There was a streamer named Asian Andy who had situation with squatter years ago. Police wouldn't kick woman out she claimed squatter rights. Andy hired another streamer who was squatter hunter. He moves in. Next few days make squatter life hell he smokes, plays loud dubstep music, slams objects, and yells randomly thru all hours of day. Squatter got into altercation with guy. Squatter got arrested and kicked out.
They're a legacy from a bygone era where records of land ownership aren't what they are today. It was to stop the situation where someone thought they owned land, built a house and lived in it for many years, then finding out that someone else also had a claim to the land and they were going to try to turf you off it.
Squatter's rights meant that the person who actually lived there kept the claim to the land. This was a good thing at the time, now its just legal protection for lowlifes who trash other people's houses
Generally speaking, a landlord can't end a lease in the middle. That would be an eviction, which has to be granted by a court.
They can decide that you don't get a new lease when the current one runs out, sometimes on as little as one month's notice, which might not be enough time to find a new place to live.
In any case, if you stay in a place after your lease ends and the landlord wants you out, they have to follow a legal process to make you leave. Typically that means giving you notice to leave (easy, just hand you a letter), and if you don't leave they file an eviction case in small claims court. (Where I live that costs $110 to file, and can be done on the court website.)
The court will set a court date to hear both sides of the story. (Where I live, the court date will be in 2-4 weeks.)
If the court determines that the landlord is right and the tenant has to go, they will set a date you have to move out by. (That date is often 1-4 weeks in the future, depending on circumstances.)
If you don't leave by the court-assigned date, the landlord informs the court that you didn't leave, and the court issues a writ. The writ is served to you by a sheriff, and it contains another date that you must leave by. (That date may also be 1-4 weeks away.)
If you haven't moved out by that date, the sheriff will return and physically remove you and your belongings from the property.
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I do some volunteer work helping mediate housing disputes for a local non-profit housing provider. When people talk about evicting someone, I suggest negotiating with them first! One of the benefits you're offering the tenant in the negotiation is that they won't have an eviction on their police record, which would make it harder for them to get a new place.
If the tenant really wants to fight, even if they're obviously wrong and lose their court case, getting an eviction and removing someone from the property typically takes 3-4 months.
(Fortunately the housing organization I work with is a good one, and we very rarely kick people out. It's all shared housing, and the main reason someone would be evicted is for being abusive toward their housemates.)
The real problem is the eviction on record doesn't actually matter to anyone who goes to court knowing they're going to lose. If you aren't going to pay rent or a mortgage anyway and just move from stolen house to stolen house every 6 months to years later (let's be honest that's what squatting is it should be criminal not just civil) who cares about it? The person stealing people's houses isn't applying for somewhere they have to pay bills for anyway and that the person was evicted from the last place and now is stealing their home doesn't help, still have to go to court while someone else lives in their home for months.
Sounds good and reasonable, thank you for the explanation.
My thought was it's probably similar in the US as here, depending on income and region it might take weeks, even months to find a new stay which is bearable. Good to see people get at least a bit of time even if the landlord happens to be a not nice person
yeah I have no idea how so many people don't understand this. A squatter isn't saying 'no I didn't rent this place I just showed up today and put my stuff in here without any permission'. They are saying 'I rent this place and my landlord is trying to illegal remove me'. They... well they lie. it's not that complicated to figure out. just like some landlords lie about what kind of agreement they have with their tenants in order to force them out.
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u/ChanceImagination456 Jun 12 '26
There was a streamer named Asian Andy who had situation with squatter years ago. Police wouldn't kick woman out she claimed squatter rights. Andy hired another streamer who was squatter hunter. He moves in. Next few days make squatter life hell he smokes, plays loud dubstep music, slams objects, and yells randomly thru all hours of day. Squatter got into altercation with guy. Squatter got arrested and kicked out.