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Man Entering Homes & Changing Locks Claiming Legal Ownership (video)
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com ^ | Nov 26, 2013 | Austin Petersen

Posted on 11/27/2013 6:30:35 PM PST by Sheapdog

BUTLER COUNTY, OH - A Ohio family is out in the cold after coming home from caring for a sick family member they found that the locks on their house had changed and all their property missing. Robert Carr has been going around filing “quiet title” documents after learning about people that are abandoning their homes. Carr has been doing this to over a dozen homes, even filing seven cases in one day.

Carr sends teams of people out to locate homes that are empty at the time and then has them go in and change the locks. “I have a team of people who go out and I say make sure the house is empty. If it’s empty, change the locks,” said Carr. “When you abandon a property, bam, walk away from it, ‘I ain’t never coming back. I don’t want nothing to do with it,’ right? Somebody can come in, ‘Oh, mine,’” Carr says.

FBI agents investigating the activity said they’ve heard of this before. Special Agent Kevin Cornelius said, “They’ll come together as groups to receive training, how to conduct some of these schemes from a financial standpoint, to understand what they consider the common law and how they can use that common law for their sovereign purposes. I’m not familiar (with) any cases where it’s held up in court. I think that it holds up the process of the court’s decision.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; home; invasion; theft
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To: Sheapdog

In Ohio we have “Castle Doctrine” and if I were ever to find some asshole had done this I`d pick his lock or drill it out, replace it with my new lock, call the police to report the burglary, then wait for the creep to show up. When he tries to break in again I`d shoot him dead under Ohio`s Castle Doctrine as a home intruder.


21 posted on 11/27/2013 7:33:35 PM PST by nomad
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To: Sheapdog

Locate the asshole. Administer a Copper coated Lead enema the and problem is solved, aside from our hostile government


22 posted on 11/27/2013 7:34:24 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Sheapdog

Its called adverse possession and isn’t as simple as changing the locks. Changing the locks will get you shot or jailed for a felony if you’re lucky.


23 posted on 11/27/2013 7:34:52 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: cuban leaf

If the foreclosure is in process then the home belongs to the people, not the bank. The bank simply has a lien.

Its even more sleazy then it sounds.


24 posted on 11/27/2013 7:36:10 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: muir_redwoods

I hate to say it, but yeah, this guy’s going to get Second Amendment’ed if he keeps it up.


25 posted on 11/27/2013 7:41:07 PM PST by pogo101
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To: Sheapdog

In California ALL property transfers have to be handled on paper in specific formats. . . no just seizing of properties, even by lien holders. Titles have to be clear. This would NOT stand up in any court. There is a legal title that involves the lien holders and someone who merely changes the locks and squats cannot insert himself I between the owner and the lien holder because he thinks the property seems to be “vacant.”


26 posted on 11/27/2013 7:42:25 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Sheapdog

It seems at least twice times a day now I read something and say, “Another good reason I moved to small town in the sticks where no one bothers with such antics.”

It’s amazing how many potential problems I don’t have to think about.


27 posted on 11/27/2013 7:52:03 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Yup. I live in a vast metropolis of about 150.


28 posted on 11/27/2013 8:00:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: pogo101
I hate to say it, but yeah, this guy’s going to get Second Amendment’ed if he keeps it up.

You may hate to say it, but it doesn't mean you can't look forward to it.

29 posted on 11/27/2013 8:02:25 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: driftdiver

It puts the buyer in a position of paying for a house they can’t live in while some scumbag occupies it. The bank isn’t getting paid and the buyer’s credit is screwed if he walks away.

In the end it costs all of us in the form of higher rates and court costs.


30 posted on 11/27/2013 8:04:11 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Sheapdog

More BS from another Marxist/libertine whoresite.

Oh, look. You, as a fake libertarian, can go trespass onto private property and sit your thieving Marxist ass down on the couch, claiming ownership because you set your ass down on someone’s property.

This is so stupid.


31 posted on 11/27/2013 8:08:07 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Sheapdog

Is this someone operating on the “Freeman on the land” bs that’s on the web?


32 posted on 11/27/2013 8:17:30 PM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: cuban leaf

I think you’ve told us quite a bit about your morality.


33 posted on 11/27/2013 8:17:56 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Sheapdog

The more common scenario that I’ve seen has involved crooks like this then renting out the property to innocent third parties, and then collecting the rent until those innocent victims can be evicted by the owner.


34 posted on 11/27/2013 8:20:48 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Well, adverse possession does exist in Texas and my grandfather's family was a victim of it. The old family 160 acre farm was vacant for some years and squatters moved in and claimed it under the adverse possession rules. Fortunately, we were able to fight it somewhat successfully and retain the mineral rights to the property, which are now leased to an oil company.

Here are particulars:Adverse possession rules are specific for a reason. As the Texas Supreme Court has stated, the adverse possession "doctrine itself is a harsh one, taking real estate from a record owner without express consent or compensation." Tran v. Macha, 213 W.W.3d 913, 914 (Tex. 2006). The statute sets forth rules and conditions under which the doctrine applies, and these must be conclusively met. Close enough is not good enough. In the event adverse possession is litigated, all issues become questions of fact to be decided by the court.

35 posted on 11/27/2013 8:29:44 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: Swordmaker

Hmmm...I found out recently that my late father had been paying the property taxes on 10 vacant acres that has a title in someone else’s name. Dad purchased the property 40-years ago.

I live a thousand miles away and have to take action. But what kind of action? Do you know?

Can I go to a title company and will they straighten it out?

I have no bill of sale for real property from 40-years ago, except for evidence we’ve been paying the property taxes.


36 posted on 11/27/2013 8:33:00 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: staytrue

Did your wife hire the moving van?


37 posted on 11/27/2013 8:47:13 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Bubba_Leroy

That’s because TX is one of the few remaining bastions of sanity in America.

In ME, that guy would just disappear in the middle of the night.


38 posted on 11/27/2013 9:41:44 PM PST by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

NOtice the guy’s color.....remember what the AG said...


39 posted on 11/27/2013 9:42:44 PM PST by Rca2000
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To: LachlanMinnesota

Most places, you need to pay taxes on it for X amount of time and also utilize it...


40 posted on 11/27/2013 9:53:37 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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