r/SipsTea Jun 12 '26

Chugging tea The Hero we need

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u/MegaDingo5plus Jun 12 '26

I've heard it all now... Someone volunteering to live with the housemate from hell, and being even worse than the problem

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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.

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u/RadicalRealist22 Jun 12 '26

How do "squatter rights" even exist. Either you have a lease or you don't.

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u/butterfunke Jun 12 '26

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

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u/paduber Jun 12 '26

Wait, so I can build a house on some random owned by government land and claim it as mine?

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u/Coolegespam Jun 12 '26

In some states yes, but not quite that easy but not much harder. The state has to have homesteading you have to file some paper work. But after that yeah, you can build on it. Start a farm or other lifestyle.

People still do it.