Posted on 05/13/2023 1:44:42 PM PDT by DFG
A U.S. Army officer says a squatter moved into her DeKalb County home while she was serving on active duty, and now she can’t have him evicted.
She told Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray that she found out when her real estate agent was making final preparations to sell the house.
“He’s not a tenant. He’s a squatter,” Lt. Colonel Dahlia Daure said.
There are ‘beware of dog’ signs in some windows and cardboard covering others at her Ellenwood home in DeKalb County.
Daure says someone she’s never met moved in without her knowledge or permission, and now won’t leave.
“I was beside myself and I felt violated. Had I not been serving my country, I would have been in my home,” Daure told Gray.
Daure is full-time active-duty command staff with the U.S. Army Reserves and is stationed in Chicago.
She was renting out her metro Atlanta home, but after a $35,000 renovation, she put it up for sale.
“I got a cash offer. It was under contract,” she said.
That’s when Daure says Vincent Simon apparently moved in. Simon claimed he had a lease and that he’d paid $19,000 upfront for six months.
“The police call the number that’s on the lease. It doesn’t exist,” Daure said.
Daure went to the police and was told it was a civil matter.
This week she served Simon with eviction papers, but he has a right to respond and have the case heard by a judge.
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Why would you say that? It’s my house and I can do anything I darn well please with my house. A squatter may not do what he pleases with my house.
Everyone should know a couple people they can trust to make someone disappear. This is one of those times.
Encourage him to move out today. If not, move him out physically.
Also, half the people in this country are not on our side. That is why the rest of the people not on our side are in their positions.
They die.
I’m sure I wouldn’t handle it well.
In a Communist system there are salvage rights to who thinks they need it more. If you don’t sit right on top of it to defend it then someone else can take it without repercussions. There is no such thing as private property anymore. No matter who paid for it ownership is first come first serve.
“This is a good case for SSS.”
Bingo.
Just wait until he gone for a moment and move back in with some muscle. Change the locks. Dump his stuff with Got
Junk?
At the very least trespassing. Which is totally a police matter.
It use to be. In today’s US the perp is always considered innocent and the victim not so much.
She closed off a lot of options for herself once she reported this story to the media.
It would have been much easier if she had just come home and found a burglar violent, predatory assailant in her home … and dealt with it accordingly.
“Daure went to the police and was told it was a civil matter.”
Some matters are uncivil and should be handled as such.
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I would invest in a private detective or someone to watch the house for a week or two to determine when the person was away from the house for three or more hours. Then, I would contact some of my military buddies or other friends and see how many could be on call at a few minutes notice.
Once he leaves the house and information shows that he will be away for the afternoon, I would call those buddies, have them show up to remove all the guy’s items from the home, and have new locks installed. Then, I would tell my buddies, they have a place to stay for a week or so while I find actual paying renters or move back in myself.
When a person owns a verified title to a home, the cops should be able to remove squatters without the owner being told it is a civil matter. It’s theft, pure and simple.
Does this squatter never leave the house? If he leaves go change the locks and toss his belongings out to the curb.
Isn’t the house insured and flammable?
No problem with that. When the justice systems fails, people have a responsibility to take matters into their own hands.
DeKalb County, Georgia for us not living there.
No, you can't. For example you could not set the house on fire. Even if it was empty and you made no insurance claim it would still be arson.
Everyone should know a couple people they can trust to make someone disappear.
On planet reality, they don't.
A house sitter also keeps people from using your empty house as a weekend party pad.
“what exactly happens if you go in and shoot them? saying you thought they were an intruder?”
You might call Daniel Penny and get some advice.
we have the responsibility to take matters BACK into our own hands. The "justice system" is our creature ... when it fails to do its job, we need to fire it.
Supposedly she’s a “soldier”. You know… a fighting man, as it were. She can’t find a way to banish and vanish him at 3:00 am some random day?
Weak
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