Posted on 09/20/2024 11:58:25 AM PDT by george76
A Kentucky homeowner says he has been forced out of his own home after letting some guests stay in his garage while they fixed their car.
Daniel Toma says the guests ended up staying three months and a court order has now taken him out of his house.
“I just want this nightmare to end. I’ve been homeless the last few days,” he said.
Toma said he wished he never invited his friend, Amy Davis, and her boyfriend, Tyler Sencuk, to his house over the summer.
According to Toma, he let them stay at his home until their car could be fixed.
“[They] were working on the car for days in the driveway, I didn’t want to throw them out on the street. I was just trying to be kind,” he said.
However, the guests put a mattress in the garage in mid-July and ended up never leaving.
Toma said they started getting mail, had Spectrum cable installed and even changed the lock on his garage without any type of rental agreement between them.
“I asked them to go, my roommates asked them to go, but they wouldn’t leave. We tried to tell them to leave. He [Sencuk] started saying [they] had squatters’ rights,” Toma said.
Sencuk declined to speak on camera about the situation but said he was doing maintenance around the house in exchange for rent – something Toma denies. He also called Toma’s claims baseless and threatened to file a lawsuit.
Toma said he put up a 30-day eviction notice around Labor Day and the situation got worse between everyone at the home.
Sencuk and one of Toma’s roommates got into a fight. Sencuk then filed an emergency protective order against Toma, which a judge granted, forcing him to stay 500 feet away from them or his house.
“I feel like I have no power. I feel like I have no rights,” Toma said.
Retired Judge McKay Chauvin said forcing an owner out of their home is not unusual. He said messy divorces could force a husband or wife out if their spouse was granted a similar order.
An eviction expert said by letting the guests stay so long, the law allows them to claim possession and Toma would have had to fight the wanted eviction in court.
Toma has a court date next week to challenge the protective order and Sencuk has appeared to move out amid the dispute.
“I need to take care of things and I want to sleep in my own bed,” Toma said.
Scum govt. Sadistic judges. Stupid legislators. A trifecta of evil
I wonder what’s happening with the illegal family that got invited to live with a couple in Brookline, MA.
It’s private property and the communists don’t believe in it. Guess who’s in charge?
We’re seeing more attacks against private property.
NEVER allow someone to stay or visit in your home for whom you don’t already have a plan to quickly evict/oust them in advance. That includes relatives.
That's the problem right there; you don't ask. You take care of the situation permanently so the sheriff only hears your side of the story.
Never call the police until after the squatter problem is resolved.
“...after letting some guests stay in his garage while they fixed their car.”
If you get squatters, hire a motorcycle gang to fix it.
You can “rent the house to the gang” so they have a right to be there. Then they can move the squatters stuff out.
indeed! Relatives may be harder to get out b/c family gets involved. Practice saying NO.
I would bet those people were allowed to stay until just after the camera people left.
Judges have and continue to do so much to destroy this country. I think the whole "squatters rights" thing is becoming a big national issue, to an emergency level.
Mental health has collapsed. The field of medicine has lost credibility. The criminal justice system has fallen apart where petty crimes are no longer dealt with. The judiciary has run amok for decades. And the media cheers it all on.
I agree. The court system is broken. It is dysfunctional and has been for a long time.
FIND LOCAL HELL’S ANGELS
He should have just hosed the garage down with a gallon of pepper spray or any of a hundred other chemicals that stink really bad.
“”””If you get squatters, hire a motorcycle gang to fix it.
You can “rent the house to the gang” so they have a right to be there. Then they can move the squatters stuff out.””””
Do you realize that outlaw gangs are actual gangs, murder, sex trafficking, drug rings, the large ones being international, are you sure you that as a helpless sheep a person too weak to deal with people squatting in his garage should be inviting them into his life and even signing occupancy deals with them at on his home?
Retired Judge McKay Chauvin said forcing an owner out of their home is not unusual. He said messy divorces could force a husband or wife out if their spouse was granted a similar order.
That is utter baloney. The 2 are not remotely similar...but if thats the thinking, no wonder the Owner got screwed out of his own bed.
I thought TN had smarter people than this...
A lot of HOAs are creating rules that basically state that without a notarized letter from the HOA, rental or leasing can’t exist. Its helped expedite getting rid of squatters.
In Oklahoma and in Texas, the law is clear: the so-called “self help” doctrine is operative in this situation. You can use appropriate physical force to retrieve or protect personal property.
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