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Handyman turns the tables on squatters who took over his mother's house
Fox News ^ | 3/25/23 | Hannah Ray Lambert

Posted on 03/26/2023 1:55:36 AM PDT by Libloather

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To: MachIV

Challenge that neighbor IMMEDIATELY. Be nice and see if you can get them to sign an agreement even for a nominal fee for the drainpipe. That would at least preserve your rights. If you allow that drain pipe to stay on your property unchallenged for several years they will acquire what’s called a prescriptive easement which is like adverse possession. ie they will acquire the right to keep that drain pipe on your property permanently whether you like it or not.

If you sit on your rights, you will lose them.


21 posted on 03/26/2023 4:08:36 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

Excellent!!!!!


22 posted on 03/26/2023 4:34:40 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: FLT-bird

Look how they treated landlords during the Covid terror attack “People no longer have to pay rent” What the hell was THAT?? What right does the freakin’ government have to declare someones property is now free to the public, especially when THAT government is responsible for creating the very virus they are using as an excuse?


23 posted on 03/26/2023 4:41:11 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Libloather

First thing I would do is change all the locks.


24 posted on 03/26/2023 4:47:21 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Trump20162020

Sign a lease with a biker gang - 4 months free rent. Give ‘em the keys and let them duke it out with the squatters.


25 posted on 03/26/2023 4:54:51 AM PDT by GOPJ (When Morning Joe's sycophants say "My Democracy" it sounds like Gollum saying "my precious")
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To: Libloather
Flash Gordon of the United Handyman Association:


26 posted on 03/26/2023 4:54:51 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: FLT-bird

I would think from a legal standpoint, if the state is collecting tax payments on a property, that is considered admission by the state as to who has the legal rights to that property.


27 posted on 03/26/2023 5:10:38 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: MachIV
I actually have concerns about squatters rights for a piece of property that I may ineherit atleast 50% of sometime in the future. A neighbor to that property has been aloud to run a drain pipe onto our property for many years without being legally properly challenged for it. So it is an issue in the back of my mind.

Why not start by asking the person that now owns the place if they gave permission to the neighbor for the drainage?

It's always better to start knowing the facts, and your own statement indicates that permission has been given; i.e. aloud = allowed, and allowed = permission, either verbal, written or consent over time by lack of any contrary action.

28 posted on 03/26/2023 5:28:00 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Libloather

Have the water turned off and call the health department. They’ll be out there in a New York minute to get the people out and red tag the house. I’m president of our water company and we had to do that years ago. It worked.


29 posted on 03/26/2023 5:32:37 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Gnome1949

What this really means is government is the enemy.


30 posted on 03/26/2023 5:33:52 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Libloather

I had a really close friend loose her home in Portland to squatters.


31 posted on 03/26/2023 5:44:19 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Gnome1949

Rule of law is the basis for the problem. In effect, there is no law

The squatters claim a right to occupy that must be overturned by a court that is the domain of paid lawyers. The lawyers drag out the proceedings to maximize fees. The system is set up so that lawyers on both sided garner fees.


32 posted on 03/26/2023 5:46:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Libloather

I posted this before. Back in the 1970’s my sister worked with a guy who owned rental property in Manhattan. He had a tenant who had stopped paying rent. He went to a stationary store and purchased a bunch of seals and other official looking documents and wrote his own eviction order. While the tenant was out he changed the locks and piled his furniture on the sidewalk. The tenant called the cops. The cops asked him if he had any cancelled rent checks. He replied he didn’t pay rent. The cops told him it was a civil matter and to take the landlord to court.


33 posted on 03/26/2023 5:49:53 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: FLT-bird

Absolutely challenge the use of your property even if only for the drain pipe placement. I recently lost property in Delaware because a ‘neighbor’ alleged trespass for 20 years and the court gave her the land under Adverse Possession. it’s a sick system but that’s what we have.


34 posted on 03/26/2023 6:09:54 AM PDT by Hartlyboy
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To: Libloather

Uncle Leroy:come on, this guy didn’t pay his rent.
Me:OK.
It’s December and uncle Leroy pulls up to the front of the house. Takes off the front door. Guy inside says what’s going on?
Uncle Leroy: fixing your door!
Throws the door in the truck and takes off.
Says the guy punched a couple holes in the drywall and moved out the next day.


35 posted on 03/26/2023 6:14:00 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: FLT-bird
You don't own it. Only the owner has any right to say anything and for all you know, the true owner has given him permission...because the bigger issue is diverting water. Does it cause ponding??

You're ASSuming you're going to inherit someday...and you know what they say.

MYOB unless the true owner asks for your input. You're ASSuming your relative is naive. How do you know it's even on the property?

Not enough info...is he draining a wetland?? Heaven help us all.

36 posted on 03/26/2023 6:25:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: USS Alaska

Agree with you absolutely. If he granted permission, there is no Adverse Possession. For all you know...the tur owner might want the extra water.


37 posted on 03/26/2023 6:32:07 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: joma89
What this really means is government is the enemy

I can't remember a time when it was not.
Of course, I'm only 78 and sometimes my memory gets a little cloudy so I may be wrong.

38 posted on 03/26/2023 6:34:07 AM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: Libloather

Very happy to see a win. This kind of thing is way beyond insane. Don’t quite know what that is but...

I’ve seen it around me and have nightmares about it.


39 posted on 03/26/2023 6:55:51 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I was going by what the previous poster said. If you want to ASSume he was wrong, so be it. I merely related what a prescriptive easement is and how to defeat same.


40 posted on 03/26/2023 7:06:52 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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