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Squatters hold California bedroom hostage [Woman cannot remove deadbeats--per California law]
KPRC-TV ^ | 5/15/15

Posted on 05/15/2015 6:36:33 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Poonam Sandhu rented out the master bedroom of her Watsonville, California home to a couple through Airbnb. Now they refuse to leave or pay rent. Sandhu says she's been forced from her own home by some terrible tenants.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.click2houston.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; housing; jerrybrown; liberalism
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To: clamper1797

Can you give us more details, if you don’t mind sharing? You hired someone to clean the house, but she decided to move in, without your permission? She was hired help; you did not have an agreement to rent to her, but she decided to live there?

I am just shocked how some people can twist the law and regulations on rentals to live somewhere for free.


21 posted on 05/15/2015 7:07:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SoFloFreeper
Treat for termites. Two birds, one stone...


22 posted on 05/15/2015 7:09:08 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: SoFloFreeper

I suppose these laws were to protect tenants from some rather unsavory landlords. My one and only landlord was a decent guy, but there are some who aren’t. But like just about every other law, these tenant laws have made problems worse and created some new ones.

I do know that it’s difficult to remove tenants who are on public assistance. My Dad’s friend rented to a couple on welfare who proceeded to trash the apartment, then wouldn’t pay their share of the rent (most of the rent was subsidized). Took him several legal proceedings over two years and costing thousands in legal fees to finally get them out.


23 posted on 05/15/2015 7:11:47 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: AU72

Then, how do you get THEM to move? Hire the Bloods?..........................


24 posted on 05/15/2015 7:19:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: C210N

All they need is a version with a remote-enabled lock & App-reservation system.

Then the fun begins...


25 posted on 05/15/2015 7:21:00 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This should kill the Airbnb business in CA. Maybe that’s the idea.


26 posted on 05/15/2015 7:22:44 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SoFloFreeper

Close the house. Turn off the water gas and lights. Go on vacation.


27 posted on 05/15/2015 7:29:03 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: fatnotlazy

Ask politely. Ask politely again. Ask politely one last time.

Then it is no longer polite.


28 posted on 05/15/2015 7:29:11 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: cripplecreek

That’s awesome!


29 posted on 05/15/2015 7:41:56 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Maybe.. the thing is that this was a private deal on the side off of AirBNB. Maybe this story will keep idiots from making side deals.


30 posted on 05/15/2015 7:42:22 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: cripplecreek

“Call Charlie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB_hjqZQ1UY";......

I like Charlie’s method.

As an alternative, perhaps that California beauty can organize a posse and drag the squatters out. Called “forced removal”.


31 posted on 05/15/2015 7:42:45 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: SoFloFreeper

I wonder if you can strip the house and turn off water/power until they leave


32 posted on 05/15/2015 7:53:01 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Zathras
VRBO is much better and safer.

What prevents the scammers from moving their efforts to VRBO?

33 posted on 05/15/2015 7:56:30 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I’d point a gun in their face and back-walk them to the door.

If the cops come calling, I’d suggest they are lying, and have no proof.

But they’d be out of the house. And their stuff would be in the street, though it may stink excessively. And the locks would be changed.


34 posted on 05/15/2015 7:59:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

How this would be handled in Texas:

If they are renters and have not paid go to the local justice of the peace and get an eviction notice, it is quick and easy and cheap.

Call sheriff and he will put them out on the street.

If they are squatters, just call the sheriff as they in effect have broken and entered or you can pick up your Mossberg 12 gauge shotgun and evict them yourself.


35 posted on 05/15/2015 8:03:48 AM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

She was simply hired to clean the house. I had moved to Arizona. She just moved in. No agreement no rent. I found out when my neighbor called and told me that she was living there. It took 3 months and ~$4000 to get her out.


36 posted on 05/15/2015 8:07:47 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Ted Cruz for President ... all others are cheap imitations)
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To: OldSmaj

Honestly, if you really want them to leave, they will leave. Taze them, kick the in the head and then throw them out. When the cops show up, you have the address and they don’t.


37 posted on 05/15/2015 8:08:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
A guy I worked with in Ohio allowed his girlfriend to move in temporally. When it came time for her to leave she wouldn't. He had to got to court to evict her.
38 posted on 05/15/2015 8:09:30 AM PDT by muggs (Hope and Change = Hoax and Chains)
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To: JimRed
What prevents the scammers from moving their efforts to VRBO?

In Calif ... nothing. My next door neighbor was renting thru VRBO and had a squatter problem too. There are a lot of vacation rentals in that area of Calif. Squatters are a common problem there.

39 posted on 05/15/2015 8:10:04 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Ted Cruz for President ... all others are cheap imitations)
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To: kingu
However, she decided to take cash payments past the 30 day mark.

Dumb move that was.

40 posted on 05/15/2015 8:13:08 AM PDT by dfwgator
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