Posted on 02/06/2024 6:11:22 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Squatters are ruining entire neighborhoods in Atlanta and police response to evict is so slow, some homeowners have resorted to paying nuisances to leave.
Brazen squatters even opened an illegal strip club on a property they had taken over — one of the 1,200 homes which has been squatted in the city according to the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) trade group.
“I’d be terrified in Atlanta to lease out one of my properties,” Matt Urbanski, who manages a local home-cleaning company, told Bloomberg.
Urbanski’s company cleans out homes for corporate landlords, and in some cases has to remove squatter’s possessions.
Recently one of his employees was shot after attempting to remove intruders from a property.
Simon Frost, CEO of large-scale landlord Tiber Capital Group, said there have been incidents of unlawful occupants brandishing weapons and threatening neighbors which affects the safety of neighborhoods and other residents, according to Bloomberg.
Evicting squatters in Atlanta is tough, involving negotiating court backlogs and strained police resources.
Meanwhile, online listings and virtual real estate agents make it easy for squatters to identify vacant properties to break into.
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I wonder how many people decided not to become landlords because of “Pacific Heights”?
You can no longer arrest criminals in America.
You can only arrest law-abiding citizens.
Why would the Houthis, Iranians, Norks & ChiComs do this?
Clearly, we need to double the foreign war budget despite being bankrupt 10 times over.
Many I’m sure……I know it made me never want to own rental property.
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I dont see what is preventing the owners from showing up with a gun and saying get out or I’ll shoot!
Look, black Americans are Americans, but we need to start having some deep discussions about incentivizing them to resettle to their own place in Africa. Otherwise you’re going to see segregation come back, and this time no amount of federalized Nat’l Guard troops are going to stop it.
how is this different than the Amish establishing their own little areas, or the indians having reservations, the china towns with ‘police stations’, or the coming migrant islamic hordes like those who have taken over Sverige will do ?
It’s the North American Economic Zone.
> Squatting is theft… <
Absolutely correct. But the police and the DA don’t want to be bothered.
Someone steals your car. Cop takes a theft report, and puts out an alert.
Someone steals your house. Cop: “That’s a civil matter.”
It won't, that's a pipe dream. And I friggin' wish it wasn't, but here we are.
It’s Obama’s Transformed America.
Ain’t it wonderful?
Because the Amish and the Native Americans aren't STEALING other people's property.
THere's a world of difference between setting up a community of like minded people and stealing someone's property by moving in and occupying it
I can't believe you don't see that.
I’m really sorry you went through that but that’s where we as a country are now.
The Amish pay cash for everything they buy. That is how it is different. They pay their hospital bills with cash when services are provided.
THere’s a world of difference between setting up a community of like minded people and stealing someone’s property by moving in and occupying it
I can’t believe you don’t see that.
I can’t believe it, either.
Couldn’t believe I saw that post, on FR, of all places.
Reconstruction redux?
“I can’t believe you don’t see that.
I can’t believe it, either.
Couldn’t believe I saw that post, on FR, of all places.”
I can’t believe I need to use an /s tag
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-08-mn-324-story.html
I can't believe you didn't also ping metmom, whose post you also quoted.
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