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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The assault on private property operates on many fronts. The politicians know about this, but don’t care. It took them about .001 seconds to mandate masks and jabs, but it will take forever for them to protect private property because it’s what they hate.
If someone stole her stereo, horse, or car, the cops would be all over it.
It’s no different.
They’ve stolen her property and the cops should step in to stop it.
If you fear for your life and shoot the squatter is that setf defense?
Officer, please look at these pictures and let us know if one of them is the squatter:
She’s an officer… Show up with a platoon and remove the bastard forcibly.
Flaming arrow time
What I’m saying is that your advice to pay a housesitter when I’m not home is kind of stupid. If I own the house, no one but no one should have any claim on my house.
Up their insurance and see if the place might not burn down.
It would be a shame if some masked home invaders happened to pick that house to invade. Some of those incidents end up with the “homeowner” dead. And those crimes are almost never solved.
One reads, "If there is a squatter already living in your Georgia real estate property, then you must begin the legal principle of a formal eviction process. This means serving the tenant with an eviction notice to leave the property. Georgia doesn't specify the time limits of this notice; the period can be anywhere from 24 hours to 10 days."
As it was a rental property, she has proof via payments/deposits that another was legally a renter, and therefore the squatter does not meet the Georgia law reqs. Or the story is incorrect in details.
See: https://avalonpropertymanagement.net/squatters-rights-ga/
The article is poorly written, but, judging by the comments, surely aims at "if it bleeds, it leads." This is, after all CBS passed through Yahoo.
Isnt WSBT in South Bend, Indiana?
I was trying to figure which Dekalb County in the country where in happened
I want it to be true that someone who fears for their life in that situation (or in a carjacking or mugging) will be legally safe but I cannot be confident of it.
Last night’s nonfiction series iCrime with Elizabeth Vargas had a woman of color who deliberately and angrily rammed her car in reverse into a white man’s car-—four times. He got out and stupidly tried to stop her from getting away by standing behind her car with his hands on the trunk and talking to her. She hit him and knocked him down but didn’t seriously hurt him.
The young woman lawyer in her interview said the man was wrong as well as foolish because “he could be charged with the crime of false imprisonment” by deterring her movement to get away in the car. Leaving the scene and damage to the man’s car are iffy but the “false imprisonment” could get the man prison time.
Our system. (spit)
“This is a good case for the Bandidos. One visit and they will be gone.”
Knew a guy who would by property at tax foreclosure sales. Often there was someone occupying the property he had just bought, maybe the former owner or someone else. He was big into motorcycles (heated suit kind of thing from OK City to Austin Tx in winter), anyway he and his buddies on their motorcycles would show up at the house, he would have a few hundred dollars cash on him maybe up to $500 (my job was to make sure he had the proper paperwork for the real owner to give up any redemption rights etc. in the property)
He would tell the occupant to get out and take this cash, sign this paper or me and my friends will move you out.
Seems to have worked every time.
You will own nothing and like it.
Or use Rush Limbaugh’s “All American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPwlOOKedg
Tired of playing by rules.
The left disregards rules. We should too. They obviously don’t wanna live in a civil society.… So we should give them an uncivil society.
VERY uncivil.
Yep, squad meeting at the house to discuss future maneuvers....
Wait. It her house. So walk in and if the squatter threatens you. Blammo, problem solved
At the very least it's unauthorized entry (Burglary) and illegal trespass. Last time I checked those were criminal violations.
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