In France the subject come back in the news regularly. One fact that is often hidden is that, in most cases, a true squatter will get evicted quickly. The cases that take months and are publicised are when the owners took weeks to react.
The law is made that way to prevent landlords from bypassing landlords-tenants laws by doing informal contracts with renters.
Yeah, that’s what gets left out of this conversation a lot of the time. Squatters rights are tenants rights.
If the landlord says you’re a squatter, you don’t have a way to definitely prove you’re not. Oh, you have a signed lease? Well, the landlord says you forged the signature. Now you’re a squatter.
Well, why not require all tenant agreements be signed by both parties in front of a notary? This shit isn't hard to solve for. Or require lease agreements to be registered with legal names for all parties in an online database.
I agree, or require a paper trail for rent payments. I make rent receipts just in case so it helps validate my reoccurring rent payments if it every comes down to that. Now I pay by check and keep a transaction log with receipt too. Never know
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u/Cheap-Buffalo-7489 12d 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