Is it possible these squatters are some sort of “honest thieves?” I asked Capt. Ursino. “I don’t know about that,” he said. “But the whole thing is about the darndest thing I’ve ever heard.”
Not so difficult to understand. This is the law in Costa Rica. If you squat (I want to say for 90 days), then you can’t be removed because they have a very short statute of limitations. Of course, they don’t have such a short statute of limitations in Seattle, but it makes perfect sense that if you cater to illegal aliens, you’re going to get a bunch of visitors from Costa Rica who don’t give a damn what the law is in Seattle.
35,000 to move these fools out?I’ll do it for 10k and nobody question my methods.
Read a newspaper article a while back about something similar in the US.
I don’t remember the exact details, but it was something like this: somebody used an empty lot as a short-cut or something, eventually wearing a path through it, and after continuous use for some period of time (maybe years?), claimed it as his own. And the claim, as I recall, was upheld in the courts.
Maybe somebody with a law background can explain the legal principle involved (or let me know I’m completely off-base in my recollection).