Posted on 12/03/2013 11:06:15 AM PST by Red Badger
SPRINGDALE, Ohio (CBS Cleveland) – Imagine going out of town to visit a dying relative only to come home and find a complete stranger living in your house; and worse, that stranger now says he legally owns that house.
WLWT-TV reported that Robert Carr moved into a house, changed the locks, and emptied the house.
Carr says he is able to claim the property through something called a “quiet title.” He says the family abandoned the house and gave up their rights.
Carr wants to keep the home and not have to pay a penny.
“What he’s looking for is full title and ownership of the home,” Alison Warner, the family’s attorney, told WLWT. “He’s in their home. They don’t know when he’s there. He can be there now.”
The family has charged Carr with breaking and entering but he is even fighting that charge.
A quiet title action lawsuit brought in a court over property disputes. It is used to establish who legally owns a property.
The FBI has been informed about this case.
“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,” Special Agent in Charge Kevin Cornelius told WLWT. “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.”
The family in this case has called this ordeal a nightmare.
“It’s really been hard,” the homeowner told the station.
The good news was in virtually every instance, and sometimes with some creativity (usually creative interpretations of "drug paraphernalia" or simply pre-existing warrants) there was something else the squatter could be arrested for ending the tenancy issue then and there.
The bigger issue though was never squatters but meth labs and the local white trash yutes having house trashing parties.
I recall a case a while back from Boulder, Colorado. Someone started using part of his neighbor’s back yard (it was a large piece of property) and the property-owner didn’t notice. The intruder then got a judge to rule that that part of the property was now his because the property-owner had not done anything to prevent his use of it. I think the judge was a friend of his.
Don’t know the details of the case, but the only way to do this would be adverse possession which would could happen, as I state it requires the squatter to act as the owner of the land openly usually for an extended period of time (decades in most cases) and if the rightful owner does nothing to protest it, and the squatter can prove they had indeed taken care of the property etc etc etc over that time they could be granted the property via adverse possession.
The main reason for these laws is to deal with truly abandoned properties, IE owner died with no heir or heir didn’t want and abandoned, or the owner just up and left and didn’t care about the property and truly abandoned it. The laws themselves are useful in cases where they truly apply but that is very very rare in the modern world.
Thank you for the update ping!
This calls for premeditated self-defense.
This has been going on in Britain for a few years, even Margaret Thatcher’s house was ocuupied by a squatter. Others have left their homes to go to work only to return and find a stranger living in their homes. Then the homeowners have to prove that they are the real owners. It smells of marxist b@st@rds encouraging these creatures while tying the hands of the police. Don’t be surprised in the SEIU types start this nonsense over here.
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