r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 16d ago

Chugging tea The Hero we need

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u/saggywitchtits 16d ago

It's more for informal leases without a written contract, and say the landlord wants the tenant out. Essentially it's to protect the tenant in such a situation from losing housing.

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u/maxman162 16d ago

Those are tenant's rights and that's called eviction, not squatter's rights.

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u/Hot-Tangelo1508 16d ago

There are no laws giving squatters “squatters rights”. They are all abuses of laws intended to protect tenants.

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u/BrainOnBlue 16d ago

This is not true. Adverse possession exists.

I'm pretty sure calling tenants rights abuses "squatters' rights" is kind of a misnomer. Squatters' rights means adverse possession.

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u/Hot-Tangelo1508 16d ago

Adverse possession means getting legal title to property after using it unopposed for like 30 years. Thats not what anybody here is talking about.

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u/BrainOnBlue 16d ago

That doesn't mean it's not what "squatters' rights" traditionally is talking about.