squatters rights

I suppose that's true.

It's just unfortionate that there are people who would go to all the trouble to PRETEND that someone rented them the property....

Now that you mention it, I couldn't know that someone had in fact forged those things, and I probably wouldn't kick them out.... But I'd be on my guard for any tip that they might have set me up like that.

I'm the type who will let people throw a sleeping bag on my floor if they need, or give them MY sleeping bag to throw on the floor. So it bothers me when there's people giving advice for how to weasel your way into peoples property, and throw up legal roadblocks for the property owners. And it's not even disused property he was talking about, he suggested one that the owner would be back to in a matter of days.

 

Florida newspapers and news broadcasts, such as BayNews9, the Miami Herald and the Tampa Tribune, reported increases in squatter incidents after the housing bubble burst in 2008. They have attributed the increase to high foreclosure rates that impacted homeowners with few other options but to stay in the home. As one of the states hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis, the Florida property owners have had to become versed in squatter's rights.

1. Squatters
   
   • Squatters are people who occupy a home that doesn't legally belong to them and without the owner's permission. Traditionally, squatters have been homeless people who have found an abondoned building that can serve as temporary shelter from the elements. In the 2004 book "Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World," Robert Neuwirth estimates that there are 1 billion squatters across the globe. Squatters can also be guests who refuse to leave and former property owners who have ignored eviction notices.
     
     
   Squatter's Rights
   
   • After 30 days of openly using the property as a home, squatters cannot be forcibly removed. The legal homeowner can be charged with criminal offense and held liable for property damages and losses. To qualify under the statutes mandated for squatter's rights, Florida Times-Union writer Rusty Collins says, "you have to openly take possession of the land, and your possession has to be continual and hostile (in other words, you do not have permission)." In some situations, aside from government abondoned property, the squatters can take ownership of that property.
     
     
   Taking Ownership
   
   • Florida law requires that the squatter maintain and have continuous possession of the property for seven years. After those seven years, the law requires that the occupant make a claim for the title or seek a decree of judgment in order to take full ownership, file a return with the county appraiser and pay the taxes. His claim to ownership must conflict with the legal owner's right to the land. He also has to show that he made an attempt to protect the property by putting up a fence and making improvements to the property.
     
     
   Unlawful Detainer
   
   • In order to remove a squatter, the property owner has to file an unlawful detainer action with the Florida courts. Homeowners are protected by Florida Statute Chapter 82, which says, "No person who enters without consent in a peaceable, easy and open manner into any lands or tenements shall hold them afterwards against the consent of the party entitled to possession." However, a homeowner will have to prove that the person has not been paying bills on the property. He may also have to prove that the person has no other options for housing.
     
     
   Origins
   
   • Squatter's rights have their roots in the Florida Homestead Act of 1862. Florida originally adopted the act to prevent widows and divorcees from getting kicked off land after their husbands died or left. The Homestead Act originated in the West because of settlers from the East looking to start new lives, who found unoccupied land they'd cultivate, only to find out later that someone already owned it. According to Florida Homestead Services Co., "They had to promise to stay on the plot for five years, and to cultivate and improve the land, as well as build a house."
     
     

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What about empty house. My brother passed and house will go back to bank eventually. Can I let someone live there as squatter to feed cats, and what will happen when they foreclose, do they come padlock house and kick out animals too? Thanks in advance for any advice

 

It's not that easy

 

If you live in a hotel for more then 30 days they cant kick you out and they have to evict you through the court process.

 

Little late here, but as far as the hotel is concerned, it's the reason any hotel will have you sign a lease if you plan on staying up to 30 days.

 

at indydude: i am from Louisville, and I'm super interested in developing squatting in Louisville. I'm lucky my Google search brought me to this link. please, please, PLEASE, if you have any info or can send me a copy of the part of your essay about the movement in Louisville in the early '90's. I can't find anything about it and I was still in elementary school at the time. My facebook url is https://www.************/#!/

 

In downtown a bunch of us freeloading college kids who were eating at missions rented warehouse floors in the buildings downtown. Most buildings had just 1/2 baths (sink and toilet maybe hot water) but they worked and doubled as art studios. We'd be lucky to last a whole semester before the landlords caught on. Practically free rent when 5 or 10 people are chipping in on a $100 a month for 'studio space'. The only truly free spaces for squatters are abandoned buildings and houses. A few people did move into abandoned houses on the west end of Louisville and fixed them up and sued the city under squatter rights laws when they were threatened with trespassing.

 

I have some property on the ocean that's hard to get to all of it. I found a guy built a little cabin in the far edge. I told him he had to go when he started in with squatters rights hahah.
I went and got some gas and burned his little cabin down. Solved the problem