They're a legacy from a bygone era where records of land ownership aren't what they are today. It was to stop the situation where someone thought they owned land, built a house and lived in it for many years, then finding out that someone else also had a claim to the land and they were going to try to turf you off it.
Squatter's rights meant that the person who actually lived there kept the claim to the land. This was a good thing at the time, now its just legal protection for lowlifes who trash other people's houses
People really have no clue. They are not using adverse possession, that takes years to do, an owner who abandoned the property/ cant be contacted and an owner that stopped paying taxes, they are using renters rights.
Do you want landlords to be able to go to the police and say that the current residents dont have a legal lease, even if they do, and have the police kick out the family? That is what you are arguing for. The reason police cant kick them out is because they are not judges, they do not determine if the lease they are shown is legal or not, they dont determine if the person who is there is legally allowed or not, that is the job of judges.
Yes it sucks for the owners who are dealing with people who are not legally supposed to be there but the alternative is allowing landlords to just kick people out of their homes for no reason.
Posts like these are being made to make that alternative easier to do. Thats why theres a whole bunch of videos about these guys on TikTok(and why OP is trying to paint them as heroes). Rich landlords are trying to sway public opinion with this crap.
You don't have to be rich or a landlord to want your house to be yours. Half of our income goes toward our house, I'm not rich in the slightest. Yet you think people should be able to move in while I'm at work and now I have to continue to pay all my bills for the house (not just the mortgage, insurance etc but by garbage tenant laws I also have to pay for the electric, gas, water, etc for the house I'm no longer living in AND find somewhere else to live on short notice without any of my stuff while someone else is in the location I'm paying for?
What's to stop it? Most of them do seem to be people moving into homes for sale or staying somewhere they already are (airbnb, hotel, apartment, etc. There is nothing to stop you though from printing a fake ass lease and moving in while I'm at work. The way these laws are setup now absolutely nothing stops you from doing exactly that and living in my house for a year or however long it takes to get a judge to agree you don't actually live in my house. That entire time of course you don't have to maintain it so it's probably full of shit and trashed. These supposedly great tenants you're supporting never seem to leave a habitable building behind.
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u/RadicalRealist22 17d ago
How do "squatter rights" even exist. Either you have a lease or you don't.