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Army officer says squatter moved into her DeKalb home while she was on duty, now she can’t evict him
WSBTV via Yahoo ^ | 05/12/2023 | WSBTV.com News Staff

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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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: daure; dekalb; georgia; housing; realty; simon; squatter
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To: Scrambler Bob

I like your style lol. Look up “sociopath” in the dictionary. I think you’ll get a kick out of it.


81 posted on 05/13/2023 4:19:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DFG

How impotent is this damned country when an army officer is afraid to toss a squatter out on his ear with three broken limbs, two black eyes and a “you should have listened” from the local sheriff.


82 posted on 05/13/2023 4:20:09 PM PDT by jz638
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To: Reno89519

Exactly. You nailed it


83 posted on 05/13/2023 4:20:28 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DFG

Get some jack-booted thugs in riot gear with weapons to extract him like Bill Clinton did Elián González from his great-uncle’s home.


84 posted on 05/13/2023 4:31:08 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ClearCase_guy

we’re about to have around 50 million illegal invaders looking for a place to crash folks.


85 posted on 05/13/2023 4:38:30 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: DFG

Immediately cut of all utilities - water, electricity, gas, etc.


86 posted on 05/13/2023 4:40:01 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: Celerity
If Legion5999 was paying his rent, he wasn't a squatter.

This squatter was more than likely responding to an online ad for the apartment. He was shown the apartment and a fake contract was written up.

A home, not an apartment.

The owner and the police are likely working with this poor soul to find another place to live.. but that person has been scammed out of $15,000

Simon claimed he had a lease and that he'd paid $19,000 upfront for six months.

Who pays 6 months upfront? Sounds fishy to me.

Channel 2 Action News learned that Simon has a long criminal history, including convictions for guns, drugs and theft charges.

And there it is.

It's a shame and I hope people are coming together not to utterly destroy this guy.

No need to destroy this criminal, just evict him.

87 posted on 05/13/2023 4:52:05 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: DFG

The squatters have to leave sometime. When they do so they must be rendered unable to return, having had serious “accidents”.


88 posted on 05/13/2023 5:13:58 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: dfwgator

She shoudl go to a biker bar and explain the circumstances. Offer them a few hundy’s for removal.


89 posted on 05/13/2023 6:39:16 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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To: sevlex

Some good citizens could make squatter’s life miserable. Just sayin’


90 posted on 05/13/2023 6:52:41 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: Openurmind

Homeless Vets Are Being Booted From NY Hotels to Make Room for Migrants

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91 posted on 05/13/2023 7:39:30 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Dems loot & riot -called "protesting" by media. Repub's protest -called "looting & rioting" by media)
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To: DFG

Reverse squat. Call forty of your best friends and their dogs for a two-week live-in.

All the food gets eaten in the fridge.
All the TP gone from the bath.
All the couches and beds occupied.


92 posted on 05/13/2023 7:51:51 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: LeoTDB69

That front door needs removal for refurbishing.


93 posted on 05/13/2023 7:58:11 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: lurk
Call forty of your best friends and their dogs for a two-week live-in.

Just make sure you give them an updated lease agreement. And they need to bring clothing and personal items. Now it's their word against his.

94 posted on 05/13/2023 8:35:47 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: 4Liberty

I know... It is called wealth redistribution. Another Communist principle.

I can’t wait until folks wake up and realize that without a doubt we now live in a communist system.

Until we admit reality for what it is, nothing is ever going to repair it.


95 posted on 05/13/2023 11:16:36 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

That presumes one is going to play by the rules. The squatters aren’t playing by the rules. I betting when you show up with a bulldozer, anyone there will leave pretty fast once you start moving their car(s) around.


96 posted on 05/14/2023 5:20:51 AM PDT by waredbird
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To: waredbird
I betting when you show up with a bulldozer, anyone there will leave pretty fast once you start moving their car(s) around.

And you will end up with an article 15 if you are military like this lady.

Or the cops will be called and you will be arrested.

The squatters have nothing to lose and so do not need to play by the rules. You do.

Now if you want to be less dramatic but more effective you could try to get a law like the Florida statute 82.035 passed in your state.

Perhaps even one with more teeth.

97 posted on 05/14/2023 8:15:41 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: sevlex

Indeed it’s why 3am visits were invented.


98 posted on 05/14/2023 9:47:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Secret Agent Man
“I FEARED FOR MY LIFE, SO I NEUTRALIZED THE THREAT...”

Georgia has a "Stand Your Ground" law, so the Owner should be able to devise a way to invoke it.

99 posted on 05/14/2023 2:18:55 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Save the Republic - VOTE TRUMP!!!)
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To: DFG
Squatter has been evicted.

Squatter evicted from home of active duty Army officer, arrested after Channel 2 investigation

Yeah, it turns out there IS something the police can do about a squatter in your home and all you have to do is notify the media and they suddenly remember it.

100 posted on 05/28/2023 6:59:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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