Posted on 06/20/2023 5:58:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Houston public school teacher and her family have been evicted from a luxury home they were squatting in for months after using a fake lease to remain on the premises.
Amberlyn Prather had been ordered by a judge last month to vacate the home she and her family were shacking up in after illegally taking residence in the property, which was listed for sale and vacant, in January by flaunting a fabricated lease agreement, according to ABC13.
“It’s insane,” realtor Shanequa Garrett, the authorized seller of the property, told the outlet in May after the courts ruled the family had been squatting in the suburban home and needed to be evicted.
Prather, a fourth-grade teacher in the Houston Independent School District, squeeze in over two more weeks at the property before Garrett could get back to work on June 15, when they were officially removed — despite being ordered to leave at the beginning of the month.
“Finally, they’re out,” Garrett told the outlet. “Now it’s to keep the squatters out completely. We don’t want another situation like this.”
Garrett cracked down on how the family gained access to the home when she conducted an inspection.
“They could climb on a trash can and climb on the roof,” Garrett told the outlet. “From this window (which was loose), they can just open it from the outside and jump in. Because we kept getting the house rekeyed, and they kept getting in.”
The Houston realtor was forced to make several court appearances to expose the squatters and was told by the constable’s offices that the issue was a civil matter and not criminal throughout the ordeal.
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It’s to the point where any B & E burglar of an unoccupied residence could simply tell the police they’re living there now - and they might get away with it.
what a bunch of bs.
Funny ,if he thought the guy had been drinking, he could stop him before he left the drive way though. ( at least that happened to my sil in a parking lot)
And every other major immigrant group. Major cities all have mulitiple ethnic gangs with their own vigilantes or enforcers -- the Chinese tongs, the Korean mob, the Jewish mob, this mob, that mob. it's just that the Italians have had the most movies made about them.
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