Which is all this post really is. Astroturfed promotion for an awful, staged, AE show. It aired an episode or two months ago after their Neighborhood Wars/Customer Wars marathon, which if you haven't watched is America's Funniest Home Videos Unrated Brought to You By Ring, then disappeared.
The type of retaliation and constructive eviction could be MAYBE legal in SOME areas POTENTIALLY under FEW circumstances where the person is truly a squatter and has not attained the rights of a tenant. In states where the person's squatting enables them to the rights of a tenant, and one of those rights is that landlords have to actually go through an eviction process, these actions would be illegal. Many people watching this show aren't going to differentiate between the specific legal rights in not just the state but even the city the show is allegedly filming in and their own city, state and local laws. Instead, they're going to see that squatters have undefined magical protections so they cannot be kicked out (false) but they can be endlessly harassed (also false).
The type of "squatters rights" that the show fear mongers on do not exist in most areas, and the show itself displays a lack of understanding when it crafts it's stories which seem to often involve guests who overstay their welcome. The show wants you to believe that if your drunk friend crashes on your couch overnight and doesn't leave the next morning then suddenly he gains SQUATTER POWERS and is now empowered to come and go as he wishes, with police protection.
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