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Squatters take over 1,200 homes in Atlanta, open illegal strip clubs and terrorize neighbors: ‘is this even America?’
NYPost ^ | 02 06 2024 | Mary K. Jacob

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: atlanta; crime; housing; pic; realty; squatters
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To: yesthatjallen
Meanwhile, online listings and virtual real estate agents make it easy for squatters to identify vacant properties to break into.

Big Tech continues to work its magic to destroy America.
21 posted on 02/06/2024 6:38:16 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Mears

I wonder how many people decided not to become landlords because of “Pacific Heights”?


22 posted on 02/06/2024 6:39:18 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yesthatjallen

You can no longer arrest criminals in America.
You can only arrest law-abiding citizens.


23 posted on 02/06/2024 6:39:51 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: yesthatjallen

Why would the Houthis, Iranians, Norks & ChiComs do this?

Clearly, we need to double the foreign war budget despite being bankrupt 10 times over.


24 posted on 02/06/2024 6:43:37 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: dfwgator

Many I’m sure……I know it made me never want to own rental property.

..l


25 posted on 02/06/2024 6:44:59 PM PST by Mears (pz)
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To: yesthatjallen

I dont see what is preventing the owners from showing up with a gun and saying get out or I’ll shoot!


26 posted on 02/06/2024 6:46:05 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


27 posted on 02/06/2024 6:46:28 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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To: yesthatjallen

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 ?


28 posted on 02/06/2024 6:47:18 PM PST by algore
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To: hinckley buzzard

It’s the North American Economic Zone.


29 posted on 02/06/2024 6:47:46 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: metmom

> 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.”


30 posted on 02/06/2024 6:47:59 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
At SOME point I hope the nation returns to law and order.

It won't, that's a pipe dream. And I friggin' wish it wasn't, but here we are.

31 posted on 02/06/2024 6:49:09 PM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s Obama’s Transformed America.

Ain’t it wonderful?


32 posted on 02/06/2024 6:50:34 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: algore
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 ?

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.

33 posted on 02/06/2024 6:53:10 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’m really sorry you went through that but that’s where we as a country are now.


34 posted on 02/06/2024 6:57:25 PM PST by JZelle
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To: algore

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.


35 posted on 02/06/2024 7:00:36 PM PST by healy61 (.)
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To: metmom; algore

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.


36 posted on 02/06/2024 7:03:54 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: yesthatjallen

Reconstruction redux?


37 posted on 02/06/2024 7:04:58 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Jane Long

“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


38 posted on 02/06/2024 7:08:33 PM PST by algore
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To: Jane Long
In Rio de Janeiro, when the "street children" grew to a certain problem, the police had "death squads' to address the issue.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-08-mn-324-story.html

39 posted on 02/06/2024 7:09:28 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: algore; metmom
I can’t believe I need to use an /s tag

I can't believe you didn't also ping metmom, whose post you also quoted.

40 posted on 02/06/2024 7:14:07 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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