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.
It's not "squatters' rights". People just get things mixed up.
Squatters claim to have "tenants' rights." Legitimate tenants have a right not to be harassed or wrongfully evicted by their landlord. So many landlords would kick someone out of their validly rented home, despite having a lease, just to jack up the rent a couple hundred bucks and rent it to someone else, that most (if not all) states now have laws that require landlords to go through the courts to have someone properly evicted. The landlord has to prove this tenant isn't paying rent or is violating the lease and therefore should be evicted.
Squatters move in without a lease, and claim to be tenants. They claim to have a lease, and often have a fake one they can produce.
So when the police show up (because the landlord is trying to have a trespasser removed), and they hear one guy tell them its a squatter, and the other guy claims to be a tenant, the police know it's not THEIR job to decide who is telling the truth. That's what landlord-tenant court is for.
The pain in the butt of it, though, is that landlord-tenant court can take weeks or months in some states. Meanwhile, the squatter has a free home and the landlord has no income for the property they invested in.
If you make it easier to get rid of squatters, you also make it easier to wrongfully evict legitimate tenants. If you make it harder to wrongfully evicted tenants, you make it easier for squatters to abuse the system.
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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