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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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.
Locate the asshole. Administer a Copper coated Lead enema the and problem is solved, aside from our hostile government
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.
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.
I hate to say it, but yeah, this guy’s going to get Second Amendment’ed if he keeps it up.
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.”
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.
Yup. I live in a vast metropolis of about 150.
You may hate to say it, but it doesn't mean you can't look forward to it.
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.
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.
Is this someone operating on the “Freeman on the land” bs that’s on the web?
I think you’ve told us quite a bit about your morality.
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.
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.
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.
Did your wife hire the moving van?
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.
NOtice the guy’s color.....remember what the AG said...
Most places, you need to pay taxes on it for X amount of time and also utilize it...
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