Not really throwing rocks at you personally; you and your friends got stuff done. Good for you.
But ...
This is a form of corruption.
The "connected" people get justice ... or some reasonable facsimile thereof.
Everybody else gets the shaft.
The guy would have been evicted, one way or another. We just got the justice we would have gotten sooner.
In all the months he stayed there he never gave his sister a dime, though she billed him every month and copied us on what she billed him. Then after she had been gone for two months (and she never told us), he remained, with no intention of paying rent to her or us or anyone. That was when we went to see what was going on and found the bum and all his mess.
HE and what he as doing, and what some court eviction process would have permitted him was the real corruption.
There is nothing right or good about squatting on someone else’s property. Allowing squatters is a giant corruption. The lawyers and the corrupt judges win, the property owner loses.