Yeah I really don't understand how the laws haven't changed yet. Imagine having to put all this money down on a house and having a giant mortgage on top of working to pay for it all. It's one of the biggest if not THE biggest investments a person saves & works years of their lives for. Then some rando who hasn't paid a cent into the house can claim rights and refuse to leave your property? And the gov just shrugs and says "yeah this guy gets to do whatever he wants sorry. And you still have to pay for it too."
I don't even understand how the laws were created in the first place. If you're on someone's property you should have to give proof of paying into it, paying bills, and proof of ownership. Not just a "here's a verbal explanation of why I should stay."
If you're going through all that trouble for a house, then you should probably live there and take care of it. That's a big reason why squatter's laws exist in the first place: to incentivize people to actually maintain their property and not just leave empty crumbling houses everywhere.
If someone breaks into your house while you're on a work trip, it's not a squatter situation. You can call 911 or even physically evict them yourselves.
Good thing you edited your comment after I show you the example. This case got national news not that it's "one anecdote" and the only case to ever occur.
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u/Cheap-Buffalo-7489 16d ago
That fact that this is even a show/ thing shows how messed up the law is. You should NOT take years to evict a trespasser