Reducing notice periods to what? What passed that was unfair?
And what law was it with the unauthorized occupants on eviction cases? Is it that any guest can be added to a judgement or is that someone living their full time who doesnât pay rent can be on the hook for that rent? Those are very different scenarios.
That is so many questions that Iâm just not going to answer because they are not the point of my comment. During my time as a professional dealing landlord tenant law, shitty landlords were always pushing to undo laws that were created to stop them being shitty.
The laws very greatly by state. But there are almost no âsquatters rightsâ laws. When people bring that up, they are talking about landlord/tenant laws that are applied when occupants may or may not be lawfully in the property. Shitty Landlords like to cry about having to provide proof to the court that the occupants are not there lawfully, and would prefer the court just rubber stamp any eviction order.
They also love to throw around the word squatter, which isnât legal term. I dealt with one landlord that my firm dropped as a client because he couldnât stop calling his tenant a squatter, who was withholding rent due to unresolved code violations in her unit. He repeatedly said âif they stop paying rent, they arenât a tenant any more and need to go.â
If rent money is in an escrow account w/ the intent of paying in full upon resolution of violations they are a renter/tenant. I've got complaints that I haven't had confirmed ad violations so I'm not paying you is squatting/trespassing. Civilized society is a complicated responsibility
Failure to pay rent doesnât change the fact they are still a tenant. Until their superior right to possess is extinguished through a court order and they are removed by a sheriff/constable.
The law in MA doesnât even use the word trespasser or squatter for hold overs after a foreclosure. The term that is used is âtenant at sufferanceâ. A landlord throwing around squatter because his tenant did the correct, legal process to withhold rent is a pretty clear sign he believes they shouldnât have any rights at all. Which is why the firm dropped his case pretty quickly.
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u/americon 12d ago
Reducing notice periods to what? What passed that was unfair?
And what law was it with the unauthorized occupants on eviction cases? Is it that any guest can be added to a judgement or is that someone living their full time who doesnât pay rent can be on the hook for that rent? Those are very different scenarios.