These days are not those days. My point still stands. If you invest time, money, and work in a piece of land you did not buy or pay for, then you have no cause for complaint when the rightful owner shows up to claim it. Be grateful for the living it provided you with for the time you had it, but there’s no reason to expect anything more.
Squatting should not be legal. It’s theft, plain and simple.’
I should not have to be home bound 24/7 just to make sure nobody steals my property from me while I’m at work or on vacation.
What you say makes sense in this day and age. But in the mid-19th Century frontier, things were different. Anyway, these creeps did not invest sh!t in anything. They’re just brazen thieves, and if they’re operating a whore house and crack den across the street from your house in a residential neighborhood, they could well afford to just buy something elsewhere not as disruptive. They might be doing that for some sleazebag blockbuster realtor to drive property values down so they can buy up houses cheap. The squatters are not pioneers on the prairie, and “squatters’ rights” are irrelevant to this day and age.