell the cops not to enforce them, which is exactly what they've been doing all along.
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