He should run for office.
Does he have a deed?
For adverse possession to work, it has to be adverse.
It may be that a previous land-owner gave verbal permission for the guy to live there decades ago, and that same land-owner sold the property without sharing that information with the buyer....
Of course the previous land-owner may be deceased by now...
Lawyers should have fun with this one.
Property owner is 86.
Guy living off grid is 81.
He’s been in a cabin on 73 acres of land for 27 years.
Hard to believe that no accommodation is possible.
He’s a squatter who has been squatting on private property for 27 years, living for free. If all the liberal do-gooders like him so much, maybe they can pitch in and buy him a nice cabin on the river so he can continue to live for free. But instead, they paint the land owner who wants to build his own riverfront cabin on his own land as the bad guy.
2nd Amendment meant to deter tyranny of government as much as anything else. Once they disarm us the Republic of the USA is certainly history.
He’s been living there with permission. Can’t claim adverse possession.
They love Eminent Domain, but not for this guy.
they say he cant stay there because the place is ‘illegal’ ie doesn’t have septic, or other things- said he doesn’t have an ‘access road’ to the cabin- he should tell them there is a road- it’s just camouflaged with sticks leaves and twigs”
He claims it’s a hunting cabin,m and not a home- and that he had permission, verbal, from previous owner to stay there-
So much for “Live Free or Die”.
He’s good at living off the grid, but he is living on somebody else’s property. The owner is older that him at age 86. He plans to get rid of that cabin, and has been asking this man to move since 2016, when his existance was first discovered.
Cabin Man says he ‘was given’ this area by agreement, but there is no paperwork supporting this.
He has a brother age. 76. Four grown children who have not spoken to him in years. He needs to go.
Have your Henry David Thoreau moment on your own land.
Total nonsense. The new NO-EVICT rule applies to him! The landowner must not evict the guy or face fines and prison time.
I oppose the rule, but it’s law and MUST be applied equally. This man must be allowed to live in the woods and no one must disturb him.
What’s fair is fair!
(I know that the “legal justice” system will prosecute him and throw him out into the street, cuz that’s how things work in the post-constitutional USA).
Should’ve just moved to NYC and squatted in a luxury building. No chance they could’ve thrown him out.
It hasn’t been long enough. The owner only found out about the guy in 2015.
Hopefully he gets invited to set up shop by another property owner.
So the landowner is 86 but nothing has stopped him from cutting timber every 10 to 20 years so why worry about an 81 year old guy living on the land. He is causing no hard, make him the game warden for the property and leave him alone.
WHO WAS HE HURTING???
This fellow sounds like an old hermit I met back in the 60s who lived in a log cabin in the hills near Maryville, TN. The fellow was in his 80s and in excellent shape. He kept clean, bathed and shaved regularly. He had “dropped out” after WWI when he became disgusted with humanity.
He owned a lot of acreage which he leased to the government and those lease payments are what he lived on. His cabin had kerosene lamps, a wood stove and a huge collection of books. The old guy loved to discuss philosophy and literature but he had little contact with society.
When it became extremely cold in winter, he would take a bus to Mexico where he claimed he could live on 50 cents a day. In warmer months he returned to his cabin in the hills.
It’s certainly not a life I would choose, but “all folks with their own strokes”.
He’s not trying for adverse possession. Apparently the owner of the property doesn’t give a damn if he’s there. The key to this story is that the shack he is living in apparently offends some bureaucrat because it is not ‘up to code’.
Someone needs to introduce a baseball bat to that bureaucrat’s head. I’d suggest aluminum, as it’s likely to be pretty thick.
In some states a squatter must have been paying property taxes on the land before the squatter can claim ownership. If the original owner(s) have been paying the taxes on the land for 27 years it’s hard to see how someone other than the original owners can claim ownership.